Journal articles: 'Sustainability objectives'

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Popp, Jennie, Dana Hoag, and D. Eric Hyatt. "Sustainability indices with multiple objectives." Ecological Indicators 1, no. 1 (August 2001): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1470-160x(01)00006-1.

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Demirel, H. Onan, Le Zhang, and Vincent G. Duffy. "Opportunities for meeting sustainability objectives." International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 51 (February 2016): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ergon.2014.09.009.

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Karatas, Aslihan, and Khaled El-Rayes. "Optimizing tradeoffs among housing sustainability objectives." Automation in Construction 53 (May 2015): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2015.02.010.

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Lovett, Jon C., Sarah Hards, Joy Clancy, and Carolyn Snell. "Multiple objectives in biofuels sustainability policy." Energy Environ. Sci. 4, no. 2 (2011): 261–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0ee00041h.

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Krause, Rachel M., and Christopher V. Hawkins. "Viewpoints: Improving cities' implementation of sustainability objectives." Cities 113 (June 2021): 103167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103167.

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Mehta, Lokesh. "Review Paper on Sustainability Objectives and Performance Measures." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 7, no. 4 (April 30, 2019): 1735–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2019.4315.

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Meacham, Brian J. "Sustainability and resiliency objectives in performance building regulations." Building Research & Information 44, no. 5-6 (March 9, 2016): 474–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2016.1142330.

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Siirola, J. J., and T. F. Edgar. "Process energy systems: Control, economic, and sustainability objectives." Computers & Chemical Engineering 47 (December 2012): 134–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2012.06.019.

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Doick, Kieron J., Kalliope Pediaditi, Andrew J. Moffat, and Tony R. Hutchings. "Defining the sustainability objectives of brownfield regeneration to greenspace." International Journal of Management and Decision Making 10, no. 3/4 (2009): 282. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmdm.2009.024994.

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Mio, Chiara, Andrea Venturelli, and Rossella Leopizzi. "Management by objectives and corporate social responsibility disclosure." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 28, no. 3 (March 16, 2015): 325–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-09-2013-1480.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between remuneration for the achievement of objectives and sustainability, and – more specifically – the amount of attention that listed companies in Italy devote to defining, and consequently to communicating externally, sustainability as a criterion in establishing the wage levels of managers and directors. Design/methodology/approach – It was decided to ascertain whether the quality of information regarding sustainability provided in connection with the remuneration policies of listed companies tallies with the general quality of information regarding sustainability provided through companies’ main (obligatory and voluntary) reporting procedures. Findings – The results of this research show that the inconsistency between the information provided in voluntary and obligatory reports (between reports on sustainability and remuneration reports) extends to the levels of information provided in the two types of obligatory report (the reports on remuneration and on management); there is also a discrepancy between the levels of information provided in these reports and the evaluation of that information by an external assessor. Research limitations/implications – One of the limitations of this research is that as the data examined were gleaned from public documents, it is not necessarily an accurate reflection of all the information that firms have at their disposal on questions of sustainability and remuneration policies. The existence of internal documents containing other information, and therefore leading to different results, cannot be ruled out. Originality/value – This study is the first in Italy to examine the question of how limited companies report issues relating to management by objectives-corporate social responsibility. It does this through the introduction of a mixed system for ESG information, which counteracts the subjective limitations of the internal evaluation provided by the research group by adding in the authoritative evaluations of an external assessor.

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Uktamovich, Hakberdiev Behzod. "Objectives of financial sustainability in the development of insurance companies." Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR) 8, no. 10 (2019): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2278-4853.2019.00296.9.

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Potrč, Sanja, Lidija Čuček, Mariano Martin, and Zdravko Kravanja. "Synthesis of European Union Biorefinery Supply Networks Considering Sustainability Objectives." Processes 8, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 1588. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr8121588.

