THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CBIS IN THE FIELD OF SUSTAINABILITY IN ROMANIA

Abstract

Community-based organizations can mobilize citizens to adoption behaviors to ensure the transition to a sustainable economy. This paper evaluates social and economic impacts of community based initiatives in Romania, in two different domains: transport and waste. The sample for this paper includes two community-initiatives, one from the transport domain and the other one from the waste domain. It was analyzed 12 interviews five interviews with members and one interview with a stakeholder for each of the two initiatives, which was conducted during January -May 2015

Keywords

• sustainability
• social effects
• economic impacts
• community based initiatives