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Sustainability impact assessments: a new comprehensive framework for raising the bar beyond existing environmental assessments

Muschett, F. Douglas - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 3 (2000) 3, pp. 257-275

Much systematic research and attention is being directed towards sustainability indicators, but comparatively little … towards analytical tools for comprehensive sustainability impact assessments that can guide economic activities, programmes …, sustainability covers a comprehensive set of social, economic, and environmental issues, and with increased economic globalisation …

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Is economic growth sustainable? Environmental quality of Indian States after 1991

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Kathuria, Vinish - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 1, pp. 38-60

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between Environmental Quality (EQ) and per capita NSDP (i.e., Environmental Kuznets Curve, EKC) of 14 major Indian States, in the light of their high economic growth in the post-liberalisation period. The analysis involves first ranking the...

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How well are resource prices likely to serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?

Lawn, Philip - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 4, pp. 369-397

It is generally believed that when a resource becomes increasingly scarce, a shadow is automatically cast in the form of a higher market price. The higher price induces substitution towards more abundant resources and the development of resource-saving technological progress. A growing number of...

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Problems and prospects in the conservation and development of the Himalayan medicinal plants sector

Kala, Chandra Prakash - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 4, pp. 370-389

With the advent of a market-orientated economy, the medicinal plants wealth of the Himalaya has become a high price commodity. As a result, many wild populations of valued medicinal plants are declining due to over-harvesting. In order to prevent the further loss of medicinal plants in the wild...

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Environment, governance and GDP: discovering their connections

Tan, Xiaomei - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 4, pp. 311-335

This article investigates the impacts of governance and GDP on environmental quality, as measured by water quality, air quality, wilderness of land and biodiversity, using data from 123 countries. It finds no evidence that GDP growth will turn environmental degradation around after a certain...

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Discounting and sustainability: towards reconciliation

Howarth, Richard B. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 6 (2003) 1, pp. 87-97

This paper examines the well-known tension between discounting and sustainability in the long-term management of …

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Inter-country environmental load displacement and adjusted national sustainability indicators: concepts and their policy applications

Muradian, Roldan; O'Connor, Martin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 4 (2001) 3, pp. 321-347

The focus of this paper is to discuss and show the policy relevance of "environmental load displacement" adjustments to national aggregate (macroeconomic) indicators for taking account of openness to the rest of the world. A national economy is considered as a set of production and consumption...

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Walking the green carpet to work

Zabala, Aiora - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 78-94

political agenda. However, sound theoretical background and methodologies to assess sustainability in the field of transport to … industrial estates are scarce. In order to gain insight that may increase the effectiveness of future policies for sustainability …

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Is environmental justice all dried up? Drilling for water in the everglades dredges up questions regarding the potential for a just environmental sustainability

Best, Andrea L. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 3, pp. 207-221

predicament inherent to the challenge of achieving the goal of just environmental sustainability. Although ASR promises to be a … paper argues for a new approach to environmental issues of this sort, offering just environmental sustainability as an …

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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder: a logistic regression analysis of sustainability and locality as competitive vehicles for human settlements

Gulumser, Aliye Ahu; Baycan-Levent, Tuzin; Nijkamp, Peter - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 95-110

The present paper aims to investigate the role of creative practices for settlements, with a special focus on the 'Associations of the Most Beautiful Villages' in France and Italy. The paper focuses on the critical parameters of a locality related to the attractiveness of villages from the...

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