'Genuine' saving values the total change in economic assets and, as such, provides an indicator of whether an economy is on a sustainable path. New estimates of genuine saving from the World Bank broaden the usual national accounts definitions of assets to include human capital, minerals, energy, forest resources and the stock of atmospheric CO2. The paper explores the issue of measuring change...

According to several researches sustainable development is based on three different dimensions of sustainability social and economical dimensions and ecological or environmental sustainability. These dimensions are recognized as basic elements of sustainable development. This research tries to evaluate social sustainability at some neighborhoods in Karaj. Considering the fact that urban neighbo...

Discusses the interaction between socio-economic systems and their natural environment, by examining the indicators of sustainable development. Areas covered by the operationalization of sustainable development indicators; Details on the global nature of environmental problems; Important strategy of the operationalization of sustainable development; Link between economic data and ecological ind...

BACKGROUND Sustainable development and public health quite strongly correlate, being connected and conditioned by one another. This paper therein attempts to offer a representation of Europe's current situation of sustainable development in the area of public health. METHODS A dataset on sustainable development in the area of public health consisting of 31 European countries (formally propose...

Housing drives urban development and has a significant potential for contributing to sustainability. However, ample sustainability indicator sets fail include relevant indicators of sustainable housing—assessment seems be an underdeveloped topic. We chose the United Nations Geneva Charter on Sustainable as conceptual foundation proposed assessment tool. It addresses recent challenges by four de...

This article suggests that sexual and reproductive health and rights activists seeking to influence the post-2015 international development paradigm must work with sustainable development advocates concerned with a range of issues, including climate change, environmental issues, and food and water security, and that a way of building bridges with these communities is to demonstrate how sexual a...

Universities can contribute to the solutions of major challenges of the 21st century such as increasing environmental and socio-economic crises, inequalities of income and wealth and political instabilities by integrating the concept of sustainable development (SD) in research, organization, and by educating future decision makers. For instance, by integrating sustainability into the organizati...