Sustainability is a critically important goal for human activity and development. Sustainability in the area of engineering is of great importance to any plans for overall sustainability given 1) the pervasiveness of engineering activities in societies, 2) their importance in economic...

This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...

What is the role of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)? In this interview granted to Re3, EAERE president Karine Nyborg explains what are the Association's short- and medium-term objectives. The sketch is completed by a set of video interviews to EAERE 2012...

This paper intends to give an overview on the role of the civil society in making companies more sustainable. Based on the stakeholder theory, corporate sustainability and environmental behaviour – such as all corporate decisions – is determined by the total of stakeholder expectations....

This paper reports on the findings of an exploratory research whose main purpose was to investigate the impact of micro finance institutions on the socio economic lives of Zimbabweans. The study sought to establish whether micro finance empowers the poor and reduces poverty. The study was...