The article denotes the problem of choosing a model for sustainable development of the mining enterprise, which enables prediction of the trajectory of its development in the short and long term, and make a choice of optimal solutions. The existing ground works of domestic and foreign scholars...

Th e creation of an innovation ecosystem is becoming an important facilitator of sustainable development of any industry or community. In my article I intend to show the constituent elements of an innovation ecosystem within sustainable development models and suggest how this could be applied to...

The paper put in antithesis, theoretically, two models of development and evolution of mankind, namely, economic development based on consumption of the exhaustible resources and pollution and on the other hand the development based on the concepts of sustainable development, involving a new...

The development of medical tourism has been encouraged by travel agencies and mass-media, which describe the practice of traveling across international borders to receive healthcare services in an original way, where, due to availability and modern medical techniques, the necessity harmoniously...

In the context of what is implemented through dualism "ecosystem-efficient", sustainable development involves the care of the human potential of the present situation and the future of its natural resources, energy, materials and information. As an effect of responsibility for future...

Production optimisation is the major objective of any production process and it is tightly related to long term sustainable development of any production factory. Among production optimisation frameworks the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) methodology is the most popular one. However, this...

Currently, there are numerous indicators (single and composite) for measuring impacts in the three pillars, though current thinking emphasises the need for system thinking rather than the reductionist concept of pillars. Most existing indices/methods measure single aspects of sustainability and...

For 40 years or more, air quality policy has been based on the paradigm of the air quality standard as a uniform criterion of acceptable environmental degradation, built on the foundations of the precautionary principle. However, developments in health science have undermined some of the...

The transition to sustainability requires not only an understanding of the risks that society is facing but the development of pathways that will enable the shift towards sustainability. Such risks include not only resources and global warming but also established economic models and social...

Actors in the built environment are increasingly considering environmental issues alongside functional and economic aspects of development projects. However, to date in Australia and internationally, there have been few practical examples of integrated applications of sustainability principles...