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International journal of environment and sustainability issn 19279566 the international journal of environment and sustainability ijes is an interdisciplinary journal directed towards academics, practitioners and policy makers within and across nations. Environment policies are drawn up in order to protect the environment around us which is fast depleting. Thus, managements sole responsibility is to serve the shareholders interest by managing the company to produce corporate social sustainability. Sustainable development is development which meets the needs of the.
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The international journal of environmental sustainability focuses on sustainable ecosystems, urban environments, agriculture, energy systems, water use, atmospheric quality, and biodiversity. Concern about sustainability helped to launch a new agenda for development and environmental economics and challenged many of the fundamental goals and assumptions of the conventional, neoclassical economics of growth and development. Environmental research is therefore closely followed by people from all walks of life. The international journal of environment and sustainability ijes is an interdisciplinary journal directed towards academics, practitioners and policy makers within and across nations. Current research in environmental sustainability journal. Submit a paper subscriberenew all issues reprintseprints. Global and local environmental sustainability, development. Official journal of the centre for social and environmental accounting research. In the 21st century, it refers generally to the capacity for the biosphere and human civilization to coexist.
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Providing exclusive reporting on the implementation of sustainability programs, initiatives, and practices in higher education and industry. The topics covered by the journal include biofuels, energy storage system, fuels cells, solar energy, thermochemical conversion of biomass and transportation, etc. Atmospheres, the biogeosciences, earth surface, oceans. It is a companion to the new gold open access journal current research in environmental. Though many postsecondary institutions are moving to incorporate sustainability education into their courses and programs, some faculty have not felt able or comfortable in this endeavor. For sustainability to remain a relevant, useful tool, it is important that it adapt to the local context.
Applications of lca in evaluating diets and foods indicate that plantbased foods have lower environmental impacts than animalbased foods, whether on the basis of total weight or weight of the protein content. Supportive arguments proponents assert, businesses are accountable to their shareholders, the owners of the corporation. A sustainability report should provide a balanced and reasonable representation of. Download guide for authors in pdf aims and scope environmental and sustainability indicators, a companion title to the highlyrespected ecological indicators, is an open access journal promoting research on indicators as drivers for environmental management, policy formulation, and interdisciplinary research assessing complex environmental. Corporate social responsibility and sustainability. However, lca comparisons do not differentiate the true biological. Sustainability reporting is a broad term considered synonymous with others used to describe reporting on economic, environmental, and social impacts e.
Environmental research is therefore closely followed by. For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. Ualbertas sustainability plan sustainability at the university of alberta the definition of sustainability is broad, and the world is a big, diverse places. It covers the applications of environmental management approaches on waste water management and control, water, air and soil pollution, human habitation, water. It has been accepted for inclusion in journal of environmental. Journal of environmental sustainability rochester institute of. Seaj is now listed in the abs journal guide with a ranking of 1 reg mathews memorial prize.
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