Sustainable urban development is a new concept of fundamental environmental metropolitan management that not only creates the demand for changing the concepts of economic development, but also affects social development. The current study  provides  a conceptual model of a sustainable environment pattern In District 22 of Tehran that depends on the relationship between environment and economy, ...

employer organizations have increasingly interested in outsourcing their projects in the form of public-private partnership (ppp) due to various reasons such as compromising the resource limitations, entering new technologies to the organization and reducing risk. choosing the private sector as one of the most basic steps in the formation of ppp is of great importance. the present study aims to...

BACKGROUND A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis is a strategic management tool applied to policy planning and decision-making. This short report presents the results of a SWOT analysis, carried out with n = 16 stakeholders i) involved in the pig industry in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and ii) in general animal welfare and food safety policy areas....

Abstract In situ gauge networks are often used in hydrologic model calibration, but these limited or nonexistent many regions. The upcoming Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission promises to fill this observation gap by providing discharge estimates for rivers wider than 100 m. SWOT utility parameter selection regions devoid of gauges is assessed using proxy derived from an observing sys...

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) is a method to formulate the strategy. Although the SWOT analysis successfully provides the key factors of the problem, it has some drawbacks in selecting appropriate strategy for the evaluation and final decision steps. During recent years, some multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) remove some of these deficiencies, but th...