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Sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesWater Environment Research, 2017
Selected 2016 publications on the focus of Sustainability are reviewed and discussed here. The followings are the topics presented:
 • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities
 •Sustainable water resources management
 • Stormwater and green infrastructure
 • Sustainability in water and wastewater treatment
 •Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications
 •
Chein‐Chi Chang   +2 more
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Is sustainable development sustainable? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2012
This journal proclaims its concern with “the relationships between science, society and policy and a key aim is to advance understanding of the theory and practice of sustainable development”.
Blowers, Andrew   +2 more
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Multispecies sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Sustainability, 2020
Non-technical summaryThe sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to recognize that humans and other living beings depend on each other for their well-being. We therefore argue that true sustainability can only be achieved
Christoph D. D. Rupprecht   +18 more
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Sustaining Sustainability in Organizations [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Business Ethics, 2012
<p>[para. 1]: " The importance of social issues and the natural environment to societies and firms has dramatically evolved in the preceding 50 years. Corporate managers are becoming aware of the need to broaden their goals, beyond the traditional financial expectations.
Deborah E. de Lange   +2 more
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Sustainable or Sustainability?

open access: yesJournal of Social Researches, 2020
The goal of this study discusses the frequency of use the term sustainable or sustainability translated in Spanish as sustentable or sostenible. Also, it is necessary to say that the problem is just regarding to the writing of this expression, but not the semantic meaning.
Alejandro HIGUERA-ZIMBRÓN   +1 more
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Is sustainable transport policy sustainable? [PDF]

open access: yesTransport Policy, 2014
The paper challenges part of the sustainable transport literature. Sustainable transport plans often focus on reducing carbon emissions in a specific city, region or country, and this neglects two handicaps of strong unilateral action. The first is that climate is a global commons problem, so a strong binding international climate agreement is unlikely.
Eliasson, Jonas, Proost, Stef
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Sustainable Plans [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 1989
The authors propose a definition of time-consistent policy for infinite-horizon economies with competitive private agents. Allocations and policies are defined as functions of the history of past policies. A sustainable equilibrium is a sequence of history-contingent policies and allocations that satisfy certain sequential optimality conditions for the
V. V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe
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The Sustainability of “Sustainable Consumption” [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Macromarketing, 2002
This article examines the limitations of the concept of sustainable consumption in terms of the inadequate attention given to the social, cultural, and historical contextualization of consumption. The author argues that macromarketing should adopt modes of inquiry that fully engage with this contextualization.
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Are sustainability and sustainable chemistry on the edge?

open access: yes, 2022
Poster presented at: ACS Fall 2022 Conference-Sustainability in a Changing Word, 21/08/2022, Chicago ...
Vrvic, Miroslav   +2 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
wiley   +1 more source

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