The Benefi ts brought by Sustainability Performance Measurement System “LEED”

Benefi ts, Progress and Issues for Sustainability in Developing Countries

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002, the international community agreed to a target to halve the proportion of people who lack access to basic sanitation by 2015. Available information paints a grim picture of the water and sanitation conditions in much of the developing countries. The great majority of these people live in Asia and Africa. Over one-hal...

Benefi Ts and Risks of Homoeopathy

1672 www.thelancet.com Vol 370 November 17, 2007 animal studies should be acknowledged, since some reports have suggested that rimonabant might have antidepressant or anxiolytic actions. Another observation that might provide an alternative physio logical basis for increased mood disorders seen with greatest weight-loss comes from evidence that leptin, the adipose-derived hor mone, had an antid...

Diminutives provide multiple benefi ts for language acquisition

Th is chapter explores the hypothesis that diminutive usage in child-directed speech may provide multiple benefi ts for language acquisition. We summarize a series of experiments that exposed naïve English-speaking adults to Dutch or Russian diminutives, and tested their ability to isolate words in fl uent speech or acquire gender categories. Across studies, adults benefi ted from exposure to d...

A Primer on Multifactor Productivity: Description, Benefi ts, and Uses

An organizational sustainability performance measurement framework

This paper addresses the sustainability performance measurement framework as a strategic management approach to integrate social, environmental and economic issues into organizational practice. Resulting on empirical research, the paper presents four broader dimensions that build up the framework: stakeholders, strategies, processes and capabilities. This paper, therefore, proposes an approach ...