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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 selected the STAR Communities assessment model as the backbone for its analysis. This framework offers a menu-based system for enabling city managers and leaders to build paths...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930252
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From planetary emergency to regenerative economies - Accounting for nature in measures of sustainable development
Stoever, Jana; Reichel, Andre - 2022
paper discusses how these changes affect our understanding of (economic) progress and sustainable development. In doing so …", secondly, the visualization of this reality in the measurement of sustainable development, taking into account the specific … characteristics of the environment/nature, and thirdly, the question of whether a concept that maps "regenerative development" could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014459440
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The Circular Economy’s Closed Loop and Product Service Systems for Sustainable Development : A Comprehensive Review and Appraisal
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2018
and recommendations on sustainable development; where it traces the origins of CE. Afterwards, it sheds light on key … environmental dimensions. This sustainable development model has potential to unleash a new wave of operational efficiencies through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909789
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587530
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Finance and Policies : How Financial Actors and Policy Makers Can Engage in the Green Economy To Respond to Climate Change?
Rueche, Nathan - 2021
environmental changes on society and the multidisciplinary concept of sustainable development. This work focuses on two major actors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239637
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The Implementation of the Korean Green Growth Strategy in Urban Areas
Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Grazi, Fabio; Joo, Jongwan; … - 2011
This report on the Korean Strategy for Green Growth and its implementation in urban areas assesses the contributions of sub-national governments to Korea's National Strategy for Green Growth and identifies the main challenges for effective implementation at the local level. Korea's economy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445641
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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446283
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From economic general equilibrium to ecological system services for nature conservation and management : a methodological analysis and an empirical study based on 30 Italian indust...
Zagonari, Fabio - 2015
In this paper, I develop an operational methodology to consistently compare alternative sustainability paradigms (weak sustainability [WS], strong sustainability [SS], a-growth [AG], and de-growth [DG]) and different assessment approaches (life-cycle assessment [LCA], cost-benefit analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714265
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Islamic Approach to Environmental Sustainability : Review of Worldview, Philosophy & Teachings
Shaikh, Salman Ahmed Ahmed; Ismail, Abdul Ghafar - 2016
Economic choices influenced by animalistic instincts in an ethically neutral framework have not only resulted in huge disparity in distribution of income, wealth and standard of living, but, as we now realize, it has also resulted in unprecedented loss to ecology and environment with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148434
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Defining Climate-Aligned Investment : An Analysis of Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Development
Tripathy, Aneil - 2020
Union's Sustainable Finance Taxonomy to analyze the methodological considerations that were vital to the development of both … taxonomy systems. The first section positions the role of standards development within the context of the green bond market and … is followed by an analysis of the factors that affect the Climate Bonds Standard criteria development process. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824116