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    Looking for the role of nature experiences in planning and decision making: a...

    Public experiences of everyday environments influence well-being and quality of life and effective planning for these environments can promote social sustainability. This...
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    Green social cooperatives in Italy: a practical way to cover the three pillar...

    This article provides an introductory description of Italian green social cooperatives which are democratic nonprofit organizations specializing in the provision of...
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    Growing the social: alternative agro-food networks and social sustainability ...

    Agrofood practices have been an obvious domain in which to implement sustainability. Yet, despite the fact that food carries a dense set of social meanings and functions,...
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    Community Essay: What do we mean by sustainable landscape?

    As an academic working in the field of landscape design and planning, I continually encounter references to the idea of a “sustainable landscape.” It is a concept of growing...
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    Innovations as a Factor for Ensuring Economic Safety

    In modern conditions of development of the competitive environment, one of the main ways to solve economic, social and environmental problems is to use the latest achievements...
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    Trasferencia e intercambio: cuando el rio suena… reflexiones para pensar el r...

    this paper presents an analysis of the discussions during the Fifth National Forum on Social Appropriation of Science, Technology and Innovation,...
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    Making sense of the social: human-nonhuman constellations and the wicked road...

    Introduction The notion of sustainable development is usually divided into the economic, environmental, and social pillars, implying that a practice cannot be fully sustainable...
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    Structure, action and change: a Bourdieusian perspective on the preconditions...

    A deprioritization of economic growth in policy making in the rich countries will need to be part of a global effort to re-embed economy and society into planetary boundaries....
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    Students’ Attitudes Towards Economic Growth and Income Inequalities: Does the...

    A basic premise of university educators is that studying has impact on students. We examine attitudes of university studentstowards economic growth and income inequalities. We...
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    Public Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation: Regional Trends and Ar...

    Los modelos organizativos de las políticas públicas en ciencia, tecnología e innovación (CTI) ponen de manifiesto el perfil del Estado y el papel desempeñado por los distintos...
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    Who owns the Atoms? Nanotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights

    In Latin America, under the premise of enhancing economic competitiveness, there has been an exponential increase in investments in the development of nanotechnologies. In this...
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    Community Essay: Planning for landscape multifunctionality

    The term “multifunctional landscapes” has been greeted with suspicion in some quarters as unnecessary jargon for which there are simpler and better-known alternatives, such as...
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    The global prisoners’ dilemma of unsustainability: why sustainable developmen...

    Environmental and sustainable development advocates have a major blind spot in linking environmentalism to global security (resource protection) concerns. Though peace movements...
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    A missing pillar? Challenges in theorizing and practicing social sustainabili...

    Since publication of the Brundtland Report in 1987, the notion of sustainable developmenthas come to guide the pursuit of environmental reform by both public and private...
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    Editorial: Sustainability needs to be attained, not managed

    Sustainability and its derivatives fall into the same class as a few of the key concepts underlying liberal democracies everywhere—like equality, freedom, and liberty—that are...
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    Democracies, change, sustainability, and transformation: historical perspectives

    This article discusses the potential of a historical approach to sustainability transformations. Using environmental issues and governance structures as case studies, it first...
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    Designing lifestyle-specific food policies based on nutritional requirements ...

    Introduction Food consumption has become an increasingly critical challenge for policy makers and diet more generally is now a target for explicit consumption-related policies....