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Waste Management
Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia
The Productivity Commission’s inquiry report into ‘Waste Management’ was tabled by Government in December 2006. The Australian Government asked the Commission to identify policies that would enable Australia to address market failures and externalities associated with the generation and...
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Implementation of reverse logistics as a sustainable tool for raw material purchasing in developing countries: The case of Venezuela
García-Rodríguez, Francisco J.; Castilla-Gutiérrez, … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 141 (2013) 2, pp. 582-592
recycling. National and local authorities should encourage the application of reverse logistics in other productive sectors … logistics can generate, especially in developing countries. An empirical study has been carried out in the handmade sector of … five municipalities in the state of Mérida, Venezuela, into the contingency factors of reverse logistics (information and …
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Overview of Theory and Model of Tropical Agricultural Circular Economy in Hainan Province
Yu, Huamei; Ge, Chengjun - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 05
, reuse of products and recycling of wastes, conforming to the principle of 4R. It is to make economic system melt into me …
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Research on the Comparison between Traditional Industry and Ecological Industry
Guo, Prof. Dr. Jingfu; Cai, Li - In: Far East Journal of Psychology and Business 2 No 3 Paper 3 March (2011) 3, pp. 36-42
Traditional linear industry is a short-sighted unsustainable development mode of the economy. It brings pressure to ecology environment, depletion of resources and pollution. Ecological industry is to realize the harmonious development between economy and environment by planning industrial...
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Luxury and sustainable development: Is there a match?
Achabou, Mohamed Akli; Dekhili, Sihem - In: Journal of Business Research 66 (2013) 10, pp. 1896-1903
recycling and the category of luxury products. Despite the increasing concerns of consumers about the preservation of the planet …
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Renovating dependency and self-reliance for participatory sustainable development
Grudens-Schuck, Nancy; Allen, Will; Hargrove, Tasha; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 20 (2003) 1, pp. 53-64
Dependency stands for manygrievances and is generally considered asymptom of oppression. An opposing concept,offered as the preferred state, isself-reliance. Dependency and self-reliance arekey concepts in sustainable developmentprograms that feature participatory approaches.Some of the ways in...
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Safety Culture: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development
Hajmohammad, Sara; Vachon, Stephan - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 2, pp. 263-281
The present paper investigates the potential benefits of a strong safety culture (SC). Specifically, we build on the organizational support theory to explore the direct and indirect effects of SC on firm performance. Partial least squares method is used to analyze the data collected from a...
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Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change.
Biggs, E. M.; Boruff, B.; Bruce, E.; Duncan, J. M. A.; … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2014
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Green community entrepreneurship: creative destruction in the social economy
Gliedt, Travis; Parker, Paul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) August, pp. 538-553
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of green community entrepreneurship in the social economy by studying creative responses among environmental non-profit organizations to an external fiscal shock. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 12 managers of...
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Sustainable livelihood approaches and soil erosion risks: Who is to judge?
Forsyth, Tim - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) February, pp. 88-102
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to debates about environmental policy in developing countries by examining how far sustainable livelihoods approaches (SLAs) to development may allow an alternative and less universalistic approach to environmental changes such as soil...
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