Project appraisal and sustainability: methodological challenges

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Strengthening impact assessment: a call for integration and focus Angus Morrison-Saunders, Jenny Pope, Jill A.E. Gunn, Alan Bond & Francois Retief a School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA6150, Australia b School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa c Integral Sustain...

Agent-based Computational Economics: a Methodological Appraisal

This paper is an overview of " Agent-based Computational Economics " (ACE), an emerging approach to the study of decentralized market economies, in methodological perspective. It summarizes similarities and differences with respect to conventional economic models, outlines the unique methodological characteristics of this approach, and discusses its implications for economic methodology as a wh...

Overcoming Methodological Challenges

Questions about the relative merits of alternative research strategies

Some Challenges to Sustainability

The word ―sustainability‖ is often used in business in the belief that the current ways of doing things will be able to be continued with only minor changes to balance economic development with related environmental and social issues. There are, however, immense challenges that threaten the very sustainability of our global society, let alone individual businesses or developments. A few of the ...