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Increasing the use of renewable energy sources is one of the most important goals of energy policies in several countries to build a sustainable energy future. This contribution proposes the synthesis of a biorefinery supply network for a case study of the European Union (EU-27) under several scenarios based on a mathematical programming approach. Several biomass and waste sources, such as grains, waste oils, and lignocellulosics, are proposed to be utilized, and various biofuels including first, second, and third generations are produced such as bioethanol, green gasoline, biodiesel, Fischer Tropsch (FT) diesel, and hydrogen. The aim of this study is to evaluate the capabilities of EU-27 countries to be able to meet the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) target regarding the share of renewable energy in the transport sector by 2030 in each Member State while not compromising the current production of food. A generic mathematical model has been developed for the multi-period optimization of a biorefinery supply network with the objective of maximizing sustainability profit. The solutions obtained show that biomass and waste are promising raw materials to reach and go beyond the EU’s renewable energy target in the transport sector for the year 2030. However, some countries would need to provide additional subsidies for their companies to achieve at least a non-negative economic performance of biofuel production.

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Shin, Jaeho, Changhee Kim, and Hongsuk Yang. "The Effect of Sustainability as Innovation Objectives on Innovation Efficiency." Sustainability 10, no. 6 (June 12, 2018): 1966. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10061966.

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Kralisch, Dana, Denise Reinhardt, and Günter Kreisel. "Implementing objectives of sustainability into ionic liquids research and development." Green Chemistry 9, no. 12 (2007): 1308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b708721g.

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Anderson, Stephen, Julian Allen, and Michael Browne. "Urban logistics––how can it meet policy makers’ sustainability objectives?" Journal of Transport Geography 13, no. 1 (March 2005): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2004.11.002.

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Keysar, Elizabeth. "Procedural Integration in Support of Environmental Policy Objectives: Implementing Sustainability." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 48, no. 4 (July 2005): 549–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640560500128475.

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Caparros-Midwood, D., S. Barr, and R. Dawson. "Optimised spatial planning to meet long term urban sustainability objectives." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 54 (November 2015): 154–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2015.08.003.

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Anunciação, Pedro Fernandes, Duarte Xara Brasil, Jane A. Marques, Agatha Peres Nunes Matias, and Camila Pires Garcia. "Sustainability Reporting." International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management 5, no. 4 (October 2016): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsem.2016100102.

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Environmental, social and economic disasters became sustainability a central topic in global agenda during the twentieth century. It generates more society's awareness regarding environmental problems and companies concerns on the topic, causing the inclusion of sustainability issues as one of the priorities in their strategic plans. Organizations' components of sustainability have been created with different focus and priorities, it originated significant differences in how organizations approach sustainability in terms of objectives, policies and initiatives chosen (EIRIS, 2012). Sustainable reports publications have been the main communication vehicle of organization approaches. This study aims, through an exploratory approach, to understand sustainability metrics adopted in organizational environment and to analyze how the top ten Brazilian and Portuguese companies – listed on the BOVESPA and EURONEXT Lisbon – internalize sustainability practices and utilize their sustainability reports as a marketing tool.

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Stritch, Justin M., Stuart Bretschneider, Nicole Darnall, Lily Hsueh, and Yifan Chen. "Sustainability Policy Objectives, Centralized Decision Making, and Efficiency in Public Procurement Processes in U.S. Local Governments." Sustainability 12, no. 17 (August 26, 2020): 6934. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12176934.

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Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes? We suggest that the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives through procurement is related to decision making speed. Additionally, we argue that centralized decision-making structures might moderate this relationship. Drawing on a representative sample of more than 200 U.S. local governments, we demonstrate that for low-cost purchases, as the number of policy objectives increases, so too does the average length of time for approval. We also find evidence of an interactive relationship between decision-making structures and the number of existing sustainability policies pursued simultaneously. For routine low-cost and routine high-cost purchases, we find evidence that as the centralization of procurement decision making increases, the marginal effect of purchasing complexity on approval times decreases. These findings offer important evidence about how pursuing multiple sustainability objectives affect decision-making efficiency and how decision-making structures might facilitate U.S local governments’ integration of sustainability objectives into their existing internal processes.

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Clerino, Paola, and Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre. "Formalizing Objectives and Criteria for Urban Agriculture Sustainability with a Participatory Approach." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 11, 2020): 7503. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187503.

