Sheltered Employment Centres: Sustainability and Social Value

Sheltered employment for persons with disabilities

S employment is expanding in many countries with various types of institutions offering an increasing number of positions to persons with disabilities who wish to work. The structures involved are also showing a growing desire for recognition as full participants in the economy and as employing higher professional standards. In fact, many providers of sheltered employment are now using manageme...

OR/MS tools for integrating people with disabilities into employment. A study on Valencia’s Sheltered Work Centres for Disabled

People with disabilities have a right to a full life in every sense and one of those fundamental rights is the possibility to work. In this paper the importance of social employment integration of disabled people is highlighted as one of the stakeholders to be satisfied by companies in the new framework that the Corporate Social Responsibility is constructing. The objective of the paper is to r...

Social and Cultural Sustainability

Of building cultural centers in all communities and with any kind of attitude has always been one of the designers’ issues. When we use the term in ordinary daily conversation, we often think of culture as an equivalent to the “higher things of the mind”- art, literature, music and painting. According to sociologists, the concept of culture includes such activities, but also far more. Culture c...

Economic and Social Value of Irrigation Water: Implications for Sustainability

The economic value of irrigation water was determined through Contingency Valuation Method and Crop-Water Production function during wet and dry season of paddy cultivation. Factors namely, area under rice and water requirement influenced the willingness to pay for water by farmers. Social values of farmers’ over water were found to be high. The comparison of the economic value of water estimat...

Sustainability and Value Creation