The Waste Strategy 2000 for England and Wales focused upon the increasing necessity to minimise the volumes of waste we produce from industrial, commercial and domestic sources in order to reduce environmental impacts through better management of our valuable, but ever-shrinking, resources. The...

The paper, “Towards Corporate Social Responsibility: The Pulp and Paper Industry in Lebanon,” by Toufic Mezher, Mutasem El-Fadel, Wajih Farkouf, from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, focuses on the pulp and paper industry of Lebanon. This industry happens to be one of the most...

A preferred methodology for handling increasing customer demands and the resulting complexity is to design common modules or subsystems. The design of all the modules required by a complex system, such as a car, aeroplane or computer, is increasingly a task beyond the organisational resources of...

There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of innovation for the longterm economic success of businesses. At the same time the construction industry is characterized as being a poor innovator in comparison to other industries. If the university sector is to play a role in increasing...

This paper proposes and applies a combined stated preference approach in order to estimate residential location choice behaviour in Oxfordshire, UK. The estimation results demonstrate the potentials for the combined estimation of two stated preference experiments. Our findings show that the...