2015
DOI: 10.2495/eco150351
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Sustainability in practice: integrated assessment to support policy and decision-making processes

Abstract: Sustainability has been recognized, when facing multifaceted decision and policy making processes, as a discipline that broadens the scope under which issues are taken into account. This is considered important given the complex and interrelated challenges faced by societies nowadays. However, it has been found in literature that the sustainable approach still has several obstacles to tackle, from the weakening of its discourse to the lack of real influence and low consensus on its meaning and practice. To rei… Show more

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“…Six public upper secondary schools were analysed, including vocational education schools. The time, in minutes, is calculated for each municipality to the closest upper secondary school by available public transport (bus, train) 9 .…”
Section: Methods and Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Six public upper secondary schools were analysed, including vocational education schools. The time, in minutes, is calculated for each municipality to the closest upper secondary school by available public transport (bus, train) 9 .…”
Section: Methods and Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En esta línea argumentativa, el desafío consiste en identificar herramientas metodológicas que respondan a diferentes contextos, que sean adaptables para los formuladores de políticas y los gobiernos para el sustento de las decisiones de inversión. Tales marcos de decisión deben, sin embargo, superar las pruebas de la eficacia, la eficiencia y la legitimidad pública en la priorización de proyectos, garantizar a largo plazo la sostenibilidad de los activos y solvencia para la inversión privada (Calleros-Islas & Welsh-Rodriguez, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…The latter is more relevant considering the great difficulties of making compatible the feeding needs of a growing population with the urgency of mitigating impacts to the environment, where the adapting capacity must be strengthened within a context of socioeconomic crisis and climate change [9,10,[20][21][22][23].…”
Section: Maizementioning
confidence: 99%