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The last few years have seen an exponential development of urban agriculture projects within global North countries, especially professional intra-urban farms which are professional forms of agriculture located within densely settled areas of city. Such projects aim to cope with the challenge of sustainable urban development and today the sustainability of the projects is questioned. To date, no set of criteria has been designed to specifically assess the environmental, social and economic sustainability of these farms at the farm scale. Our study aims to identify sustainability objectives and criteria applicable to professional intra-urban farms. It relies on a participatory approach involving various stakeholders of the French urban agriculture sector comprising an initial focus group, online surveys and interviews. We obtained a set of six objectives related to environmental impacts, link to the city, economic and ethical meaning, food and environmental education, consumer/producer connection and socio-territorial services. In addition, 21 criteria split between agro-environmental, socio-territorial and economic dimensions were identified to reach these objectives. Overall, agro-environmental and socio-territorial criteria were assessed as more important than economic criteria, whereas food production was not mentioned. Differences were identified between urban farmers and decision makers, highlighting that decision makers were more focused on projects’ external sustainability. They also pay attention to the urban farmer agricultural background, suggesting that they rely on urban farmers to ensure the internal sustainability of the farm. Based on our results, indicators could be designed to measure the sustainability criteria identified, and to allow the sustainability assessment of intra-urban farms.

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Stephenson, Robert L., Melanie Wiber, Stacey Paul, Eric Angel, Ashleen Benson, Anthony Charles, Omer Chouinard, et al. "Integrating diverse objectives for sustainable fisheries in Canada." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76, no. 3 (March 2019): 480–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0345.

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An interdisciplinary team of academics and representatives of fishing fleets and government collaborated to study the emerging requirements for sustainability in Canada’s fisheries. Fisheries assessment and management has focused on biological productivity with insufficient consideration of social (including cultural), economic, and institutional (governance) aspects. Further, there has been little discussion or formal evaluation of the effectiveness of fisheries management. The team of over 50 people (i) identified a comprehensive set of management objectives for a sustainable fishery system based on Canadian policy statements, (ii) combined objectives into an operational framework with relevant performance indicators for use in management planning, and (iii) undertook case studies that investigated some social, economic, and governance aspects in greater detail. The resulting framework extends the suite of widely accepted ecological aspects (productivity and trophic structure, biodiversity, and habitat–ecosystem integrity) to include comparable economic (viability and prosperity, sustainable livelihoods, distribution of access and benefits, regional–community benefits), social (health and well-being, sustainable communities, ethical fisheries), and institutional (legal obligations, good governance structure, effective decision-making) aspects of sustainability. This work provides a practical framework for implementation of a comprehensive approach to sustainability in Canadian fisheries. The project also demonstrates the value of co-construction of collaborative research and co-production of knowledge that combines and builds on the strengths of academics, industry, and government.

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Merriman, Kimberly K., Sagnika Sen, Andrew J. Felo, and Barrie E. Litzky. "Employees and sustainability: the role of incentives." Journal of Managerial Psychology 31, no. 4 (May 9, 2016): 820–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmp-09-2014-0285.

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Purpose – Organizational sustainability has become a priority on many corporate agendas. How to integrate sustainability efforts throughout the organization, however, remains a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to examine two factors that potentially enhance incentive effects on employee engagement in environmental objectives: explicit organizational values for sustainability and the performance objective’s complementarity with incented financial objectives. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employed a quasi-experimental design in which participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions, including a status quo condition against which the treatments were contrasted. Participants (n=400) were comprised of a cross-section of US employees from a wide range of occupations and industries. A post hoc qualitative analysis provided additional insights. Findings – Incentive effects were enhanced (i.e. preference for the environmental objective was significantly higher) when the environmental project offered complementary benefits for financial objectives, but not when organization values emphasized sustainability. An entrenched status quo bias for financial performance was discerned among a subset of the sample. Research limitations/implications – Management scholars must pay close attention to the role of implicit norms for financial performance when investigating employee engagement in organizational sustainability efforts. From an applied perspective, framing sustainability objectives to emphasize financial benefits consistent with a financial mission may maximize employee engagement. Originality/value – This study contributes to understanding of organizational sustainability efforts at the individual employee level of analysis, a conspicuously small part of the organizational research surrounding this topic.

