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Recalculating Default Values for Palm Oil

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

directives foundations including the default values used to measure the sustainability of biofuels. Only sustainable biofuels can …

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EU Actions and Progresses in Terms of Climate Change and Energy Policies

Steliana, Ciote Cristina - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 379-384

This paper is in line with the pleadings in favor with the need of transposition into facts of the seductive speech of sustainable development; the focus is on the normative field. Being aware that implementing sustainable development, multidimensional concept, require a full arsenal of tools...

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Cambio estructural regional y agua: Escasez, dependencia e impactos sobre el tejido económico. El caso de Andalucía/Structural Change and Water: Scarcity, Dependence and Impacts on...

BLANCO, PÉREZ; DIONISIO, CARLOS; GÓMEZ, GÓMEZ; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 28 (2010) Agosto, pp. 423-446

also explores explore the importance of market instruments both to promote sustainability and change the current growth …

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Beyond Waste Reduction: Creating Value with Information Systems in Closed-Loop Supply Chains

van der Laan, Erwin; Koppius, Koppius, O.R.; Ozdemir, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2011

We study the role of information systems in enabling closed-loop supply chains. Past research in green IS and closed-loop supply chains has shown that it can result in substantial cost savings and waste reduction. We complement this research by showing that the effects are more than that: using...

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Trends and Challenges for Environmental-Ecologic Indicators and Assessments

Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2014) January

Last December, within the framework of the FP7 project E-Frame, FEEM hosted the Environmental Indicators Workshop organized by FEEM with the support of the University of Siena. The workshop aimed to give an overview of the current state of the art of environmental indicators, presenting...

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From a conventional to a sustainable engineering design process: different shades of sustainability

Gagnon, Bruno; Leduc, Roland; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2010

also pointed out, according to key observations emerging from the field of sustainability science. These tasks are then … sustainability along six dimensions: (1) the structure of the design process; (2) the scope of sustainability issues considered; (3 …

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Quo Vadis European Biofuel Policy: The Case of Rapeseed Biodiesel

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

of biofuel sustainability. The debate is driven in part by ongoing concerns of transparency and regional variations of … (i.e. Member State) authorities to assess the sustainability of biofuel feedstocks, we have done the same for three …. The assessment of the sustainability of rapeseed biodiesel heavily depends on the very production conditions and …

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CITES II or The Second Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Martin, Rowan - 2016

This document examines the successes and failures of the present Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna (CITES) and analyses its defects. Major changes are needed in the structure of the Treaty to overcome its perceived shortcomings. A Vision for a new treaty is...

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REDD in Design : Assessment of Planned First-Generation Activities in Indonesia

Madeira, Erin Myers - 2014

Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...

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A Study on Role of ‘Nisarg Sewa Trust’ - An NGO : For Sustainable Rural Livelihood and Rural Development

Trivedi, Jigna C.; Shaikh, Fahmida - 2013

NGOs play a complementary role to government in fulfilling the needs of bottom of the pyramid. They are instrumental in lowering the gap between haves and have nots. They act as caretakers of downtrodden strata of society. NGOs carry out varied activities in the field of human rights, health,...

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