Meet the editors

María José Bastante-Ceca obtained her PhD in Innovation and Engineering Projects from Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain in July 2006. Previously, she obtained her degree in Agronomical Engineering in July 1997, and her degree in Environmental Sciences in October 2000.

In 2002, she began her career as a researcher in the Department of Engineering Projects, UPV, where she became a teacher in October

2003, teaching subjects related to environmental impact assessment, eco-design, carbon footprint, and life cycle assessment, among others. In 2012, she was appointed as Assistant Director for the Research Department. She is certified as a Project Manager Associate, IPMA Level D, from 2012, and she has been on the Board of Spanish Association of Project Management and Engineering since July 2012.

Dr Jose Luis Fuentes-Bargues obtained his doctorate in Construction and Production Engineering Program from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), in April 2013. Previously he obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering in September 1999, and his second degree in Technical Architecture in July 2012 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). He began his career in 2006 as a professor in the Department of Engineering

Projects, UPV. Here he taught subjects related to projects, environmental impact assessment, and project management. He taught classes as a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat de València between 2007 and 2016, in the degrees of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Sciences and in the program Quality, Energy, Environmental and Risks Management of the UNED since 2016.

Dr Levente Hufnagel is an associate professor at Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary, in climate change and ecosystem ecology, biogeography, biometrics, and ecological research methodology. He has over 20 years of experience at leading Hungarian academic institutions teaching PhD, MSc, and BSc students from various social and cultural backgrounds. He has more than 160 scientific publications (in both aquatic and terrestrial ecological

aspects of plants, animals and microbes, at community as well as population level) and more than 700 independent citations. He has contributed as a participant of several big ecological research and development projects, having significant experience in multidisciplinary co-operations (with more than 180 co-authors in different publications). He has been the supervisor of several PhD, BSc, and MSc theses, and an editor-in-chief of an international scientific journal indexed by Web of Science and Scopus. He has wide supervising and editing experience. Dr Hufnagel graduated from Eötvös Lorand University with his Master's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and his PhD degree in Hydrobiology. He also graduated from Szent István University with a PhD degree in Agricultural Science and with other degrees from Corvinus University of Budapest and Adventist Theological College.

Florin-Constantin Mihai holds a PhD degree in Geography (2013) with maximum distinction from the Department of Geography, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi (Romania), and BSc and MSc degrees in Environmental Science. He has published papers in international peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters on various topics regarding environmental and waste management issues. His research aims to develop new meth-

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Tomas Ekvall*

of the Example of Territories

*and Alexey Sergeyevich Antonov*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 9**

Theories about Sustainable Development **19**

**Chapter 3 21**

Methodologies about Sustainability Assessment **39**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 79**

Green and Sustainability in Software Development Lifecycle Process

International Cooperation for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture *by Diana Dragomir, Mihai Dragomir, Daniel Acs and Sorin Popescu*

Introductory Chapter: The Need to Change the

*by María José Bastante-Ceca, José Luis Fuentes-Bargues, Mihai Florin-Constantin, Corneliu Iatu and Levente Hufnagel*

Sustainable Rural Development under Agenda 2030 *by Florin-Constantin Mihai and Corneliu Iatu*

Paradigm - Sustainability and Development at the 21st Century

Probabilistic-Entropic Concept of Sustainable Development

*by Alexander Nikolaevich Tyrsin, Al'fiya Adgamovna Surina* 

Attributional and Consequential Life Cycle Assessment

*by Mohankumar Muthu, K. Banuroopa and S. Arunadevi*

ods and indicators to assess key environmental issues across various geographical scales. His research interests include environmental geography, waste management, pollution, sanitation, sustainability, circular economy, public and environmental policies, spatial analysis, and rural and regional development. He has previously edited the following books: "E-waste in Transition: from Pollution to Resource", "Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas", and "Environmental Risks". These are available at https://www.intechopen.com/.

Corneliu IATU is a Full Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (the oldest Romanian university) with specializations in human geography and territorial planning. He is the President of the Romanian Geographical Society, a member of the Europea Academy and Rector Deputy of Strategy, Institutional Development and Quality Management of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. He has published more than 20 books including under foreign

publishing houses (France), and also translations of books such as Introducing à la géographie humaine by. A. Bailly, H. Beguin, and R. Scariati. His research interests are economic geography, rural geography, political geography, and sustainable development. He has supervised several Ph.D theses on such topics, some of them in partnership with French universities (Tours, Angers, Bordeaux, Paris IV Sorbonne etc.).
