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Moving Beyond Profit: Expanding Research to Better Understand Business Environmental Management

Jones, Cody - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2693-2721

An extensive economics literature has examined business environmental management to identify characteristics and external institutional stakeholder pressures that influence management decisions. Frequently, it is assumed that profit pursuit is the goal, and organizations subject to the same...

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Residential Tourism and Multiple Mobilities: Local Citizenship and Community Fragmentation in Costa Rica

Noorloos, Femke van - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 2, pp. 570-589

; however, the great level of fragmentation, mobility, temporariness and absenteeism in Guanacaste circumscribes successful …

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Environment in Industrial Ecology, Grasping a Complex Notion for Enhancing Industrial Synergies at Territorial Scales

Dumoulin, François; Wassenaar, Tom - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 9, pp. 6267-6277

Identifying the most relevant environment related indicators and how to make them available to decision-makers are … fundamentally, in this chapter we question how industrial ecologists appropriate the notion of environment. On the basis of … environment in such contexts, and constitutes a call to develop anthropocentric approaches to defining environmental indications …

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Herbicide-tolerant Transgenic Soybean over 15 Years of Cultivation: Pesticide Use, Weed Resistance, and Some Economic Issues. The Case of the USA

Bonny, Sylvie - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 9, pp. 1302-1322

sustainability and innovation governance raised by genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops are discussed. …

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Sustainable Manufacturing and Design: Concepts, Practices and Needs

Rosen, Marc A.; Kishawy, Hossam A. - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 2, pp. 154-174

like design for environment, life cycle assessment and other environmentally sound practices that are cognizant of the …

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Tailoring Global Data to Guide Corporate Investments in Biodiversity, Environmental Assessments and Sustainability

Oakleaf, James R.; Kennedy, Christina M.; Boucher, Timothy - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4444-4460

guiding potential investments in the environment. …

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Education for Sustainability through a Photography Competition

Scott, Rowena - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 474-486

This article describes the development and history of a sustainability photography competition. From its simple beginnings as an environmental officer’s idea, an environmental sustainability photography competition began in just one university. Now hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards...

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A Multi-Objective (Energy, Economic and Environmental Performance) Life Cycle Analysis for Better Building Design

Yao, Jian - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 602-614

improvement measures commonly used in achieving a better overall performance for the energy, economy and environment. A typical …

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What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System

Dicks, Lynn V.; Bardgett, Richard D.; Bell, Jenny; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 7, pp. 3095-3115

Increasing concerns about global environmental change and food security have focused attention on the need for environmentally sustainable agriculture. This is agriculture that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the environmental systems that underpin it, or deplete...

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Sustainability and the Fixed Bed Nuclear Reactor (FBNR)

Sefidvash, Farhang - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1683-1710

elements such as natural environment, economy, power, governance, education and technology with the ultimate purpose of …

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