Section 2 Ecology, sustainable business, and community development

community-based management, improving social capital and sustainable rural development

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Business strategies for sustainable development

The concept of sustainable development has received growing recognition, but it is a new idea for many business executives. For most, the concept remains abstract and theoretical. Protecting an organization's capital base is a well-accepted business principle. Yet organizations do not generally recognize the possibility of extending this notion to the world's natural and human resources. If sus...

Conservation Ecology: Sustainable Development of the Boreal Forest: Interaction of Ecological, Social, and Business Feedbacks

Humans are an integral component of ecosystems, just as the products of ecosystems are critical to social systems. To understand the future state of the boreal forest, we must understand the ecological, social, economic, and business interactions that link ecological and social systems into a common regional system, as well as the feedbacks that govern changes in these interactions. We analyze ...

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