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Bardy R

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• Review Article
  Public Goods, Sustainable Development and Business Accountability: Connecting Corporate Performance and Preservation of the Commons
  Author(s): Bardy RBardy R
  
  Sustainable Development is about preserving and maintaining public goods. This comes out both from the intraand intergenerational aspect of the Brundtland definition (“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”; World Commission on Environment and Development). In consequence, whoever uses public goods is liable for their preservation, for their maintenance and, where they are underdeveloped, for their built-up and expansion. “Paying” for the usage of public goods is taken care of by taxes and excise, and, more recently, by duties like those levied on emission. However, the magnitude of public goods usage is rarely measured on either national or regional or local levels (The phenomenon of global public goods is only briefly mentioned in the paper as it mainl.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2332-0761.1000339

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