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An Institutional Analysis of Local Lifelong Learning Approaches to Early School Leaving in Italy and Spain

open access: yesSocieties, 2023
In this paper, we will analyze how a few initial vocational education and training (VET) schools have elaborated wide-ranging responses to early leaving from education and training in Liguria (Italy) and Catalonia (Spain).
Xavier Rambla, Maddalena Bartolini
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IT for Sustainable Growth

open access: yesJournal of Technology Management for Growing Economies, 2010
“This paper addresses the changing nature of markets in an IT-rich and Internet connected world. Through a combination of case studies, theoretical analysis and parallels between issues in developed and emerging worlds, it explores whether technology can help create economic futures that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable for ...
Dix, Alan, Subramanian, Sriram
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Changes in 'ordinary' life. Covid-19's effects on young students' mental and physical well-being

open access: yesAsk, 2022
The present paper builds on the topic of ‘disaster studies’, addressing the most crucial theoretical aspects of them: a) the purpose of studying «meaningful interactions» between the social system and the individuals and their actions; b) the conviction ...
Barbara Sonzogni   +2 more
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Financing Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Opportunities, Challenges, and Threats Within the Southern African Development Community Region

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2023
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, a regional economic body comprised of 16 member states, is one of our planet’s most vulnerable regions to natural hazards, and has a complex disaster risk profile. The region has sustained several
Christo Coetzee   +11 more
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Growth, Development and Sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Statistică, 2013
Describing the relationship of interdependence through the materials balance, will be argued how the economy is a subset of the environment and the environment the natural limit to any economic initiative, or the limits imposed by the laws of thermodynamics.
Irina-Virginia DRAGULANESCU   +1 more
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Prosperity without growth? : the transition to a sustainable economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report is summarised by the documents 'Prosperity without growth? : summary' and 'Ffyniant heb dwf? : crynodeb'Prosperity without Growth? analyses the complex relationships between growth, environmental crises and social recession.Publisher ...
Jackson, Tim, 1957-
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Education & Skills Committee inquiry on sustainable schools : submission from the Sustainable Development Commission [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This submission to the Education & Skills Committee looks at sustainable development, sustainable schools, school buildings, and provides recommendations on these issues.Publisher ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Integrated capacity-building approach to address societal challenges through Social Science Research Infrastructures

open access: yesSocietal Impacts
This paper examines the design and early implementation of the integrated framework for training activities, developed under the FOSSR project and aimed at building capacity within Social Science Research Infrastructures (SSRIs).
Andrea Orazio Spinello, Serena Fabrizio
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Sustainability And Growth [PDF]

open access: yesChemical & Engineering News Archive, 2010
THIS WEEK’S cover story on sustainability focuses on a green supply chain—manufacturers who are working to ensure that the ingredients that go into their products are produced in a sustainable fashion by workers who are treated fairly. Senior Editor Melody Voith talked to four niche consumer-brand companies about their relationships with raw material ...
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The Sustainability of Health Spending Growth [PDF]

open access: yesNational Tax Journal, 2005
We evaluate the long-run sustainability of health spending growth. Under the criterion that non-health consumption does not fall, one percent excess cost growth appears to be an upper bound for the economy as a whole when the projection horizon extends over the century, although some groups would experience declines in non-health consumption.
Follette, Glenn, Sheiner, Louise
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