Sustainable development and the Triple Bottom Line integrated sustainability concept focus on the choices between the imperatives of economic efficiency, social development and environmentalsustainability. Corporate governance is being imposed by stakeholders and corporate socialresponsibility...

More efficient use of resources and economy based on the principles of sustainable development presents a development opportunity that will enable long-term socio-economic development. Therefore, the European Union is extremely active in the creation and implementation of environmental policies,...

Die Dissertation ???Qualitativer Bewusstseins- und Verhaltenswandel im Kontext einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung und ??kologischen ??konomik??? ist eine ungew??hnliche wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Arbeit, die mit Hilfe von inter- und transdisziplin??rer Forschungsmethodik weit ??ber das Gebiet der...

Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...

Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften der Unternehmen und nachhaltiger Konsum der Verbraucher stellen die Zielgrößen dar, die als zukunftsweisend deklariert werden. Ein unternehmerischer Pionier, der idealistisch motiviert, verschiedene Nachhaltigkeitsziele verwirklichen will, allen voran das...

The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...

National laboratories have limited resources to devote to the transfer of government-funded technologies to the commercial sector. Companies, too, face resource constraints in their attempt to identify and assimilate innovations which fit with their strategic objectives. For these reasons,...

The reality of protected area management is that enforcing forest and parkboundaries is costly and so most likely incomplete, due in part to the pressures exerted on the boundaries by local people who often have traditionally relied on the park resources. Buffer zones are increasingly being...

The objective of this dissertation is to provide a theoretical framework for answering the question, whether and under which biological and socio-economic conditions the sustainable use of wild species in or around protected areas is an adequate strategy for biodiversity conservation. To do...