Sustainability in infrastructure planning

Urban Infrastructure Development and Sustainability in Nigeria

Infrastructure and urban sustaInabIlIty: lookIng back and lookIng forward Sustainability

Sustainability has become a very prominent element in the day-to-day debate on urban policy and the expression of that policy in urban planning decisions. The heritage of this interest lies in the steady evolution of ideas concerning the environmental and ecological impact of economic development. Beginning perhaps with the work of the Club of Rome but accelerating sharply with the insights of ...

Planning for Sustainability

As the need to satisfy the ever increasing demand for water continues and the inextricable link between public health and water service prevails, the temptation to provide intricate and over technical solutions to essentially simple problems in developing countries must be tempered by the ability to maintain the resulting infrastructure and thus ensure sustainability. In many cases worldwide pr...

Strategic planning of urban infrastructure for environmental sustainability: Understanding the past to intervene for the future

Urban infrastructure systems have long lifespans and influence the state of the environment for extended periods of time. Processes of strategic planning for urban infrastructure are thus instrumental to materializing environmental sustainability visions. Continued investments in infrastructure with adverse environmental impacts imply that sustainability priorities are not embedded in planning ...

Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: Aggregate Planning from Sustainability Perspective

Supply chain management that considers the flow of raw materials, products and information has become a focal issue in modern manufacturing and service systems. Supply chain management requires effective use of assets and information that has far reaching implications beyond satisfaction of customer demand, flow of goods, services or capital. Aggregate planning, a fundamental decision model in ...