Demanding Sustainability
Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity
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Sustainability after COVID-19: pillars for a just transition
The vulnerability of the global economy has been starkly exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Longer term thinking and new approaches to development and prosperity are urgently required. In this paper, we forward...
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A Transformative Social Sustainability (Pillar Four)
Pillar four recognizes that the social dimension is instrumentally important for successful low carbon, sustainability transitions. The social dimension is central to the development of the institutional, comm...
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An Ecological Prosperity (Pillar One)
This chapter presents pillar one, an ecological prosperity, which provides the framework and boundary for all other pillars, establishing an explicitly defined space for an ecological and just prosperity into ...
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A Shared (Cost) Burden (Pillar Three)
Profound distributive injustices underly global patterns of resource use and related carbon emissions. In addition, those with the least responsibility for the climate crisis are projected to be most severely ...
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A Just Resilience (Pillar Five)
Pillar five a just resilience is framed in honest recognition of the hard times to come. If pillar one established the boundaries, pillar five seeks to protect those boundaries. Even if a warming limit of 1.5 ...
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Conclusions
The post-Covid-19 re-build represents a once-in-a generation opportunity to markedly shift development models to more sustainable pathways, to rebalance the domains of sustainability and in the process, to add...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the 5 ‘pillars’ through which to (re-)build a shared sustainable prosperity. The five pillars aim to provide a framework through which policymakers, decision-makers, politicians, commun...
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A Decarbonized Economy (Pillar Two)
This chapter presents pillar two, a decarbonized economy, focused on the immediate urgency of the climate crisis. The well-being and sustainable development trajectories of future generations critically depend...
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Implementing the Pillars: Towards Shared Sustainable Prosperity
This chapter discusses a number of themes that cut across all 5 pillars, including: Integrated responses to the climate crisis are required so that transitions initiatives acknowledge both the global imperativ...
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Self-administered in-home digital therapeutics could expand access to cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), over half of whom experience cognitive impairment (CI). However, fea...
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Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 is a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium (PGPR) isolated from the sugar-beet rhizosphere. This bacterium has been extensively studied as a model strain for genetic regulation of sec...
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Fertilization management affects the alkaline phosphatase bacterial community in barley rhizosphere soil
There is increasing interest in good agriculture practices that address the issues of sustainability, reduction in inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides while maintaining crop yield and soil fertility. It ...
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Open AccessSix years survival on imatinib with no disease progression after diagnosis of metastatic duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumour: A case report
A duodenal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST) is a rare finding and until recently advanced disease had a poor prognosis. A PubMed search revealed no reports of more than five years survival of inoperable ...
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Patient Capacity and Judicial Decisionmaking
