While the discourse of international development has begun to recognise the potential of involving diaspora as agents of change, issues of sustainability and environmental impact are often missing from the assessment of outcomes and impact in the Global South. The purpose of the conference was to explore three terms: “development”, “sustainability” and “diaspora” which are often seen as separat...

Indicators for Absolute Sustainability To Support Development within Planetary Boundaries Anders Bjørn,*,† Miriam Diamond,‡ Mikołaj Owsianiak,† Benoît Verzat, and Michael Zwicky Hauschild† †DTU Management Engineering, Quantitative Sustainability Assessment, Technical University of Denmark, Produktionstorvet, Building 424, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark ‡Department of Earth Sciences, University Of To...

introduction sustainability assessment has become an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. however, this is a new and evolving concept and there are very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented throughout in the world. the concept of sustainable development can be a state of balance between different aspects of development that aims to disp...

Introduction: Current energy sources are coming to end and one of the main priorities of the country’s management is the energy recovery from renewable energy. Considerable quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most serious urban pollution sources. Impact assessment matrix is a new and fast tool for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Materials and Methods: In this regard, r...

Soil contamination is a worldwide problem. Soil remediation is often carried out to reduce the risks posed by contaminants in the soil to human health and environment. Contaminant concentration is typically the only soil quality aspect maintained in remediation projects. However, emerging regulatory requirements on soil protection has introduced the soil function concept and demand that other c...

In this paper, a biorefinery complex in Thailand was assessed vis-à-vis sustainability. The complex studied includes plantations of sugarcane and a biorefinery system composed of several units including, a sugar mill, power plant, ethanol factory and fertilizer plant. The assessment aimed at evaluating the environmental and socio-economic implications relating to molasses-based ethanol producti...

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This paper recommends an approach on how to assess the Air Transportation System (ATS) that draws on the results in [1], and considers the 3 pillars of sustainability: economy, ecology and society. A framework has been developed to conduct sustainability studies of ATS and its sub elements separately. The framework shows the combination of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost Assessment...

Wildland fires (or wildfires) occur on all continents except for Antarctica. These fires threaten communities, change ecosystems, destroy vast quantities of natural resources and the cost estimates of the damage done annually is in the billions of dollars. Controlling wildland fires is resource-intensive and there are numerous examples where the resource demand has outstripped resource availabi...

tehran has been facing water shortage challenge for decades and it has not hesitated to exploit neighboring watersheds. rising demand and limited resources might make water crisis a strong possibility in the near future. an accurate and applied analysis of tehran's urban water system (uws) would be the first step to be taken to prevent such a crisis. this research is an effort to make an a...