The awareness of the environmental crisis and the impact of rising povertyglobally has led to the search for sustainable solutions. The United NationsMillennium Development Goals (MDGs) describe the solution as a securepeaceful world, a healthier environment and a better quality of life for all....

It could be argued that the quest for integration is at the core of sustainable developmentimplementation issues. Although there is no simple answer to the integrationchallenge there is no doubt that organisational integration and coordinationcomprise a critical ingredient in any prescription...

The tensions in the definition and practical implementation of sustainable development are clear. A number of international codes outline the principles that are considered as good corporate citizenship, but are often based on the priorities of the developed ‘North’. Africa calls for a more...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores how to bring about change through innovation by using currentpower structures to move towards a more sustainable society. The type of change weare concerned with is the transformation from social structures, economic systems andinstitutions which diminish...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Now more than ever, organisations need to be resilient and sustainable. The world of business haschanged irrevocably since the industrial age and organisational strategies have not adapted much inresponse to this environmental change. Are there new organisational strategies...

Environmental policymakers must address the adverse effects of a number of pollutants that accumulate in the environment. Goals for the regulation of these damages often involve holding long-term emissions below a level deemed to be "dangerous", or outright banning of offending products or...

Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions of the conventional, neoclassical economics of growth and development. We review 25 years' of refereed journal articles on the...

Paper presented at EAAE 2008 Congress

At the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, governments undertook to develop and adopt national sustainable development strategies as a key component of implementing the goals of Agenda 21. Only partial progress was reported at the 2002 World Summit in Johannesburg, with uncertainty as to the effectiveness...

This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of change in livelihoodstrategies (“development pathways”), land management practices, agriculturalproductivity, resource and human welfare conditions in Uganda since 1990, based upon acommunity-level survey conducted in 107 villages. The...