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| Preface by Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves and Michael H. Smith |
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| Introduction: Insurmountable Opportunities |
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| SECTION 1: THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM |
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1 Natural Advantage of Nations |
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Progress, competitiveness and sustainability |
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Significant potential for resource productivity improvements |
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Creating competitive advantage of the firm |
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A critical mass of enabling technologies |
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Benefits of valuing nature |
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Implications and benefits for global development |
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2 Risks of Inaction on Sustainable Development |
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Declining ecosystems: a new limiting factor for growth? |
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Can we replicate nature's services? |
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3 Asking the Right Questions |
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How should we measure growth? |
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What is meant when we speak of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development'? |
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Achieving sustainable genuine progress or sustainable development |
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Can we achieve no major trade-offs and win-win opportunities? |
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How do nations measure progress? |
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How do we design for legacy? |
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Can we turn 'vicious cycles' into 'virtuous circles'? |
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4 A Dynamic 'Platform for Change' |
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Economic policy: the broader context |
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57 | (6) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (3) |
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Whole of society approach |
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Importance of capacity building |
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5 Thinking Locally, Acting Globally |
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| SECTION 2: NATURAL ADVANTAGE: A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE |
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6 Natural Advantage and the Firm |
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The changing nature of competition |
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Achieving competitive advantage through strategic positioning |
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What will be the major driver of innovation in the 21st century? |
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Moving early to exploit structural change |
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Why integrate sustainable development into corporate strategy? |
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Downsizing: a strategy that no longer cuts it |
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The shifting nature of competition in emerging economies |
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Additional drivers for sustainable development |
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Achieving radical resource productivity |
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New opportunities for product differentiation |
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Increasing profitability and minimizing risk (Porter's 5 Forces Model) |
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Threat of substitute products or services |
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Bargaining power of buyers |
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7 Innovation and Competitiveness through Industry Cluster Development |
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Cocoa beans...and what else? |
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Michael Fairbanks and Andrew Smith |
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The cluster development process |
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Government role in promoting cluster competitiveness |
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116 | (1) |
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8 The Political and Social Context: A Sixth Force on Business? |
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Consumer demand change: knowing your market |
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Human resources: attracting the best people |
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Staying ahead of changes to government regulations |
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Can market based mechanisms be designed to assist firms to achieve competitive advantage? |
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Can regulation be designed to assist firms to achieve competitive advantage? |
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Raising the bar: independent certification schemes |
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The insurance industry: responding to climate change |
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The finance industry: a new paradigm in investment |
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The practice of ethical and socially responsible investment |
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9 Accelerating the Sustainability Revolution |
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Incentives for business leaders |
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Reform of fiduciary duty for pension and superannuation funds trustees |
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L. Hunter Lovins and Walter Link |
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Environmental management accounting in Japan |
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Chika Saka, Roger Burritt, Stefan Schaltegger and Tobias Hahn |
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Grounds for change: the exciting developments in firm level economics |
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Efficiency gains within firms under voluntary environmental initiatives |
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10 Operationalizing Natural Advantage through the Sustainability Helix |
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The business case for sustainability |
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The management helix for the sustainable organization (Sustainability Helix) |
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162 | (1) |
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Sustainable Business Practice: The Fieldguide to Natural Capitalism |
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| SECTION 3: ACHIEVING A NATURAL ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS |
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11 The Role of Government |
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The tragedy of the commons: 35 years on |
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The regulatory measure response |
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Mental models of voluntary environmental initiatives |
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Voluntary agreements: effectiveness analysis - tools, guidelines and checklists |
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Allars' characteristics of effective voluntary agreements |
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The generic Canadian pro forma for voluntary initiatives |
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The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP's) Industry and Environment Technical Report |
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) approach |
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Can regulation be designed to improve competitiveness? |
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Effective economic measures to complement either voluntary or regulatory approaches |
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202 | (3) |
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Government-industry partnerships to improve innovation |
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From clusters to national systems of innovation |
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Rob McLean with Jaya Pillia |
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Managing industry transitions through waves of innovation |
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12 Towards a Deeper Understanding |
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217 | (27) |
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217 | (9) |
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How do economists define efficiency? |
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The classical understanding |
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The economics of information |
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Financial markets: what they do and why they are fragile |
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Anti-monopoly legislation: competition policy |
