Chapter 1 Background to the research -- Chapter 2 The sustainability discourse -- Chapter 3 Prisoners’ Dilemma: a method for analysis -- Chapter 4 Developing the theory -- Chapter 5 Distribution: testing and evaluation -- Chapter 6 Implications for the future -- Chapter 7 Conclusions.

Safeguarding the future of Venice is a globally recognised challenge of urban sustainability. We propose a sustainable management model, alternative to the current strategy, that primarily focuses on the built heritage and which interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix...

Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to nonlinear processes underscore the need for a meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy. Economists have developed rigorous approaches to conceptualizing sustainability based on the paradigm of weak...