We outline a framework for the risk assessment of information infrastructures that generalizes the notion of dependency with respect to attributes such as confidentiality, integrity or availability. Dependencies are used to model an infrastructure at distinct abstraction levels and to discover attack strategies as well as risk mitigation plans. A plan is formulated in terms of set of countermea...

This paper develops a framework to prioritize the barriers to corporate sustainability and select the strategies to mitigate those barriers by applying an optimization based analytical hierarchy process integrated quality function deployment framework with multiple case studies. This research has collected data from the textile and clothing industries (six case companies) from an emerging econo...

Methane is the most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, with particular influence on near-term climate change. It poses increasing risk in the future from both direct anthropogenic sources and potential rapid release from the Arctic. A range of mitigation (emissions control) technologies have been developed for anthropogenic sources that can be developed for further application, incl...

Recent statistical reports highlight an accelerating phenomenon of radical urbanization, and the forecasts estimate that within next ten years, about 70% world’s population will be located in urban areas, compared with 54% currently living there. This result increase constructed volume, foreseeable adverse effects on climate, environment, residents’ health. The resulting growth emissions use en...

The objective of this review is to point out that the global dialog on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture has, thus far, not adequately considered animal welfare in proposed climate change mitigation strategies. Many suggested approaches for reducing emissions, most of which could generally be described as calls for the intensification of production, can have substantial ef...

Risk management is widely accepted as a routine activity in software project management. Many project risks are often complex and intertwined. Once some risks are materialized, they spawn active issues which can cause some other risks to occur. Moreover, these risks will have stronger impact than they could happen alone. Such snowball effect has been well known in risk management; however, few ...