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Barriers to institutional social sustainability. [PDF]

Sustain Sci, 2022
Social sustainability is a work field characterised by an emphasis on social aspects, e.g. equity, ethics, health, gender balance, or empowerment, within a broader sustainability context. Although the concept seems to be reasonably well established and deemed worthy of pursuing, some obstacles prevent its wide dissemination.
Leal Filho W, Leal Filho W, Salvia AL, Vasconcelos CRP, Anholon R, Rampasso IS, Eustachio JHPP, Liakh O, Dinis MAP, Olpoc RC, Bandanaa J, Aina YA, Lukina RL, Sharifi A.   +13 more
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Youths’ perceptions of community health workers’ delivery of family planning services: a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study in Nakaseke District, Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background High rates of unintended adolescent pregnancy are a significant health problem in Uganda. To improve access to family planning (FP) services, community-based Village Health Teams (VHTs) are widely employed in Uganda to deliver education and ...
Robert Kalyesubula, Jessica Mitter Pardo, Stephanie Yeh, Richard Munana, Ivan Weswa, Joseph Adducci, Faith Nassali, Mennen Tefferi, John Mundaka, Sahai Burrowes   +9 more
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Sustaining Social Security [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
This paper analyzes the sustainability of intergenerational transfers in politico-economic equilibrium. Embedding electoral competition for the votes of old and young households in the standard Diamond (1965) OLG model, we find that intergenerational transfers naturally arise in a Markov perfect equilibrium, even in the absence of altruism, commitment,
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín, Niepelt, Dirk
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Socially sustainable degrowth as a social–ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability [PDF]

Sustainability Science, 2015
In the late 1980s, the sustainable development paradigm emerged to provide a framework through which economic growth, social welfare and environmental protection could be harmonized. However, more than 30 years later, we can assert that such harmonization has proved elusive. Steffen et al.
Asara V, Otero I, Demaria F, Corbera E
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Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia

Ecology and Society, 2023
Addressing ecosystem destruction and unsustainable development requires appropriate frameworks to comprehensively investigate social-ecological systems. Focusing on woody plant management in southwestern Ethiopia, we combined social-ecological resilience
Girma Shumi, Hannah Wahler, Maraja Riechers, Feyera Senbeta, David J. Abson, Jannik Schultner, Joern Fischer   +6 more
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Future-proofing ecosystem restoration through enhancing adaptive capacity

Communications Biology, 2023
This Perspective piece outlines potential avenues to support ecosystem restoration projects into the future.
Marina Frietsch, Jacqueline Loos, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber, Joern Fischer   +4 more
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Education for Sustainability: Understanding Processes of Change across Individual, Collective, and System Levels

Challenges, 2023
Researchers and practitioners increasingly emphasise the need to complement dominant external, technological approaches with an internal focus to support transformation toward sustainability.
Elin Pöllänen, Walter Osika, Eva Bojner Horwitz, Christine Wamsler   +3 more
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Sustainable social spending [PDF]

International Tax and Public Finance, 2005
The paper discusses a number of threats to the financial sustainability of social spending: increased internationalization of national economies, gradually higher relative costs of producing a numb ...
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Anticipating and transforming futures: a literature review on transdisciplinary coastal research in the Global South

Ecosystems and People, 2023
Anticipation of futures using transdisciplinary approaches is critical to provide the basis for appropriate action to cope with current and future risks and to foster sustainability transformations.
Lilly Baumann, Maraja Riechers, Louis Celliers, Sebastian C. A. Ferse   +3 more
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Knowledge and use of family planning among men in rural Uganda

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Unmet need for family planning exceeds 33% in Uganda. One approach to decreasing unmet need is promoting male involvement in family planning.
Anne Dougherty, Alex Kayongo, Samantha Deans, John Mundaka, Faith Nassali, James Sewanyana, Eric Migadde, Ronald Kiyemba, Estherloy Katali, Sarah Jane Holcombe, Sarah H. Heil, Robert Kalyesubula   +11 more
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