Nota.-El presente artículo fue enviado por el autor expresamente para el presente número de la Revista Virtual de REDESMA. Abstract Sustainability has become a key concept in development theory, yet a clear and well-organized central body of accepted theory supporting it does not exist. Sustainability goals and issues are being addressed with traditional sustainable development tools and strate...

Prospective payment encourages managed care organizations to select low-risk patients. This article models an entitlement program utilizing patient-level competitive bidding to mitigate risk selection. Three mechanisms are tested: uniform payment, pure bidding, and a mix of payment and bidding. Results show selection always occurs under optimal uniform payment, but never under either bidding me...

The present journal recently stated in the call for a special issue on social sustainability, ―[t]hough sustainable development is said to rest on ̳three pillars‘, one of these—social sustainability—has received significantly less attention than its bio-physical environmental and economic counterparts‖. The current issue promises to engage the concepts of ―development sustainability‖, ―bridge s...

this paper develops an operational perspective of supply chain sustainability, by considering it as a risk management process. it explores the nature of sustainability-related supply chain risks, distinguishes them from typical supply chain risks and develops an analytical process for their management. an empirical study is conducted to generate insights about how sustainability-related risks s...

Sustainability assessment has received numerous attentions in the mining industry. Mining sustainability includes the environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and a sustainable development is achieved when all these dimensions improve in a balanced manner. Therefore, to measure the sustainability score of a mine, we require an approach that evaluates all these three dimensions of mining ...

sustainable coastal fishing management includes different components and factors. one of the practical initiatives to achieve sustainability is to evaluate or measure different criteria of sustainability and measuring sustainability of each system needs its own indicators. this study aimed to investigate different criteria of sustainable coastal fishing management in beach seine cooperatives (b...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the article is to research and analyze the notion of sustainability criteria in their function of an emerging tool to promote and safeguard sustainable products and their sustainable production. The article addresses critical issues, which are important for deeper understanding of sustainability criteria and their practical use. In this, the article examines the existi...

One of the most important issues which has been of interest for scholars during the past decades is sustainable rural development and its concerning discussions. Social sustainability as the key aspect of sustainable development is of critical importance to sustainable rural development. Bringing social sustainability issues into focus in the present century has made an opportunity for achievin...