Craig Stedman, Industry Editor Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor The triple bottom line (TBL) is a sustainability-focused accounting framework that includes social, environmental and financial factors as bottom-line categories. Businesses, nonprofit organizations and government entities us...
Thus, there is room for improvement through training programs and technical assistance, which can be considered the main pillars of a process of change towards new and more competitive standards in the industry [49]. Dairy production cooperatives aim at the economic and social integration of rural...
Growing concern for the environment, especially in the last few decades, has resulted in several agreements and efforts to define a framework for sustainable development, with an emphasis on concepts such as reduce, recycle, and reuse; more use of green buildings; renewable energy; zero waste; ...