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Modelling sustainability

Vladislav Todorov, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2011 - 
- Vol. 81, Iss: 7, pp 1397-1408
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The article presents a general classification of the models being developed in the area of sustainability arguing that the existing models represent the historical conceptualisation of sustainability starting from environmental constraints and moving towards economic valuation and social behaviour and policies.
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This article is published in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.The article was published on 2011-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability & Sustainable development.

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An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

Jonathan Köhler, +28 more
- 01 Jun 2019 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies.
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Progress in sustainability science: lessons learnt from current methodologies for sustainability assessment: Part 1

Serenella Sala, +2 more
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the main challenges posed to sustainability assessment methodologies and related methods in terms of ontology, epistemology and methodology of purpose sustainability science (SS) are discussed.
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Resilience thinking: a renewed system approach for sustainability science

Li Xu, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the contribution of resilience thinking for social-ecological systems (SESs) in understanding sustainability and the need to preserve natural resources in the face of external perturbations.
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Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: uma taxonomia no campo da literatura

Simone Sartori, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2014 - 
TL;DR: A presente pesquisa selecionou cento e tres artigos relevantes, em um periodo de vinte e oito anos, com o objetivo de analisar o tema sustentabilidade, caracterizando o estagio em que se encontra, lacunas e desafios para future contribuicoes.
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Sustainable enterprise resource planning: imperatives and research directions

Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh, +4 more
- 15 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: S-ERP system appears as a promising solution to solve integration problems in sustainability; however the academic researchers need to take certain direction for assisting organizations for solving their business issues.
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Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence

Peter Newman, +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of sustainability and its relationship to cities the problem of automobile dependence at the end of the 20th century the pattern of car dependence and global cities a vision of reduced automobile dependence greening the automobile dependent city - urban ecology and auto dependence promoting sustainable urban change ethics, spirituality and community in the city as mentioned in this paper.
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The article presents a general classification of the models being developed in the area of sustainability arguing that the existing models represent the historical conceptualisation of sustainability starting from environmental constraints and moving towards economic valuation and social behaviour and policies.