Sustainable development also represents a concept widely circulated of whose history gains
more and more consistence. The penetration of the concept has succeeded both horizontally and
vertically: on a hand, there are few domains where sustainable development has not been
incorporated or at least taken into consideration in the formulation and implementation of the
specific strategies; on the other hand, following a rather top-down growth path, the sustainable
development became a finality pursued not only by the governments, at a macroeconomic level, but
also by the organizations, within their markets and fields of activity.