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Renewing Society, Business and Competences for the Future in Sustainable Way
Meristö, Tarja; Laitinen, Jukka - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
but in the future, too. The framework for sustainable development is multidisciplinary, including actors from different … business models are the elements of the renewal needed for the future. Our paper is based on an ongoing project which is … figuring out the ecosystem of sustainable business in the Western Uusimaa and examining future sustainable business …
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Discounting and ideas of intergenerational equity and sustainability
Rybicki, Wojciech - In: Operations Research and Decisions 22 (2012), pp. 63-84
€“ influence quality of life and the chances of survival in future generations. These (quite natural) connections between …
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PRIORITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO THE THIRD MILENIUM START
BUSAN, Gabriela; CRACIUNESCU, Viorel Daniel - In: The Annals of the "Stefan cel Mare" University of … 9 (2009) Special, pp. 15-21
Improving of overall economic situation and social environment can be achieved by adopting a sustainable development, focusing on improving quality of men's life and environmental health. In the conditions of worsening crisis of the environment and natural resources is trying to adapt the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690159
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Discounting and ideas of intergenerational equity and sustainability
Rybicki, Wojciech - In: Operations Research and Decisions 1 (2012), pp. 63-84
€“ influence quality of life and the chances of survival in future generations. These (quite natural) connections between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131878
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Leadership of organizational change toward an integrated model of leadership for corporate responsibility and sustainable development: A process model of corporate responsibility b...
D'amato, Alessia A.; Roome, Nigel - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2009
Purpose - The literature on corporate responsibility (CR) increasingly recognizes the importance of leadership in support of organizational change. This is particularly the case when CR provides the basis for the business contribution to sustainable development, which is understood to involve...
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Soils, souls and agricultural sustainability: the need for connection
Morse, Stephen; McNamara, Nora; Acholo, Moses - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 4, pp. 410-432
Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. Typically it is the vision of the developed North that has dominated. This paper describes some of the results of a long-term research project based in Kogi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754368
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Soils, souls and agricultural sustainability: the need for connection
Morse, Stephen; McNamara, Nora; Acholo, Moses - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 4, pp. 410-432
Sustainability is a contested term, and has much in common with justice and liberty in meaning very different things to different people. Typically it is the vision of the developed North that has dominated. This paper describes some of the results of a long-term research project based in Kogi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563798
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Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability
Perkins, Patricia - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 9 (2007) 3, pp. 227-244
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The Rhetoric of Sustainability: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy?
Holden, Meg - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 2, pp. 645-659
In 1991, development economist and American public intellectual Albert O. Hirschman wrote the <i>Rhetoric of Reaction </i>[1]. In this book, which was prescient of more contemporary popular books such as Naomi Klein’s <i>The Shock Doctrine</i> [2] and James C. Scott’s <i>Seeing Like a State</i> [3], Hirschman...
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From Malthus to sustainable energy—Theoretical orientations to reforming the energy sector
Peura, Pekka - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 19 (2013) C, pp. 309-327
The main purpose of this article is to consider macro level theories for understanding the urge for reform as well as the process of societal change both in general terms, and more specifically within the energy sector. The aim is also to consider the energy sector in a wider context and analyse...
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