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significant research has already been conducted within the field of integrating sustainability into project management, different … interpretations of the role of sustainability appear. This is a major issue for the scientific community, as due to these varying … interpretations of the role of sustainability in the current state of research. The literature is then assigned back to these …
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measure sustainability and the conflicting messages that policy makers receive, despite a common underlying conceptual …
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causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and …
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This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal … practical, especially in the context of developing countries. The maximin criterion of sustainability may be more appealing to …
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-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing utility over time. Our model includes two salient characteristics … of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i.e. the inability to revise one's past actions; (ii … initially unforeseen sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after irreversible actions were taken, policy …
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The development of the agricultural sector and the improvement of the food security situation are seen as essential components to sustainable development in Africa. However, continuing population growth, impacts of climate change and environmental degradation add to an unprecedented combination...
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-efficiency across generations and sustainability, i.e. non-decreasing utility over time. Our model includes two salient characteristics … of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i.e. the inability to re- vise one’s past actions …”. If initially unforeseen sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after irreversible ac- tions were …
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This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability … index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components … the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three …
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The present paper studies the effect of an upward correction of the natural gas price on the Russian domestic market. Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and currently produces around 550 billion cubic meters of gas each year. Sixty percent of the production is sold domestically at...
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