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Showing 1 to 20 of 1599 for “"Sustainable Development"”.
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Landscape Architecture and Sustainable Development
… purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of sustainable development in Landscape Architecture. From reviewing the literature, a position is developed. The position is that Sustainable Development is an important issue for landscape architects and that there are reasons landscape architects …
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Strategic issues in sustainable development
The paradigm of sustainable development has moved center-stage in the development community and strategies for achieving sustainable development are proliferating. However, the capacity of institutions to support sustainable development in non-industrialized countries has not been adequately …
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Planning for Sustainable Development in Senegal
… aims to contribute to Senegal's progress towards sustainable development planning. It presents how Senegalese planning system is structured as well as its potential and its limits to change. Senegal is a West African country classified as a least developed country. Senegalese decision-makers seek …
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Copyright infringement in Zambia versus sustainable development
… between effective copyright protection and sustainable development. To achieve this, the essay looks at selected provisions of the Copyright and Performance Rights Act, chapter 406 of the Laws of Zambia that bring out an understanding of copyright generally. The paper will then link …
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Thriving on sustainable development: sustainable autopoietic organisations
… have reacted to the legal principle of Sustainable Development. The proposition is that Sustainable Development is an event-driven principle of becoming where the present depends both on the organisation’s environment and its internal operations. The starting point of the research is the …
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Urban Energy Atlas for a Sustainable development
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Sustainable development : the reflexive governance of risk
… tenets of modernity are re-examined and current developmental patterns are drawn into question. In political and social discourse increased risk has created the need to achieve a sustainable development (SD). In light of criticisms that Beck makes broad and unsubstantiated theoretical assertions, …
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Sustainable Development: Implementation in Urban Water Systems
As Sustainable development, a widely used but poorly understood term, challenges traditional scientific values such as prediction and control, scientists have tried to manipulate the concept to promote their own particular agendas. Thus, it has suffered from misrepresentation which has prevented …
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Grasping complexity: analysing risk for sustainable development
Sustainable development relies on our ability to make decisions today that will determine our tomorrow. Given that uncertainty is explicitly allowed to influence our view of what the future holds for us, most ex ante analyses of challenges for sustainable development can be viewed as analysing …
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Essays on Sustainable Development and Human Capital
Sustainable development is often taken to mean development that improves human well being subject to natural constraints over time, but in practice quantifying sustainability outcomes is often difficult. In this dissertation I seek to better elucidate the relationship between sustainable …
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A General Evolutionary Methodology for Sustainable Development
… management strategies in the context of sustainable development, I draw upon theory from the field of general evolutionary sciences (including chaos theory, complexity science, and nonlinear thermodynamics). I translate this emerging theoretical worldview to a general evolutionary …
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Integration of sustainable development goals in business strategies /
… in September 2015, the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which are a framework for achieving global sustainability until 2030. The businesses have the potential to make significant contributions towards environmental sustainability through the integration of …
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Location – Based Information for Sustainable Development of Forests
… and coherent decision making to achieve a sustainable future. Location based information has played an important role in sustainable decision-making for decades. The role of this information as an aid for sustainable forest management has been lightly explored by academia, policy makers and …
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Managing sustainable development in the city of Tshwane
Since the first Conference on sustainable development in 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Conference), and the introduction of the World Conservation Strategy in 1980, which was the first attempt to reconcile ecological and economic concerns and approaches, …
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Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: A Moral Geography
Sustainable development has been uncritically adopted in Costa Rica and elsewhere as a desirable ideal informing development practice. Nevertheless, critical voices outside the development establishment have questioned the efficacy of the concept to guide social change and productive practices in …
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The environment agency and regulation towards sustainable development
… and one of them is to work towards achieving sustainable development. The appropriate carrying out of its duties and working towards this goal will be fundamental task for Agency managers and good policy will be required to provide them with the tools to perform well. This dissertation aims to …
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Sustainable Development of New Phosphors for Photonics Applications
… and construction of eco-friendly and sustainable new phosphors for photonics applications and develop new experimental methods to optimize the industrialization of photonic materials to decrease energy consumption.
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
… biofuels certified under such programs are not sustainable at all. In addition, some reports revealed that the assurance process of certification, though done by independent certifier/auditor and thus can offer greater level of credibility, was not as transparent and reliable as it claims. This …
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Developing countries and the politics of sustainable development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Sustainable development in Indonesia : holistic assessments and pathways
This thesis assesses the status of sustainable development in Indonesia, identifies the systemic barriers, and offers holistic development pathways toward sustainability. The framework employed in this research looks at the interactions between the economy, employment, and environment while taking …
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