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Sustainable development: a critical review
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A review of the literature that has sprung up around the concept of sustainable development indicates, however, a lack of consistency in its interpretation as mentioned in this paper, leading to inadequacies and contradictions in policy making in the context of international trade, agriculture, and forestry.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 1861 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable development & Sustainability.read more
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The Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Concept and Application in a Global Context
TL;DR: In this article, a revised definition of the circular economy is proposed, where planning, resourcing, procurement, production and reprocessing are designed and managed, as both process and output, to maximize ecosystem functioning and human well-being.
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The Role of Corporations in Achieving Ecological Sustainability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the implications of ecologically sustainable development for corporations through the concepts of total quality environmental management, competitive strategies, technology transfer through technology-for nature-swaps, and reducing the impact of populations on ecosystems.
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State of the Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational, and social sustainability innovations and propose examples of normative 'boundary conditions' that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation and propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.
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Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins
TL;DR: The three-pillar conception of sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous as discussed by the authors, however, there is no single point of origin of this threepillar conception, but rather a gradual emergence from various critiques in the early academic literature of the economic status quo from both social and ecological perspectives on the one hand, and the quest to reconcile economic growth as a solution to social problems on the part of the United Nations on the other.
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Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: "Our Common Future"
Saleh A. Al-Athel,Lamine Mohammed Fadika,Istvan Lang,Ma Shijun,Margarita Marino de Botero,Nagendra Singh,Paulo Noqueira-Nato,Shridath S. Ramphal,William D. Ruckelshaus,Mohamed Sahnoun,Vladimir E. Sokolov +10 more
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Land degradation and society
Piers Blaikie,Harold Brookfield +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a method of analyzing the problems of management and degradation, focusing particularly on the decision making environment of the land users and managers themselves, its great variety through space and time, and the inability of single theories to provide satisfactory explanations.
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Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions
TL;DR: The authors argue that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural, but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.