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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Weak sustainability"”.
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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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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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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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Evaluating the environmental audit: Case study into the Centre for Waste Management's (CWM) European Regional Development Funded (ERDF) project's success at promoting sustainable development in small to medium enterprises (SMEs).
… 1993). Although the overarching definition of sustainability is understood to represent the long-term maintenance of social, environmental and economic systems (Gudmundsson et aL, 1996; Hughes et aL, 2005), many aspects of sustainable development are far from having integrity in terms of …