Integrating Communities of Practice in Technology Development Projects

Evaluating the Quality of Life Dimensions in Marginal Urban Communities to Take Advantage of Development Stimulus Projects, Case Study: Dizaj Town of Hamedan

Challenges and Prospects for Integrating the Assessment of Health Impacts in the Licensing Process of Large Capital Project in Brazil

Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to institutionalize a National Environmental Policy in 1981, including the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of economic activities with anticipated impacts on the environment. Today, EIA practice in Brazil comes with a number of limitations: it is constrained by its environmental advocacy role; application is strongly oriented ...

Review of the Impact of Rehabilitation Centers Traditional Arts and Crafts on Empowerment of Rural Communities (Case Study: Laft Village)

The backwardness of the countryside is most important issues of developing countries. The result of this study, based on descriptive - analysis studies, shows that revive traditional arts and crafts with much charm with planning and organizing on development stimulus projects, can direct influence on the villager’s empowerment. Of course, the existence of such attractions, itself, without provi...

Investment Decision-Making about Portfolio of Technology Development Projects; Based on the Analysis of Success Criteria using Fuzzy Neural Network and MADM

Technology development project is a type of investment project and it is important to identify the performance indicators and planning for the correct investment. The purpose of this research is the development of indicators of portfolio success, accurate analysis of the effects of indicators on each other and the achievement of a proper investment model. In this research, the success criteria ...

Assessment of the effects of Megaprojects Implementation on the Quality of the Surrounding Environment (case study: Velayat Park in Tehran)

Development of science and technology and the growing trend of globalization has pushed the urban communities toward competition on absorbing foreign capitals and construction of macro-scale projects. This competition has affected not only developed countries but also developing countries such as Iran- since it is expected that each urban development will finally result in an increase in the qu...