Sustainable Development Index: A Dashboard to Measure a Country’s Resilience

Using Index to Measure and Monitor Progress on Sustainable Development

Resilience and sustainable development

1. Resilience This special issue results from a call for papers to address the connection between resilience and sustainability, and stems from the fact that the ecological concept of resilience has been exercising an increasing influence on the economics of development. Resilience is interpreted in two different ways by ecologists: one capturing the speed of return to equilibrium following per...

Development of A Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Oocyte Donation

Background To our knowledge, there is no valid and comprehensive questionnaire that considers attitude toward oocyte donation (OD). Therefore this study has aimed to design and develop a tool entitled attitude toward donation-oocyte (ATOD-O) to measure attitude toward OD. MaterialsAndMethods This methodological, qualitative research was undertaken on 15 infertile cases. In addition, we performe...

Sustainable Urban Development with a New Approach to Ethics

  Background: With the massive growth of cities in the last two or three decades and the multifaceted role these cities play, the planning and cultural management of cities has become strangely complex and difficult. In general, there are economic, social, cultural, educational and physical problems in most cities despite numerous complaints from people. The purpose of this study is to examine ...

Introducing a Model to Measure the Corporate Governance Index in Usury-Free Banking

Good implementation of corporate governance principles is considered as an important component for stability and soundness of a financial institution. An extensive body of literature has reviewed the effects of corporate governance on the performance of corporations. The majority of these studies have found more corporate values for implementing the principles. Therefore, the assessment of comp...