To what extent can the problems of urbanization be met by a policy of sustainable development? With increasing life expectancy‚ people have moved from rural area to urban area and cities have grown rapidly‚ which causes many problems. To solve these problems of urbanisation‚ the concept of sustainability emerged‚ which is always used by environmentalists and political planners to express their own view of how environment and economy should be administrated (Adams‚ 2001). One of the most quoted
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1 Yan King Cho Sustainable competitive advantage In tourism industry‚ Changes is rapid. Innovation is the way for remaining their business situation and attracting more customers from other market pool. Innovating Strategy to expand own advantage to become sustainable. It increases competitiveness of the company to defeat the rivals. Dess et al.(2005) state that “Strategic innovations can be distinguished from the incremental and ‘accidental’ changes‚ as stately‚ by definition‚ includes a sustained
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aware and being green. To grow into the future‚ businesses need to apply eco-efficient practices to produce better outputs. Everything a business does in relation to its products‚ services‚ people‚ and the community around it‚ should contribute a sustainable future. To be successful in the long-term‚ leaders must look beyond what they are doing today and consider what they will be doing in the near future and in the far future. This is an ever-changing world. This means they need to implement ethical
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Chapter 1: A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability Key points: Sustainability performance is the effect of corporate activity on the social‚ environmental‚ and economic fabric of society. A balance between economic progress‚ social responsibility‚ and environmental protection‚ sometimes referred to as the triple bottom line‚ can lead to competitive advantage. The evaluation of social‚ economic‚ and environmental impacts of organizational actions is necessary to make effective
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Sustainable Luxury -Is it Possible? Submitted to Navin K. Veerapa LA TROBE UNIVERSITY Bundoora Campus Submitted By Name of candidate: Hima Bindu Nekkanti Student ID: 17983797 Date of submission: 10 April 2014 Academic year: 2014-2015 Table of contents Chapter Title Page number (i) Introduction 3 of 7 Sustainability luxury now 3 of 7 Sustainability luxury have been 3 of 7 Sustainability luxury can be or ought to be 3 of 7 (ii) Focus 3 of 7 The image1
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Hemp as a Sustainable Resource: Why is it Illegal to Grow in the United States The global population continues to grow at an exceedingly rapid rate. Therefore‚ use for versatile and sustainable resources is becoming imperative in order to retain the capacity to support humanity. More important is the ability to adapt to a system that can do it all while minimizing any negative effects on the environment. In ecology‚ sustainability can be described as the ability for a system to maintain balance
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1 Sustainable Competitive Advantage Resources are the assets‚ capabilities‚ processes‚ information‚ and knowledge that an organization controls. Firms use their resources to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Resources are critical to organizational strategy because they can help companies create and sustain an advantage over competitors.3 Organizations can achieve a competitive advantage by using their resources to provide greater value for customers than competitors can. For
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debates on the relationship between development and the environment has grown (Vanhulst & Beling‚2014). The threat of looming ecological catastrophe that will affect humanity has brought forth the concept of SD in the 1970s after the Club of Rome called the attention of the world to the limits to growth (Mitcham‚ 1995; Du Pisanti‚2006; Szell‚2014). Since the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment‚ development has been viewed as one that is sustainable and focuses on natural resources as
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How far do you agree that the Catholic Church significantly hindered Italian unity in the years to 1870? To a very far extent the Catholic Church did hinder Italian unity as the church was generally a reactionary body as it opposed to new ideas especially‚ Italian unification. Such as when Pope Pius IX asked the French army to defeat the Roman Republic in 1848. Also the Catholic Church made it forbidden in science to say the Earth travelled around the sun. However the Catholic Church does show little
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To what extent does the problem of urbanization can be met by sustainable development? For the past decades the trend of urbanization has rapidly increased‚ especially in developing countries. Urbanization may be defined as a process in which people from rural areas are migrating to the city. The sudden increase of the population in cities has brought significant problems to their inhabitants‚ the environment and resources. These problems are providing housing with basic facilities and public
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