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Cover -- Copyright -- Title -- Contents -- Preface I by Michael Succow -- Preface II by Marlehn Thieme -- Foreword by the Editors -- Part 1 Understanding the challenge: the systems question -- 1.1 The biosphere: a short report on the state of the Earth -- 1.2 Sustainability as a reaction: what has been happening until now -- 1.3 Systems theory: towards a holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of sustainable development -- Part 2 We humans: the agents of sustainable development -- 2.1 Good or evil - are we capable of sustainability? -- 2.2 What motivates people to sustainability-oriented action? -- Part 3 (Un)sustainable systems: analysis and strategic approaches -- 3.1 The foundations: ecosystems and ecosystem management -- Digression 1: Close-to-nature forestry in Germany - caught between the increasing demand for wood, the need to ensure sustainable forest ecosystem services, and society's demands and expectations on forests -- Digression 2: Can peatland use be sustainable? The answer: Yes - as Paludiculture -- 3.2 The drivers: economic systems -- 3.3 The power source: energy supply systems -- 3.4 The controls: political systems -- 3.5 Everyone affected and involved: civil society systems -- Part 4 The transformation to sustainability -- 4.1 Ecosystem-based sustainable development -- 4.2 Sustainability transformation -- 4.3 A sustainable economy -- 4.4 Education for sustainable development -- 4.5 Institutional transformation to sustainability: the example of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of editors, authors and specialist advisers.

Poverty eradication has become a global political priority. The United Nations have made it clear that poverty is the most important issue to be resolved if sustainable development is to be reached. The first and most prominent of the recently proclaimed Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) thus boldly reads "End poverty in all its forms everywhere". Poverty has been a constant feature of humanity. It has been the source of fierce political debates and repression, of internal and external instability, of upheavals and violent conflicts. It is obvious that poverty, within a nation, a region or on an international level not only prevents millions of people from decent livelihoods, equality, justice, rights and general human flourishing. It is the single-most debilitating obstacle that inhibits other political goals from being reached. But what is poverty exactly? Who counts as poor? And who does not? Should we actively do something against poverty? And if so, what? This course proposes answers to these questions. Poverty is a social construct that can only be understood in the light of specific social, historical, cultural, economic and political contexts. It is a multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be analyzed through the lens of a single scientific discipline alone.

AbstractThis article examines the relationships between ethical values and business sustainability. Using previously validated measuring scales, we analyzed the relationship between three values (perceived support, respect and responsibility) in the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) with a sample of 124 cooperative entities of social economy. A structural equations model was used to evaluate the relationships between the proposed constructs, employing the Partial Least Squares (PLS‐SEM) method. The results confirm the positive relationships between some of the studied values and the sustainability of social entities, demonstrating that the emphasis on some values over others will result in different impacts on economic, social and environmental sustainability.