The concept of sustainability evolved throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but was formally described by the 27 principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in 1992. Despite the passage of nearly 20years, to date there are no uniform set of federal rules, regulations, or guidelines specifically governing the environmental aspects of sustainability practices or related requirement...

In this paper I argue that the assessment and management of corporate sustainability potentially runs the risk of severe biases due to the application of inadequate criteria. Firstly, present praxis as well as theory of corporate sustainability assessment tend to not distinguish between structural and performance related features relevant for corporate sustainability. Secondly, the nature of co...

Degradation of the natural environment is presently attracting significant attention among the Information Systems (IS) academic community. Consequently, the subject of sustainability continues to gain a foothold in the mainstream of IS research. However, as the body of research grows, the exact meaning of sustainability is increasingly becoming a source of uncertainty. The absence of a clear d...

A framework is built, wherein hydrological/water quality model is used to measure watershed sustainability. For this framework, watershed sustainability has been defined and quantified by defining social, environmental and biodiversity indicators. By providing weightage to these indicators, a “River Basin Sustainability Index” is built. The watershed sustainability is then calculated based on t...

The concept of corporate sustainability suggests that firms need to maintain sustainability principles and practices by addressing stakeholders’ economic, ecological, and social concerns. Social media has become a knowledge depository where managers can evaluate stakeholders’ concerns about the firm’s sustainability-related issues. This study proposes a computational approach that utilizes natu...

The purpose of this paper is to synthesise multiple worldviews of system of systems and introduce sustainability as a prerequisite for the development of the field. Fundamentally, systems of systems provide significantly greater capability than constituent systems. The enhanced capability is achieved through coordination and integration of complex systems. This research fosters sustainability t...

industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

Measuring farm sustainability performance is a crucial component for improving agricultural sustainability. While extensive assessments and indicators exist that reflect the different facets of agricultural sustainability, because of the relatively large number of measures and interactions among them, a composite indicator that integrates and aggregates over all variables is particularly useful...

The growing awareness of the importance of sustainability motivates companies to engage in sustainability practices. However, practising sustainability is challenging since most initiatives are interorganisational in nature. The implementation depends heavily on the capability of multiple organisations within the supply chain, which are not easily assessed. Although a few scholars have proposed...

In discussing the relationship between food and sustainability, three main points must be made. First, food is fundamental to sustainability. For a long time food has operated in the shadows of energy, LEED construction, and other physical aspects of sustainability. In reality, however, one cannot have sustainability without addressing food and agriculture. Second, food cannot be dealt with in ...