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Efficient water resources management is an issue of major importance in the field of sustainable development. Several models for resolving this problem can be found in literature, especially in the agricultural sector which represents the main consumer through irrigations. Therefore irrigation management is an important and innovating area which was the subject of several research and studies to cope...
Investment in sustainability strategies and technologies holds promise for significant cost savings over the accurately estimating the first costs of a green project during the early concept development stages is challenging, and effective ways to comprehensively predict potential lifecycle cost impacts of sustainability strategies do not exist. This paper describes a agent-based model (ABM) of the...
As an important component of modern management system, sustainability reporting in China was studied based on 162 stand-alone sustainability reports published by 116 Chinese enterprises till the end of 2008. Specifically, key topics and concrete content of these sustainability reports were investigated and compared from different aspects such as environmental, social, economic issues and corporate...
The article analyzes the stakeholder engaging decision mechanism, from the EPRI perspective, to realize sustainable development of a society. It also reconsiders various decision mechanisms hinted by traditional and contemporary theories and thoughts.
Energy related issues have been the bottlenecks for the sustainable development in China, and sustainable energy system is the key solution to these issues. Energy system in China has various stakeholders, and how to straighten out the responsibility, power and benefit of the stakeholders has been one of the key issues for the construction of sustainable energy system. According to stakeholder theory,...
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