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Asset Management and Governance: Analysing Vehicle Fleets in Asset-intensive Organisations
Mardiasmo, Diaswati; Tywoniak, Stephane; Brown, Kerry A.; … - 2008
For physically asset-intensive organisations asset management processes and intervention strategies are considered a crucial element, as there is heavy reliance on optimal performance of assets in order to maximise organisational performance and business goals. There is a tendency for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438320
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A framework for strategic infrastructure asset management
Too, Eric G. - 2010
The concept of asset management is not a new but an evolving idea that has been attracting attention of many organisations operating and/or owning some kind of infrastructure assets. The term asset management have been used widely with fundamental differences in interpretation and usage....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438396
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Using government purchasing power to reduce equipment standby power
Harris, Jeffrey; Meier, Alan; Bartholomew, Emily; … - 2008
public procurement can play a significant role in market transformation through its influence on both buyers and suppliers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436121
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The contemporary cement cycle of the United States
van Oss, H; Kapur, A; Keoleian, G; Kesler, S; Kendall, A - 2009
A country-level stock and flow model for cement, an important construction material, was developed based on a material flow analysis framework. Using this model, the contemporary cement cycle of the United States was constructed by analyzing production, import, and export data for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481656
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The application of sustainable development principles to the theory and practice of property valuation
Lorenz, David Philipp - 2006
investigates the rationale for immediately and rigorously integrating sustainability issues into property valuation theory and … practice and proposes theoretical and practical options for valuers on how to address sustainability issues within valuation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434568
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Sustainable supply chains – a framework for best practice assessment: results of the pilot study, BestLog project.
Piotrowicz, Wojciech; Cuthbertson, Richard; Islei, Gerd
section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441420
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On measuring wealth: A case study on the state of Queensland
Asafu-Adjaye, J.; Brown, R. P.; Straton, A. - 2005
In order for policy makers to plan effectively for sustainable development, there is a need for measures of welfare that consider changes in the natural capital stock. Current measures based on conventional national accounting are flawed because they are based solely on flow measures and do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447970
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Positive Deviance for a Sustainable World: Linking Sustainability and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Hoffman, Andrew J. - 2010
This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability … contributions. POS can help sustainability make a shift from addressing “deficit gaps” to instead addressing “abundance gaps ….” Sustainability can help expand the scope of the POS research domain from explaining how people and organizations can flourish, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476640
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining … sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates … social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451445
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The Capital Theory Approach to Sustainability: A Critical Appraisal
Stern, David I - 1995
This paper examines critically some recent developments in the sustainability debate. The large number of definitions … of sustainability proposed in the 1980's have been refined into a smaller number of positions on the relevant questions … account is taken of the uncertainty involved in sustainability analysis of any sort. In addition, by focusing on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451660