In this paper, we critically examine organizational representations of sustainable development in close to 200 publicly-available corporate reports spanning a 12 year period. Using a discourse theoretical approach, we analyze how these particular organizations have come to ‘know’ sustainable development, and we consider the conditions which have made this knowledge possible. Themes emerging fro...

Sustainable harvest, the extraction of game without affecting population viability, is a desirable approach to the use of wildlife. However, overharvest has been responsible for the decline of many wildlife populations globally, so there is an urgent need to balance human requirements while avoiding the severe depletion of wild populations. Northern common eiders Somateria mollissima borealis a...

1. Sustainable Growth: Concepts and Framework 1.1 Economic Growth 1.2 Sustainable Development 1.3 Sustainable Growth 1.4 Economic Growth Theory as a Framework for Analyzing Sustainable Growth 2. Economic Growth Without Environmental Factors: A Basic Model 2.1 The Model 2.2 Sustainable Growth in the Basic Model 2.3 Technological Change 3. Sustainable Growth With Nonrenewable Resources 3.1 Produc...

BACKGROUND Southeast Asian deforestation rates are among the world's highest and threaten to drive many forest-dependent species to extinction. Climate change is expected to interact with deforestation to amplify this risk. Here we examine whether regional incentives for sustainable forest management will be effective in improving threatened mammal conservation, in isolation and when combined w...

There is growing interest in sustainability, sustainable development, and sustainable transportation. This paper identifies issues related to the definition, evaluation and implementation of sustainable transportation. Significant issues include the range of definitions of sustainability, the range of issues considered under sustainability, the range of perspectives, criticism of sustainability...

CONTENTS Acronyms and abbreviations Ackowledgements 1 Background to the OECD/DAC donor-developing country dialogues on nssds 1.1 Summary of the project 2 Sustainable development and strategies to reach this goal 2.1 Is there really an understanding of what sustainable development is all about? 2.1.1 Defining sustainable development 2.2 What is a national stratagey for sustainable development ? ...

Sustainable HCI has seen a large growth in the amount of research taking place in the field. However, are we taking the most effective route to generating sustainable sustainability? In the Sustainable HCI community, a large focus of the research has been on persuasive psychological techniques to change individuals’ behaviours to be sustainable. Nevertheless, individual behaviour change has lim...

Fashion supply chain members now search for trade-offs between sustainable investment and the related incentives, such as savings on environmental taxes and gains in incremental demands. To evaluate the economic and environmental performance of sustainable investment from a power perspective, we develop an analytical model to study a two-echelon sustainable supply chain consisting of one retail...

In the past two decades, China has witnessed rapidly economic growth. However, this extensive economic growth pattern has brought about quite a lot resource and environmental problems that might hold economic further development back at present and in near future. Now the emerging issue is how China could balance realization of rapidly economic growth and the sustainability of society in near f...

There is now global recognition that antibiotic resistance is an emerging public health threat. Policy initiatives are underway to provide concrete suggestions for overcoming important obstacles in the fight against antibiotic resistance, like the alarming current paucity of antibacterial innovation. New economic models are needed as incentives for the discovery and development of novel antibac...