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City-level environmental pro-activeness in China and the European Union: differences and convergences
Francesch-Huidobro, Maria; Li, Vic Yu-wai; Lang, Graeme - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 2/3/4, pp. 321-346
In an attempt to meet growing environmental challenges resulting from 30 years of rapid industrialisation, China is devising new incentives to motivate cities to meet higher environmental standards aiming at a more sustainable path of development. In this article, we seek to throw light on these...
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Developing a framework for sustainability governance in the European Union
Meadowcroft, James; Farrell, Katharine N.; Spangenberg, … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 3-11
Sustainable development represents a major governance challenge of the 21st century. If societal development trajectories are to be realigned on to more sustainable pathways major changes will be required to existing processes and practices of governance. This essay considers the nature of these...
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From *for* to governance for sustainable development in Europe: what is at stake for further research?
Farrell, Katharine N.; Kemp, Rene; Hinterberger, Friedrich - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 127-150
Following conferences in Pignans, Maastricht, Vienna and Cologne and many e-mail exchanges, the participants of the GoSD-research initiative have identified a path for future research that describes not only governance and sustainable development but also how governance can be *for* sustainable...
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Environmental governance in the European Union: strategies and instruments for absolute decoupling
Giljum, Stefan; Hak, Thomas; Hinterberger, Friedrich; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 31-46
The EU recently emphasised the need to speed up the pace of reforms to improve the state of the environment both in Europe and internationally. This becomes in particular challenging, as the "Lisbon Strategy" defines the general goal of an annual economic growth rate of 3%. Decoupling of...
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Institutional sustainability
Pfahl, Stefanie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 80-96
sustainability has so far not played a major role. The UN Commission for Sustainable Development decided in 1995 to develop … European Union in order to assess, in general terms, the sustainability of its development and implications for the future …
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Europe's global responsibility to govern trade and investment sustainably: climate, capital, CAP and Cotonou
Ruddy, Thomas F. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 97-112
. It outlines how, over the medium term, compatibility with trade law could be maintained, and how Sustainability Impact …
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Multicriteria analysis for grouping and ranking European Union rural areas based on social sustainability indicators
Chatzinikolaou, Parthena; Bournaris, Thomas; Manos, Basil - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 335-351
Social sustainability is 'one of the three legs of the sustainability stool' (the other two are environmental and … economic). There is limited literature that focuses on social sustainability to the extent that a comprehensive study of this … concept is still missing. As a result, there have been very few attempts to define social sustainability as an independent …
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"But doth suffer a sea-change…" the need for a change of perspective for a realistic sustainability strategy in an enlarged EU
Wolf, Frieder Otto - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 113-126
to what it calls the task of a second order governance, defining a sustainability strategy to identify – to "unearth …
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Science for sustainable development: implementing the Rio agreement
Gouzee, Nadine; Eeckhout, Denis Van - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 3, pp. 358-362
Six years after the UN Rio Conference on Environment and Development, an effort to give a new boost to its implementation in the field of science was made during the Sixth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD6, held in New York in April 1998). This paper recalls the context...
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Leadership in the climate change regime: the European Union in the looking glass
Gupta, Joyeeta; Grijp, Nicolien van der - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 2, pp. 303-322
This paper examines the role of European Union (EU) leadership in the climate change regime. The EU has adopted a negotiating strategy with a high profile. This strategy is seen differently by negotiators and actors from non-European and EU countries. This is evident from 67 interviews conducted...
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