Assessing and measuring environmental impact and sustainability

‘‘Sustainability’’ is an issue attracting a lot of attention. Just a quick search on 25 February 2015 in SCOPUS \www. scopus.com[ has shown 96,290 publications containing this word. However, looking for both ‘‘Sustainability’’ and ‘‘Assessment’’ in the title and keywords brought just 1,648 papers and the search for ‘‘Sustainability’’ and ‘‘Measurement’’ revealed even less—105 papers dealing with both issues. It means that just 1.7 % of the papers related to sustainability deal with ‘‘Sustainability and Assessment’’ and only 0.1 % with ‘‘Sustainability and Measurement’’. This has been underlining the importance of the extended effort facilitating works and projects dealing with ‘‘Sustainability’’, but not only, the research results, which combine also ‘‘Sustainability’’ with ‘‘Assessment’’ and especially ‘‘Sustainability’’ with ‘‘Measurement’’ and of crucial importance. Various questions have been coming up in relation to sustainability measurement and assessment