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CONNELL, JOHN. "Islands: balancing development and sustainability?" Environmental Conservation 45, no. 2 (February 15, 2018): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892918000036.

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SUMMARYThis overview explores sustainable development in island contexts. More subtle and complex concepts of sustainable development have become manifest in the Sustainable Development Goals, with tensions between social, economic and environmental objectives at different scales as livelihoods acquire greater flexibility and islands face multiple challenges to development. Islands are part of rapidly changing and wider worlds, while sustainability is complicated by global change, as debates over strategies and time periods are accentuated in constrained island contexts. Development and sustainability have repeatedly acquired new meanings, hence requiring new analytical techniques, planning objectives and effective governance and management. Progress towards sustainable development in islands and island states is hampered by multi-scalar challenges, including limited biodiversity, migration, external interventions and directives, scarce human resources, weak management, inadequate data (and problems of interpretation), social divisions and tensions and simultaneous quests for modernity and conservation. The tourism sector emphasizes how sustainable development is particularly difficult to achieve in small islands where access to adequate livelihoods is important and limited change is possible.

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Schormair, Maximilian, and Jakob Reuter. "Integrating Multiple Sustainability Objectives Through Deliberation: The Case of Degrowth Businesses." Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (August 2020): 17628. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.17628abstract.

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Litman, Todd. "Exploring the Paradigm Shifts Needed To Reconcile Transportation and Sustainability Objectives." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1670, no. 1 (January 1999): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1670-02.

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Shields, D. "The role of values and objectives in communicating indicators of sustainability." Ecological Indicators 2, no. 1-2 (November 2002): 149–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1470-160x(02)00042-0.

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Goti-Aralucea, Leyre, Mike Fitzpatrick, Ralf Döring, David Reid, John Mumford, and Anna Rindorf. "“Overarching sustainability objectives overcome incompatible directions in the Common Fisheries Policy”." Marine Policy 91 (May 2018): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.006.

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Fang, Yiping, and Raymond P. Côté. "Towards sustainability: Objectives, strategies and barriers for cleaner production in China." International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 12, no. 4 (December 2005): 443–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504500509469653.

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Clarke, Matthew, and Sardar M. N. Islam. "National account measures and sustainability objectives: present approaches and future prospects." Sustainable Development 14, no. 4 (2006): 219–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sd.264.

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Dutta, Saurav K., Raef A. Lawson, and David J. Marcinko. "Alignment of performance measurement to sustainability objectives: A variance-based framework." Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 32, no. 6 (November 2013): 456–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2013.08.008.

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Dikau, Simon, and Ulrich Volz. "Central bank mandates, sustainability objectives and the promotion of green finance." Ecological Economics 184 (June 2021): 107022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107022.

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Sabini, Luca, and Neil Alderman. "The Paradoxical Profession: Project Management and the Contradictory Nature of Sustainable Project Objectives." Project Management Journal 52, no. 4 (June 1, 2021): 379–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/87569728211007660.

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Professions are undergoing a significant change in how they integrate environmental and social objectives into their core values. This article examines the situation in which those working in the project management profession are expected to work under contradictory sustainability constraints. In this article, we investigate the tensions project managers experience when addressing sustainable objectives. Results show that when tensions arise over sustainable objectives (temporality of objectives, organizational barriers, and lack of control), they are addressed only when anchored to an economic one in the form of a business case for sustainability. We also find that when matching traditional project objectives with sustainable ones is not possible, practitioners enact a set of reactions characterized as greenwashing, it can’t be one person, no space for sustainability in my job, other actors involved, or pushing back, depending on the specific project context. Adopting the paradox theory lens, we provide an alternative approach to the business case for sustainability. The practical contribution of this article lies in suggesting the need to find strategies to embrace paradoxical situations and we provide some suggestions to illustrate this.

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Asche, Frank, Taryn M. Garlock, James L. Anderson, Simon R. Bush, Martin D. Smith, Christopher M. Anderson, Jingjie Chu, et al. "Three pillars of sustainability in fisheries." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 44 (September 24, 2018): 11221–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807677115.

