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Sustainable Food and the Constitution
Hernandez Lopez, Ernesto - 2018
Sustainable food policies strive for environmental, healthy, economically just, and humane food production. Their success has ignited legal debates about the Constitution. This is not new. Iconic constitutional law cases examine sustainable food, such as meat in the Slaughter-House Cases (1873),...
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Sustainable intensification of pineapple farming in Ghana : training and complexity
Wuepper, David; Sauer, Johannes; Kleemann, Linda - 2014
Sustainable intensification of Ghana’s smallholder farming is critical to mitigate rural poverty. Innovations for sustainable intensification include agro-ecological practices, which build up soil fertility, and mulching, which conserves soil moisture. To stimulate the adoption of these...
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Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Pro...
Byrne, John - 2018
The report summarizes first-year research of a three-year study of pathways to urban sustainability. The research team … departments and with residents and the business community to advance sustainability goals. It is a leading framework for promoting …, assessing, and certifying sustainability progress of cities, counties, and communities. The report examines the potential for …
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Blue Economy and sustainable tourism management in coastal zones: learning from experiences
Sotiriadis, Marios; Shen, Shiwei - 2020
The sustainable management of coastal zones requires appropriate tools within the framework of the Blue Economy. This paper adopts a supply/coastal zone perspective to investigate key issues and aspects related to the implementation of coastal tourism initiatives. The main research question is:...
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Green Finance : Perspectives in Sustainable Finance Instruments
Siddiqui, Ismail; M S, Navaneeth - 2023
in promoting sustainability—especially in post-pandemic recovery— looks questionable …
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Trade-off analysis of agri-food systems for sustainable research and development
Antle, John M.; Valdivia, Roberto O. - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-53
Tradeoff Analysis (TOA) is an approach to positive analysis that combines foresight analysis and simulation modeling tools from the relevant disciplines, including economics, in a participatory process designed to formulate and evaluate forward-looking, strategic decisions under high levels of...
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Integration, decentralization, taxation, and revenue sharing : good governance, sustainable fiscal policy and poverty reduction as peace-keeping strategies ; Paper prepared for the...
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008
The paper tries to shed some light on the problems of centralization and decentralization within an economic union and the federal member states. Integration and decentralization are not opposite policy strategies but both meaningful if the single public goods and services supplies are analyzed...
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Analysing acculturation to sustainable food consumption behaviour in the social media through the lens of information diffusion
Choudhary, Sonal; Nayak, Rakesh; Kumari, Sushma; … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 145 (2019), pp. 481-492
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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …
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Understanding the bioeconomy : a new sustainability economy in British and European public discourse
Sotiropoulou, Irene; Deutz, Pauline - In: Bio-based and applied economics 10 (2021) 4, pp. 283-304
shows that bioeconomy, as with the other 'sustainability' economies, which we term the 'S-economies', prioritises the … fragmentation of the theory and policy concerning the environmental sustainability of economic activity is expressed through the …
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