Sustainable Management in Agriculture

Abstract

In the modern economy, sustainable development of enterprises is impossible without effective sustainable management, which is extremely important for the development of agricultural enterprisers. Nevetheless, the issues of the environmental performance are also essential, because reducing the environmental impact of the production is increasingly necessary in today's world.Initially, this article describes the theoretical aspects, concepts and examples of interaction between the sustainable management, the environmental performance and sustainable supply chain management.Hereafter, in the article was investigated the practice of sustainable management used in the huge and small rural european enterprises and with the SWOT-analysis compared the approaches of their application.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n8p486