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Sustainability of global fisheries is a growing concern. The United Nations has identified three pillars of sustainability: economic development, social development, and environmental protection. The fisheries literature suggests that there are two key trade-offs among these pillars of sustainability. First, poor ecological health of a fishery reduces economic profits for fishers, and second, economic profitability of individual fishers undermines the social objectives of fishing communities. Although recent research has shown that management can reconcile ecological and economic objectives, there are lingering concerns about achieving positive social outcomes. We examined trade-offs among the three pillars of sustainability by analyzing the Fishery Performance Indicators, a unique dataset that scores 121 distinct fishery systems worldwide on 68 metrics categorized by social, economic, or ecological outcomes. For each of the 121 fishery systems, we averaged the outcome measures to create overall scores for economic, ecological, and social performance. We analyzed the scores and found that they were positively associated in the full sample. We divided the data into subsamples that correspond to fisheries management systems with three categories of access—open access, access rights, and harvest rights—and performed a similar analysis. Our results show that economic, social, and ecological objectives are at worst independent and are mutually reinforcing in both types of managed fisheries. The implication is that rights-based management systems should not be rejected on the basis of potentially negative social outcomes; instead, social considerations should be addressed in the design of these systems.

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Matopoulos, Aristides, and Michael Bourlakis. "Sustainability practices and indicators in food retail logistics: findings from an exploratory study." Journal on Chain and Network Science 10, no. 3 (January 1, 2010): 207–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jcns2010.x179.

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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview and an analysis of recent developments and changes in the implementation of sustainability practices by food retailers. It also aims to explore whether the sustainability measurement criteria and indicators identified in the literature can be applied in practice. A literature review identified the current trends, developments and the proposed sustainability objectives, criteria and indicators. Via case study research, we collected empirical data from four retailers. This involved both qualitative and quantitative data drawn from questionnaires and in-depth interviews with logistics directors from four retailers' distribution centres. The empirical data collected from the interviews indicate similarities in some of the characteristics of distribution centres, as well as differences. However, it was difficult to make cross-company comparisons due to the absence of benchmarks or assessments of the relative importance of each sustainability criterion and indicator. This research focused only on two sustainability objectives. Further research on other sustainability objectives is therefore required. Lessons learnt from the four case studies can be taken into consideration when developing future sustainability performance rating scales. The paper provides an in-depth analysis of sustainability in the food chain, with emphasis on food retailing. Its value lies in presenting an attempt to test in practice how a number of sustainability objectives, criteria and indicators are applied in logistics-related processes, identifying the gaps and reporting the potential difficulties.

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Soliman, Abdelfattah Y., and Ali M. Al-Bahi. "A Win-Win Strategy to Integrate Sustainability Objectives in Product Design – An Educational Approach." International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP) 8, no. 5 (October 23, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v8i5.8461.

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Most existing educational design approaches focus on discipline-specific modules, while those based on a generic product concept rarely target sustainability goals. With the increasing interest in sustainability and education for sustainable development, it is necessary to rethink the product design approaches to target both customer needs and community requirements for sustainability. The main goal of the integral design approach proposed in the present work is to create a broader picture that integrates the design process, life cycle analysis, and the role of each design and life cycle player. A wider management scheme that sets a clear road map of the contribution of all players is introduced. This scheme is based on a win-win strategy between different players to promote mechanisms to enhance sustainability and min-imize risks and socioeconomic footprints.

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Wibeck, Victoria. "Communicative challenges in assessing progress towards environmental quality objectives." Journal of Science Communication 08, no. 02 (April 16, 2009): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.08020201.

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Assessment of trends in the state of the environment constitutes one important aspect of efforts to achieve environmental sustainability. Assessments are often undertaken via indicators which measure progress towards environmental objectives and interim targets. This paper starts from the assumption that different types of environmental indicators have different implications for the public communication and the societal dialogue about the state of the environment and the measures needed to increase ecological sustainability. The paper concludes that it is important to evaluate environmental indicators on the basis of their communicative potential. It is demonstrated how science-based assessment of progress towards environmental objectives may fulfil different aims. Each of these aims may be linked to particular types of indicators, as well as to particular ideas of how to communicate uncertainties, and to particular views of the role of the public in the system of environmental objectives.

