This article discusses a business-school collaborative learning partnership in the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE …) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Greater Sendai. This partnership is further linked to a broader context … creation of a sustainability-literate society. This proposal is based on the results of students’ prior experience in ESD …

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 …

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 …

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

Resilience thinking has strongly influenced how people understand and pursue sustainability of linked social …, attributes of governance, and capacity to enhance resilience. The Danungdafu Forestation Area represents one of Taiwan’s most … social-ecological perspective can show how current capacities for managing resilience are related to critical governance …

This paper begins with the question “What is special about those institutions that bring about sustainability”? In an … attempt to answer this, I use the Institutions of Sustainability (IoS) framework, which structures sustainability analytically … according to four main categories, namely: transactions, actors, institutions and governance structures. I then argue that …

sustainability (especially in the context of creating post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals), should explore the potential for …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 …

examine factors for sustainability at 24 fishing villages around the wetland using a hypothesis that “If strong local … sustainability of small-scale fisheries management at Elephant Marsh relies heavily on the strength of local fisheries’ committees …

We explore the connections between the concepts of governance and sustainability and discuss their possible roles in … “governance for sustainability” that is theoretically sound and arguably appropriate to understand local WSMS. To illustrate this … water and sanitation management systems (WSMS). We see governance as a decision-making process that drives the relationship …