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themselves. Do past adaptive practices hold the key to future sustainability, or are new strategies required? To explore this … conceptualizations with field data and modeling exercises to capture tipping points for non-sustainability and thresholds for sustainable …
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Numerous studies attempt to operationalize sustainability and seek to characterize objective, or at least standardized …, metrics of sustainable conditions and/or operations. In this paper, we suggest that sustainability is better viewed as an … sustainability is not merely a matter of “bolting on technologies”, but a complex synthesis of institutional factors, social value …
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The principles of well-known indices of sustainability—the Ecological Footprint (EF) and the Environmental … Sustainability Index (ESI)—have been compared to discuss the essence of attitude, substantial differences and transferability into … discussed as it proposes feasible indices monitoring actions towards local sustainability that could be considered in urban …
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The necessity of sustainability evaluation is rapidly growing alongside the expansion of civilization. Likewise, the … organizational sustainability. This proposal was applied to evaluate a representative set of companies, which are suppliers of the … companies have not yet reached an advanced level of maturity in the sustainability context. In a comprehensive vision of …
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unsustainable and possible measures to reduce emissions and foster sustainability are being encouraged. The European Commission has …
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creation of a sustainability-literate society. This proposal is based on the results of students’ prior experience in ESD … the levels of sustainability of the two sectoral organizations were mixed and hence need improvement. The paper argues …
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sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling <i>transitions to sustainability</i>. We propose … transitions to sustainability. We argue that adopting a complexity theory based approach for modeling transitions requires going … understand in order to model transitions to sustainability. In doing so, we establish a complexity-based approach towards …
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Sustainability (s) metrics and sociodemographic measurements (n = 10) for 50 populous U.S. cities. E, H, S indices combined from two … with low performing cities. Our analyses demonstrate how publically available environmental, health, sustainability and …
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equity both in the present and for future generations. The results show that if the concept of <em>just sustainability …
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Building social alternatives is necessary to resist the destructive impacts of the capitalist organization on well-being, social organization, and the planet. This paper offers an analysis of the ways in which peoples are mobilizing to build organizations and to define social movements to move...
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