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Špička, Jindřich, Tomáš Vintr, Renata Aulová, and Jana Macháčková. "Trade-off between the economic and environmental sustainability in Czech dual farm structure." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 66, No. 6 (June 22, 2020): 243–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/390/2019-agricecon.

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Agricultural holdings select goals in various areas when setting their strategic objectives. Economic objectives tend to be viewed as strategic because of the requirement to maximise economic profit for the owners. Since there is significant interaction between agricultural holdings and the environment, it is also important to monitor the environmental aspects of farming. The article seeks to draw on unique multicriteria assessment to compare the compatibility of economic and environmental objectives at 1 189 agricultural holdings in the Czech Republic, broken down by farming specialisation and economic size on the basis of figures from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). A trade-off between environmental sustainability and economic performance occurs primarily among farming specialisation categories, where we found two extremes – intensive field cropping with high economic performance and low environmental sustainability, and, at the other end of the scale, extensive cattle farming with lower economic performance and high environmental sustainability. Within the farming specialisation categories, however, there was no significant correlation, with the exception of milk production, where the use of soil organic matter, a higher proportion of soil improving crops (for fodder) and greening made a positive contribution to the higher economic performance of farms.

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Owen, Richard. "Sustainability and University Law Clinic." International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 27, no. 3 (November 13, 2020): 77–145. http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v27i3.1040.

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Following increased activism, the climate crisis has moved up the political agenda, and with it an increased interest in sustainability issues. This article will look at how rebellious lawyering theory can provide a template for university law clinics when seeking to further sustainability objectives. It argues that as rebellious lawyering methods require a collective dimension to lawyering, egalitarian collaboration, deep knowledge of the communities that lawyers serve, simulations of a better future, self-examination and the building of broad coalitions it can in certain circumstances be a more effective way of furthering sustainability objectives than traditional legal process. Furthermore, building broad coalitions is vital to maintain the impetus behind sustainability initiatives.It will reflect on the cultural change that is needed to respond to the sustainability agenda, what lessons can be learnt from the different approaches which have been taken internationally to the issue, as well as the pedagogical issues that need to be addressed to ensure that students have the appropriate sustainability literacy. It will also reflect on the extent to which sustainability is already embedded in the work of university law clinics.It will examine how university law clinics can respond to sustainable development legislation by using Swansea Law Clinic’s experiences of working with sustainability goals and approaches, in the form of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, as a case study.

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Liu, Qi, Jiahao Liu, and Dunhu Liu. "Intelligent Multi-Objective Public Charging Station Location with Sustainable Objectives." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (October 18, 2018): 3760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103760.

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This paper investigates a multi-objective charging station location model with the consideration of the triple bottom line principle for green and sustainable development from economic, environmental and social perspectives. An intelligent multi-objective optimization approach is developed to handle this problem by integrating an improved multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) process and an entropy weight method-based evaluation process. The MOPSO process is utilized to obtain a set of Pareto optimal solutions, and the entropy weight method-based evaluation process is utilized to select the final solution from Pareto optimal solutions. Numerical experiments are conducted based on large-scale GPS data. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can effectively solve the problem investigated. Moreover, the comparison of single-objective and multi-objective models validates the efficiency and necessity of the proposed multi-objective model in public charging station location problems.

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Lindquist, Eric. "Moving Toward Sustainability: Transforming a Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1617, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1617-01.

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Sustainability and sustainable development have been, perhaps, the most debated yet least applied concepts in urban and regional planning in recent years. Missing in all the rhetoric on and research into sustainable development are guidelines for moving toward plans that, either incrementally or comprehensively, incorporate sustainable objectives and the steps necessary to implement them. An approach is outlined for developing measures and steps to transform a traditional community-based comprehensive land use and transportation plan into one incorporating sustainable development objectives and measures. Traditional objectives of comprehensive land use and transportation planning are identified and linked to their sustainability equivalents. Four elements are discussed: land use, transportation, environmental factors, and economic development. A four-step, dynamic process is described for implementing the model and transforming the plan objectives, its implementation, and its measures of success. A tool for strategically assessing the political climate for change is included to assist planners in identifying an acceptable scale of movement toward sustainability. In conclusion, the elements presented provide a strategy and tools for moving forward in adopting sustainability as a local objective for land use and transportation planning.

