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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Strong sustainability"”.
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
… economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in three parts. The first part examines the relation between the concepts of weak and strong sustainability and the weight given to future consumption. The second part introduces a …
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Building Sustainable Behavior through Social Marketing: Encouraging Reusable Shopping Bag Use at Stadium Thriftway in Tacoma, WA - A Case Study
Strong sustainability represents a paradigm shift that places environmental conservation and social well-being above the economy and hyper-consumption. Building sustainability requires replacing single-use disposables with durable reusables. This thesis focuses on one ubiquitous single-use …
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Sustainability at the project level : the case of Willets Point, Queens
Citywide sustainability planning creates a vision of how environmental concerns will shape urban development, but the way these plans are incorporated into individual development projects plays a large role in determining how that vision will be achieved in practice. I propose a system for …
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Economics of Sustainable Resource Use
… The SDG 14 framework distinguishes weak and strong sustainability and reveals uneven progress across EU countries. In fisheries, ignoring within-stock heterogeneity biases optimal size selectivity and harvest timing. These inefficiencies are amplified by evolutionary feedbacks when …
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A new model for assessing sustainability of complex systems: Integrating LCA and RA for sustainability
Assessment of sustainability is an essential step in determining if action taken is sustainable. Early research in sustainability assessment was based on reconciling the three pillars (environmental, economic and social) using the weak sustainability model. Today there are numerous indicators …
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Trifecta : embedded sustainability criterion dismantling barriers through learning and full suite of power tools
… and processes underlying two firms’ successful sustainability programs, in order to understand the factors leading to positive sustainability outcomes. Particular attention is given to the values underlying sustainable development objectives, the means of institutionalizing those values, and the …
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Sustaining intergenerational well-being
… interrelated and complex subjects of sustainability and well-being. The thesis covers the history of sustainability and well-being as independent subjects and discusses their evolution into a unified subject matter, sustainability and well-being (SaW). We combined big data methods for …
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Socioeconomic Implication of the Circular Economy: A Preliminary Study of The Impact on Employment and Local Economy in the United States
… critical role that has a direct impact on social sustainability, and therefore needs to be reviewed through factors such as employment opportunities, skills, wages, earning quality, job security, workplace risk, work schedule and social dialogue, etc. This study examines two sectors connected to …
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Donkeys and Compost: Intermediate Transport and Soil Fertility Management in Northern Ghanaian Livelihoods
… them similarly compared compost and fertiliser. Strong sustainability was highly relevant as crops grown with water retentive organic fertilisers consistently outperformed those fertilised inorganically. Wealthier farmers could purchase fertiliser, implying the capitalist paradigm, but most …
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Harnessing alternative post-growth development pathways in Northampton: learning from innovative green information systems in Bristol and China
… to transform local economic structures towards strong sustainability.<br/>Empirical inquiries were conducted in two very different fieldworks in England, Bristol city, and China, Zhejiang province. The researcher has selected and analyzed, in those two fieldworks, different types of IS that have …
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Advancing Lithium Extraction from Nevada’s Sedimentary Claystones: Hydrometallurgical Pathways and Sustainability Perspectives
… within 10 minutes. The process offers strong sustainability credentials: Na₂SO₄ can be crystallized and recycled, and the aluminosilicate leach residue exhibits pozzolanic properties suitable for valorization as a supplementary cementitious material. A step back was taken to investigate …