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Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions

Peter, Camaren; Swilling, Mark - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 3, pp. 1594-1622

In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling <i>transitions to sustainability</i>. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex...

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Decoupling environmental certification programmes from core operations: firm performance reported by small and medium sized enterprises

Djupdal, Kari - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 484-501

that adoption can lead to a ceremonial or superficial behaviour, the efficaciousness of decoupling for enhancing financial …

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Risk and economic sustainability of crop farming systems

Lien, Gudbrand D.; Hardaker, J. Brian; Flaten, Ola - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Environmental, social, and economic attributes are important for the sustainability of a farming system. Resilience is …, resilience has to do with the capacity of the farm business to survive in various risks and other shocks. A whole-farm stochastic …

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Resilience Programming among Nongovernmental Organizations: Lessons for Policymakers

Frankenberger, Timothy R.; Constas, Mark A.; Nelson, Suzanne - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of … initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and … other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience. …

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Using the Cultural Dimension and Accounting Value Classification Frameworks to Investigate Cultural Diversity in a Multi-National South African-Based Company

Stander, Stefan; Buys, Pieter; Oberholzer, Merwe - In: Managing Global Transitions 11 (2013) 3 (Fall), pp. 301-316

The developing South African economy provides good business opportunities for global companies. Despite the popularity of mergers and acquisitions as a way to expand into a developing economy, many such business transaction fail to create sustainable organisations due to issues pertaining to...

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Narrating Resilience: Transforming Urban Systems Through Collaborative Storytelling

Goldstein, Bruce Evan; Wessells, Anne Taufen; Lejano, Raul - In: Urban Studies 52 (2015) 7, pp. 1285-1303

How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on a new urbanist … way to express the subjective and symbolic meaning of resilience, enhancing our ability to engage multiple voices and …

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Post Evaluation: Sustainable Resilience of Company Management System

AFGANA, Naim H.; CVETINOVIĆ, Dejan B.; ANDRE, Paul - In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and … 1 (2011) 7, pp. 17-17

Resilience management performance comprise the resilience management processes: building awareness of resilience issue … management, Health and safety knowledge management and Environment knowledge management. The assessment of the overall resilience … profile for each organization represents the set of rules to be followed in the assessment procedure. Resilience profiles have …

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Sustainability, creativity, resilience: toward new development strategies of port areas through evaluation processes

Girard, Luigi Fusco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 161-184

Industrial-commercial and tourist ports areas are spaces of difference, rich in potential opportunities but also in contradictions and conflicts. The conservation of their particular landscape is very important for the city/region development, founded on a new metabolism. Port areas will become...

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Resilient responses to climate change and variability: a challenge for public policy

O'Brien, Geoff; O'Keefe, Phil - In: International Journal of Public Policy 6 (2010) 3/4, pp. 369-385

, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building but practice is top-down and reactive. Effective resilience … as a vehicle, this article posits that, without a shift in public policy, effective resilience could be jeopardised. Key …

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Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust

Reedy-Maschner, Katherine L.; Maschner, Herbert D. G. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4406-4427

Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as...

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