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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for Biodiversity Risk in the US: A Spatial Econometric Approach

Tevie, Justin; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Berrens, Robert P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2182-2199

This study investigates whether the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship is supported for a measure of biodiversity risk and economic development across the United States (US). Using state-level data for all 48 contiguous states, biodiversity risk is measured using a Modified Index...

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Sustainability: Living within One’s Own Ecological Means

Liu, Lee - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 4, pp. 1412-1430

This paper provides a critical review of sustainability, including its definitions, dimensions, measurements, and practices, as well as approaches to achieve sustainability. It raises questions about conventional definitions and argues for taking into account the geographic dimension of...

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Environmentally benign growth : sustainable development

Dryzek, John S. - 2009

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Sustainability : an economist's perspective

Solow, Robert M. - 2009

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Strengthening Sovereignty: Security and Sustainability in an Era of Climate Change

Parsons, Rymn J. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 9, pp. 1416-1451

Using Pakistan and the Arctic as examples, this article examines security challenges arising from climate change …. Pakistan is in crisis, and climate change, a transnational phenomenon perhaps better characterized as radical enviro …

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Improving the Sustainability of Office Partition Manufacturing: Balancing Options for Reducing Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds

Luisser, Frank S.; Rosen, Marc A. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 2, pp. 234-253

compounds (VOC) emissions. Base VOC emissions for a typical plant are estimated using a mass balance approach. Pollution …

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Sustainability in Agricultural Mechanization: Assessment of a Combined Photovoltaic and Electric Multipurpose System for Farmers

Mousazadeh, Hossein; Keyhani, Alireza; Mobli, Hossein; … - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 4, pp. 1042-1068

This study is dedicated to the assessment of the possibility of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy as a source of power in modern agriculture. We examined the use of a completely sustainable agricultural mechanization system based on a renewable energy system and a battery powered,...

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The Textile Industry and Sustainable Development: A Holt–Winters Forecasting Investigation for the Eastern European Area

Paraschiv, Dorel; Tudor, Cristiana; Petrariu, Radu - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1280-1291

To achieve sustainable development, massive changes towards fostering a clean and pollution-reducing industrial sector … are quintessential. The textile industry has been one of the main contributors to water pollution all over the world …, causing more than 20% of the registered levels of water pollution in countries like Turkey, Indonesia and China (among the G20 …

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Sustainable Living in Africa: Case of Water, Sanitation, Air Pollution and Energy

Omole, David O.; Ndambuki, Julius M. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 5187-5202

The study reviewed developmental challenges confronting African countries with specific reference to the availability of potable water, sanitation, energy, water and ambient air. It showed the conflict between the need to exploit environmental capital in order to keep up with the pace of human...

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Economic Growth and Expansion of China’s Urban Land Area: Evidence from Administrative Data and Night Lights, 1993–2012

Gibson, John; Li, Chao; Boe-Gibson, Geua - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 7850-7865

The relationship between economic growth, expansion of urban land area and the broader issue of cultivated land conversion in China has been closely examined for the late 1980s and 1990s. Much less is known about recent urban expansion and if the effects of economic growth on this expansion have...

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