The European Union is pursuing a competitive and sustainable development model that combines insights from environmental as well as economic analysis. The rhetoric of this model is attractive: European development should be ‘sustainable’ both in terms of its use of labour and environmental resources, and in terms of the location of economic activity. European policy, therefore, should encourage...

abstract today, due to the rapid growth of population, development of the construction industry is a necessity. all around the world, new subjects such as sustainable development, environmental pollution, conservation of resources, and reduction of co2 emission have become the most important research topics among the scientific societies. in recent years, especially after 1997, new tools were i...

land use planning, refers to how to use, distribute and protect the land. this type of planning can be considered from different perspectives, such as sustainable development perspective view is one of important land use views. in this paper we have tried to study and evaluate the land use change of maragheh city from sustainable development perspective, and study the harmony or disharmony with...

Credit allocation through the usage of Portfolio optimization mainly seeks tomaximize return and minimize the risk of the portfolio; but there are other importantissues including sustainable development which is important for government/publicsectors. This paper presents a novel credit allocation approach based on portfoliooptimization and investigates the effects of selected indicators of sust...

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...