Business modelling is not new and has had substantial impacts on the way businesses are planned and operated these days. Although ‘e-business’ and ‘sustainability’ are the two current major global trends but surprisingly none of the e-business modelling ideas covers the sustainability aspects of the business. Researchers are introducing ‘green IT/ICT’ concept lately but none of them clearly exp...

as it is commonly understood, urban neighborhoods play a significant role in developing urbansustainability as the smallest unit of city so that the formation and promotion of neighborhood identity, and focusingon social relationships would be in harmony with urban sustainability. it is believed that a dramatic change in spatialstructure of urban neighborhood include a decline in levels of poli...

1. introduction the phenomenon of land consolidation has been the concern of economists, geographers, soil scientists, anthropologists, and politician in the last decades. it has achieved little success for agricultural development in iran. most of iranian land consolidation schemes ignore to meet sustainability criteria as a critical phase in the planning process. therefore, they have caused m...

the notion of sustainable development has rapidly gained considerable attention since the lastdecades of the twentieth century. it has become a locus for global paradigm shift on environment and development issues particularly after rio conference in 1992. the comparative analysis of agenda 21 and major un documents, mdg, and rio+20 as well as some major sources are made to provide a context fo...

Microfinance institutions are considered as an effective tool for achieving the objective of financial inclusion. To achieve this objective it is necessitate that MFIs should be sustainable while reaching the poorest of poor. After the Andhra Pradesh Microfinance Crisis, 2010 sustainability and outreach of MFIs in India is doubtful and questionable. Present paper attempts to look into various d...

This paper aims to propose a conceptual model to analyse the influence of lean, resilient and green supply chain management practices on supply chain sustainability. A deductive research approach was used to develop a conceptual model from the literature review. The SCM practices focused in this study are: waste elimination, Total Quality Management, just-in-time; supply chain risk management, ...