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How (Un)sustainable Environments are Related to the Diffusion of COVID-19 : The Relation between Coronavirus Disease 2019, Air Pollution, Wind Resource and Energy
Coccia, Mario - 2020
The pandemic caused by novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating a high number of cases and deaths, with negative effects on public health and economic systems. One of the current questions in the contemporary environmental and sustainability debate is how high air pollution and...
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Fossil fuels and the question of justice : insights from Indonesian energy politics
Fünfgeld, Anna - 2018
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Birding for and with People: Integrating Local Participation in Avian Monitoring Programs within High Biodiversity Areas in Southern Mexico
Ortega-Álvarez, Rubén; Sánchez-González, Luis Antonio; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 9, pp. 1984-1998
Biological monitoring is a powerful tool for understanding ecological patterns and processes, implementing sound management practices, and determining wildlife conservation strategies. In Mexico, regional long-term bird monitoring has been undertaken only over the last decade. Two comprehensive...
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The sustainable biosphere initiative : an ecological research agenda
Lubchenco, Jane; Olson, Annette M.; Brubaker, Linda B.; … - 2009
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The conditions for achieving environmentally sustainable development
Barbier, Edward; Markandya, Anil - 2009
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Sustainable development and global governance
George, Clive - 2009
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Marketing for sustainable tourism
Martini, Umberto (ed.); Buffa, Federica (ed.) - 2020
reference to territories (i.e., tourism destinations, protected areas, parks and/or natural sites, UNESCO World Heritage Sites …
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Risk measures with applications in finance and economics
McAleer, Michael (ed.); Wong, Wing Keung (ed.) - 2019
could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk … measures with applications in finance and economics. This Special Issue will bring together the theory, practice and real-world …
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Biofuels and the Lessons of Easter Island
Chaves, Antonio R. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 3, pp. 335-345
The return to land-based biofuels ignores the lessons of the past that led to the collapse of civilizations such as that of Easter Island. Even the more efficient ethanol feedstocks such as sugar cane and switchgrass can greatly worsen the environmental damage associated with agriculture because...
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The System Dynamics of Forest Cover in the Developing World: Researcher <em>Versus </em>Community Perspectives
Olabisi, Laura Schmitt - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 6, pp. 1523-1535
Efforts to increase forest cover in the developing world will only succeed if the root causes of deforestation are … addressed. Researchers designing reforestation initiatives tend to emphasize macro-level drivers of deforestation, about which … dynamics on Negros Island, Philippines generated by researchers working for the World Wildlife Fund with causal loop diagrams …
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