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Sustaining the Sustainable: Creating the Culture of Sustainability

2016
The Rio20 event of June 2012 followed the United Nations Organizations’ traditional model of sustainable development: economically viable, socially fair, and environmentally correct. Lele (1991) and Boff (2012) criticize this Triple Bottom Line, as it eases accumulation of wealth, and lack of equilibrium in the ecosystems, and does not alleviate ...
Marilena Lino de Almeida Lavorato, Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda   +1 more
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Making Sustainability Sustainable

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2016
The vast majority of research and practice regarding sustainable supply chains has followed an instrumental logic, which has led firms and supply chain managers to place economic interests ahead of environmental and social interests. Evidence that firms are attempting to become less unsustainable is mounting, but compensating practices such as ...
Frank Montabon, Mark Pagell, Zhaohui Wu
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Sustainable IT and IT for Sustainability

2014
Energy and sustainability have become one of the most critical issues of our generation. While the abundant potential of renewable energy such as solar and wind provides a real opportunity for sustainability, their intermittency and uncertainty present a daunting operating challenge. This thesis aims to develop analytical models, deployable algorithms,
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Is There Sustainability in “Sustainable Intensification”?

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2014
In a recent piece published in the “Concepts and Questions” section of the bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Loos et al.
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Sustainability and Sustainable Development

2020
If the survival of humanity on our planet is to be secured in the long term in an acceptable state, radical social changes are required, whereby it must be critically examined whether the radicalness and speed of these changes can even prevent a systemic collapse.
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Sustainable Learning for Sustainability

Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change, 2013
Sustainability issues are appearing with increasing frequency. Education for global sustainability, therefore, must achieve long-term maintenance of resources. For successful sustainability education, a novel learning process must be developed that converts didactic perspectives and designs into sustained deep learning.
Irina E. Livitz, Harry D. Schneider, Debra Schneider   +2 more
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Making sustainable development sustainable

Management Decision, 2009
PurposeAlthough all organisations claim to be engaged in sustainable development, research shows that they misunderstand what is involved. This paper aims to reconsider what is meant by sustainability and to show that the way accounting operates in an organisation actually prevents an organisation from recognising sustainable operations.Design ...
ARAS, Güler, Crowther, David
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Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods

2013
Sustainability is one of the defining words of our age. It implies a sense of longevity—something that will last well into the future—and as a consequence it implies a resilience to the turbulence of our politics, economic systems and environmental change that seems to be so embedded within our world. These are powerful ideas. Who wouldn’t want to make
Nora McNamara, Stephen Morse
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Sustainability and Sustainable Business

2018
While contemporary concern for environmental sustainability can be traced back to Malthus in the eighteenth century, and as far back as Greece in the period of antiquities, sustainability has become a contemporary topic of increasing interest in both academia and industry. Chapter topics include an introduction to the definition, relevance, and history
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Sustainability and Sustainable Buildings

HKIE Transactions, 2007
Construction and real estate literature is replete with the use of the words ‘sustainable’ and ‘green’ in respect of the built environment, construction, building systems and materials, with the terms often used indiscriminately and interchangeably.
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