The Australian Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) Summit in 2018 attracted much-needed national attention towards environmental goals and targets compared with other aspects of sustainability. Road infrastructure is the backbone modern society plays a crucial role accomplishing targeted balance between these sustainability achieving SDGs. This article presents an integrated performance ass...

Selecting indicators based on the characteristics and development trends of a given study area is essential for building a framework for assessing urban ecological security. However, few studies have focused on how to select the representative indicators systematically, and quantitative research is lacking. We developed an innovative quantitative modeling approach called the grey dynamic hierar...

Soil erosion forms a major threat to European soil resources. Although soil is a vital and largely non-renewable resource, it has not been the subject of comprehensive EU action so far. A thematic strategy for soil protection, which recognises soil erosion as one of the major threats, has currently been placed high on Europe’s political Agenda. Assessing and monitoring soil erosion is needed to...

In the framework of periodic update Sardinian River Basin Management and Water Protection Plans (Italian Law 152/2006, transposition 2000/60/EC Directive), we investigated AQUATOX model feasibility as a tool for assessing relationships between Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts Responses (DPSIR scheme). To do this, applied to forecast response (Italy) river quality status set different ...

This article describes a combination of the driver-pressure-state-impact-response (DPSIR) framework and logical approach (LFA) to develop water management strategies for lagoon floodplain in Thailand. The DPSIR identified cause-effect relationship between anthropogenic activities. LFA developed based on systematic approach. analysis issue shortages irrigated areas revealed need income from agri...

introduction[1] air pollution is one of the major environmental issues in industrial cities such as tehran, in such a way that in a certain time, this city was announced as the second polluted city in the world after new delhi. geographical location of this city produces a situation that air pollution does not find a way for dilution. therefore air pollution and its reduction to an acceptable l...

Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (IAHS) are complex adaptive systems that multidimensional and exhibit strategic values of sustainability. In the context modernization, IAHS have been increasingly challenged. Thus, heritage sites must explore dynamic conservation approaches formulate management strategies. However, few studies provided either theoretical methods or practical cases as sup...