The assessment of corporate sustainability has become an increasingly important topic, both within academia and in industry. For manufacturing companies to conform to their commitments to sustainable development, a standard and reliable measurement framework is required. There is, however, a lack of sector-specific and empirical research in many areas, including the sugar industry. This paper p...

Literature on the measurement of urban sustainability shows that no single indicator framework is appropriate for all applications. Consequently practitioners must consider the intended goals of indicator use and carefully choose metrics to maximize their relevance and effectiveness. The study of urban energy systems demonstrates these issues, as energy use is integral to many dimensions of urb...

The trajectory of human population growth is often in stark contrast with decreasing natural resources needed to support that population. The national and global needs for food, feed, fiber and energy continue to increase relative to water availability and provide a prime example of increasing demands on limited resources. Similar resource constraints have been observed in industrial sustainabi...

Abstract Financial sustainability is underrepresented in both the research on and practice of management reporting. This article proposes a conceptual measure financial examines its association with capital market returns. The positioned at intersection management, risk governance. regarded as crucial control parameter complementing shareholder value can be viewed by risk-averse investors secon...

This introductory chapter provides definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, decoupling, and related terms; gives an overview of existing interdisciplinary research fields related to ICT for Sustainability, including Environmental Informatics, Computational Sustainability, Sustainable HCI, and Green ICT; introduces a conceptual framework to structure the effects of ICT on sustaina...

The report by the Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress highlighted the idea that sustainability in essence is about quality of life. This paper discusses and elaborates this notion. It argues that sustainable development should be seen as a process which does not focus on economic development alone, but which also includes well-balanced ecological a...

CIRELLA, G.T., TAO, L. and MOHAMED, S., 2007. An application of an adaptive quantitative method to measure the sustainability the Gold Coast, Australia. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium), pg – pg. Gold Coast, Australia, ISBN The coastal city of the Gold Coast, Australia is the first of eighteen sub-domain studies within South East Queens...