This paper argues that the need for a core ―fourth pillar‖ of sustainability/sustainable development, as demanded in multiple arenas, can no longer be ignored on the grounds of intangibility. Different approaches to this vital but missing pillar (cultural-aesthetic, religious-spiritual, and political-institutional) find common ground in the area of ethical values. While values and aspects based...

Achieving sustainability-related targets in construction projects is increasingly becoming a key performance driver. Yet sustainability is a complex concept in projects and there are many diverse stakeholders. Some stakeholders are generally recognized as important, i.e., the client and main contractor, yet there are others not always perceived as such and whose absence from the decision-making...

BACKGROUND The ability to sustain comprehensive primary health care (PHC) services in the face of change is crucial to the health of rural communities. This paper illustrates how one service has proactively managed change to remain sustainable. METHODS A 6-year longitudinal evaluation of the Elmore Primary Health Service (EPHS) located in rural Victoria, Australia, is currently underway, exam...

The present research focuses on the Public Forest Service’s accountability practices. The Public Forest Service in Greece is used as a research case. This organization produces annually an “Activity Report” based on lagging indicators, presenting to the public past activities in order to manage forest and natural resources in Greece. However, there is no information about negative impacts, no t...

Sustainable water resources management is essential since it ensures the integration of social, economical and environmental issues into all stages of water resources management. The development and application of water sustainability indices to achieve sustainable water management has been successfully done in the last few years. Although existing water sustainability indices have successfully...

The unsustainable growth of the plantation agricultural sector has caused numerous sustainability challenges including environmental, economic, social and governance concerns. Although a wide variety indicators have been developed to monitor assess issues for agriculture in general, few, if any specifically agriculture. In response this, we conducted systematic review literature order identify ...

Abstract We analyse the relationship between individuals' subjective wellbeing (SWB) and measures of their country's sustainability. SWB data are sourced from World Values Survey; sustainability is measured by ecological footprint (EF) components Bank's adjusted net savings (ANS) series. ANS, a measure weak sustainability, represents changes in capital stock including financial, physical, human...

Regions are very suitable to implement sustainability monitoring systems (RENN & GOBLE 1996), especially in sensitive mountain regions such as South Tyrol. While maintaining a link to the international level we adapted existing indicator sets to the needs of alpine regions. The result is a layered monitoring system: the basic data gathered at the municipal level are updated yearly, from them th...

Today's competitive world has led managers to shift from traditional management to scientific management. Supply chain management is one of key issues in industries because, considering a high number of competitors in today's competitive world, competition has been extended from company level to the level of competition on their supply chain. For any organization seeking to achieve its goals in...

Assessing sustainability is increasingly becoming a common practice in the appraisal of products and policy plans. Nonetheless, there are many concerns about the operationalisation of sustainability assessment. In the present paper we discuss the distinction between integrated assessment and sustainability assessment (SA), and using a systemic approach, w...