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Sustainability has gained considerable prominence in recent decades as the inevitability of change becomes increasingly … addressing the world's sustainability challenges. Despite extensive research on sustainability in corporations and public firms …, there remains a dearth of comparable data concerning sustainability in privately owned family businesses. Through …
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This study, which belongs to the series new generation of infrastructure, reflects the major advances of information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology in the development of sanitation and water resources sectors. International and notorious cases have been catalogued in compared...
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The authors assess the role of the multilateral development system and the reforms needed to support the new global agenda. There is an urgency to the reforms. The coming decades will see the largest urban expansion in history. More infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the...
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Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
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This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood conditions of slum dwellers in … clearly indicate that there exist significant diversity and differences of sustainability indicators, particularly household …. Therefore, the findings suggest a holistic approach to address the multi-faceted sustainability issues that affect the …
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Research on sustainability is now fast approaching half a century of dedicated work. Although there have been … significant breakthroughs, sustainability and its corollary, sustainable development, have proven a tough nut to crack. In our … sustainability problems, particularly those relating to the environment require a significantly longer time period. Another …
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This paper treats about the problem of nitrogen oxides formation in the process of natural gas combustion. The analysis of the influence of selected combustion parameters on the concentration of NO, N2O and NO2 in the combustion products was done. From many factors determining NOx formation two...
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This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many more clients with financial services that enable them to improve their living conditions. The book asks what it takes to achieve sustainable impact: to know your clients and to...
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with them. Given that successful implementation of the concept of sustainability demands changes that trigger mass rather …
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could be used in analyzing and evaluating all aspects of infrastructure sustainability internally and externally. In this …
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