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Defining the qualitative elements of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 with regard to the marine and coastal environment in order to strengthen global efforts for marine biodiversity conservation outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi Target 11 states that, “by 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water, and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ...
Foster, NL   +4 more
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Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals Includes the SDG Index and Dashboards. Sustainable Development Report 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Sustainable Development Report 2019 presents an updated SDG Index and Dashboards with a refined assessment of countries’ distance to SDG targets. The report has been successfully audited for the first time by the European Commission Joint Research ...
Fuller, G.   +4 more
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Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workshop Report: Earth and Environmental Science for Sustainable Development (Lusaka, September 2017) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This report describes the outcomes of a two-day interactive workshop in Lusaka (Zambia), conducted in September 2017. We gathered 26 delegates from 14 organisations based in Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe to determine sustainable development priorities and ...
Gill, J.C., Mankelow, J.
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Managers' Sustainability Mindset: The Role of Place Attachment and Absorptive Capacity

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability mindset among managers is crucial for advancing sustainable development and creating long‐term environmental and social value. This study focuses on middle managers in Indian organizations and explores how place attachment and managerial absorptive capacity affect their sustainability mindset.
Asha K. S. Nair   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mining and development : examining the effectiveness of mining company community development intervention in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This thesis explores the effectiveness of mining company contributions to development within the gold mining communities of Lihir and Simberi islands, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Richardson, Emma
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Negative Capability? Measuring the unmeasurable in education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This introductory article to the special issue of Comparative Education on measuring the unmeasurable in education considers measurement as reflecting facts and uncertainties. The notion of negative capability is used metaphorically to depict some limits
Unterhalter, ES
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Where Tech Meets the SDGs: A Supply‐Chain Process Map for Sustainability Management

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how advanced technologies support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within supply chain management (SCM) through a structured analysis of 4448 sustainable practices. By integrating perspectives from sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) and contingent dynamic capabilities, the research conceptualizes technology ...
Vincenzo Varriale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time, including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well as rapid increases in the number of people at risk of ...
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
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Public Sustainability: Thematic Mapping, Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Lines of Action

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paucity of research analysing thematic persistence in public sustainability limits our understanding of how this field of research evolves and reconfigures itself. The present paper addresses this gap through a longitudinal bibliometric analysis of 692 publications processed with SciMAT. The methodology combines co‐word analysis, strategic
Laila Ribii Khalifi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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