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...g environmental, social and economic crises now faced by the global community. Ever greater numbers of Boards and CEOs are grappling with a notion of sustainability and attempting to define precisely what it means for their business. The primary aim of this unit is to capture this transition and define what businesses are doing to adopt a more sustainable approach. Look...

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...Sustainability of the environment implies both wishful thinking and ignorance – ignorance of the reality that natural systems are complex and unfathomable by scientists, and that repetition of research outputs depend on repet...

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...ent Forces on Agriculture and the Environment 41 Agricultural Environments 43 Global Development Forces 51 Sustainable Development and Traditions 56 Sustainability: A Local or Foreign Influence? 59 Practical Alternatives 61 24 Sustainability: Elusive or Illusion? Wise Environmental Intervention Policy Implications 63 Chapter 4 Technology and Food Needs: GMOs for GF...

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...ons Of The Mullet Fishery And anae Holo Of Puuloa, Oahu;-The Importance Of The Streams And Estuaries To Healthy Fisheries; And-Steps Needed To Ensure Sustainability Of Hawaiian Fisheries-October 22, 2003 – Kepa Maly (And Isaac Harp). 982 -- Robert Joseph Luuwai-Recollections Of Makena Region And Kahoolawe Fisheries-Oral History Interview With Kepa Maly And Isaac Harp-March...

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...y. In a paper dated October 2001 and titled "The International Dollar Standard and Sustainability of the US Current Account Deficit", the author, R... ...le this would likely be manageable in the short term it could adversely affect the sustainability of recovery later on." Another embarrassing trut...

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...of course treat relevant subsets as necessary (if we can identify them). Thus 'sustainability' in environmental terms would be such an holarchic valu...

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...making their contents freely accessible online. The long-term economic sustainability of free online scholarship is not a problem. We know this ...

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...ronmental problems disparately. Despite recent attempts, such as the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) produced by the World Economic Forum ...

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...ronmental problems disparately. Despite recent attempts, such as the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) produced by the World Economic Forum ...

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...government universities with their higher accountability and budget-aligned plans, which are major tools for enhancing a university’s quality and its sustainability. ...

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... Transition to Autonomy 257 Budget Administration Typology 259 User Benefits 263 Transitioning to Autonomy Takes Time 264 Sustainability of an Autonomous University 266 Bibliography 268 Appendix 282 ...

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...ion and Food 27 Future Food Demand 30 The Agricultural Environment 34 Irrigation Potential 36 Poverty 37 Investment 39 Sustainable Food Production 42 Sustainability and Image 45 People and Agriculture 47 Towards an Alternative Approach 51 Chapter 3. UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION: ENVIRONMENTAL EMPATHY 55 Awareness 55 Bread Baskets of the World 58 The Global Need 59 The Imp...

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...side from the issue of racial injustice, one has to consider the question of sustainability. In other work, I have tried to show how a vision of intel...

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...ting the success of dairy development Future strategies for sustainable dairy development Sustainable development Suggested Reading Chapter 22: Sustainability of smallholder dairy production A.R. Egan Introduction The context of sustainability Issues Risk factors Sustainability and carrying capacity Sustainability and the feedbase Sustainability and p...