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Sustainability, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2014 - 35 articles

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Articles (35)

  • Article
  • Open Access
165 Citations
34,090 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2014

Our paper analyses the link between the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and competitiveness performance among small and medium enterprises operating in the fashion industry. The study refers to a sample of 213 SMEs (Small and Medium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,248 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2014

The article aims to provide some ethical orientation on how sustainability might be actualized by institutions. Since institutionalization is about rules and organization, it presupposes ideas and concepts by which institutions can be substantiated....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,309 Views
22 Pages

21 February 2014

Sustainable development has become increasingly influential. In light of environmental concerns, the social dimension of sustainability is now encompassing a growing number of concerns. Together with more traditional hard concepts, including basic ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
11,709 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2014

A pressing question that arises during the planning of an ecological restoration process is: where to restore first? Answering this question is a complex task; it requires a multidimensional approach to consider economic constrains and the preference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,540 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2014

Decoupling human well-being and local economic growth from resources consumption and environmental degradation has been recognized as a common vision to meet global sustainability. This paper taking Shenyang city as studied case aims to measure the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,924 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2014

This paper attempts to investigate the short- and long-run causality issues among oil consumption, CO2 emissions, and economic growth in the Philippines by using time series techniques and annual data for the period 1965–2012. Tests for unit root, co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,492 Views
38 Pages

21 February 2014

Latin America is home to dramatically diverse agroecological regions which harbor a high concentration of underutilized plant species, whose genetic resources hold the potential to address challenges such as sustainable agricultural development, food...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,947 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2014

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,243 Views
9 Pages

21 February 2014

Issues on climate change have been recognized as serious challenges for regional sustainable development both at a global and local level. Given the background that most of the artificial carbon emissions are resulted from the energy consumption sect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,435 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2014

In Turkey, in 2010, the amount of pesticide (active ingredient; a.i.) used in agriculture was about 23,000 metric tons, of which approximately 32% was fungicides. In 2012, 14 a.i. were used for fungus control in wheat cultivation areas in Adana prov...

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