Direct investor impact, also expressed through the concept of “additionality”, can be defined as the contribution of the investor, that would have not been achieved without his/her involvement (Brest and Born, 2013; Net-Zero Alliance, 2020; So and Staskevicius, 2015). SRI funds, through ...
Social sustainability is not yet as clearly defined. Some scholars say it encompasses all human activity and that all domains of sustainability ladder back to a social component. A society is sustainable when its people don’t face structural obstacles such as gender, wealth and racial inequality,...
In 1987, the United Nations first defined sustainable development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This movement entails considering the ripple effect that decisions and actions have on the environment and society ...
Among sustainability seekers (defined as consumers who consider sustainability “very important”), it is as high as 30 percent.8 Further, the performance impact of increased likeliness to buy, willingness to pay a premium, and higher levels of loyalty can be significant. We estimate that ...
adefined sustainable development as meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need”, this became known as the Brundtland Report and was another step towards widespread thinking on sustainability in everyday activity. 被定义的可持续...
This paper presents an economic model of sustainability defined as intergenerational fairness. Assuming that intergenerational fairness is an obligation of each generation, a recursive optimization problem is obtained. The problem has the advantage that uncertainty can readily be incorporated in the model ...
Thus, environmental sustainability can be defined as the ability to ensure greater agricultural productivity while simultaneously conserving natural resources and preventing the degradation of ecosystems. Economic sustainability. Sustainable agriculture must be economically viable, ensuring not only adequate ...
Worldviews can be defined as "the inescapable, overarching systems of meaning and meaning- making that inform how humans interpret, enact, and co-create reality" [26] (p. 156). The concept of a worldview has been utilised across many social science disciplines and has become recognised as ...
Sustainability is at the core of concepts such as sustainable yield, sustainable society, and sustainable development. The termsustainable yieldrefers to the harvest of a specific (self-renewing) natural resource—for example, timber or fish. Such a yield is one that can in principle be maintained...
Such a yield is one that can in principle be maintained indefinitely because it can be supported by the regenerative capacities of the underlying natural system. A sustainable society is one that has learned to live within the boundaries established by ecological limits. It can be maintained as ...