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224 | (2) |
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Challenges to governments and institutions |
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Attributes of policy problems in sustainability |
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Clarifying government, governance and institutions |
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Available scales of sustainability governance |
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Principles and elements of policy and institutional reform |
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Is there 'credible commitment' to sustainabilty? |
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National Councils for Sustainable Development |
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238 | (1) |
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Specific NCSDs as examples |
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NCSDs and international agreements |
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13 National Systems of Innovation |
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Innovation systems are part of today's development paradigm |
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The challenge to innovation systems |
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The Dutch National Sustainable Technology Development programme |
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Lessons from the Dutch and other programmes |
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260 | (4) |
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14 Sustainability in the Wild West (State Government) |
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The Fremantle Declaration: 'Passing the Torch to the Regions' |
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The Western Australia State Sustainability Strategy: is change happening? |
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Process for developing the strategy |
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The policy change process |
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15 Delivering Sustainability Through Local Action (Local Government) |
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A worldwide movement of local governments |
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Wayne Wescott, Martin Brennan and Yolande Strengers |
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Sustainability Street: it's a village out there |
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Vox Bandicoot and Environs Australia Projects |
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Leadership in the local government sector: working from inside out |
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Sustainability leadership in the local government sector |
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Profile of sustainability leadership |
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'When everything is said and done - more is said than done' |
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Sustainability advocacy in the local government sector |
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| SECTION 4: SUSTAINABLE CITIES: THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY |
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16 Tomorrow's Mega-cities: How Will They Develop? |
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Governance of municipalities: a snapshot of sustainable development in China |
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The Goa 2100 Project: a breakthrough project from India |
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17 Profitable Greenhouse Solutions |
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Michael H. Smith and Alan Pears |
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Energy systems: drivers for change |
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Vulnerabilities in the energy system |
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Greenhouse solutions that do not cost the earth |
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18 Greening the Built Environment |
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Cheryl Paten and Janis Birkeland with Alan Pears |
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Building positive examples |
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The significance of greening the building and development industry |
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Perceived barriers to change |
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From pioneers to systemic change: cultural reform |
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The future in design approaches |
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19 Sustainable Urban Transport |
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Jeff Kenworthy, Robert Murray-Leach and Craig Townsend |
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Economic impacts of transport choices are significant |
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Methodology of the Millennium Cities Database |
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Characteristics of urban transport systems |
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Sustainable transport systems |
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The importance of urban form |
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Sustainable urban development |
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Designing around the mind: understanding behaviour |
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Civil society and business |
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Michael H. Smith with David Dumaresq |
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Rationale for dams in the past |
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Creating a robust foundation and framework for water management |
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The Council of Australian Governments Agreements on Water Policy |
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The COAG communique to develop a National Water Initiative |
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A robust separation framework |
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Water access entitlements: allocations and use conditions |
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| SECTION 5: A NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE APPROACH: THE BIGGER PICTURE - BUILDING RESILIENCE |
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21 Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Consumption and Cleaner Production |
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Consumption and low impact affluence |
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Patterns of consumption are a global issue |
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Policy approaches and action |
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Summary of policy approaches for sustainable consumption |
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Industry attention and action |
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Strategies for the future |
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Clarifying the focus for action on consumption |
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Developing better indicators |
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An alternative conceptual approach for describing systems of production and consumption |
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Enhancing the potential of limited, localized actions |
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Improving products and services: the logical focus for production and consumption |
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The overall strategic goal: leapfrog to new systems of products and services |
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22 Changing Hearts and Minds: The Role of Education |
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The need for critical literacies in sustainability |
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Sustainable development in schools |
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Constructive environmental education |
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Key role of higher education and the professions |
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Harnessing universities' research capacity |
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Partnering with professional bodies to build capacity |
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23 Achieving Multi-stakeholder Engagement |
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What is multi-stakeholder engagement? |
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Where does multi-stakeholder engagement fit in? |
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Current issues with multi-stakeholder processes |
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Looking forward: multi-stakeholder process design |
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Introducing the Pyramid: a versatile process and planning tool for accelerating sustainable development through multi-stakeholder engagement |
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How the Pyramid process works |
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Building a network around a project: The Natural Edge Project |
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Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Paten and Nick Palousis |
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