This paper reviews the current status of the debate about the concept of environmental
sustainability and discusses related aspects of growth, limits, scale, and substitutability …

With the world's urban population expected to increase by about 60 percent by 2050, we
have an opportunity to build cities where everyone can live, move, and thrive. 1 There is an …

After deploring the mystification of the term sustainability and tendencies to conflate it with
society's desiderata, we desegregate three types of sustainability: social, economic, and …

This book argues that increasing engagement between international institutions and sectors
of civil society is producing a new form of global governance. The authors …

Nachhaltigkeit ist weltweit zu einem zentralen Leitbild in Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft
geworden. Im Kern geht es um die Suche nach einem gerechten Zivilisations-und …

This paper draws on the dependency paradigm to explain the development of enclave
tourism and its socio-economic impacts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Using both …

The Okavango Delta is one of Botswana's leading tourist destination areas, mainly because
of the rich wildlife resources it sustains and its scenic beauty. Tourism has stimulated the …

This preface introduces a document that is unprecedented in its scope and objectives. In
August 1988 the Ecological Society of America initiated an effort to define research priorities …

Does a commercial debtor's economic, environmental and social performance in terms of
sustainability affect its credit risk rating? Does adding criteria aimed at assessing a lender's …

In many ways, my predecessor in this series of overview articles on Third World cities
(Gilbert, 1992, 1993, 1994) has already covered many of the major issues that have …