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3.3. History of Irrigation3.4. Methods of Irrigation; 3.5. Some Factors that Affect Crops Response to Irrigation; 3.6. Problems Facing Irrigation Schemes In Agricultural Sustainability; 3.7. Key Concepts of Irrigation for Agricultural Sustainability; 3.8. Socio-Economic Aspects of Irrigation; Chapter 4 Cultural Farm Practices That Contribute Toward Agricultural Sustainability; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Crops Support; 4.3. Crops Spacing; 4.4. Crops Pruning; 4.5. Mixed Cropping; 4.6. Mulching; 4.7. Crops Fertilization; Chapter 5 Sustainability of Urban Agriculture; 5.1. Introduction

Sustainability: exploring the processes and outcomes of governance / W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan -- Human development and environmental governance: a reality check / Katrina Brown -- Governance, government and the pursuit of sustainability / Albert Weale -- How do environmental actors make governance systems more sustainable? The role of politics and ideas in policy change / Philip Lowe and Katy Wilkinson -- Global governance for sustainable capitalism? The political economy of global environmental governance / Matthew Paterson -- Citizens, citizenship and governance for sustainability / Andy Dobson -- The governance of science for sustainability / Jill Jäger -- Practitioner evaluations of participatory processes in environmental decision making / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- Participation, precaution and reflexive governance for sustainable development / Andy Stirling -- Precaution and the governance of risk / Ortwin Renn -- Economics and the governance of sustainable development / Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer -- Sustainability: welfare and value and time / John O'Neill -- Reflections on the pathways to sustainability / Tim O'Riordan

This paper critically reviews recent work regarding the sustainability of public debt. It argues that Debt Sustainability Analyses (DSAs) should be more than mere mechanical simulation exercises. Instead, a DSA should be linked to some objective regarding the distribution of fiscal burdens and distortions over time (in the tradition of Barro's 1979 tax smoothing objective). The paper discusses objective functions that yield simple and transparent fiscal policy rules

'Sustainability: Key Issues' is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field.--

"Fully updated, this second edition provides a class-tested system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad transdisciplinary framework. Readers explore sustainability issues through the lenses of cultural and methodological pluralism"--

Measuring sustainability is not only a contentious issue, but one which has captured the attention of both academics and politicians since the late 1980s. A plethora of methods and approaches have been developed over the last decades or so, from rapid measurements as inputs to specific projects, to longer-term processes of research, monitoring and wider learning. Indicators have been, however, the most influential measuring tool of all and despite the fact that the tensions between expert-led and citizen-led models in their development have fuelled much debate in the literature. It has been suggested that integrating the two approaches would tap into various levels of 'knowledge' of sustainability and thus, be a better way of assessing sustainability. However, little is known of whether these 'integrated' sets of sustainability indicators work in practice, or indeed reflect the local perspectives, values and understandings of sustainability which they aim to represent. This paper aims to fill this gap. First, an 'integrative' set of indicators is designed and second, this is discussed with over 60 'sustainability experts' and 130 residents living in three urban areas in the UK. It is found that the set of indicators is generally a good reflection of urban sustainability in these areas, however, people tend to assign different degrees of 'importance' to individual indicators, something which is little accounted for when measuring urban sustainability. The paper concludes that sustainability indicators are not isolated pieces of information, but manifestations of local underlying processes and interconnections that can be mapped and which have the potential to expand our understanding of local sustainability.

""Beyond Sustainability"" greift das aktuelle wie empirisch höchst relevante Thema der unternehmerischen Verantwortung auf, eine Fragestellung, die sowohl in der wirtschaftlichen Diskussion als auch auf der Agenda von Unternehmen gegenwärtig ganz oben steht - gleich welcher Branche oder welcher Sektoren. Gleichermaßen ist ""Nachhaltiges Management"" zu einer höchst bedeutsamen gesellschaftspolitischen Frage avanciert. In 13 Beiträgen wird nicht nur der Frage nachgegangen, was unter Nachhaltigkeit bzw. Sustainability zu verstehen ist, sondern auch was wirklich hinter diesem Konzept ste.

[Gutterman, A. S. (2020). Managing Sustainability. New York and Lon­don: Routledge, 192 pp. ISBN 9780367518547 (Paperback).]

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics. The authors, leading scholars in the field, explore the relationship between environmental sustainability - one of the most important innovations in recent political discourse and planning, an idea which has slipped from public attention recently

"Beyond Sustainability" greift das aktuelle wie empirisch höchst relevante Thema der unternehmerischen Verantwortung auf, eine Fragestellung, die sowohl in der wirtschaftlichen Diskussion als auch auf der Agenda von Unternehmen gegenwärtig ganz oben steht - gleich welcher Branche oder welcher Sektoren. Gleichermaßen ist "Nachhaltiges Management" zu einer höchst bedeutsamen gesellschaftspolitischen Frage avanciert. In 13 Beiträgen wird nicht nur der Frage nachgegangen, was unter Nachhaltigkeit bzw. Sustainability zu verstehen ist, sondern auch was wirklich hinter diesem Konzept steckt und weiter - was nach all den Ankündigungen folgt. Fragen der Nachhaltigkeit bilden die konzeptionelle Klammer des Programms der Saarbrücker MBA-School: "Menschen, Märkte und Moral" verdeutlicht dies als Leitlinie. Mit Beiträgen von: Heinz-Jürgen Axt, Ansgar Belke/Florian Verheyen, Christian Berg/Stefan Hack/Constantin Blome, Dermot Breslin, Martin Dietrich/Nadine Molter/Matti Znotka, Andrea Gröppel-Klein, Christopher Hossfeld/Alain Mikol, Stefan Kolb/Joachim Zentes, Dirk Morschett/Valentin Wepfer, Christian Scholz/Stefanie Müller, Hanna Schramm-Klein/Sascha Steinmann, Volker Stein, Stefan Strohmeier.

AbstractThis paper describes a dynamic multistage game in which sustainability is a value that is shared between companies and stakeholders in a competitive market. The game solution could move from a Nash equilibrium to a higher equilibrium, the MES equilibrium, because of the presence of stakeholders who influence the choice and the set of sustainable strategies. Stakeholders provide feedback to companies (by way of awards, ratings, rankings, rebukes, etc.) at every stage of the game. Positive feedback gives a company the chance to expand its business opportunities, leveraging on good reputation, customer loyalty, operational risk mitigation, resilience, employees' cohesion, etc. The interaction between companies and stakeholders also allows companies to seize market opportunities (e.g., supplying sustainable products for responsible customers, sustainable investments for investors, etc.). The sustainability game demonstrates how sustainability can engage the economic system in a market shift.