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Space and sustainability : an exploratory essay on the production of social spaces through city-work
  • Space and sustainability : an exploratory essay on the production of social spaces through city-work
  • Globalization ; Labour ; Social geography ; Social space ; Sustainable development ; Territoriality ; Town
  • Développement durable ; Espace social ; Géographie sociale ; Mondialisation ; Territorialité ; Travail ; Ville
  • Localisation de la production d'espaces sociaux comme approche particulièrement frappante pour comprendre la durabilité.
Towards sustainable development : an African perspective
  • Towards sustainable development : an African perspective
  • . The three components of sustainability-environmental, economic, and social - are interlinked. This kind of development must focus on the relation of people to renewable natural resources.
  • The concept of sustainability is broader than sustainability of the natural resource base. It must involve real economic growth, with an impact on rural incomes and on living conditions of the people in the course of implementation of the projects
Sustainability of commercial agriculture in Chobe District, Botswana
  • Sustainability of commercial agriculture in Chobe District, Botswana
  • Sustainable utilisation of Savannas in Botswana
  • Agricultural damage ; Agricultural product ; Agriculture ; Botswana ; Commercial agriculture ; Environmental degradation ; Fauna ; Savanna ; Sustainable development
  • The paper examines the sustainability of commercial agriculture from the social, economic and environmental perspectives, focusing on the savannas of Pandamatenga in Chobe District. Commercial arable farming was not economically sustainable during
Sustainable development in geographic perspective
  • Sustainable development in geographic perspective
  • Brazil ; Concept ; Deforestation ; Development ; Environment ; Flow ; Global change ; Rondônia ; Scale ; Society-environment relationship ; Sustainable development
  • The intellectual value and practical utility of such concepts as diversity, flow, scale, and visualization represent opportunities to contribute to questions of significance to both general learning and social decisionmaking. Geography's
  • perspectives can help to address the pressing need for a stronger theoretical basis for understanding sustainable development.
Can sustainability enhance business district attractiveness? a survey of corporate property decisions in France
  • Can sustainability enhance business district attractiveness? a survey of corporate property decisions in France
  • Attractivité ; Développement durable ; Economie urbaine ; Entreprise ; France ; Ile-de-France ; Immobilier d'entreprise ; Localisation ; Paris ; Quartier d'affaires central ; Siège social ; Stratégie d'entreprise
  • Attractiveness ; Firm ; Firm strategy ; France ; Head office ; Ile-de-France ; Location ; Non residential real estate ; Paris ; Sustainable development ; Urban economy
  • Desarrollo sostenible ; Economía urbana ; Empresa ; Estrategia de empresa ; Francia ; Localización ; París ; Sede social
  • This paper studies the importance of sustainable principles in property decisions and its impact on attractiveness for business districts in France. It analyses a sample of corporate property managers highlights key factors indicating the influence
  • of sustainable principles alongside more traditional determinants of territorial attractiveness. This approach enables the drawing up of a typology of companies according to the influence of sustainability issues, showing the rise in importance placed
  • on sustainability in location decisions made by listed companies, companies that own their head offices and companies located in the main business districts of the Paris metropolitan area.
