Seminar on: Sustainable Development, Economy and Society

This is the shared library space for the SDES Seminars. You can find full background on the main program site at http://sustainabiltyseminar.wordpress.com/. With further communications and information on the Facebook Group site at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_144057465666257.

* Sustainable Development Timeline: 1960 - 2009

| Biosphere. Intergovernmental Conference for | Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, brings together research on toxicology, ecology and epidemiology to suggest Rational Use and Conservation ...

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* Natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth

By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year - three times its current appetite - unless the economic growth rate is "...

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Sustainability Reporting Top Universities 2010

For over a decade, many of the world's largest corporations have produced voluntary environmental and sustainability reports. The most common reason has been to assure stakeholders--emplo...

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* Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate - World Watch 2009

Sealing the Deal to Save the Climate Robert Engelman The atmosphere is kind. It takes the carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases that humans create and disperses t...

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* A Safe Landing for the Climate - World Watch 2009

S TAT E O F T H E WO R L D Into a Warming World T H E W O R L D W AT C H I N S T I T U T E Our climate system is in trouble. It has warmed by over 0.7 degrees Celsius in the last 100 ye...

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* Brave Nuclear World- World Watch 2006

Brave Nuclear World? Brave Nuclear World? by Karen Charman ~ World Watch Magazine, May/June 2006 A few miles down an idyllic New England country road dotted with handsome homesteads and g...

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* GDP Growth is No Measure of Societal Progress

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/05/20115261353386... GDP growth is no measure of societal progress The accumulation of a nation's wealth bears little relation to the hap...

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* World Bank Calibrating Its Measurement of Sustainability

World Bank Calibrating its Measurement of Sustainability Emilio Godoy * - Tierramérica Source: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55798 MEXICO CITY, May 26 (IPS) - The World Bank is ...

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* WBCSD- Exploring the Role of Business through Vision 2050

The Vision 2050study lays out a pathway leading to a global population of some 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet by 2050. Twenty-nine companies, led b...

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* Social Entrepreneurs Innovating Toward Sustainability Mair and Ganly World ...

2 0 1 0 STAT E O F T H E WO R L D Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability TH E WOR LDWATCH I N STITUTE SCIE N C E / E NV I R O N M E NT 2 0 1 0 STATE OF TH E WOR LD...

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* Coporate Susrtainabilty Reporting - It s Effective

RESEARCH & IDEAS Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective Published: May 23, 2011 Author: Michael Blanding In a growing trend, countries have begun requiring companies to repor...

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US Business Council for Sustainable Development: Collaboration, Innovation, R...

The United Business Council for Sustainable Development Collaboration , Innovation , Real World Projects Andrew Mangan Executive Director, US BCSD About Us The US BCSD is one of 60 coun...

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* Consequences of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Ioannis Ioannou George Serafeim

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* Changing Business Cultures From Within Anderson Amodeo Hartzfeld World Watch

STAT E O F T H E WO R L D Transforming Cultures From Consumerism to Sustainability TH E WOR LDWATCH I N STITUTE SCIE N C E / E NV I R O N M E NT 2 0 1 0 STATE OF TH E WOR LD Transfor...

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