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Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 6

June 2013 - 27 articles

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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,974 Views
32 Pages

31 May 2013

Because the issue of sustainability presents urgent problems crucial to the future of mankind, there has been serious discussion of the role accounting should play. In this context, a new line of research, still at a relatively unexplored, embryonic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,008 Views
21 Pages

31 May 2013

The Human Development Index (HDI) is often employed to capture some of the more social concerns in sustainable development at the scale of the nation-state. The HDI is founded on three components; life expectancy, education and income per capita. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,369 Views
22 Pages

28 May 2013

Protected area (PA) coverage is used as an indicator of biodiversity protection worldwide. The effectiveness of using PAs as indicators has been questioned due to the diversity of categories encompassed by such designations, especially in PAs establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,339 Views
17 Pages

Adaptation Turning Points in River Restoration? The Rhine Salmon Case

  • Tobias Bölscher,
  • Erik Van Slobbe,
  • Michelle T.H. Van Vliet and
  • Saskia E. Werners

24 May 2013

Bringing a sustainable population of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) back into the Rhine, after the species became extinct in the 1950s, is an important environmental ambition with efforts made both by governments and civil society. Our analysis finds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,614 Views
22 Pages

Low-Carbon Sustainable Precincts: An Australian Perspective

  • Jessica Bunning,
  • Colin Beattie,
  • Vanessa Rauland and
  • Peter Newman

24 May 2013

Australia’s urban built environment contributes significantly to the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions; therefore, encouraging urban development to pursue low-carbon outcomes will aid in reducing carbon in the overall economy. Cities and urban areas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,764 Views
16 Pages

24 May 2013

The call for papers asked to cast “a critical eye on the practice and purpose of sustainability-focused education, and its successes and failures, thus far”. We approach this task in this paper through two lenses that have not yet been very visible i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
12,455 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2013

Sustainability issues involve complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors that are often viewed quite differently by disparate stakeholder groups. Issues of non-sustainability are wicked problems that have many, often obs...

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