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Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions

Peter, Camaren; Swilling, Mark - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1594-1622

In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling <i>transitions to sustainability</i>. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex...

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Decoupling Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Reviewing Progress to Date in the Small Island State of Malta

Conrad, Elisabeth; Cassar, Louis F. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6729-6750

This paper considers the challenge of decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation; in contrast to several … decoupling factors, in order to consider the extent to which decoupling has been achieved in four sectors: (i) energy intensity …, climate change, and air quality; (ii) water; (iii) waste; and (iv) land. Results indicate relative decoupling between economic …

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Economic Growth and Climate Change: A Cross-National Analysis of Territorial and Consumption-Based Carbon Emissions in High-Income Countries

Knight, Kyle W.; Schor, Juliet B. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3722-3731

find that over this period there is some evidence of decoupling between economic growth and territorial emissions, but no … evidence of decoupling for consumption-based emissions. …

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Emergy-Based City’s Sustainability and Decoupling Assessment: Indicators, Features and Findings

Zhang, Liming; Xue, Bing; Geng, Yong; Ren, Wanxia; Lu, … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 2, pp. 952-966

Decoupling human well-being and local economic growth from resources consumption and environmental degradation has been … decoupling process by proposing a set of new emergy-based and efficiency-oriented indicators. Decoupling process was verified in …-year yield efficiency, the investment cost for decoupling, and the job-opportunities cost for decoupling were developed and …

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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest

Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624

tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …

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Resilience Assessment of Lowland Plantations Using an Ecosystem Modeling Approach

Wu, Chia-Hsin; Lo, Yueh-Hsin; Blanco, Juan A.; Chang, … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 3801-3822

:1 camphor laurel/ash density ratio. From an ecological resilience point of view, rotation length was more important than stand …

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Development of a Meteorological Risk Map for Disaster Mitigation and Management in the Chishan Basin, Taiwan

Lee, Tai-Li; Chen, Ching-Ho; Pai, Tzu-Yi; Wu, Ray-Shyan - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 1, pp. 962-987

. Incorporating resilience into the assessment revealed that the higher the exposure is, the higher the resilience becomes. This is … areas typically exhibit high resilience. The application of this analysis in the policy of relocation of damaged village …

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A Multi-Scalar Examination of Law for Sustainable Ecosystems

Green, Olivia Odom; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Hopton, … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3534-3551

The loss of resilience in social-ecological systems has the capacity to decrease essential ecosystem services, posing …

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A Climate Change Adaptation Planning Process for Low-Lying, Communities Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

Barron, Sara; Canete, Glenis; Carmichael, Jeff; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 9, pp. 2176-2208

While the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, provides guidelines for flood risk management, it is local governments’ responsibility to delineate their own flood vulnerability, assess their risk, and integrate these with planning policies to implement adaptive action. However, barriers...

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Identification and Induction of Human, Social, and Cultural Capitals through an Experimental Approach to Stormwater Management

Green, Olivia Odom; Shuster, William D.; Rhea, Lee K.; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1669-1682

Decentralized stormwater management is based on the dispersal of stormwater management practices (SWMP) throughout a watershed to manage stormwater runoff volume and potentially restore natural hydrologic processes. This approach to stormwater management is increasingly popular but faces...

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