Assessing the Sustainability of the Wine Industry in Terms of Investment

AbstractThe aim of this paper is analyzing sustainability from an investment perspective, in an area less approached: wine industry. The article shows a theoretical approach, at a microeconomic level. The current state of the more important initiatives regarding sustainable practices in the field, at an international level and the main academic approaches regarding the sustainability of wine industry show that sustainability has an important place in wine business. Starting from how eco-efficiency is measured and considering the aspects followed when analyzing eco-efficiency in wine industry, we built up a set of indicators of investments’ eco-efficiency (IEEI)