Sustainability and success - a case study of Mazovia Region
  • Sustainability and success - a case study of Mazovia Region
  • Development ; Environment ; Poland ; Rural area ; Socio-economic indicators ; Spatial differentiation ; Sustainable development
  • Presented paper concentrates mainly on the question of determining the sustainability of development of rural areas of the Mazovian province in Poland. Conform to the concepts concerning the success areas and the sustainable development
  • , it was assumed that the three basic indicators of the spatial structure of rural areas - economic, social and environmental-ought to attain similar, and at the same time high values. The report prsent spatial differeciations as welle as relations between three
Ethnics and sustainability : a preliminary perspective
  • Ethnics and sustainability : a preliminary perspective
  • Culturel ; Environnement ; Qualité de la vie ; Relation société-environnement ; Système de valeurs ; Théorie sociale
  • Cultural geography ; Environment ; Quality of life ; Social theory ; Society-environment relationship ; Value system
  • The AA. argue that a central weakness in geography's response to environmental problems and to issues of sustainability is the lack of engagement with questions of ethics. They suggest that the society-environment relation may be a scale-dependent
Sustainable development: the economic and environmental case for policy reform
  • Sustainable development: the economic and environmental case for policy reform
  • Concept ; Development ; Economic restructuring ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Human ecology ; Resource management ; Social change ; Sustainable development
  • Changement social ; Concept ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Développement ; Développement durable ; Ecologie humaine ; Environnement ; Gestion des ressources ; Restructuration économique
  • Acceptance of the concept of sustainable development as a long term goal has shifted the nature of the debate about the environment and its relation to development. It is now argued that a degraded and deteriorating environment is a threat
Community Development Trust(s) in Botswana : institutional arrangements and social policy for savanna sustainability
  • Community Development Trust(s) in Botswana : institutional arrangements and social policy for savanna sustainability
  • Sustainable utilisation of Savannas in Botswana
  • The Chobe Enclave Conservation Trust has numerous characteristics consistent with critical factors associated with successful development trusts. These basic characteristics include concern with sustainable community regeneration, the core values
Mountain ecosystems and women : opportunities for sustainable development and conservation
  • Mountain ecosystems and women : opportunities for sustainable development and conservation
  • Ecosystem ; Environmental conservation ; Mountain ; Resource management ; Sustainable development ; Woman
  • , health and social change. Current development issues regarding mountains and women. Recommendations to advance women living in these regions. - (DWG)
Sustainable development of mountain communities
  • Sustainable development of mountain communities
  • Environment ; Global change ; Mountain ; Natural environment ; Prospective study ; Rural community ; Rural development ; Settlement ; Sustainable development
  • levels, local, national and international, with social, economic, cultural, town-planning, and infrastructural aspects to be resolved. - (MR)
Symposium. Sustainable rural systems
  • Symposium. Sustainable rural systems
  • ; Rural society ; Rural system ; Rurality ; Social structure ; Soil erosion ; Sustainable development
  • agricole ; Ruralité ; Société rurale ; Stratégie économique ; Structure sociale ; Système rural ; Travail féminin ; Utilisation agricole du sol
  • The papers explore the concept of sustainability in relation to the integrated spatial system of human groups occupying space both economically and socially, and conserving and reproducing desired cultural values. The concept is expressed
  • as a series of objectives rather than steady states: agronomic, micro-economic, social, macro-economic and ecological sustainability.
A plan to push limits? investigating the ecologically sustainable development dimensions of Melbourne's Central Region sustainable water strategy
  • A plan to push limits? investigating the ecologically sustainable development dimensions of Melbourne's Central Region sustainable water strategy
  • Australia ; Ecology ; Equity ; Melbourne ; Planning ; Political ecology ; Sustainable development ; Victoria ; Water ; Water management ; Water resources
  • The AA. investigate the ecologically sustainable development dimensions of Melbourne's Central Region sustainable water strategy. First, they demonstrate that the importance of issues such as environmental flows, social equity and cultural values
  • is diminished, thus avoiding the inevitable confrontation with environmental limits needed to ensure long-term ecological sustainability. Then, their findings suggest that broadening engagement with the diverse ways in which water is valued is likely
  • to contribute to more equitable and ecologically sustainable water futures.
