Developing nations, corporate social

Sustainability overall objective for human beings formulated by the United Nations in the 1990s is to ensure sustainable development for future generations chemical companies have already started to translate this objective into their industry practice with respects to products developed and sold, energy and natural resource efficiency in their processes, climate protection, corporate social responsibility for the workforce as well as stakeholders in production and consuming areas sustainability as an objective also already inspired operations research and supply chain literature (see for example Zhou et al. 2000 Al-Sharrah et al. 2002)... 

Sustainable Solutions for Modern Economies is not meant as a political pamphlet. However, the very concept of sustainability and its social, economical and ecological aspects have been established and accepted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as a political initiative obligating the signatory states to implement Agenda 21, the wide-ranging blueprint for action to achieve sustainable development worldwide. Sustainable Solutions for Modern Economies is meant as an essay to reflect the aspects of sustainability in the different sectors of national and global economies, to draft a roadmap for public and corporate sustainability strategies, and to outline the current status of markets, applications, use and research and development for renewable resources. 

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