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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Valuing the SDG Prize in Food and Agriculture: Unlocking Business Opportunities to Accelerate Sustainable and Inclusive Growth [PDF]

, 2016
Business opportunities in the implementation of the SDGs related to food could be worth over US$2.3 trillion annually for the private sector by 2030. Investment required to achieve these opportunities is approximately US$320 billion per year.These 14 ...

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The Fatal Flaw: Unraveling Combinations of Barriers to Corporate Sustainability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper deepens understanding of barriers to corporate sustainability by examining internal and external barriers in the food and beverage sector. Drawing on institutional theory, the study highlights how macro‐level pressures interact with meso‐level organizational dynamics.
Patricia Milić, Mitja Hafner‐Fink, Tomaž Čater   +2 more
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Including food systems, biodiversity, nutrition and health in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: a submission from the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. [PDF]

, 2020
Tice_etal.2016.SupplementalText.pdf. Supplementary text that includes: an extended materials and methods section, details of light microscope observations, and a discussion on the justification for taxonomic reassignment of Stereomyxa ramosa ATCCÂŽ ...
Borelli, T., Demers, N., Hunter, D., Souza Dias, B. de   +3 more
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Scaling Up Climate Action to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]

, 2016
In 2015, UNDP released its first infographic report that presented the breadth and depth of our support on climate change over the past two decades. That report emphasized successes and noted the opportunities that climate action presents for countries ...

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Do Sustainable Development Goal Disclosure Matter? Unpacking Value Relevance in the European Context

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the value relevance of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) disclosures by European listed firms, responding to calls for greater integration of sustainability into corporate strategy and reporting. Drawing on agency theory and voluntary disclosure theory, we examine whether the quality of SDG‐related disclosures affects firm
Gianluca Gabrielli, Pier Luigi Marchini, Dalila Baldini   +2 more
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Sustainable Development Policy Interventions: Stakeholder Engagement and Environmental Policy in Practice

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study critically examines the global landscape of policy interventions for sustainable development by pursuing three interrelated objectives: (1) to map the intellectual terrain and thematic evolution of sustainability‐oriented policy research; (2) to analyze the governance and institutional factors that shape the implementation of the ...
Muhammad Salman Shabbir, Rabia Salman
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Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]

, 2019
Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre   +3 more
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Financial crises and the attainment of the SDGs: an adjusted multidimensional poverty approach [PDF]

, 2020
This paper analyses the impact of financial crises on the Sustainable Development Goal of eradicating poverty. To do so, we develop an adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Framework (MPF) that includes 15 indicators that span across key poverty aspects ...
A Antoniades, A Chakrabarti, A Diorio, A Kemmler, A Sen, A Siddiqui, AL Rice, Alexander S. Antonarakis, AM McGahan, Andreas Antoniades, B Dube, BIS, D Diz, D Hulme, DA Freedman, Development Initiatives, Development Initiatives, DF Hendry, DK Imana, DL Pelletier, F Achard, FF Nerini, FT Filippidis, G Chen, H White, HG Barkema, I Anderson, I Widiarto, ID Poloamina, IMF, IMF, IMF, Indra Widiarto, International Council for Science, J Alcamo, J Fairhead, J Piesse, J Pretty, J Weststrate, JC Slocumb, JH Mills Busa, JI Uitto, JN Lekakis, JPW Scharlemann, K Burke, K Lee, K Schreckenberg, K Schulze, KD Hoover, KD Hoover, KT Alexander, L Alkema, L Rajmil, L Wrisdale, M Afzal, M Clemens, Marcus Manuel, MH Brenner, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, M.E.A, MN Shafiq, MR Busemeyer, MS Allahyari, N Imai, OECD, P Pradhan, P Streeten, PG Curtis, S Alkira, S Alkire, S Borenstein, S Chen, S Devarajan, S Makino, SO Rutstein, U Al-mulali, World Bank, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, YZ Ghouali, ZG Liu   +79 more
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