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societal development. However, the terms “sustainable development”, “sustainability” and “sustainable” are sometimes over- and … misused despite wide consensus about the concept’s meaning among sustainability scholars and practitioners. While the concept … allows various sustainability views to co-exist, random conceptualizations which do not respect the fundamental …
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Society now expects agriculture to fulfil new functions to improve quality of life. This requirement has been reinforced by recent crises. The 1999 French Agricultural Framework Law (LOA) formalised agricultural multifunctionality and included payments to farmers for new practices, which satisfy...
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decade. A recurring question is whether, and if so how, transitions towards sustainability can be governed. In this paper we … multiplicity, arguing that multiple theories need to be applied simultaneously for dealing with the complex societal sustainability …
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and a half. We argue that sustainability is best viewed as a socially instituted process of adaptive change in which … innovation is a necessary element. We discuss four key elements of governance for sustainability, which are integrated into the … towards sustainability. …
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Governance is defined as a process allowing actors to contextualise the regulatory system and, as a result, to transform sustainable development (SD) into an instrument of action. It will be all the easier for actors to familiarise themselves with SD and its implementation measures if these...
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sustainability. Based on the application of the framework to a historical transition, the modernisation of Dutch agriculture in the …
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Territorial governance has become a major issue for public authorities. Studying the information generated by implementing sustainable agricultural contracts (SAC) on Reunion Island (Ile de la Reunion) has contributed to the development of new types of territorial governance projects. The...
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Research examined how partnerships of state and civil society could function to manage commercially valuable non-wood forest products in Community Forests in Cameroon. Results indicate an effective governance arrangement should include the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Community...
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Sustainable development represents a major governance challenge of the 21st century. If societal development trajectories are to be realigned on to more sustainable pathways major changes will be required to existing processes and practices of governance. This essay considers the nature of these...
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A notable aspect of sustainability is its holistic and cross-cutting nature—it cannot be achieved by any single rule …, statute or agency. Instead, sustainability must be institutionalized across the legal system and government as a whole. In … this paper, we propose and examine five mechanisms for institutionalizing sustainability across the federal legal system …
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