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Measuring sustainable development - Nation by nation
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In this paper, the authors argue that an HDI of no less than 0.8 and a per capita ecological footprint less than the globally available biocapacity per person represent minimum requirements for sustainable development that is globally replicable.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-01-15. It has received 379 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biocapacity & Sustainability.read more
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Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity
TL;DR: Hulme as discussed by the authors uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change and shows that climate change, far from being simply an 'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world.
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W(h)ither Ecology? The Triple Bottom Line, the Global Reporting Initiative, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Markus J. Milne,Rob Gray +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and isolate the concept of the "triple bottom line" (TBL) as a core and dominant idea that continues to pervade business reporting, and business engagement with sustainability.
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Measuring sustainability: Why the ecological footprint is bad economics and bad environmental science
TL;DR: The ecological footprint is a measure of the resources necessary to produce the goods that an individual or population consumes It is also used as a measure for sustainability, though evidence suggests that it falls short as mentioned in this paper.
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Sustainability science: a review, an analysis and some empirical lessons
TL;DR: This review provides an overview of the state of sustainability science, identifying action orientation, integrated assessments and interdisciplinarity as overall characteristics.
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From constraint to sufficiency: The decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975–2005
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between human needs, energy consumption and carbon emissions for several indicators of human development, including life expectancy, literacy, income and the Human Development Index, and found that high human development can be achieved at moderate energy and carbon levels.
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Our Ecological Footprint: reducing human impact on the earth - eScholarship
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
TL;DR: Wackernagel and Rees as mentioned in this paper presented an analysis of the aggregate land area required for a given population to exist in a sustainable manner, and showed that at 11 acres per person, the U.S. has the highest per capita footprint.
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Impact of Population Growth
Paul R. Ehrlich,John P. Holdren +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that population growth causes a disproportionate negative impact on the environment and that the control of population is necessary but not sufficient means of seeing us through the whole crisis of environmental deterioration.