in last decade it is almost impossible to not seen anything about water resource crisis and water shortage in natural resources exploitation and use reports. such information encourages decision makers and researchers to looking for solutions in relation to this problem and sustainable management of water resources. in this regard, first step towards sustainable management of water resources is...

The purpose of the paper is to generate an understanding of the prerequisites for sustainable supply chain management. A common tendency in the literature is to see sustainable supply chain management as something that is undertaken by a focal firm at the end of the chain. Even though many scholars point to the need for cooperative approaches, focal firms are still considered to manage supply c...

Groundwater plays a vital role in the arid inland river basins, in which the groundwater management is critical to the sustainable development of area economy and ecology. Traditional sustainable management approaches are to analyze different scenarios subject to assumptions or to construct simulation–optimization models to obtain optimal strategy. However, groundwater system is time-varying du...

Concerns about sustainability matters have been growing significantly during the last decades. The triple bottom line approach – an often applied operationalization of sustainability integrating the economic, social, and ecologic aspects of sustainable development – has gained attention in companies, especially with regard to sustainable products. Nevertheless, the integration of sustainability...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Sustainable practices in foodservice organizations including commercial and noncommercial ones are critical to ensure the protection of the environment for the future. With the rapid growth of the foodservice industry, wiser usage of input sources such as food, utilities, and single use packaging should be reconsidered for future generations. Therefore, this study aims to ...

The JMA will foster achieving sustainable development pathways with lower carbon emissions in the forestry sector and ecosystems; which means that joint mitigation and adaptation outcomes to climate change are reached as a result of the support and strengthening of the sustainable management of the forests, and therefore mitigation and adaptation cannot be considered as ends by themselves but m...

Urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. In spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. In the “Brundtland Commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...