Flashcards: Economics of sustainability

Environmental assessment<section begin=overview /> (EA) is the term used for the assessment of the environmental consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or concrete projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.

NABERS, the National Australian Built Environment Rating System, is an initiative by the government of Australia to measure and compare the environmental performance of Australian buildings and tenancies.

Free Money Day is an annual, global event held since 2011 as a social experiment and to promote sharing and alternative economic ideas.

Sustainability measurement is the quantitative basis for the informed management of sustainability.

Wonderland is an integrated mathematical model used for studying phenomena in sustainable development.

The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE, pronounced “gee-day”) is a research center at Tufts University founded in 1993.

Iulie Margrethe Nicolaysen Aslaksen (born 1956) is a Norwegian economist and Senior Researcher at Statistics Norway.

The Global Reporting Initiative (known as GRI) is an international independent standards organization that helps businesses, governments and other organizations understand and communicate their impacts on issues such as climate change, human rights and corruption.

claro fair trade, commonly shortened to claro and written in minuscules, is a sustainability-oriented retail company based in Orpund, Biel/Bienne administrative district, in the Swiss Canton of Bern.

Prosperity Without Growth (2009) is a book by author and economist Tim Jackson.

The Hinrich Foundation was established in 2012.

(For other uses, see Public Eye.) Public Eye – German: Erklärung von Bern; French: Déclartion de Berne; Italian: Dichiarazione di Bern; commonly shortened to EvB until September 2016 – is a sustainability-oriented, politically and religiously independent solidarity development non-governmental organisation based in Switzerland.

Over the years, as countries and regions around the world began to develop, it slowly became evident that industrialization and economic growth come hand in hand with environmental degradation.

Sustainable business, or green business, is an enterprise that has minimal negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy—a business that strives to meet the triple bottom line.

In population ecology and economics, maximum sustainable yield or MSY is theoretically, the largest yield (or catch) that can be taken from a species' stock over an indefinite period.

CleanEquity Monaco is a Clean Technology conference.