This commentary examines how specific sustainable development goals (SDGs) are affected by antimicrobial resistance and suggests how the issue can be better integrated into international policy processes. Moving beyond the importance of effective antibiotics for the treatment of acute infections and health care generally, we discuss how antimicrobial resistance also impacts on environmental, so...

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The world has experienced unprecedented urban growth in the last and current centuries. In 1800, only 3% of the world’s population lived in urban areas. It increased to 14 and 47% in 1900 and 2000, respectively. Since 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world population lives in the urban areas (Laski and Schellekens, 2007). In year 2003, United Nations estimated that by ...

Over the past few decades, Oman is experiencing a rapid economic growth associated with the flourishing and maturity of the oil production. The construction sector has seen to be the primary beneficiary with the blooming of many new infrastructure projects that serves the rapid urban development. In line with the booming awareness of the sustainable development of its neighboring countries, man...

In this position paper, we present our group’s perspective and philosophy on the development of information systems that serve to enable spatial data sharing and spatial data processing in large, heterogeneous environments. We call such systems SDI nodes, as they are the building blocks of information infrastructure in which geo-information plays a role. We clarify our view on SDI, and identify...

Modelling in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is a fundamental step for product and project delivery, and serves multiple purposes from visualization, communication, simulation, analysis, decision making, to performance assessment. For long, the AEC industry has used different types of modelling schemes. Typical examples include 2D and 3D models that capture geomet...

Traditional houses (Figure 1) in Southeast Asia are typically constructed using prefabricated of ready-made housing components. This construction technique is feasible due mainly to the geography and climate of the region, namely proximity to the sea and high annual rainfall, and has been passed down through generations by the local people. However, a shift of socio-economic pattern from tradit...

In the building and construction sector, most efforts related to sustainable development have concentrated on the environmental performance of the operation of buildings and infrastructure. However, several studies have called for the need to mitigate the considerable environmental impacts, especially air pollutant emissions and energy consumption, generated by construction processes. To provid...