Search for dissertations about: "financial sustainability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 67 swedish dissertations containing the words financial sustainability.

  2. 1. Unravelling Sustainability : The complex dynamics of emergent environmental governance and management systems at multiple scales

    Author : Lucas Dawson; Ingrid Stjernquist; Marine Elbakidze; Raimonds Ernsteins; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Integrated adaptive environmental governance and management; Social-ecological system dynamics; Complex systems; Sustainability transitions; Sustainability strategies; Multi-level governance; Causal loop diagrams; Green Infrastructure; Landscape restoration; Habitat restoration; Biodiversity conservation; Comprehensive planning; Stakeholder participation; System thinking; Water Framework Directive; Sustainable water governance; Collaborative learning; Communities of practice; Knowledge management; Physical Geography; naturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis adopts a complex systems approach to investigate the dynamic emergence of sustainable environmental governance and management systems in multiple contexts in Europe. Accelerating rates of environmental degradation across the world have called the legitimacy of previous environmental governance and management arrangements into question. READ MORE

  4. 2. Nexus between corporate sustainability and financial performance

    Author : ABM Fazle Rahi; Jeaneth Johansson; Marita Blomkvist; Stefan Sundgren; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sustainability; performance; profitability; corporate responsibility; ESG; multi-theoretical approach; macroeconomic factors; microeconomic factors; women on boards; board composition; sustainable development;

    Abstract : To save the planet from previous devastating corporate actions, corporations have enormous responsibilities toward the environment, economy and society. Implementing corporate sustainability practices through establishing effective governance mechanisms can be considered a transformative initiative with potential implications for social and green innovation. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Anthropocene Ocean : Risks and opportunities for global sustainability

    Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; Magnus Nyström; Henrik Österblom; Beatrice Crona; Albert Norström; Douglas McCauley; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Anthropocene; Coral reef; Finance; Globalisation; Ocean; Resilience; Seafood; Social-ecological system; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity; Transnational corporation; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : Humans have become a dominant force of planetary change. This epoch, referred to as the Anthropocene, implies profound alterations to the Earth’s marine and terrestrial ecosystems upon which so many people depend. READ MORE

  6. 4. Drivers of Going Green in Financial Markets and Corporate Networks

    Author : Zahra Hashemzadeh; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Investor Behavior; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Corporate Network; Corporate Social Responsibility CSR ; ESG performance; Sustainability; Environmental performance; Climate Strike; Public Attention;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a collection of three self-contained empirical papers developing the knowledge on environmental responsibility of investors and corporations.The first paper investigates how corporate environmental performance propagates in firm networks. READ MORE

  7. 5. From Corals to Corporations : Social-ecological dynamics in the Anthropocene ocean

    Author : Jean-Baptiste Jouffray; Magnus Nyström; Toby Gardner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Anthropocene; Ocean; Coral reef; Finance; Regime shift; Sustainability; Sustainability Science; vetenskap om hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : The ocean has always been of paramount importance for the development of human civilisation. Today more than ever, the prospect of a new era of ‘blue growth’ poses great sustainability and governance challenges as marine ecosystems worldwide face unprecedented cumulative pressures from local human impacts, global climate change and distal socioeconomic processes. READ MORE