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Four Perspectives of Applied Sustainability: Research Implications and Possible Integrations

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How is applied sustainability being understood and implemented in academics’ and practitioners’ circles? Participants to the workshop “Sustainability Performance Assessment” within the ICCSA 2017 conference are confronted with this overarching question, which they address from their specific backgrounds and theoretical standpoints.

In this article, the organizers of the workshop first introduce the debate in which the workshop positions itself, and next offer a glimpse of how the main question can be addressed from four different academic perspectives and disciplines. The variety of perspectives here presented is only a small reflection of the broader diversity of themes and topics tackled by articles submitted to the workshop. Therefore, it provides the reader with an outlook over the wider academic debates that surround the sustainability concept, in a concerted effort to operationalize the concept itself.

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Acknowledgement

This article refers to the scientific workshop proposal “Sustainability Performance Assessment: models, approaches and applications toward interdisciplinary and integrated solutions. SPA2017” promoted by the four authors in the framework of ICCSA 2017 Conference. The authors collaboratively designed this piece of work and jointly wrote Sects. 1 and 6, while individual contributions are provided in separate sections as follows: Jolanta Dvarioniene wrote Sect. 2, Valentin Grecu wrote Sect. 3, Sabrina Lai wrote Sect. 4, and Francesco Scorza wrote Sect. 5.

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  1. Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Jolanta Dvarioniene

  2. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

    Valentin Grecu

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Sabrina Lai

  4. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Francesco Scorza

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  1. Jolanta Dvarioniene
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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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  4. University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  5. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  6. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  7. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  8. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

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  9. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  10. University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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Dvarioniene, J., Grecu, V., Lai, S., Scorza, F. (2017). Four Perspectives of Applied Sustainability: Research Implications and Possible Integrations. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10409. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62407-5_39

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