Ever-increasing population and ever-proliferating demand for variety and choice together with a marked preference in favor of deliberate under-utilization of resources as well as deprecation of thrift have exposed the available reserves of natural resources to the danger of depletion. The...

In this paper we compute performance indices like those from Mereuta et all. (2007) using the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the variance-covariance matrix of these indices. The eigenvalues are used in this paper to give natural weights to the performance indices in order to compute the...

This paper presents the two most important factors that influence the development of quality management in education: the globalization and the sustainable development. The four well known quality management principles (Deming) can be adapted and implemented in the education system case, too.

In the last years there have bean many attempts to elaborate strategies for economic and energetic development in Romania, but the unsteadiness of the political frame produces changes of legislative frame. In that social, economical and political context some components of those strategies have...

Australia in 1992 adopted the National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development to ensure all future development occurs in a 'sustainable' manner. Measurement of the nation's sustainable development is currently conducted through the OECD Environmental Performance Review and various...