  • [b2] Institute for Sustainable Futures, Univ. of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australie
Sustainability and migration: experiments from the Senegalese peanut basin
  • Sustainability and migration: experiments from the Senegalese peanut basin
  • Sustainability, resources and region
  • Diversification ; Environmental degradation ; Farming system ; Migration ; Multiplicator ; Peanut ; Regionalization ; Senegal ; Socio-economic system ; Sustainable development ; Village
  • Through observation and experiments conducted with two Senegalese village Social Accounting Matrices, the socioeconomic and environmental impact of migration and diversification out of agriculture is examined. Economically, it is found
Nachhaltiger Stadtverkehr und benachteiligte Stadtquartiere. Bute Praxisbeispiele in Europa
  • Europe ; Residential segregation ; Sustainable development ; Transport ; Urban area ; Urban district
  • and region, special for disadvantaged urban areas. For this purpose, the social, economic and ecological dimensions of sustainable traffic development in cities were considered. The article is a summary of a study which served as a specific background
  • The article presents the results of a good practice collection, which shows how the mobility in urban neighbourhoods can be improved with an integrated planning approach without impeding a sustainable development of traffic in the entire city
  • contribution to the Leipzig Charter on the Sustainable European City. - (IfL)
Sustaining the Andes ? Social capital and policies for rural regeneration in Bolivia
  • Sustaining the Andes ? Social capital and policies for rural regeneration in Bolivia
  • Special issue on integrating natural and social environmental science
  • Andes ; Bolivia ; Environmental conservation ; Local government ; Mountain ; Rural area ; Rural society ; Sustainable development
  • the departments of Potosí and La Paz to argue that with social capital formation there can be rural regeneration that links localities more effectively with state, market, and other civil society actors. The roles of syndicalist organizations and NGO agencies
Planning for sustainability in non-democratic polities : the case of Masdar city
  • Planning for sustainability in non-democratic polities : the case of Masdar city
  • Institution ; Political geography ; Political regime ; Sustainable development ; Town planning ; United Arab Emirates ; Urban planning ; Urbanization
  • This paper addresses the pursuit of environmental sustainability by an autocratic, neo-patrimonial regime and examines the implications of such a political environment for sustainable initiatives in Masdar City , near Abu Dhabi. The findings reveal
  • , however, that on-the-ground implementation has so far failed to live up to the city’s initial ambitions. The analysis suggests that the social contract between Abu Dhabi’s rulers and the local population constitutes a challenging context for the pursuit
  • of environmental sustainability.
A framework of indicators to assess the sustainability of freshwater systems
  • A framework of indicators to assess the sustainability of freshwater systems
  • Water sustainability. Part II. Special issue
  • Fresh water ; Scotland ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom ; Water ; Water management ; Water quality ; Water resources ; Watershed
  • In response to the challenges of sustainable development, this paper describes the formulation and application of a framework of catchment-level water resource use and management indicators designed to integrate environmental, economic, and social
  • aspects of sustainability. The framework of 9 indicators was applied to the River Clyde catchment in Scotland, using existing secondary data and in a manner that recognized local thresholds and standards, where appropriate. Findings suggested a mixed
Society-nature co-evolution : interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
  • Society-nature co-evolution : interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
  • Co-evolution ; Concept ; Social change ; Society ; Sustainable development
  • Changement environnemental ; Changement social ; Co-évolution ; Concept ; Développement durable ; Nature ; Société
  • Cambio social ; Concepto ; Desarrollo sostenible ; Sociedad
  • Les AA. proposent une approche multidisciplinaire de la coévolution de la société et de la nature qui permet d'identifier la voie menant à un développement durable. Ils étudient successivement les perspectives en matière de changement social et
  • environnemental, l'unification des sciences socio-écologiques et l'évolution culturelle et le métabolisme social. Ils concluent par expliquer le concept de coévolution de la société et de la nature au travers de la théorie de l'évolution, du métabolisme social et
  • [b2] Lund University Centre of Excellence for the Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability, Lund, Suede
Quantitative research performing other worlds : lessons from sustainable agriculture in the Philippines
  • Quantitative research performing other worlds : lessons from sustainable agriculture in the Philippines
  • Agriculture ; Feminism ; Network ; Organic farming ; Performativity ; Philippines ; Research ; Rice ; Social change ; Sustainable agriculture
  • Agriculture ; Agriculture biologique ; Agriculture durable ; Changement social ; Féminisme ; Performativité ; Philippines ; Recherche ; Recherche quantitative ; Riz ; Réseau
  • Agricultura ; Agricultura biológica ; Arroz ; Cambio social ; Feminismo ; Filipinas ; Investigación ; Red
  • In this paper, the A. discusses an action-based predominantly quantitative research project that aimed to investigate the diverse impacts of sustainable agriculture on small-scale farmers in the Philippines. The study, one of the largest ever
  • of sustainable agriculture as a viable and vital alternative to mainstream, capitalist agriculture.