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?tefan Bila?co and Titus-Cristian Man
On a global scale, traffic incidents are a leading cause of mortality and material damage. Romania exhibits the highest rate of road traffic fatalities both in the European Union and worldwide, requiring a comprehensive examination of its overall influen...
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Ümit Yildirim
This study aimed to investigate groundwater vulnerability to pollution in the Upper Kelkit Valley (NE Turkey). For this purpose, vulnerability index maps were created using the generic DRASTIC and AHP-DRASTICLu models. The latter model was suggested by a...
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Gaurav Parajuli, Shankar Neupane, Sandeep Kunwar, Ramesh Adhikari and Tri Dev Acharya
Flood is one of the most frequently occurring and devastating disasters in Nepal. Several locations in Nepal are at high risk of flood, which requires proper guidance on early warning and safe evacuation of people to emergency locations through optimal r...
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Dionysios N. Markatos, Sonia Malefaki and Spiros G. Pantelakis
When it comes to achieving sustainability and circular economy objectives, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools can be of aid in supporting decision-makers to reach a satisfying solution, especially when conflicting criteria are present. In a prev...
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Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Gisele Taís Piovesan, Dalmarino Setti, Shoji Takechi, Kim Hua Tan and Guilherme Luz Tortorella
Facing the new challenges in production processes, companies should adopt lean and green practices in product development. In SMEs, the application of these practices is more complex. This work explores the maturity of lean?green methodologies in the pro...
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Tin Min Htoo, Helmut Yabar and Takeshi Mizunoya
In the study of biomass assessment, geospatial modeling-based analysis becomes crucial for the sustainable management of agriculture. Currently, there is no integrated sustainability assessment of the geographic information system (GIS) cluster or suitab...
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Sobhi Mejjaouli
Because of their significant energy consumption and its economic and environmental impacts, existing buildings offer decision makers opportunities and challenges at the same time. In fact, there is a worldwide effort to improve the energy performance of ...
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Giovanni Leonardi, Rocco Palamara, Francesco Manti and Antonio Tufano
The present paper proposes a new methodology to characterize the landslide susceptibility of the Reggio Calabria metropolitan area. For this purpose, various factors were used, such as land use, slope, rainfall, elevation, lithology, distance from roads ...
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Ana Majstorovic and Nik?a Jajac
Management of nonurban road network maintenance is a complex management process that requires the inclusion of many technical, economic, and other characteristics of the problem, as well as the continuous application of new knowledge and approaches, to m...
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Shuai Xie, Wan Liu, Zhe Yuan, Hongyun Zhang, Hang Lin and Yongqiang Wang
Among the various natural disasters encountered by cities, rainstorm waterlogging has become a serious disaster, affecting the sustainable development of cities. Taking Guangzhou as the research object, based on disaster system theory and risk triangle t...
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Haikuan Liu, Jie Li, Junfeng Zhang and Dongyuan Pang
Prestressed concrete girder bridges are widely used worldwide due to their mature construction technology, economical cost, and low maintenance. After a certain number of years of service, prestressed concrete girders inevitably suffer from deterioration...
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Ali Beiki Ashkezari, Mahsa Zokaee, Amir Aghsami, Fariborz Jolai and Maziar Yazdani
To successfully complete a project, selecting the most appropriate construction method and configuration is critical. There are, however, plenty of challenges associated with these complex decision-making processes. Clients require projects with the desi...
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Vyddiyaratnam Pathmanandakumar, Nadarajapillai Thasarathan and Manjula Ranagalage
The scarcity of surface water resources in the dry season in the Kilinochchi district increases the demand for freshwater. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to delineate potential groundwater zones in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, using integrated...
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Kanella Valkanou, Efthimios Karymbalis, Dimitris Papanastassiou, Mauro Soldati, Christos Chalkias and Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou
This study deals with the assessment and mapping of neotectonic landscape deformation in the northern part of the Evia Island (Central Greece). Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) utilizing Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Weighted Linear Combina...
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Turan Erman Erkan and Wael Mohamed Elsharida
Choosing airport locations requires thorough and comprehensive decisions to be made. To do so in a professional and logical manner is crucial for the social, economic, and logistic settings intended for any region. The present research takes place in Lib...
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The increasing interest in blockchain since the end of 2017 has induced many attempts to apply it to public sector administration. Blockchains have been shown to improve the levels of economic efficiency, security and decentralization in administration. ...
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Karolina Ogrodnik
The primary goal of this paper is to present the application potential of MCDM/MCDA (multi-criteria decision-making/multi-criteria decision analysis) methods in the field of architecture and urban planning and in energy efficient construction, especially...
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Ehsan Noorollahi, Dawud Fadai, Mohsen Akbarpour Shirazi and Seyed Hassan Ghodsipour
Considering the geographical location and climatic conditions of Iran, solar energy can provide a considerable portion of the energy demand for the country. This study develops a two-step framework. In the first step, the map of unsuitable regions is ext...
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Amy H. I. Lee, Chun Yu Lin, He-Yau Kang and Wen Hsin Lee
Global warming is causing damaging changes to climate around the World. For environmental protection and natural resource scarcity, alternative forms of energy, such as wind energy, fire energy, hydropower energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, biomass...
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