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Establishing a sustainable development goal for oceans and coasts to face the challenges of our future ocean

Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara - 2013

essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities. Free access to and availability of ocean resources and … element for sustainable ocean management. The SDGs will build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and replace them by … 2015. Even though ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the eight MDG goals, the ocean is not explicitly included …

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Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Progress in Delaware

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...

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Is “Canal Istanbul” Compatible with the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement?

Sancak, Ibrahim E. - 2022

This study analyzes the compatibility of the Canal Istanbul project with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA). Turkey ratified the PCA in October 2021 and has committed to the SDGs since 2015. However, the government in Turkey strives to capitalize on a...

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Indicators for monitoring sustainable development goals : an application to oceanic development in the EU

Rickels, Wilfried; Dovern, Jonas; Hoffmann, Julia; … - 2015

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with 169 specific targets could be a step forward in achieving efficient governance and policies for global sustainable development. An essential element will be the global indicator...

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Sustainability in the context of globalization

Beţianu, Leontina - In: CES working papers 1 (2009) 1, pp. 43-50

Sustainability tends to become in the new millennium the most important characteristic of economic and social development. The possibility to ensure economic development in the context of a reasonable use of raw materials, energy and natural resources in general and to decrease the impact of all...

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The Global Cropland Footprint of the Non-Food Bioeconomy

Bruckner, Martin; Giljum, Stefan; Fischer, Günther; … - 2018

A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given the far-reaching global implications of an expanding non-food bioeconomy, an...

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Insights from the Lily Pond : Global Economic Developments Seen from the Perspective of Limits to Growth - Featuring the Oil Enigma

Skala, Martin - 2010

The paper presents and analyses the structure and consequences of limits to growth for the global economy. Apart from the famous report for the Club of Rome, a wide range of related literature, which all caution against the idea of unrestricted growth, is also covered. In presenting side tracks...

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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers

Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013

Deforestation has long been heavily studied; several proximate and underlying causes behind the global decrease of forest extent have been discussed. However, systematic analyses of positive examples are sparse, even if forestation is happening in almost 70 countries (on approximately 40% of the...

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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector

Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013

Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management has often failed to meet expectations - constrained by funding, governance, capacity and competing interests. Initiatives from the climate change policy arena are opening new...

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Trade patterns and the ecological footprint a theory-based empirical approach

Dam, Thi Anh; Pasche, Markus; Werlich, Niclas - 2017

With global specialization and trade, countries make directly but also indirectly use of the environment via traded goods. Based on the theory of comparative advantages, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek approach, we are using the Ecological Footprint as a broad measure of environmental use because its...

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