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Developing indicators for sustainable entrepreneurship in Flemish agriculture Universiteit Gent
Current Flemish (and European) policy makers encourage the sustainable development of farming, in which a balance between People, Planet and Profit is required. As craftsmanship alone will no longer be enough to integrate these divergent aspects, farmers need to develop entrepreneurial and managerial skills. For this reason, complementary to the economic, ecological and social aspects, sustainable entrepreneurship and management is seen as an ...
Unraveling urban sustainability. How the Flemish City Monitor acknowledges complexities Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this article we argue that the City Monitor for Sustainable Urban Development in the Flanders (Belgium) acknowledges two kinds of complexities. Firstly, the set of almost 200 SDIs (Sustainable Development Indicators) is positioned in complex and strategic decision-making processes in Flemish cities. In this respect, this learning instrument contains actor-exceeding and policy-exogenous information, which is relevant for governance settings ...
Sustainability impacts of tidal river management: Towards a conceptual framework Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Antwerpen
The Southwest Coastal people of Bangladesh have introduced Tidal River Management (TRM) as an environmentally acceptable water resource management practice based on their indigenous knowledge of water logging of low lying coastal land. TRM helps to address problems resulting from different anthropogenic and structural development activities, and it has been successful in helping coastal communities to adapt to climate change and rising sea level ...
A new agri-food systems sustainability approach to identify shared transformation pathways towards sustainability Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Today both external and internal changes put increasing pressure on the sustainability of one of themost important production systems that shape our society, the agri-food system. External pressures on this system result from demographic, economic and environmental changes such as globalisation, climate change, and scarcity of resources (Dicks et al., 2013; Foresight, 2011). Internal pressures arise from asymmetric price transmission, changes in ...
Fairness and/or sustainability? The social, political, and ideological registers of sustainability in the discourses of four fair trade organizations Universiteit Antwerpen
Starting from discourse theory, this chapter investigates how different organizations draw on the concept of sustainability to position and/or legitimize their vision on fair trade. These organizations are active in Flanders and comprise a social enterprise (Fairphone), a traditional fair trade organization (Oxfam-Worldshops), a government agency (Trade for Development Centre) and a non-fair trade retail chain (Colruyt Group). To this end, a ...
Developing context-sensitive livability indicators for transportation planning: a measurement framework Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
Circular economy indicators : what do they measure? Universiteit Gent KU Leuven
Circular Economy (CE) is a growing topic, especially in the European Union, that promotes the responsible and cyclical use of resources possibly contributing to sustainable development. CE is an umbrella concept incorporating different meanings. Despite the unclear concept, CE is turned into defined action plans supported by specific indicators. To understand what indicators used in CE measure specifically, we propose a classification framework ...
Can community indicators live up to their expectations? The case of the Flemish city monitor for liveable and sustainable urban development Universiteit Gent
Assessing contributions of the EU-15 countries to sustainability using the Sustainable Value approach: A resource efficiency perspective Universiteit Hasselt Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
The Sustainable Value approach integrates the efficiency with regard to environmental, social and economic resources into a monetary indicator. It gained significant popularity as evidenced by diverse applications at the corporate level. However, its introduction as a measure adhering to the strong sustainability paradigm sparked an ardent debate. This study explores its validity as a macroeconomic strong sustainability measure by applying the ...