The sustainability concepts of the "Brundtland-Report" and the "Rio documents" call for a combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development. This paper describes briefly, several models of sustainability and discusses social sustainability as conceptualised in selected sustainability indicators. In an attempt to remedy the lack of sociological theory, the paper proposes…
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International Journal of Sustainable Development is a peer-reviewed journal published by Inderscience, covering Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Environmental Sustainability in Business.
| Publisher | Inderscience |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard/AGSM) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', International Journal of Sustainable Development, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Climate Change Policy and Economics Environmental Sustainability in Business Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Economic and Environmental Valuation |
| ISSN | 0960-1406 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.45 |
| h-index | 39 |
| i10-index | 188 |
| Total citations | 8,354 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines |
| Journal website | www.inderscience.com |
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In this paper we examine and elaborate on the central elements of sustainable development and governance, considering their interrelations as they have emerged from the core themes in sustainable development discourses over the past decade and a half. We argue that sustainability is best viewed as a socially instituted process of adaptive change in which…
Our paper addresses the inherent tension between the open-ended and uncertain process of sustainability transitions and the ambition for governing such a process. We explore this tension from two theoretical angles: the sustainability and the governance angles; by showing the implications of sustainability targets in governance processes and governance attempts. We propose transition management as…
Every society can be described as comprising four dimensions, the economic, social, environmental and institutional. Each of them is a complex, dynamic, self-organising and evolving entity in its own right, making the coupled system one of tremendous complexity. For this system to be sustainable, each of the four subsystems has to maintain its capability to…
This article reports on research, which deals with dimensions of harm resulting from research misconduct, in articles published in scientific journals. An appropriate sample of publications retrieved from Pubmed, Scopus and WOS was selected across various disciplines and topics. Implementing discourse analysis, articles were classified according to the narratives of 'individual impurity', 'institutional failure' and…