Examining Environmental Sustainability Metrics—Nitrogen Balance

Sustainability Test of Iran’s Agricultural Balance Trade

From the perspective of new growth models and new international trade theories, both exports and imports play an important role in a dynamic economy. Economically, we cannot merely emphasize on a positive trade balance and we ignore the benefits of imports, and also we cannot advise negative trade balance. But the main concern of policy makers about international trade should be making stabilit...

Negabehaviors and Environmental Sustainability

Helping people learn to adopt more pro-social lifestyles usually involves persuading them to take new, beneficial actions. However, certain pro-social goals, such as achieving environmental sustainability, also require people to stop performing harmful actions—people are commonly instructed to drive less, use less electricity, and otherwise reduce the amount of resources they consume and waste ...

Inequality and Environmental Sustainability

* The author is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer at the Development Policy Analysis Division of UN DESA. He would like to thank Gregroy Mikkelson and Danny Dorling for their comments on previous versions the paper. Thanks are also due to the participants of the Expert Group Meeting held in 2014 where this paper was presented. Particular thanks are due to the anonymous referee, whose substantiv...

Global environmental health: sustainability.

edi tor 's note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant in­ formation on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profes­ sion. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre­ vention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC wi...

Examining the Safety, Mobility and Environmental Sustainability Co- Benefits and Tradeoffs of Intelligent Transportation Systems