The purpose of this paper is to develop a measurement instrument for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) critical factors, practices and performance validate it in the food industry. A literature review was conducted order identify pertinent variables propose relevant measuring items. An email survey carried out 423 Greek companies beverage sector. questionnaire sent by e-mail Google For...

Sustainability has been a challenging issue in the transportation industry, which necessitates obtaining better measurement of transport sustainability performance. To appropriately measure performance, this paper presents hybrid approach based on hierarchical Bayesian network model (BNM) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The proposed BNM encompasses social, economic, environmental, techn...

This review on Sustainability covers selected 2015 publications on the focus of Sustainability. It is divided into the following sections : • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities • Sustainable water resources management • Stormwater and green infrastructure • Sustainability in wastewater treatment • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industr...

Organizations sustainability is increasingly measured by the general public. But does a suitable way always exist to present both the target sustainability as well as the current sustainability in a stakeholder oriented manner? Today especially the management needs a tool, which is efficient and easy to understand to reach a stakeholder oriented sustainability presentation. In our contribution ...

housing has been a major challenge for the rising population of countries during last decades and the provision of affordable standard house for low and middle-income households has always been at the forefront of sustainable development strategies and plans, especially in developing countries. besides, the need to high-density housing systems due to rising population has become a central issue...

Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to non-linear processes underscore the need for meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy. Economists have developed rigorous approaches to conceptualizing sustainability based on the paradigm of weak sustainability, which assumes infinite substitution between manufactured and natural capital stocks. In contra...

The concept of ‘genuine’ saving, the net saving rate in a national accounting framework encompassing resource depletion and environmental degradation, is extended to include technological change, resource imports, and critical natural capital in the form of rainforests. In all cases, measuring negative rates of genuine saving on the optimal path implies non-sustainability of the path. Questions...

Sustainability (defined as “the capacity to keep up”) encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic sustainability), to employee and end-user wellbeing (social sustainability). In this report we explore the role that sustainability plays in software product line en...