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Marine protected areas: from conservation to sustainable development
Noel, Jean-Francois; Weigel, Jean-Yves - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 3, pp. 233-250
After a period during which MPAs were instrumentalised as a palliative against the inadequacy of a fisheries management conventional approach, the multi-use character of these areas prevailed, conflicts were pacified by instilling a participative process and a plurality of goals is now fully...
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Marine protected areas: from conservation to sustainable development
Noel, Jean-Francois; Weigel, Jean-Yves - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 3, pp. 233-250
After a period during which MPAs were instrumentalised as a palliative against the inadequacy of a fisheries management conventional approach, the multi-use character of these areas prevailed, conflicts were pacified by instilling a participative process and a plurality of goals is now fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563876
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The contribution of tourism to well-being and welfare: the case of Hungary
Ratz, Tamara; Michalko, Gabor - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 14 (2011) 3/4, pp. 332-346
In the process of achieving well-being and welfare, tourism may act as a stimulus on many levels. Based on two national … influence of tourism on the Hungarian society's perception of well-being and welfare. The research findings indicate that … although various benefits of tourism are acknowledged, it is not considered a crucial component of one's quality of life. The …
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Leveraging brand value through corporate responsibility
Pakseresht, Ashkan; Mark-Herbert, Cecilia - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 3, pp. 281-297
Measurements of corporate values are associated with a number of challenges. The needs for making measurements relate to making strategic decisions for internal and external stakeholders. Traditionally, these estimates of, for example, brand value, have been expressed purely in terms of...
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Cost efficient low-emission housing: implications for household cash-flows in Melbourne
Moore, Trivess; Morrissey, John; Horne, Ralph - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 4, pp. 374-386
A number of international jurisdictions have articulated a longer term goal of zero emission housing standards. However, in Australia, housing energy efficiency remains a contested policy area. In part, this is due to a lack of clear cost-benefit information on low emission housing standards,...
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Marginal reasoning and (bio)diversity
Schutz, Joachim - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 4, pp. 334-343
achieve sustainability by markets relies on marginal reasoning. Yet this partial perspective tends to reduce functional …
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Walking the green carpet to work
Zabala, Aiora - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 78-94
political agenda. However, sound theoretical background and methodologies to assess sustainability in the field of transport to … industrial estates are scarce. In order to gain insight that may increase the effectiveness of future policies for sustainability …
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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder: a logistic regression analysis of sustainability and locality as competitive vehicles for human settlements
Gulumser, Aliye Ahu; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin; Nijkamp, Peter - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 95-110
The present paper aims to investigate the role of creative practices for settlements, with a special focus on the 'Associations of the Most Beautiful Villages' in France and Italy. The paper focuses on the critical parameters of a locality related to the attractiveness of villages from the...
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Techno-optimism: progress towards CO2 reduction targets in transport: a UK and London perspective
Banister, David; Hickman, Robin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 24-47
Transport is making a very limited contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets in the UK, and this paper argues the case for a substantial shift in thinking away from the concentration on technological alternatives to a revised approach that combines technological efficiency with...
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Outlines of a multicommodity and multilateral integrated cooperation agreement for sustainable management of natural resources
Barbiroli, Giancarlo - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 280-307
's choices, able to deeply modify the paradigms of development and to help pursuing sustainability. After having analysed the …
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