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Showing 1 to 20 of 5720 for “"Sustainability"”.
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Transitioning toward Sustainability: How Corporate Sustainability Strategies Affect Stakeholders’ Actions
… as societies and economies transition toward sustainability. Despite growing scholarly attention devoted to understanding how interactions between organizations and diverse groups of stakeholders affect those opportunities and challenges, a number of important questions remain as to how …
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Visions of sustainability: an overview of radical conceptions of sustainability
The concept of sustainability has recently entered mainstream political, social and economic discourses. It has become, almost overnight, the politically correct, or ecologically correct, buzzword which may continue to define the environmental rhetoric of the 1990s. The concept of sustainability, …
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Reading First Sustainability
… questions designed to determine the impact and sustainability of the literacy skills students achieved by participating in the Reading First program in first, second, and third grade in a Northern Nevada urban school district elementary setting. A t-test compared 449 Reading First students' ELA …
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Nunavut Nursing Sustainability
This participatory action research inquiry examined factors contributing to sustainable staffing and long-term success within the Department of Health in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. Twenty-two full-time and casual nurses working in the five Kitikmeot health centres participated in a survey, …
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Environmental Sustainability ofBIOPLASTICS
… particularly promising in terms of environmental sustainability. Indeed, the production of plastics from renewable sources in recent years has had an exponential growth (from 180 ton in 2008 to 1 million of ton in 2011). This rise is due to the market demand of products and materials with an …
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Sustainability in Store
… demand to understand how the complexity of the sustainability discourse is translated into concrete action on the shop floor. My results show retailers to be highly flexible in their work with SCP, however also quite unstrategic. Much of retailers’ efforts to integrate SCP into their operations …
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Sustainability in architecture
… decision making process. This thesis defines sustainability as it applies to architecture, compares environmental performance rating systems and guidelines, discusses simulation, design, and life cycle analysis tools, outlines specific green building strategies, devises a methodology for …
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Sustainability analysis: A stochastic formulation for evaluating the sustainability of engineering systems
… impact of such strategies on the life-cycle sustainability of engineering systems. This work proposes a novel stochastic formulation, named Stochastic Life-cycle Sustainability Analysis (SLCSA), for evaluating the sustainability of engineering systems throughout their service lives. In the …
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Corporate sustainability assessment methodology
Sustainability is a vague concept specifically in the context of a corporate world. There are numerous definitions for corporate sustainability and just as many ways of evaluating it. This work attempts to define, structure and assess corporate sustainability in a standardized robust manner through …
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Dividend Signaling and Sustainability
Since the 1970s, dividends have not only become less common (Fama and French, 2001), they have become less sticky, too. Today, it is not uncommon for a firm to cease dividend payments within three years of initiation. I examine the differences between firms that continue to pay dividends for a long …
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Cultural Sustainability through Architecture
… is dealing with the broad topic of cultural sustainability. I began my thesis thinking about a project dealing with ecological sustainability, but not long after starting to research, I gained the knowledge that the cultural aspect is often forgotten or minor. Thus the design got inspired …
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Can sustainability be local? : an examination of neighborhood sustainability assessment in Denver, Colorado
… governments and nonprofits working to advance sustainability are increasingly turning to the neighborhood scale (Luederitz, Lang, and von Wehrden 2013). This attention to the neighborhood has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) standards, …
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The Role of Sustainable Intrapreneurs in Promoting Corporate Sustainability and Sustainability reporting in India
… sustainable intrapreneurs in advancing corporate sustainability and sustainability reporting in Indian organisations. Using qualitative case studies, the research explores how intrapreneurs promote sustainability initiatives and how contextual factors, including sociocultural norms, institutional …
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Implementing for Success and Sustainability
… threatened performance improvement success and sustainability. The formative and summative evaluations indicate successful user acceptance and affirm applicability to successful implementation of changes in professional practice. </p>
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Absolute Sustainability of Australian Cities
… of cities are critical to addressing sustainability issues. Australian cities are regularly named amongst the most liveable cities in the world, but with high consumption levels and long supply chains impacting hinterlands. This thesis aims to assess the sustainability of Australian …
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Sustainability and economic policy analysis
… and the complete valuation of natural capital, a sustainability constraint on the economic activities of the current generation is proposed. This constraint requires compensation for natural capital depletion through functional substitutes. From this sustainability constraint, an operational …
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The sustainability of Saskatchewan municipalities
Although the municipal government is considered closest to the people, municipalities are not referenced in the Canadian constitution. Recognizing this gap, soon after joining the Confederation of Canada in 1905, Saskatchewan enacted a municipal act to regulate its rural and urban sectors. The …
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Sustainability Leadership: My Learning Journey
Global sustainability is an essential challenge in our world and for our future, a cause that I am committed to in my personal and professional life. The Organizational Dynamics program has increased my focus and engagement and has resulted in increased awareness in myself personally and those …
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City of Patterson Sustainability Plan
This Master’s Thesis / Professional Project is a Sustainability Plan developed for the City of Patterson, California. The Patterson Sustainability Plan (PSP) was developed concurrently with the General Plan Update, and will be presented to the City for adoption within a year. The Sustainability …
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