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Through benchmarking one can get informati on about the performing practices in the field of environmental policies, thus being able to try to reach its level of performance. But the national context requires the finding of self means of achieving the performance and performing practices. The environmen tal policies benchmarking has long term effects and stimulates the learning in concerned entities. The aim is to create sustainable prosperity. It requires common goals and use of all actors involved in the change ...

The evaluation of the environmental policy it relies on the quantification processes of the expected and / or achieved, as well as of the report between the efforts and the effects achieved. If the evaluation of the effort s and / or of the effects is objectively or subjectively distorted, the ev aluation process becomes a me re formality, with negative consequences for all actors involved in policy. Thus, any successful monitoring requires prior specification of what must be a prog ram providing: deviations from ...

The main difficulty in choosing a preferential location of a number of possible sites is the fact that the environm ental impact generated by eac h site can not be easily quantified. When choosing such a location it mu st also be taken into consideration to minimize risks to public health, minimize environmental impact, maximize service levels to users, and minimize the usage co sts. In the “Timisoara” case, placing a Landfill Site was a thorny issue that was resolved quite difficultly.

University accreditation is also an important mechanism for protecting the consumers of higher education, as well as an accountability factor to higher education providers. In Romania, the quality assura nce system has exercise d pressures towards the homogenization of hi gher education. By the nature of standards and quality indicators used, but also by his philosophy, quality a ssurance has encouraged higher education institutions to comply, both in content an d in the processes of relatively rigid institutional...