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the lagoon to ensure the sustainability of the management process. …
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A notable aspect of sustainability is its holistic and cross-cutting nature—it cannot be achieved by any single rule …, statute or agency. Instead, sustainability must be institutionalized across the legal system and government as a whole. In … this paper, we propose and examine five mechanisms for institutionalizing sustainability across the federal legal system …
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Following a devastating tornado there in 2007, the tiny city of Greensburg, Kansas has engaged in a sustainability … article uses innovation theory to consider how and why the sustainability focus emerged in Greensburg and to explore the … shared vision of persistent local leaders, the framing of sustainability as an “opportunity” with an energy efficiency focus …
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study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the …
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Political consumerism was developed during the 19th century and expanded at the turn of the century through social movements aimed at empowering civil society in the market. Many of these movements succeeded in building power on the consumption side. Today, we still witness several forms of...
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The argument of this paper is that sustainability requires a new worldview-paradigm. It critically evaluates Gore …. Because of the energy needs used to maintain automobility, reaching the goal of sustainability requires rethinking the spatial …
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) that give prominence to their sustainability credentials in their paper form and/or electronic promotional and recruitment … sustainability branding and marketing of higher education institutions. Key findings include, first, the importance of calibrating … sustainability marketing according to actual sustainability performance while also embracing a sustainability vision; second, the …
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. These features include: (a) contradictions in the origin and meaning of sustainability; (b) the central role of the … sustainability, an alternative social narrative is needed, one that embraces values, understandings, and relationships that promote …
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sustainability assessment of a whole building are presented, based on a state of the art, feasibility study on performance analysis … of building sustainability assessment, environmental indicators were often shown to be of lesser importance than the … other, soft ones. The first steps in the development of a building sustainability assessment method for Portuguese …
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The purpose of this study is to provide an integrated analysis of water distribution on Maui and the cross-sectoral impacts of policies and regulations aimed at rejuvenating and sustaining the deep-rooted culture on the island. Since the water diversion system was implemented in 1876 on the...
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