Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture

What Is Sustainability? Quantifying Sustainability Achieving a Sustainable Marine Environment

Sustainability of Infrastructure: Achieving Sustainable Cities with Sustainable Infrastructures

A number of chapters in this book describe innovative infrastructure components and practices that represent efficient ways to improve the sustainability of urban development. History teaches us, however, that the take-up of innovations depends on their social acceptability and their economics. When the frame is expanded to incorporate sustainability considerations, the relevant take-up issues ...

Assessing Social Sustainability

The social dimension of sustainable development has most often been neglected when developing future scenarios, or, at best, been dealt with as a framework condition for successful environmental sustainability strategies. However, given the long-disputed trade-off between social and environmental improvements in a market economy, environmental and social criteria must be developed and incorpora...

Achieving Sustainable Tourism in Hawai‘i Using a Sustainability Evaluation System

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Andrew G. Hashimoto, Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. An equal opportunity/affirmative action inst...

Measurement of social sustainability indicators in Guilan architecture

Among the dimensions of sustainable development, social sustainability is recognized as one of the main dimensions that is most in line with the dimensions of people's lives. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate and evaluate the indicators of social sustainability derived from the global goals of sustainable development (SDGs) in people's lives and its feedback in the geographical arch...