Sustainable development is the globally embraced paradigm for integrating environment and development policies. Agreement ends with attempts at operationalizing the elusive notion of sustainability. A contentious debate among 'environmentalists' and 'environmental economists' has brought about a...

Sustainable production and the sustainable use of biotic resources have become increasingly significant. This results in the demand by society for a sustainable use of biotic resources especially within the nutrition sector. But also their use for industrial purposes had led research and...

This Wuppertal Paper "Environmental Protection in Learning Organizations" highlights the crucial methodological and theoretical assumptions which influenced and formed the design of the ADAPT-project about "SMEs - Sustainability and the needs of employees. Potentials for employment,...

This paper deals with what we consider to be key negative elements of current globalisation processes, and examines critically the dominance of the concept of global governance as a mode of control. This draws attention fi rstly to the fact that globalisation has an intentionally political...