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INTEGRATING TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS INTO A SUPPLIER SELECTION EXERCISE

Godfrey, Michael; Manikas, Andrew - In: Business Education and Accreditation 4 (2012) 1, pp. 1-12

This paper discusses the integration of sustainability concepts into a quantitative supply chain management course in … management science. Specifically, we discuss an exercise using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for making sustainability …

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INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY INTO A GOAL PROGRAMMING EXERCISE

Godfrey, Michael; Manikas, Andrew - In: Business Education and Accreditation 6 (2014) 1, pp. 45-54

This paper discusses a sustainability exercise for use in a management science course. Specifically, we discuss an …

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REVISING A SUPPLY CHAIN CURRICULUM WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE

Godfrey, Michael; Manikas, Andrew - In: Business Education and Accreditation 1 (2009) 1, pp. 45-54

sustainability (or the triple bottom line of economics, environmental, and social equity performance) more strongly in all of our … only one other program that requires a course in sustainability and no other programs that require elements of … sustainability within their required courses. In addition, we found that we needed to cover purchasing and transportation topics in …

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Contrasting Paradigms of Energy Security: Which Way for the Future? An Ecological Economics Perspective

Proedrou, Filippos - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

substantial retreat of energy consumption is not only feasible, but will also efficiently address the sustainability challenge and …

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The impact of shifting cultivation in the forestry ecosystems of Timor-Leste

Jeus, Maria; Henriques, Pedro; Laranjeira, Pedro; … - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

sustainability of the ecosystems, as well as to suggest some solutions to mitigate their negative impacts. A questionnaire survey …

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Towards an Inclusive Model of Sustainable Growth

Roseta-Palma, Catarina; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; … - Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento … - 2008

Models of economic growth are typically based on the use of one or more stocks of productive assets to create goods for utility-generating consumption. The roles played by man-made capital, natural capital and human capital have been explored, often separately, in the literature, and more...

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The independent effects of environmental, social and governance initiatives on the performance of UK firms

Humphrey, Jacquelyn E; Lee, Darren D; Shen, Yaokan - In: Australian Journal of Management 37 (2012) 2, pp. 135-151

We investigate the effect of environmental, social and governance factors on the financial performance of UK firms. We examine the three factors separately to disentangle the relation of each with performance. We find no difference in the performance of firms with high or low environmental,...

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Relationship Between Growth and Prosperity in the 100 Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Fodor, Eben - In: Economic Development Quarterly 26 (2012) 3, pp. 220-230

This study examines the relationship between growth and economic prosperity in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas to determine whether certain benefits commonly attributed to growth are supported by statistical data. The annual population growth rate of each metro area from 2000 to 2009 is...

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Rio+20: Successes and Failures

Dasgupta, Partha; Barde, Jean-Philippe - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2012) June

In the aftermath of Rio+20, failures and successes can be assessed: if the reform of UNEP, the battle against environmentally harmful subsidies and the acknowledgement of Green Growth as a pillar of Sustainable Development fall below expectations, the voluntary pledges made in Rio and the...

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From Idea to Impact: Funding Invention for Sustainability (Innovations Case Discussion: KickStart)

Novy-Hildesley, Julia - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 1 (2006) 1, pp. 31-42

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