Sustainable Investment and Resource Use: Equity, Environmental Integrity, and Economic Efficiency

Investment Methods in Sustainable Water Resource Management Using SAW Method

Sustainable Development Indicators and Environmental-Economic Accounting

The central subject of a policy for sustainable development is the coordination of the different sector policies with the objective of finding a balance between conflicting economical, ecological and social goals. The headline indicators for sustainable development itself are mainly a communication tool directed to the general public and the media. They are used for describing important problem...

The role of resource management and environmental factors in sustainable development

Abstract The main objective in this article is to study the issue of development and lasting competitiveness and to study its dimensions and also to acquainted with its related components and how to achieve it. In fact, to get acquainted with competitiveness is as a development that would prevent imposition of cultural, Economical, and social and/or environment damages on future generations. ...

Sustainable Resource Use & Sustainable Development: a Contradiction?!

The concept of ‘sustainability’ has become the current answer to absolving the world of its environmental and economic crises in the 21 century. Since its conceptualisation, there has been a barrage of investigations and literature on the vagueness and ambiguity of its definition and applicability. There are two main opposing schools of thought the pessimists, usually ecologists and other scien...

Economic Growth and Environmental Resource Allocation

The simple fact that environmental resources are endowments is found to have profound effects on their patterns of allocation with changes in income, population, and income inequality. For broad classes of theoretical models, and in Pareto efficient as well as decentralized economies, environmental quality is found to follow a U-shaped pattern with rising income. We examine population changes a...