Sustainability enhancement through environmental impacts evaluation

Abstract

The work is aimed to propose an approach toward the evaluation of environmental impacts enhancing sustainability and the process of environmental assessment in an optic of sustainable development. A set of environmental aspects applicable to a firm activity to define the overall environmental impact are selected and processed through a fuzzy approach aimed to reduce subjective judgments. The procedure is based on a vectorial graph allowing to organize data and define a structured data analysis. An action research conducted in a genetic research center is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.