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Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...
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-level sustainability and equity with "greening" and restructuring of multilateral institutions. … an economics of laissez-faire. In contrast, a sustainability perspective implies that radical and proactive government … policy should include economic stabilization, distributional equity, broad social goals such as income security, education …
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-selfish individuals' motivations are best described on a dimension of equity/fairness rather than being thought of as unconditional …
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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 …
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section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …
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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...
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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 …
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decoupling this thesis advances the traditional debates and discourses about “growth”.This thesis shows that in theory and … 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 …
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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 … theory approach (CTA). Though these concepts are beginning to inform policies there are a number of difficulties in applying …
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In 1996 the natural resource base of the world is being depleted at a rate far below the sustainable level. This is very evident in less developed countries (IDC), where raw limited natural resources are being poorly utilized and/or exported to more developed countries (MDC). The More Developed...
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