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Towards a sustainable well-being
Tanasescu, Cristina Roxana; Oprean, Camelia - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 5 (2013) 1, pp. 170-178
Given the need of a new economic paradigm for the achievement of a world of sustainable wellbeing, this paper presents the main findings from the literature on sustainable well-being. We try to identify a few approaches of measurement, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. We analyzed Romania's...
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Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Africa: An Overview
Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
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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The Resource Curse Hypothesis: Evidence from Ecuador
Cori, Andrea; Monni, Salvatore - 2014
The aim of this work is to evaluate the economic stability of the choices made by the Government of Ecuador regarding the management of natural resources in the context of the Revolucion Ciudadana designed to create a society based on Buen Vivir. The choice of an intensification of the mining...
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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING – AN ANALYSIS OF THE WORLDWIDE DIFFUSION
TURCU, Radu-Dan - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2015) 7, pp. 557-564
The increasing importance of sustainability issues expressed by different types of stakeholders has placed them among … of the relation between the number of sustainability reports issued by companies inside one country and its social … countries for the improvement of sustainability reporting concept and practice. …
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Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth
Costantini, Valeria; Monni, Salvatore - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
causal relationships between economic growth, human development and sustainability combining the RCH and EKC models and …
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Measuring Weak Sustainability for the future: Calculating Genuine Saving with population change by an integrated assessment model
Koji, Tokimatsu; Takanobu, Kosugi; Atsushi, Kurosawa; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents a future figure of Genuine Saving with population growth (GSn). This was enabled by using an integrated assessment model, similar to the RICE model by Nordhaus. The model consists of sub-models that evaluate various kinds of mineral resources and environmental impacts....
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Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
Hoberg, Nikolai; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2011
Two important policy goals in intergenerational problems are Pareto-efficiency and sustainability, i …-off. Our analysis highlights two salient characteristics of sustainability problems and policy: (i) temporal irreversibility, i …-environment systems (“unknown unknowns”). If initially unknown sustainability problems become apparent and policy is enacted after …
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Critical natural capital, ecological resilience and sustainable wetland management: a French case study.
FERRARI, Sylvie; LAVAUD, Sébastien; PEREAU, Jean-Christophe - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2012
operationalised to study the sustainability of wetlands ecosystems in the Gironde Estuary region (France). …
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MODELLING THE URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BY USING FUZZY SETS
Hincu, Daniela - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 6 (2011) 2, pp. 88-103
sustainability’s attainment is a research topic field for academia and urban planners and managers and, as well, an ambitious goal … for any resource administrator, yet there is no precise way of defining and measuring it. The sustainability of the urban …-structured workforce to environmental issues, endowment of modern urban facilities and infrastructure elements. As the urban sustainability …
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An exploratory assessment of tourism sustainability in Croatian coastal destinations
Kožić, Ivan; Mikulić, Josip - Ekonomski Fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu - 2011
This paper applies an indicator system for evaluating the sustainability of tourism in Croatian coastal tourist … Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the European Union Tourism Sustainability Group. To simplify … rough, quantification of tourism sustainability in Croatia. …
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