As mentioned in the European white paper of the OECD (OECD, 2003) the main policy objective to be tackled is the development of sustainable urban goods transport. Sustainable urban goods transport should facilitate a continuing economic growth and meanwhile protecting the environment and ensuring a better quality of life for future generations. In Netherlands various regulations have been imple...

As the premier material in construction industry across the world, concrete has major role in the effects of construction to our environment. Consumption of concrete is very high due to extensive use of concrete in many structural applications. The rapid infrastructural growth in developing countries and production of many by-product as waste material making high role to concrete producers in i...

V. A. Popescu, Commercial Academy of Satu-Mare and Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gh. N. Popescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania C. R. Popescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies and University of Bucharest, Romania The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of the relation between productivity and environment in the context of sustaina...

This paper offers a definition of sustainable development from an ecological economics perspective. For this, it begins with a historical analysis of the sustainable development concept from its origins as eco-development to its present formulation as green economy. it follows an assessment of the weak sustainability concept premises which allows for the neoclassical environmental economics not...