Community–groundwater compatibility assessments: An approach towards sustainable groundwater development

Development of framework for sustainable Lean implementation: an ISM approach

The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is one of the most powerful quality improvement methodologies, nearly two-thirds of the Lean implementations results in failures and less than one-fifth of those implemented have sustained results. One of the most significant tasks of top management is to identify, understand and deploy the significant Lean pra...

Towards an Improved Compatibility

Navigating towards sustainable development: A system dynamics approach

Traditional fragmented and mechanistic science is unable to cope with issues about sustainability, as these are often related to complex, self-organizing systems. In the paper, sustainable development is seen as an unending process defined neither by fixed goals nor by specific means of achieving them. It is argued that, in order to understand the sources of and the solutions to modern problems...

Community-Based disaster risk Management towards Sustainable Development

Background and Purpose:With the rise of natural disasters, different societies have continually sought to discover solutions to control or minimize the damage caused by unexpected events and to actually manage disasters. In the past few decades, the need for social participation to reduce disasters has increased. The community-based disaster  risk management framework is growing. Therefore, thi...

An axiomatic approach to sustainable development

The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that they imply . The axioms require that neither the present nor the future should play a dictatorial role. Theorem 1 shows there exist sustainable preferences, which satisfy these axioms . They exhibit sensitivity to the present and to the long-run future, and specify trade-offs be...