Title: Sustainability in action : sectoral and regional case studies /
Authors: Köhn, Jörg, 1959-; Gowdy, John M.; Straaten, Jan van der.
Publisher: Edward Elgar,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Sustainable development Case studies
Contents: Sustainability as a management concept / Jörg Köhn and John Gowdy -- Sustainable economy - fact or fiction? / Birgit Blättel-Mink -- Firms, product life-cycles and innovation / Frans Berkhout -- Eco-performance evaluation / Harald Pulm -- Sustainability and industrial democracy / Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Birger Steen Nielsen and Peter Olsèn -- Eco-restructuring and the "friction of distance" / Danilo Pelletiere -- The AMOEBA approach : a tool for multi-dimensional analyses of agricultural system performance / Mario Giampietro and Gianni Pastore -- Can a firm be ethical? Friedman, Georgescu-Roegen and sustainable agriculture / Sigrid Stagl and John Gowdy -- Issues in measuring the benefits of transgenic crops to sustainable agriculture / Brian J. Hubbell and Rick Welsh -- Restructuring of Böhlen industrial site in view of regional sustainable development / Irene Ring and Helga Horsch -- Conservation and social discourse processes : an example from Austria / Klaus Hubacek and Wolfgang Bauer -- A process report on ecological economic watershed management : the Torgal watershed, Portugal / Luis Jordão, Paula Antunes and Rui Santos -- Sustainable transport and 'Factor Four' / Daniëlle B. van Veen-Groot and Peter Nijkamp -- Economic development from the ground up : a socioecological approach to urban development / Sabine U. O'Hara -- In search of sustainable development : lessons in application from the Adirondack Park / Jon D. Erickson -- Natural resource accounts as a tool for sustainability in Namibia / Glenn-Marie Lange.