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Within the EU research project SVAPPAS, a method of sustainability measurement based on principles of financial markets …, will be tested wrt sustainability issues in agriculture, and further developed. This analysis is oriented to farm level … dimensions and issues of sustainability. …
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green accounting in terms of social utility. Sustainability is a different type of social objective. Consequently, green … accounting as derived in many empirical models is not appropriate for studying sustainability. Maximin is a consistent foundation … for the analysis of sustainability, both weak and strong, that provides conceptually correct accounting prices. These …
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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 …
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There are some elements related to the concept of rural tourism which has nowadays become very important around the world. The rural tourism can revitalize the conventional concepts and views on tourism, and bring in a new dimension to the sustainable development of tourism. It has been realized...
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The goal of public policies is to connect desired ends with practical means toward their achievement. How the desired ends are determined, and whose goals and objectives they incorporate, depends upon the culture and political system of the country in question. With few exceptions, policies...
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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 …
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global strategies. Sustainability becomes contingent and insecure with the actors´ conflicting knowledge, interests and aims …, and seems even impossible through the “rebound”-effect. To make short and long term requirements of sustainability …
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As many of us begin to embrace the concept of sustainability, we realize that it is not simply something that we ‘do ….’ Rather, sustainability is a destination that we aspire to reach with the selection of the sustainable pathways that we choose … as we proceed along the journey. We are embarking on a new journey with the creation of <i>Sustainability</i>, an on …
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public health community. The role of cultural values in defining and addressing the issue of sustainability from a public … sustainability and current health problems in Thailand. An innovative educational approach from Mahidol University, a leading public …
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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 …
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