As a foundation and important pillar of national governance, timely assessment local fiscal sustainability can identify risks pressures, furthermore, it prevent from causing systemic financial provide stable environment for high-quality economic development building new pattern. Based on the panel data 246 prefecture-level cities 2008 to 2019, this paper firstly elaborates at theoretical level,...

Over 50% of world‟s population presently resides in cities, and this number is expected to rise to ~70% by 2050. Increasing urbanization problems including population growth, urban sprawl, land use change, unemployment, and environmental degradation, have markedly impacted urban residents‟ Quality of Life (QOL). Therefore, urban sustainability and its measurement have gained increasing attentio...

The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which the School-Wide Universal Behavior Sustainability Index: School Teams (SUBSIST; McIntosh, Doolittle, Vincent, Horner, & Ervin, 2009), a measure of school and district contextual factors that promote the sustainability of school practices, demonstrated measurement invariance across groups of schools that differed in length of time imple...

A number of leading companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan have made a commitment to become sustainable enterprises, and have launched proactive programs to improve the environmental and social performance of their products, processes, services, and facilities. However, one of the key challenges faced by these companies is how to track their progress towards sustainability and communicate it t...

Consider the problem of protecting endangered species by selecting patches of land to be used for conservation purposes. Typically, the availability of patches changes over time, and recommendations must be made dynamically. This is a challenging prototypical example of a sequential optimization problem under uncertainty in computational sustainability. Existing techniques do not scale to probl...

SUMMER 2014 31 Ecological processes that occur at global scales are among the most impressive natural phenomena on Earth; they link environments across the globe and capture the imagination of observers. For example, billions of North American birds, representing more than 400 species, migrate annually, often thousands of miles, frequently under the cover of darkness, between breeding and nonbr...

Our study explains why it is important to implement the aspects of sustainability in order successfully converge and break out trap medium development, presents main findings MNB Sustainability Report Index based on a self-developed quantification-purpose methodology. The socio-economic system country considered sustainable if its environmental, social, financial real economy resources are used...

This paper addresses the sustainability performance measurement framework as a strategic management approach to integrate social, environmental and economic issues into organizational practice. Resulting on empirical research, the paper presents four broader dimensions that build up the framework: stakeholders, strategies, processes and capabilities. This paper, therefore, proposes an approach ...

We develop and apply a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining wellbeing over time. Our approach differs from earlier approaches by concentrating on wealth rather than income. Sustainability is demonstrated by showing that a properly defined comprehensive measure of wealth is maintained through time. Our wealth measu...