societal development. However, the terms “sustainable development”, “sustainability” and “sustainable” are sometimes over- and … misused despite wide consensus about the concept’s meaning among sustainability scholars and practitioners. While the concept … allows various sustainability views to co-exist, random conceptualizations which do not respect the fundamental …

A notable aspect of sustainability is its holistic and cross-cutting nature—it cannot be achieved by any single rule …, statute or agency. Instead, sustainability must be institutionalized across the legal system and government as a whole. In … this paper, we propose and examine five mechanisms for institutionalizing sustainability across the federal legal system …

In this introduction to the special issue of <em>Sustainability</em> on environmental laws and sustainability, we … integrated decision-making, the use of pre-existing laws to foster sustainability, the centrality of sub-national governments in … achieving sustainability, the background law of unsustainable development, the growing importance of climate change, the need to …

sustain further growth. Wildlife farming could offer better opportunities for ensuring long-term sustainability. As the game …

Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life … biodiversity information. To address this shortcoming, we analyzed nine publicly available environmental datasets, and created five … globally-relevant metrics associated with biodiversity: habitat intactness, habitat protection, species richness (globally and …

governance, this article argues that governance of coastal ecosystems must move to place-based adaptive management regimes that …

This paper argues that the need for a core “fourth pillar” of sustainability/sustainable development, as demanded in …, evaluating and correlating values-related dimensions of sustainability. It is advocated that those involved in operationalizing … sustainability (especially in the context of creating post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals), should explore the potential for …