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Emergency Managers Confront Climate Change
Labadie, John R. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 8, pp. 1250-1264
Emergency managers will have to deal with the impending, uncertain, and possibly extreme effects of climate change. Yet, many emergency managers are not aware of the full range of possible effects, and they are unsure of their place in the effort to plan for, adapt to, and cope with those...
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Green Transformational Leadership and Green Performance: The Mediation Effects of Green Mindfulness and Green Self-Efficacy
Chen, Yu-Shan; Chang, Ching-Hsun; Lin, Yu-Hsien - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6604-6621
No prior literature explores the influence of green transformational leadership on green performance, thus, this study develops a novel research framework to fill the research gap. This study investigates the influence of green transformational leadership on green performance and discusses the...
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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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Opportunity and Problem in Context (OPiC): A Framework for Environmental Management
Tsetse, David; Groot, Wouter T. De - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 1, pp. 19-34
Most frameworks used in the management of environmental problems focus on problem analysis and pay little or no attention to the explanation of the problem and the opportunities for solving it. The Opportunity and Problem in Context (OPiC) framework aims to be fully balanced in this respect. On...
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Toward Environmentally Sustainable Construction Processes: The U.S. and Canada’s Perspective on Energy Consumption and GHG/CAP Emissions
Ahn, Changbum; Lee, SangHyun; Peña-Mora, Feniosky; … - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 1, pp. 354-370
In the building and construction sector, most efforts related to sustainable development have concentrated on the environmental performance of the operation of buildings and infrastructure. However, several studies have called for the need to mitigate the considerable environmental impacts,...
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Measuring Corporate Sustainability Performance
Nicolăescu, Eugen; Alpopi, Cristina; Zaharia, Constantin - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 1, pp. 851-865
The aim of the present study is to examine and evaluate the evolving character of sustainability management in … corporations, the significance of environmental protection and sustainability, and barriers to carrying out an incorporated and … strategic firm-wide advance of social responsibility. In the present paper, we focus on the contribution of sustainability …
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Member heterogeneity in agricultural cooperatives: A systems-theoretic perspective
Iliopoulos, Constantine; Valentinov, Vladislav - In: Sustainability 10 (2018) 4, pp. 1-22
All over the globe, cooperatives are plagued by pervasive member heterogeneity problems that are induced by the radical and dynamic changes in the business environment. Most current solutions to these problems emphasize strengthening member loyalty and commitment. Yet, many of these solutions...
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Introducing a multiscalar framework for biocluster research: A meta-analysis
Ayrapetyan, David; Hermans, Frans - In: Sustainability 12 (2020) 9
sustainability of these clusters is often questioned because of the negative social and environmental effects they can have both …-analysis of biocluster case studies. As a result, we constructed a framework that combines the aspects of sustainability …
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How to foster rural sustainability through farming workforce rejuvenation? Looking into involuntary newcomers’ spatial (im)mobilities
Simões, Francisco; Unay-Gailhard, Ilkay; Mujčinović, Alen - In: Sustainability 13 (2021) 15
This conceptual paper aims to expand the notion of “farming newcomers” in Europe by also including those that we label “involuntary newcomers”, who correspond to the workforce coming unwillingly to farming for reasons associated with spatial (im)mobilities. We fully develop our aim in...
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The Political Economy of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Does Performance on the SDGs Affect Re-Election?
Kroll, Christian; Zipperer, Vera - In: Sustainability 12 (2020) 16
While the economic voting hypothesis is a well-researched approach to explain behavior at the ballot box, a broader perspective of economic, social and environmental issues regarding a government’s chances to get re-elected is still missing in the literature. In this context, this paper makes...
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