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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 … that leadership in the climate change issue is not the prerogative of one country or one group of countries. Rather, there … are groups of countries that play different types of leadership role in the process. Furthermore, leadership emerges as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754373
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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 … that leadership in the climate change issue is not the prerogative of one country or one group of countries. Rather, there … are groups of countries that play different types of leadership role in the process. Furthermore, leadership emerges as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563805
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888513
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944840
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078470
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352932
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352934