Studying the sustainability of the financial performance of Chinese listed companies is an assessment of their future development capability and a comprehensive evaluation of all aspects of the companies over the past period of time. Based on the financial data of manufacturing industry of Chinese listed companies from 2008 to 2015, this paper uses the AHP (Analytic hierarchy process) method to...

In this introduction to the special issue, we identify key tensions underpinning challenge of developing indicators sustainable tourism, and use papers submitted issue exemplify these tensions. The paper questions why it is that need measure risk becoming too focussed on measurement itself losing sight what really important sustainability. We consider who should be undertaking tourism offer evi...

Poverty alleviation is one of the most difficult challenges facing any country in the developing world, where, on the average, majority of the population is considered poor. Evidences in Nigeria shows that the number of those in poverty has continued to increase and Borno state was acknowledged to be at the forefront. Governments and institutions have the capacity to enhance both the viability ...

This paper discusses conceptual confusions of sustainable seafood consumption, practical challenges, and potential anchors from where this behaviour can be fostered. The main focus lies on psychological variables. The resulting framework comprises (1) a definition of sustainable seafood consumption, (2) suggestions for corresponding behaviours, (3) the identification of facilitating and hinderi...

For Romania, the fulfilment of the obligations undertaken as a member state of the European Union in accordance with the Treaty of Accession requires the effective implementation of sustainable development principles and practices, this being the only reasonable development option, which adequately draws in on the economic, social and environment resources. Achieving this objective is based on ...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of climate and environmental issues and examine how nurses perceive their role in contributing to the process of sustainable development. BACKGROUND Climate change and its implications for human health represent an increasingly important issue for the healthcare sector. According to the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics...

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world’s political and environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD)–as guiding institutional principle, as concrete policy goal, and as focus of political struggle–remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global or...

The Fourth World Conference on Women acknowledged that environmental degradation 1) disproportionately affects poor women who are powerless to control it, 2) is linked to poverty, and 3) jeopardizes women's reproductive health. Thus, the Platform for Action addresses environmental inequalities among its 12 areas of critical concern, and the governments who signed the consensus agreed to take a...

1: Department of Sustainable Bioproducts, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762-9820 2: Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411 3: Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 4: Forest Products Lab, USDA Forest Service, Madison...

In the period of radical reforms in Russia, science entered a state of crisis. Nevertheless, the powerful R&D potential available in the country enables Russian scientists to make a decisive contribution to the transition to sustainable development. Primary attention is attributable to the problems of the role of science in economic stabilization. At the same time, science is devoted to contrib...