Building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. Pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. Du...

this paper examines the application of a gis based planning support system, what if? tm, to evaluate alternative growth policies for sustainable urban growth in a rapidly growing city of iran. the paper describes the study area, dorood city, and the what if? model. it then explains the procedures that were used to obtain the required data and to run the model to dorood city. the paper concludes...

This 38th volume of the International Journal Sustainable Energy Planning and Management presents some newest work within in energy planning, systems analyses district heating area. Articles focus on multi objective optimisarion for a community Alps, carbon neutrality Estonia, prospects heat pumps combined with thermal storage maximising self-consumpotion from photovoltaic field methods assessi...

Energy is one of the most important aspects urban development and technological advancements. As its production consumption are connected to several environmental, social, economic issues covering all three sustainability pillars, strategic targeted energy planning vital smooth transition towards a more efficient greener society. In accordance with specific priorities every state, sustainable s...

climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

the distinguishing characteristic in the third millennium is planning based on principles of sustainable development in line with nature and all activities related to urban issues. ecological concepts and consequently ecological park refers to a comprehensive and integrated set of measures which create coordination, balance between the constituent elements of the park in order to establish sust...

A distributed energy system (DES) is recognized as a local energy system. Over the past decade, number of studies in technological fields, economizing and its regulatory aspects corroborated that an increasing attention has been paid toward the planning of these systems. However, lack of a proper planning because of simplifications in the assumptions may overshadow the potentials of the DESs hi...

Cities are the most dramatic manifestations of human activities on the surface of the earth. These human-dominated organisms—i.e., cities—degrade natural habitats, simplify species composition, disrupt hydrological systems, and modify energy flow and nutrient cycling. Today, these consequential impacts of human activities, originated from population increase, rapid urbanization, high private mo...