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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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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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Threats of sustainable development resulting from legal requirements of spatial planning in Poland
Brezeziński, Cezary - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 2, pp. 319-330
Man, being one of the elements of the environment, depends on its quality. Currently, the right to a clean environment is included in the basic human rights and the way to maintain it is sustainable development. One element of this development is the preservation and protection of biodiversity,...
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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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Urban agenda and urban sustainability strategies : taking stock of policy implementation and policy discussion
Barnebeck, Stephanie; Kalff, Yannick - 2015
Socio-ecological transitions are a main project, current EU policies, national environmental politics, and regional as well as local action address. Manifold approaches exist and the European Union is anxious to coordinate and facilitate the process of a consolidated transition. Therefore, a...
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Coaseian biodiversity conservation : who benefits?
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2017
We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of land which is protected by land-use restrictions against the deterioration of habitats and ecosystems. The willingness-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in...
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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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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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Trading Off Global Fuel Supply, CO2 Emissions and Sustainable Development
Wagner, Liam - 2016
The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (Paris 2015) reached an international agreement to keep the rise in global average temperature ‘well below 2°C' and to ‘aim to limit the increase to 1.5°C'. These reductions will have to be made in the face of rising global energy demand....
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The Dynamics of Man's History and Economic Development : A Refocus on Ecological Disturbance and Climate Change
CHIRWA, MULULU - 2023
Man’s history and developmental endeavour have been advancing alongside a trail of ecological ramifications and climate change. Since prehistoric times, scientists have not recorded an accelerated shift in ecology during any other epoch beside that of modern man on the planet. The paper seeks...
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