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Abaza, Hussein. "Integration of sustainability objectives in structural adjustment programmes using strategic environmental assessment." Project Appraisal 11, no. 4 (December 1996): 217–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02688867.1996.9727547.

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Morgans, Courtney L., Erik Meijaard, Truly Santika, Elizabeth Law, Sugeng Budiharta, Marc Ancrenaz, and Kerrie A. Wilson. "Evaluating the effectiveness of palm oil certification in delivering multiple sustainability objectives." Environmental Research Letters 13, no. 6 (June 1, 2018): 064032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac6f4.

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von Stechow, Christoph, David McCollum, Keywan Riahi, Jan C. Minx, Elmar Kriegler, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Jessica Jewell, et al. "Integrating Global Climate Change Mitigation Goals with Other Sustainability Objectives: A Synthesis." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 40, no. 1 (November 4, 2015): 363–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-021113-095626.

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Niesenbaum, Richard A. "The Integration of Conservation, Biodiversity, and Sustainability." Sustainability 11, no. 17 (August 28, 2019): 4676. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11174676.

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Our understanding of conservation biology and sustainability have been independently developing for a long time. Evidence suggests that biodiversity is critical for ecosystem function and services on which humans depend, and is directly linked to the economic, social, and environmental components of sustainability. Because of this, the integration of research from each of these areas should and is becoming a priority. In this article, the development of each of these fields and, ultimately, their integration are reviewed. From this, a number of research priorities that allow for the transition from conflict to mutual compatibility between conservation and sustainability objectives are explored. These priorities include research that will improve our understanding of (1) ecosystem services and function provided by biodiversity that benefit humans; (2) the connection between biodiversity and poverty reduction; (3) biodiverse agriculture; (4) issues surrounding indigenous knowledge; and (5) the development of indicators that allow for the integrative assessment of biodiversity conservation and sustainability objectives.

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Keung, Chung Wai, and Tak Wing Yiu. "Potential for long-term sustainability." Facilities 33, no. 3/4 (March 2, 2015): 177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/f-07-2013-0056.

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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual framework of bidding model for maintenance contractors. Sustainability is closely linked with the maintenance of facilities or infrastructure. From maintenance contractor’s perspective, one of their key business processes is to bid projects under fierce competition. Their competitiveness is critically affected by their bidding behaviours and bid makeup selections. Design/methodology/approach – This paper aims at identifying critical and important objectives of bidding and items affecting bidding strategies and developing a bidding model for maintenance contractors. Findings – With the questionnaire surveys of 50 maintenance contractors, two critical objectives of bidding have been identified. Likewise, a total of eight critical and 12 important items affecting bidding strategy have also been identified. A bidding model for maintenance contractors is presented. Research limitations/implications – This model formulates the maintenance contractors’ bidding behaviors in a rational manner, and acts as a guideline to new and less experienced maintenance contractors to have a brief understanding about the bidding process and to assist them for establishing their own bidding strategies. With this knowledge, clients or maintenance contractors themselves would become easier to achieve their sustainability goals. Originality/value – Many academic researches on contractor’s bidding strategy emphasized on the general building works, and less attention has been given to maintenance works. Because of the fact that the community is awash with sustainability, and sustainability development is closely related to maintenance work, the business operation of maintenance contractors should be understood. This shall contribute to the achievement of sustainability goals for the society.

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Stoilkov-Koneski, Anita. "Social and cultural context as an indicator of sustainability of brownfield regeneration." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering 13, no. 1 (2015): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace1501023s.

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The research shows the most important objectives that lead to a sustainable outcome of brownfield regeneration, based on literature review in the academic circles and leading European projects involved in brownfield regeneration. After identifying the most important drivers of the process of regeneration, the aim of the research was to identify which are the objectives that need to be strengthened in order to achieve long term sustainability of brownfield regeneration. In that matter, the main focus of the paper is social and cultural context which is an indicator of sustainability of brownfield redevelopment projects in a way that does not necessary mean economic sustainability. Social and cultural objectives of brownfield regeneration have been listed with practical examples of how they could be achieved based on positive European experiences.

