Sustainability

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304 Factors affecting social behavior
320 Political science
330 Economics
340 Law
360 Social problems and services; associations
650 Management and auxiliary services


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  1. MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
  2. NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
  3. RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.
     
52 Environment

MT 5206 environmental policy

MT 5216 deterioration of the environment

16 Economics

MT 1606 economic policy

24 Finance

MT 2426 financing and investment

66 Energy

MT 6626 soft energy

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Cambridge Core Books
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Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
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Scopus makes available the original Search Queries related to each individual Agenda 2030 goal as designed and expanded by Elsevier's data science team at the request of Times Higher Education (THE) who asked for help in defining SDG search queries for use in their University Impact Rankings by SDGs. See the advanced search page at the bottom right:

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304 Factors affecting social behavior
330 Economics 
340 Law
360 Social problems and services; associations
650 Management and auxiliary services


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JSTOR: Business and Economics
SAGE Journals 
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Financial databases
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Financial and economic information for research and chronological analysis, even at high frequency (intraday data), on ordinary shares, market indices, bonds, credit ratings, company balance sheets, interest and exchange rates, macroeconomic data, futures and options, warrants, commodities, Bond Indices and CDS, ESG.

Refinitiv and Datastream also contain data on unlisted companies, forecast and consensus data (estimates from Ibes) as well as details of the estimates of individual brokers (target price and recommendations), balance sheet data (standardized, from Worldscope source) and as reported by Companies, ASSET4Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance (ESG) data.

Datasets provided by MSCI relating to ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) indicators since 2007. They cover approximately 8,500 companies worldwide (14,000 total issuers, including subsidiaries). For each there are key metrics covering the board of directors, compensation, ownership and control, accounting.

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