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The Montréal Process was formed in June 1994 as a direct response to the Rio Forest Principles, a document that was created at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development suggesting recommendations for sustainable management of forests (The Montréal Process, 2015, p. 8).
The Peter B. Gustavson School of Business is a business school at the University of Victoria located in the municipality of Oak Bay, British Columbia. [1] Originally, the school was called the UVic Faculty of Business, but on October 22, 2010, the name was changed when Peter B. Gustavson donated $10 million to the school.
This is a list of international environmental agreements. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol , differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.
Sustainability standards can be categorized as either voluntary consensus standards or private standards. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an example of an standards organization who develop international standards following a voluntary consensus process for sustainability under Technical Committee 207, Environmental management and Technical Committee 268, Sustainable ...
University of Victoria, B.C.: POLIS Project on Ecological Governance. Simms, R. (2014). “All of the water that is in our reserves and that is in our territory is ours”: Colonial and Indigenous water governance in unceded Indigenous territories in British Columbia (Graduate Dissertation). Retrieved from Vancouver: University of British ...
Sustainability of Products, Processes and Supply Chains: Theory and Applications. (2015) Elsevier. ISBN 9780444634726. Research, Creating sustainable systems that can exist in harmony with the natural world, Purdue Environmental and Ecological Engineering; Sustainability Issues: Notes, The Centre for Sustainable Development, The University of ...
The development's team has worked with the municipality of Victoria on a Housing Affordability Strategy to create "affordable housing" (or families in the $30,000 to $60,000 income range). Dockside Green stands on land originally home to the First Nations Songhees people. Developers have included them in on-site celebrations and by including ...
The UI GreenMetric is an annual international ranking of the sustainability performance of universities.Universities are given a score reflecting their efforts in reducing the ecological footprint of the university and sustainability education and research. [1]