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Wuchu, Cornelius W., and Akoni Innocent Ngwainbi. "African Culture and Sustainability." International Journal of Public and Private Perspectives on Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment 5, no. 1 (January 2021): 46–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijppphce.2021010104.

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This article is aimed at discussing the relevance of African culture and its values to the contemporary society. The qualitative approach was used in this work. The results arrived at shows that African traditional practices in the Western Highlands of Cameroon has over time developed cultural values which are concomitant to the objectives of MDGs and SDGs. But, in most cases, these values have been neglected by national and international development agencies leading to continuous clashes between traditional African values and what the people consider as foreign to them. However, some aspects of the culture have remained inimical to human rights and local development. Therefore, for African culture to entirely play its role in achieving sustainable development, the paper holds that a cultural hybridisation is an ultimate solution to the problems faced by indigenous practices and external policies of development.

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Rogers, Daniel T. "Geological- and Chemical-Based Environmental Risk Factor Sustainability Model." European Journal of Sustainable Development 9, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n4p303.

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An environmental sustainability model that integrates natural and anthropogenic factors was developed and tested for 10 years. The model is composed of calculated geological risk factors, chemical risk factors, and operational aspects of environmental regulatory requirements which are integrated into a comprehensive environmental sustainability model. The model was tested at 67 operating industrial manufacturing facilities in 12 countries over a period of 10 years. The results achieved included measured reductions of environmental impacts to air, land, and water from 5% to more than 95% of operational aspects compared to pre-model values. A significant catalyst for model success was identifying and applying innovative leadership and management principles that were required to modify business objectives and culture from purely capitalist incentives and objectives to sustainability-oriented goals. This was accomplished through a clear and understandable model, stated objectives, incentives, rewards and penalties, measuring results, data analysis, identifying and communicating areas where improvement was needed, model adaptations, transparent communication and feedback, and flexible timelines. The results indicate that the model can be scaled from the parcel to global level, assuming management and leadership principles are in place and properly supported. Keywords: Sustainability model, contaminant risk, geologic vulnerability

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Zhuravka, Fedir, Hanna Filatova, Oleksandr Podmarov, Khaled Aldiwani, and Fathi Shukairi. "State’s debt sustainability management: case of Ukraine." Public and Municipal Finance 7, no. 4 (January 16, 2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/pmf.07(4).2018.01.

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Nowadays one of the relevant problems of economic development of Ukraine is the excessive increasing of the public debt that has a number of negative consequences for the financial system of the country. The article is devoted to the research of state’s debt sustainability concept. Special attention is paid to the development of an effective system of debt sustainability management. The aim of the article is to study the theoretical bases of the state’s debt sustainability, investigate scientific and methodological approaches to its management, analyze the public debt and debt sustainability of Ukraine. In order to achieve that goal, the following scientific methods were used: analysis and generalization, decomposition analysis, comparison and compilation. The authors analyzed the structure of the debt sustainability management system: objects, subjects, key principles, objectives, methods, instruments, etc. The list of key indicators of debt sustainability was substantiated and the authors compared their normative values in Ukraine and in world practice. Besides, the state and structure of public debt and the ratio of government debt to GDP were scrutinized. The obtained results proved the debt crisis deepening in Ukraine.

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Varani, Nicoletta, and Enrico Bernardini. "Globalisation, migration flows and sustainability." Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal 2, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 108–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/gssfj-2019-0020.

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Abstract The mobility of people is an important theme of geographical research because immigrant currents profoundly transform regional models, mainly urban areas, configuring themselves as a factor of social destabilization, as they change the composition of the population, triggering processes of mutual cultural contamination that are projected on the territory, differentiating it from its geographical surroundings. The contribution, starting from a look at international migration, intends to analyze different aspects related to the phenomenon of mobility such as globalization, sustainability and the role of International Cooperation in the light of the objectives of Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, challenges that concern not only the present, but especially the future.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Sustainability objectives'

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