Download or read book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society written by W.K. Brauers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world. This world has to take into account the meaning of all stakeholders involved and has to reconcile a number of objectives, such as economic growth, employment and preservation of the ecosystem. Traditional methods, such as cost-benefit, are outmoded as they translate all these objectives into monetary costs, a materialistic approach. On the contrary, objectives have rather to stick to their own units, eventually indicators.