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Cultural Resources as Sustainability Enablers: Towards a Community-Based Cultural Heritage Resources Management (COBACHREM) Model
Keitumetse, Susan O. - In: Sustainability 6 (2013) 1, pp. 70-85
development is rarely planned using cultural resources. It is against this background that a Community-Based Cultural Heritage … article are the development of cultural competency-based training curriculum that will assist communities to transform …
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Making Migrants Visible in Post-MDG Debates
Thieme, Susan; Ghimire, Anita - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 1, pp. 399-415
, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We …
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Sustainability, Food Security, and Development Aid after the Food Crisis: Assessing Aid Strategies across Donor Contexts
Essex, Jamey - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 11, pp. 3354-3382
The most recent global food crisis has forced development agencies in the global North to rethink the nexus between … agricultural development, food aid, and food security, and how development assistance strategies can enhance food security to more … strategic response of major state and multilateral development agencies to the global food crisis, this paper examines the …
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The Realities of Community Based Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa
DeGeorges, Paul Andre; Reilly, Brian Kevin - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 3, pp. 734-788
This is an historic overview of conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa from pre-colonial times through the present. It demonstrates that Africans practiced conservation that was ignored by the colonial powers. The colonial market economy combined with the human and livestock population explosion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683033
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The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability
Raskin, Paul D.; Electris, Christi; Rosen, Richard A. - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 8, pp. 2626-2651
twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the real danger of … value changes for getting there. A fundamental shift in the development paradigm is found to be an urgent necessity for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683036
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Eco-nomics: Are the Planet-Unfriendly Features of Capitalism Barriers to Sustainability?
Singer, Merrill - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 1, pp. 127-144
in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development … continued promotion of expanding consumption; (d) globalism and the contradictions of continued Western-style development; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683061
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Climate Change and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Literature Review
Thompson, Heather E.; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Ford, James D. - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 8, pp. 2719-2733
is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the … potential of the population to undergo development processes. Findings additionally revealed a gap in the literature about how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683099
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The System Dynamics of Forest Cover in the Developing World: Researcher <em>Versus </em>Community Perspectives
Olabisi, Laura Schmitt - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 6, pp. 1523-1535
Efforts to increase forest cover in the developing world will only succeed if the root causes of deforestation are addressed. Researchers designing reforestation initiatives tend to emphasize macro-level drivers of deforestation, about which they have extensive data and knowledge. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683174
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Rethinking Sustainable Development: Considering How Different Worldviews Envision “Development” and “Quality of Life”
Witt, Annick Hedlund-de - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 8310-8328
The concept of sustainable development does not articulate what needs to be sustained, developed, or how, and is … discussing sustainable development, and I offer broad, provisional suggestions as to how we can begin doing this. I first discuss … how the notion of sustainable development at its heart is an attempt to unite conservation with growth. I then consider …
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The Informal Economy as a Catalyst for Sustainability
Ruzek, William - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 23-34
Sustainability typically involves the balancing of three major factors: the economy, the environment, and some notion of equity. Though the economy is already a key aspect, the recognition of the informal economy, seems to be absent from the many possible permutations of these three. This paper...
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