Environmental Exploration of Ultra-Dense Nanobubbles: Rethinking Sustainability

Perceptions of environmental sustainability amongst mineworkers

Environmental sustainability needs to use resources efficiently and effectively from macro to micro level with a systematic approach. The dualistic relationship between ecosystem and human beings require considering ecological and social systems as well as economic factors known as the three-legged approach. Individuals and their perceptions are also important in this approach because of the ne...

Rethinking Development, Sustainability, and Gender Relations

Rethinking Health-based Environmental Standards

though only at too high a level of generality to provide regulators with the needed guidance.32 For example, Professor Mark Sagoff suggests agencies should regulate up to the “knee of the [cost] curve,”33 which is “the point at which the cost of controlling the next incremental unit of pollution begins to increase rapidly,” and returns to the environment rapidly diminish per dollar spent.34 But...

Negabehaviors and Environmental Sustainability

Helping people learn to adopt more pro-social lifestyles usually involves persuading them to take new, beneficial actions. However, certain pro-social goals, such as achieving environmental sustainability, also require people to stop performing harmful actions—people are commonly instructed to drive less, use less electricity, and otherwise reduce the amount of resources they consume and waste ...

Inequality and Environmental Sustainability

* The author is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Development Policy Analysis Division of UN DESA. He would like to thank Gregroy Mikkelson and Danny Dorling for their comments on previous versions the paper. Thanks are also due to the participants of the Expert Group Meeting held in 2014 where this paper was presented. Particular thanks are due to the anonymous referee, whose substantiv...