Climate change transition and a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape confront the asset management industry with considerable challenges and present risks and opportunities for investing.  Asset managers must strengthen disclosure of the climate-related risks and opportunities and support “sustainability” initiatives ...

Collaboration with businesses, public institutions, and civil society organizations is generally seen with a thumbs-up or a comment on a social media posting.  Individuals often express interest in engaging in a collaborative initiative, but seldom follow through with collaborative action.  This article suggests that w ...

The earth’s atmosphere, natural resources, and biological ecosystems are of fundamental value to business and society, much of which is destroyed through the ways we use these complex and fragile systems.  Meeting the challenges of climate change, resource depletion, and ecosystem loss calls for improved collaboration ...

This report demonstrates to real estate investors and construction clients the value and process of implementing circular economy principles in the built environment.  How value is created from real estate assets is determined and established by investors and construction clients through investment requirements, tenure ...

The circular tourism model must be implemented immediately for us not to exceed the ecological ceiling through the polluting practices of our current linear tourism model and to ensure tourism does not fall short on the social factors.  As the tourism has a multiplier effect, it could be a catalyst to move the whole ec ...

Global consumption of non-renewable resources is increasing and shortages of primary raw materials and reduction of space for final waste disposal are raising urgent issues for our communities.  The unsustainable use of resources is resulting in strategies for maximizing recycling rates and minimizing environmental imp ...

The platform is an interface between network partners from the public sector, science and research, and community stakeholders that shares best practices in developing sustainable communities.  It inspires and advances the deployment of technologies, competencies, and services and furthers the affordability of tools an ...

Especially in terms of resource availability, spatial planning, or economic performance, the constraints for development policies in regions can differ widely.  A model-based assessment on a regional scale enables policy decisions to consider sustainability and offers significant advantages over a mere product-level ap ...

Public participation can be an effective instrument in facilitating the building permitting process.  A collaborative permitting process must enable stakeholders to voice concerns and openly discuss the permit.  Although public participation generally lengthens the process, it provides opportunities for public comment ...

Circular economy policy and practices are implemented at the local level to form circular communities.  Circularity at the urban level calls for great effort and innovation to successfully transition from the linear economy to circular cities.  However, local governments and policymakers are uncertain about how to deve ...

Collaboration between all stakeholders is essential for a successful circular economy.  Where stakeholder collaboration is difficult to achieve and there is little cross-sector collaboration, circular innovations are costly and scarcely adapted.  To make meaningful progress in circularity, we must have a collaborative ...

Circular economy (CE) is an umbrella concept that encapsulates and connects separate knowledge areas and experiences in terms of resource efficiency and reduced environmental impacts.  Proof of CE’s capacity to create the conditions required for meeting human needs within planetary boundaries (PBs) is still lacking.  P ...

Local destination management organization (DMO) involves a large participatory process for strategic planning and monitoring combined with decentralized operational planning and management.  This paper illustrates problems and obstacles for the creation of a local DMO promoting a tourism destination’s sustainable devel ...

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) provides valuable support for stakeholders and interested third parties regarding sustainability assessments, environmental footprints, emission optimization, and corporate communication.  The state-of-the-art LCSA framework extends the scope of life cycle assessment (LCA) by ...

Urban development and construction have a significant impact on all sustainable development indicators in a city.  The City of Montpellier adopted a proactive urban policy in the AURA urban planning guide based on social, environmental and economic development management principles aligned with sustainable development ...