Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

A review of approaches to direct reverse osmosis membrane recycling: a technical, economic and environmental assessment

Background and Objective: Global market growth of reverse osmosis (RO) has led to an increase in annual disposal of membrane wastes. Therefore, evaluation of membrane waste management strategies is important to reduce their adverse environmental impacts. Due to the widespread domestic RO membrane market and their economic considerations, this study aims at investigation the direct recycling met...

When and Why Should Translations Be Reused?

Med fler och fler verktyg för översättning tillgängliga kommer antagligen översättare att bli betydligt mer effektiva än idag. Men det är inte enbart själva översättningsprogrammen som är av intresse. Effektiva analyser av källtexten och av ev. tidigare måltexter har också avgörande betydelse, särskilt när det gäller att välja mellan en mängd olika typer av verktyg. Vissa texter lämpar sig väl ...

How to properly decompose economic efficiency using technical and allocative criteria with non-homothetic DEA technologies

We discuss how to properly decompose economic efficiency when the underlying technology is non-homothetic using alternative allocative and technical efficiency criteria. We first show that only under the production of one output and assuming the particular case of constant returns to scale homotheticity, we may claim that the standard radial models correctly measure pure technical efficiency. O...

Systemic environmental decision making: designing learning systems

Informed by first and second-order cybernetic understandings the case is made for the design of learning systems as a socially relevant form of praxis for situations of complexity, uncertainty and conflict. Two case studies of designing are considered. In the first, students of two versions of the Open University course ‘Environmental decision making: a systems approach’ use a ‘learning system’...