Seawater reverse osmosis desalination (SWRO) requires less energy compared with the distillation method and thus is an important technology except Middle Eastern countries whereenergy costs are higher. Recently, even Middle Eastern countries where the distillation method is still a major technology, have begun adopting the RO method in new desalinationplants in line with government ...

Technology transfer between different organisms like academia and industry is an important factor for the development of our society. Different organisms mean also different priorities, different points of view and difficulties in working together. Having the same definitions, getting to know the different players, their aims will support the technology and knowledge transfer in order to develo...

In the research of risk associated with developing energy and water efficient green buildings, previous studies had mainly focused on “what the risks are and how the risks may impact on project objectives”, which were from an inward looking self-perspective and treated the risks in isolation from one another. While intensive research efforts have been dedicated to risk identification, assessmen...

Corporate sustainability and sustainability management have become a key issues in modern organizations to achieve a balanced and sustainable development. Nowadays IT can support the sustainability behaviors in business processes to improve the sustainability performance in organizations. IT-for-Green is a project that proposes a new generation of Corporate Environmental Management Information ...

Evaluating the performance of green logistics project alternatives is challenging due to the presence of numerous decision makers, the multidimensional nature of the evaluation process, and the existence of subjectiveness and imprecision in the decision making process. To effectively deal with this kind of decision making problems, this paper presents a fuzzy multicriteria group decision making...

The health and well-being benefits of access to green space are well documented. Research suggests positive findings regardless of social group, however barriers exist that limit access to green space, including proximity, geography and differing social conditions. Current public health policy aims to broaden the range of environmental public health interventions through effective partnership w...

Living in green/blue areas is associated with better health. This may be due to low air and/or noise pollution, opportunities for physical activity, facilitation of social contacts, and promotion of recovery from fatigue and stress. Yet, socio-economic (SE) factors also explain inequalities in health and access to green/blue spaces. The GRESP-HEALTH project evaluates the associations between li...

This article presents a detailed implementation of the Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) Next Generation platform of the IT-for-Green research project. The provided services within this platform are grouped based on the module to which they belong. These services will be the main realization of the workflows activities of the system’s business processes. In the fram...

The IT-for-Green project aims at developing the next generation of Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS). Green IT being one important aspect of this, the ITfor-Green project seeks to support the analysis of a given data center situation and to support the simulation of alternative architectures to find ways to increase energy efficiency. To facilitate this, we develop ...

Digital Green is a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India using digital video. The unique components of Digital Green are: (1) a participatory process for content production; (2) a locally generated digital video database; (3) a human-mediated instruction model for dissemination and training; and (4) regimented sequenc...