The challenges of how to respond to climate change and ensure sustainable development are currently high on the political agenda among the world’s leading nations. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is part of the global carbon market developing rapidly as part of the Kyoto response towards mitigation of global warming. One of the aims of the CDM is to achieve sustainable development in deve...

Global mental health (GMH) is a growing domain with an increasing capacity to positively impact the world community's efforts for sustainable development and wellbeing. Sharing and synthesizing GMH and multi-sectoral knowledge, the focus of this paper, is an important way to support these global efforts. This paper consolidates some of the most recent and relevant 'context resources' [global mu...

Introduction. A typical practice of the world's leading countries is transformation higher education institutions into agents change in society. In XXI century, these changes are primarily focused on various aspects sustainable development country and its regions. Currently, it universities, together with NGOs, that have greatest impact achievement Sustainable Development Goals proclaimed by UN...

If change for sustainability in higher education is to be effective, change efforts must be sensitive to the institutional culture in which they will be applied. Therefore, gaining insight into how institutional stakeholders engage with the concept of sustainable universities is an important first step in understanding how to frame and communicate change. This study employed Q methodology to ex...

Xiaopu Sun is a Law Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C. Kenneth J. Markowitz, an attorney, is the President of Earthpace LLC and the Senior Clean Energy and Environmental Consultant with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. Durwood Zaelke is the founder and President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C., ...

The Biosphere Reserve (BR) model of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme reflects a shift towards more accountable conservation. Biosphere Reserves attempt to reconcile environmental protection with sustainable development; they explicitly acknowledge humans, and human interests in the conservation landscape while still maintaining the ecological values of existing protected areas. Conceptu...

â â â â â  farzaneh mohammadi [1] â  phd candidate in health economics, tarbiat moderes university, iran â  mostafa emadzadeh â  professor of economics, university of isfahan, iran â  azarnoush ansari â  phd candidate in business, university of isfahan, iran â â â  abstract â  sustainable development is a controversial concept which has been considered over the three decades. it is comprehensiv...

This manuscript presents a comprehensive managerial model of a sustainable university created with empirical data collected from eighty higher education institutions around the world. The sustainable university model offers a clear perspective about how people responsible for sustainability initiatives get from their initial momentum to advanced steps in the process to become a sustainable univ...