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Integrating responses to global environmental threats into policies and projects in developing countries
Caspary, Georg - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 24-44
it will be crucial to integrate responses to global environmental threats: agriculture and energy. The focus is on how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754293
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Integrating responses to global environmental threats into policies and projects in developing countries
Caspary, Georg - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 24-44
it will be crucial to integrate responses to global environmental threats: agriculture and energy. The focus is on how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563675
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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
, in Australia, housing energy efficiency remains a contested policy area. In part, this is due to a lack of clear cost …,117 at an interest rate of 7.89% across 25 years. However, energy efficiency cost savings of $1,547 a year were calculated …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233206
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078466
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078467
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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
energy and transport, commenting on the limited approach and measures used, and their effectiveness. The necessary policy …
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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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Public management and community in rethinking and structuring sustainability: a two-city (USA and Ukraine) comparative analysis
Slava, Svitlana; Condrey, Stephen E. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 243-266
Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...
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