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In Mexico, the Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) is the public entity that is responsible for the annual preparation of the national programme of the electricity system development with a 15 year horizon (POISE in Spanish). Besides this national planning process, there are regional plans...
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In this paper I advocate SEA as an instrument of change towards more sustainable patterns of behaviour and development, by following strategic thinking and constructive approaches. I recommend that the future research agenda of SEA should contribute to make SEA a matured, full-fleshed instrument...
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Making sustainability operational within organisational practice requires dealing with three interrelated questions: A …-made interpretation of sustainability. This paper provides a framework that can be used for obtaining such a tailor-made interpretation of … sustainability. This framework is based on the notion that staff members somehow need to make sense of sustainability. By taking a …
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As they make decisions about collective goods, policy makers strive to apply objective standards to complex environmental issues. This challenge requires the use of analytic methods that can include the multiple dimensions of such complex problems. Life-cycle analysis is a physical model that is...
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and manage natural resources. In order to promote sustainable urban planning, sustainability objectives are commonly … participative methodology applied in five European cities to develop a set of sustainability indicators with the aim of optimising … significantly shape the extent and scope of sustainability indicators, and that a CoP approach may not always be sufficient to …
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environmental sustainability evaluations. Such evaluations are important as they communicate the relationship between natural … sustainability of grazing landuse for Chirumanzu District of Zimbabwe. Empirical evidence presented here relates to livestock data …
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, have not properly included issues of sustainability for peace and development. Key recommendations of the paper are that …
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sustainability, where it may lead and how we must redesign human systems to adapt to a sustainable world. The authors believe holism …
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This article advances building sustainability theory by relating quality and environmental methodologies to building … construction. The sustainability criteria and indicators are first defined and then linked to the integration problem. For … designing for sustainability, widely-used methodologies, such as total quality management (TQM), life cycle analysis (LCA), life …
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How do demographic factors influence the environmental impacts of households? A major two year study used the ecological footprint technique to measure the environmental impacts of over 1000 UK households. Energy and transport were the biggest contributors to the 'footprint' of households....
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