Developing a nation geared by the principle of sustainable development has been one of the piers in moulding a greater nation for Malaysia since its independence. This is seen by the act of joining the United Nations in 1957, just a month after gaining their independence. The United Nations is an international organization that aims to unite the nations worldwide based on justice, human dignity...

The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) has been active in the field of intellectual property since 1997, amongst others, through its Programme on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development. One central objective of the Programme has been to facilitate the emergence of a critical mass of well informed stakeholders in developing countries inclu...

The private sector has a crucial role in sustainable development internationally. Private investments and public-private partnerships that are sustainable in environmental, social, and economic terms facilitate socially inclusive growth creating jobs and innovation necessary to raise the quality of life. This is especially important in developing countries, where the private sector provides up ...

In the course of evaluating the progress in implementing Agenda 21 (United Nations 1992) the “Commission on Sustainable Development” began developing a set of indicators of sustainable development. The first version was finalized in 1996 with the suggestion of 134 indicators (UNDPCSD 1996) and put to a field test, resulting in a final version published in 2001 (UNDESA 2001). In both versions, t...

● The fact that (a) the determinants of the capacity to mitigate or adapt to climate change (e.g., access to economic resources, social and human capital, and technological prowess) largely overlap, (b) many factors underlying or related to these determinants are themselves indicators of sustainable development (e.g., per capita income; and various public health and well-being indices such as p...

The use of environmental and sustainable indicators of global organizations has greater advantages than those of national initiatives or those developed by researchers in said subject, due to the fact that they have a much broader scope for sustainability, have been applied in a systematic manner and therefore have greater comparability and reliability. The environmental indicators are construc...

Mining can become more sustainable by developing and integrating economic, environmental, and social components. Among the mining industries, coal mining requires paying a serious attention to the aspects of sustainable development. Therefore, in this work, we investigate the impacting factors involved in the sustainable development of underground coal mining from the structural viewpoint. For ...

With the establishment of social enterprises, role entrepreneurs (SEs) becomes prominent with their exceptional competencies that contribute to sustainable development (SD) environment. Sustainable (SC) assist these in strengthening personalities for present and future by facilitating entrepreneurial activities. This study focuses on investigation SC SEs help in-depth interviews exploratory fac...

A major reason why many developing nations have not made significant advancement in sustainable development (SD) agenda is the neglect of existing building stock which forms the bulk of built assets. Although sustainable development is a universal challenge, it cannot be approached in the same way for all nations, but rather practical response can be defined nationally or locally. This paper re...