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Adriana Salles, Maryam Salati and Luís Bragança
Sustainability assessment methods have gained the attention between urban planners and policymakers since they promote a comprehensive view of the cities. Intelligent solutions, enabled by advances in information technologies, can accelerate progress in ...
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Matthias Finkbeiner, Erwin M. Schau, Annekatrin Lehmann and Marzia Traverso
Sustainability is nowadays accepted by all stakeholders as a guiding principle for both public policy making and corporate strategies. However, the biggest challenge for most organizations remains in the real and substantial implementation of the sustain...
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Sayed Shah Jan Sadiqi, Won-Ho Nam, Kyoung-Jae Lim and Eunmi Hong
This study investigated the effects of nonpoint source (NPS) pollution reduction and pollutant dynamics in a highland agricultural watershed in Korea. We employed the SWAT model to simulate hydrological processes and pollution transport within the waters...
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Girolamo Musso, Iara Figueiras, Héléna Goubel, Afonso Gonçalves, Ana Laura Costa, Bruna Ferreira, Lara Azeitona, Simão Barata, Alain Souza, Frederico Afonso, Inês Ribeiro and Fernando Lau
The commercial space launch sector is currently undergoing a significant shift, with increasing competition and demand for launch services, as well as growing concerns about the environmental impact of rocket launches. To address these challenges, within...
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Lukas Hausberger, Jounes Lutterbach and Florian Gschösser
Previous studies of road or railway infrastructures have shown that traffic emissions outweigh the environmental impacts of the product stage and construction stage over the entire life cycle. Traffic usage is therefore the main emitter over the life cyc...
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Nicole Di Santo, Leidy Guante Henriquez, Giovanni Dotelli and Marco Imperadori
Due to our increasing dependence on resources and energy, climate change is among the most tangible issues we are facing today. The construction industry has been identified as a key sector to intervene in, but mitigation strategies must focus on more th...
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George Zafeiropoulos and Hara Drinia
A new assessment method named GEOAM (geoeducational assessment method), that will be a useful tool for highlighting the geoeducational and geoethical value of a geosite, is proposed. This method takes into account, initially, 11 criteria, which are group...
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Tining Haryanti, Nur Aini Rakhmawati and Apol Pribadi Subriadi
The Digital Transformation (DX) potentially affects productivity and efficiency while offering high risks to organizations. Necessary frameworks and tools to help organizations navigate such radical changes are needed. An extended framework of DMM is pre...
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Azza Alajlan and Malak Baslyman
Digital health transformation (DHT) has been deployed rapidly worldwide, and many e-health solutions are being invented and improved on an accelerating basis. Healthcare already faces many challenges in terms of reducing costs and allocating resources op...
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Mattia Di Sessa, Pier Paolo Riviera, Lucia Tsantilis, Leonardo Urbano, Orazio Baglieri and Ezio Santagata
In recent decades, the international community has recognized the detrimental impact of the construction industry on the environment. In recent years, the use of recycled aggregates has attracted increasing interest as a sustainable and cost-effective so...
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Kruthi Kiran Ramagiri, Patricia Kara De Maeijer and Arkamitra Kar
Alkali-activated binders (AABs) offer the opportunity to upcycle a variety of residues into products that can have added value. Although AABs are reported to have a superior high-temperature performance, their thermal behavior is heavily governed by thei...
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Victor Tomaz de Oliveira, Denilson Teixeira, Lucia Rocchi and Antonio Boggia
The conceptual variations and divergences that permeate the debate on sustainability end up directly reflecting the choice of sustainability assessment (SA) processes, providing different methodological approaches. Among them, some researchers have point...
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Pathmanthan Rajeev, Sahan Bandara, Emad Gad and Johnny Shan
Crossarms are widely used in power distribution and telecommunication sectors to support overhead cables. These structures are horizontally attached to the top of vertically erected utility poles and are essential elements in connecting overhead cables t...
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Maryam Robati and Fatemeh Rezaei
Sustainability is a multidisciplinary developing science, and sustainable urban development focuses on socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental dimensions. Sustainable urban development is considered as a form of development covering urban spaces. Ther...
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Aiman Ziout, Mohammed Alkahtani, Abd Elatty E. Abd Elgawad and Bashir Salah
Remanufacturing is considered as the most preferable recovery option. The objective of this paper was to identify the environmental inventory of a remanufacturing initiative. A window-mount air conditioner (AC) was selected as a case study to verify the ...
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Maryam Salati, Luis Bragança and Ricardo Mateus
The concept and practice of sustainability in urban planning have gained worldwide significance since the early 2000s and have become increasingly mainstream in the policymaking process. Adopting global frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustainable ...
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Avay Risal, Anton Urfels, Raghavan Srinivasan, Yared Bayissa, Nirman Shrestha, Gokul P. Paudel and Timothy J. Krupnik
Irrigation-led farming system intensification and efficient use of ground and surface water resources are currently being championed as a crucial ingredient for achieving food security and reducing poverty in Nepal. The potential scope and sustainability...
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Joan Pujol, Francesc X. Espinach, Miquel Duran-Ros, Gerard Arbat, Toni Pujol, Francisco Ramírez de Cartagena and Jaume Puig-Bargués
Irrigation is very important for global food production and, therefore, it is key to moving towards increasingly sustainable irrigation systems. However, the adoption of more efficient water-use techniques, such as drip irrigation, increases energy consu...
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Xinnan Chen, Hairuo Wang, Junxue Zhang, He Zhang, Ashish T. Asutosh, Guodong Wu, Guobin Wei, Yaling Shi and Minghui Yang
In the context of ecological building and green building popularity, building sustainability assessment is becoming more and more important. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation platform by coupled LCA method and energy method was designed, verified...
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Wenbin Ma, Kairui Zhang, Yanlian Du, Xiangwei Liu and Yijun Shen
With technological improvement such as ore exploration, robotics, and hydrodynamic lifting, deep-sea mining has attracted more attention from governments, companies, and scientific research institutions. Although its research and development has made gre...
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