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Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...
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Sustainability has been defined by the Brundtland Commission (Brundtland, 1987) as "meeting the needs of the present … sustainability (WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development), the latter are severely and continuously criticized for … actions that contradict their glossy sustainability reports (Holliday, 2010). However, it is often the case that such …
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This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …
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performance. The relationship between sustainability and company performance has interested researchers for twenty years, even if … economic performance. The first part of the paper looks at the relationship between sustainability and performance in the …
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Writings on sustainability transitions generally do not say much about the particularities of the behavior of … sustainability transitions with the aim to arrive at recommendations for more effective policies. For this purpose, we combine … insights from the literatures on agency in sustainability transitions, on environmental policy under bounded rationality and …
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We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …
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