Browsing by Subject "sustainable"

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  • Change Agents: The Promise of Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

    Houppermans, Daniel Peter (The University of Waikato, 2010)
    This thesis explores the role of private sector social entrepreneurship in sustainable development in New Zealand. A review of literature reveals sustainable development to be a diverse, complex, and challenging concept, ...

  • The happy story of small business financing

    Vos, Ed; Yeh, Andrew Jia-Yuh; Carter, Sara; Tagg, Stephen (Elsevier, 2007)
    We examine two data sets, one from the UK (n = 15,750) and one from the US (n = 3239), to show that SME financial behaviour demonstrates substantial financial contentment, or ‘happiness’. We find fewer than 10% of the UK ...

  • INVASIVESNET towards an International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species

    Lucy, Frances E.; Roy, Helen; Simpson, Annie; Carlton, James T.; Hanson, John Mark; Magellan, Kit; Campbell, Marnie L.; Costello, Mark J.; Pagad, Shyama; Hewitt, Chad L.; McDonald, Justin; Cassey, Philip; Thomaz, Sidinei M.; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Zenetos, Argyro; Tricarico, Elena; Boggero, Angela; Groom, Quentin J.; Adriaens, Tim; Vanderhoeven, Sonia; Torchin, Mark; Hufbauer, Ruth; Fuller, Pam; Carman, Mary R.; Conn, David Bruce; Vitule, Jean R.S.; Canning-Clode, João; Galil, Bella S.; Ojaveer, Henn; Bailey, Sarah A.; Therriault, Thomas W.; Claudi, Renata; Gazda, Anna; Dick, Jaimie T.A.; Caffrey, Joe; Witt, Arne; Kenis, Marc; Lehtiniemi, Maiju; Helmisaari, Harry; Panov, Vadim E. (REABIC, 2016)
    In a world where invasive alien species (IAS) are recognised as one of the major threats to biodiversity, leading scientists from five continents have come together to propose the concept of developing an international ...