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Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions

Peter, Camaren; Swilling, Mark - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1594-1622

In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling <i>transitions to sustainability</i>. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex...

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Global energy use : decoupling or convergence?

Csereklyei, Zsuzsanna; Stern, David I. - In: Energy economics 51 (2015), pp. 633-641

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Will history repeat itself? : economic convergence and convergence in energy use patterns

Jakob, Michael; Haller, Markus; Marschinski, Robert - In: Energy economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 95-104

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A race between economic growth and carbon emissions : what play important roles towards global low-carbon development?

Yang, Jun; Hao, Yun; Feng, Chao - In: Energy economics 100 (2021), pp. 1-16

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Economic Growth and Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Territorial and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in High-Income Countries

Knight, Kyle W.; Schor, Juliet B. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3722-3731

find that over this period there is some evidence of decoupling between economic growth and territorial emissions, but no … evidence of decoupling for consumption-based emissions. …

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Resilience to crisis through social protection: Can we build the case?

Roca, Thomas; Ferrer, Hélène - 2016

This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an …

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Recovery with distress: Unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

their agency in the face of the crisis, their resilience has been as much about deepening vulnerability as about recovery …, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately …

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Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience: Evidence from Idai

Fisker, Peter Simonsen; Malmgren-Hansen, David; … - 2021

Cyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central Mozambique, especially the port city of Beira, upon its landfall in March 2019. This study reviews and compares measurements of the impact, using various sources of remote sensing...

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COVID-19 in Central America: Effects of firm resilience and policy responses on employment

Olvera, Beatriz Calzada; Gonzalez-Sauri, Mario; Louvin, … - 2021

With data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, this paper examines how firm-level resilience capabilities interact … variables to approximate resilience-related capabilities before (static) and after (dynamic) the COVID-19 pandemic. We create … four counterfactual groups using a Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation to assess which resilience capabilities help firms …

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Building resilience knowledge for sustainable development: Insights from development studies

Park, Albert Sanghoon - 2023

This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of … resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience … findings. First is the absence of a coherent resilience paradigm (with shared definitions, problems, and methods) in …

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