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Suzette Viviers
AbstractThe year 2013 marked the 21st anniversary of responsible investing (RI) in South Africa. No systematic analysis of the nature of RI strategies and criteria has, however, been conducted. Content analysis of the investment mandates of 73 RI funds h...
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Alexey Cherepovitsyn, Evgeniya Rutenko and Victoria Solovyova
Following the principles of sustainable development in the development of oil and gas fields in the Arctic will ensure that hydrocarbon production and transportation operations comply with stringent environmental regulations, the economies of the norther...
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Alexey Cherepovitsyn, Anna Tsvetkova and Nadejda Komendantova
In the face of today?s global challenges, oil and gas companies must define long-term priorities and opportunities in implementing complex Arctic offshore projects, taking into account environmental, economic, technological and social aspects. In this re...
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Özlem Sanri
Pág. 86 - 93
Ports are developing sustainability frameworks in order to cope with latest requirements from the stakeholders. Economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability are the three pillars of the topic. Although economic and environmental aspect...
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Tiziana Campisi, Alessandro Severino, Muhammad Ahmad Al-Rashid and Giovanni Pau
Smart cities aim to integrate technological development with different functions/components such as mobility, management of energy, natural resources, water, and the waste cycle, air quality, land use, service network, construction, but also the economy,...
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C. Maroto Álvarez,M. Segura,C. Ginestar,J. Uriol,B. Segura
Pág. 546 - 558
Aim of study: There is a lack of empirical research that deals with sustainable forest management in Mediterranean regions, among the most vulnerable ecosystems. The main purpose of this work is to define the strategic criteria and objectives for sustain...
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Diana Arreola, Julian Hernandez, Valeria Vesco and Krishna R. Reddy
The Dredged Material Decision Tool (DMDT) was developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to allow project managers, stakeholders, and communities to quantify environmental, economic, and social considerations of using dredged ...
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María M. Borrego-Marín and Laura Riesgo
This paper analyses and compares the sustainability of the water plans in the Spanish River basins according to the objectives of the Water Framework Directive. Even though the concept of sustainability has been traditionally associated with the triple b...
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Maria Llop, Xavier Ponce-Alifonso
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This paper analyzes two of the main challenges facing agriculture in Europe: technological changes and the application of the principle of cost recovery to water services. Our study takes into account the economic, social, and ecological consequences ass...
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María M. Borrego-Marín, Laura Riesgo
Pág. 1 - 14
This paper analyses and compares the sustainability of the water plans in the Spanish River basins according to the objectives of the Water Framework Directive. Even though the concept of sustainability has been traditionally associated with the triple b...
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Craig Langston
Pág. 76 - 94
Green roofs have potential to improve the social and environmental performance of detached housing in Australia, yet often they are overlooked due to prohibitive capital cost and a range of other perceptions that are difficult to quantify. A classic eval...
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Craig Langston
Pág. 76 - 94
Green roofs have potential to improve the social and environmental performance of detached housing in Australia, yet often they are overlooked due to prohibitive capital cost and a range of other perceptions that are difficult to quantify. A classic eval...
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Milena Ilic,Branislav Radnovic,Zoran D. Zivkovic
Pág. 59 - 73
Several factors direct the companies to apply a higher level of corporate social responsibility: the increasing expectations of customers, changes in expectations of employees, laws and government pressure, investor interest in the social criteria and ch...
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Shirish Singh, Florence Laker, Najib L. Bateganya, Allan G. Nkurunziza, Swaib Semiyaga and Damir Brdjanovic
Various business models for fecal sludge emptying and transport have been developed to address challenges and their advantages have been documented; however, their evaluation has not been investigated. This study developed an evaluation framework, which ...
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Aurora Skrame, Claudio Ciancio, Vincenzo Corvello and Roberto Musmanno
The purpose of this article is to develop a quantitative model that supports policy makers in the tourism sector in making socially responsible investment decisions. In particular, this paper proposes a methodological approach to assess the impact of str...
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Huda Almaaofi, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, Rodney Stewart
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Drinking water catchments (DWC) are under pressure from point and nonpoint source pollution due to the growing human activities. This worldwide challenge is causing number of adverse effects, such as degradation in water quality, ecosystem health, and ot...
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Pien Budiyanto,Asep Saefuddin,Eka Intan Kumala Putri
Pág. 199
Sustainability analysis of an industrial estate in multidimensional aspects is one of the important steps as an evaluation and review of the operation. Evaluation and review are very useful to evaluate whether the purpose of the existence of an industria...
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Philip Leat, Cesar Revoredo-Giha and Chrysa Lamprinopoulou
The purpose of the paper is two-fold. First, to identify the main sustainability issues that Scottish food supply chain actors are concerned with and any differences that exist between primary producers, processors and distributors and consumers; and sec...
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Riyadh Mundher, Shamsul Abu Bakar, Suhardi Maulan, Hangyu Gao, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof, Azlizam Aziz and Ammar Al-Sharaa
Permanent forest reserves (PFR) in urban areas are an integral aspect of the urban forest concept and the basis of a city?s green infrastructure. The preservation of natural forests in urban areas has become a widely researched topic due to the environme...
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Composite indicators are becoming more relevant for evaluating the performance of water companies from a holistic perspective. Some of them are related with economic aspects, and others focus on social and environmental features. Consequently, a multidim...
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