the change in the concept of social development over the last few decades, from the physical aspects to human dimensions has increased women’s participation in socio-economic activities and enhancement of their capabilities has been regarded as key strategies in sustainable development. the present study attempts to achieve the following objective: investigation of the impacts of ngo’s activiti...

The control of transport is a very current preoccupation in a context of sustainable development. Nuisances associated to Urban Freight Transport (UFT) force politicians to propose measures relevant to sustainable development of the city. Nevertheless they should keep in mind the efficiency of UFT which renders the implementation of new projects quite difficult. We propose to transpose systemic...

Traditional system diagnostic and management techniques rely on static system structure and static instrumentation. We believe that static approaches are simply no longer sustainable in today’s complex, distributed and dynamic systems. SONAR (Sustainable Optimization and Navigation with Aspects at Runtime) is a fluid and unified framework that allows stakeholders to dynamically explore and modi...

The educational system of any country plays a significant role in its sustainable development and progress. However, to fulfill this function there must exist a set of guidelines and policies aimed at such development. The process of setting such a set of guidelines requires a homegrown model for development of the guidelines, and their implementation and supervision. To this end, 14 interviews...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of climate and environmental issues and examine how nurses perceive their role in contributing to the process of sustainable development. BACKGROUND Climate change and its implications for human health represent an increasingly important issue for the healthcare sector. According to the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics...

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world’s political and environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD)–as guiding institutional principle, as concrete policy goal, and as focus of political struggle–remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global or...