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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Sustainability index"”.
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An aggregated sustainability index for the Cape Metropolitan Area
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Development of a Water Sustainability Index for West Java, Indonesia
Sustainability of water resources is essential to ensure that available water can be used by both present and future generations. To ensure sustainability, a comprehensive knowledge of the current conditions of water resources is necessary. Once this information is obtained, relevant programs can …
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The evaluation and improvement of a sustainability index for intergrated urban water management in South African cities.
… used a systems approach to develop a composite Sustainability Index (SI) which, by addressing five components of sustainability (environmental, social, economic, political and institutional), attempts to give a measure of the potential for sustainability in the context of integrated urban water …
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Responsible investing in Kenya: Linking the sophistication of financial markets in Kenya with the possible creation of a sustainability index
… blocks to this journey could be introducing a Sustainability Index for listed companies on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). This would form a basis for integrating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects into the private sector and other proponents of the society, including the …
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Sustainability index for integrated urban water management (IUWM) in southern African cities : case study applications : Greater Hermanus region and Maputo City
… was used to develop a relevant and robust sustainability index which assesses the capacity of a city or a portion thereof to be sustainable. This thesis details the process of developing the Sustainability Index (SI) for a multidimensional assessment of urban water systems. In this …
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The Evaluation of Domestic Socially Responsible Investment Equity Funds Performance in Australia
… Investment Funds (SRIFs). I construct a sustainability index based on negative screens, and use this index to evaluate the performance of SRIFs by employing the Jensen (1968) CAPM, Fama–French (1993) 3-factor and the Carhart (1997) 4-factor models. The results show that SRIFs outperform …
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Development of a new integrated sustainability assessment model for energy systems
This thesis presents a novel and comprehensive sustainability assessment model for energy systems. The model features an integrated approach and encompasses various multi-disciplinary areas of study, which influence energy systems. Two case studies are used to implement this model including solar …
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Temporary Housing Arrangements After Natural Disasters
An innovative sustainability model is also developed to quantify and maximize the sustainability of integrated housing recovery efforts, which comply with the Alternative Housing Pilot Program (AHHP) proposed by FEMA and aims at developing innovative alternative housing projects to serve both as …
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Transportation system selection in open-pit mines (Truck-Shovel and IPCC systems) based on the technical, economic, environmental, safety, and social (TEcESaS) indexes
… output of this step, software entitled “TEcESaS Indexes” is designed and produced through Venapp that makes working with the model comfortable. As the second step, a selection method based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is performed that the transportation system selection regarding …
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The contribution of published sustainability indexes to the construction of practical useful metrics for comparing strengths and weaknesses for achieving sustainability among countries
… focuses on the evaluation of available national sustainability indexes, which measure and compare the performance of countries on various elements of sustainability. The first part presents an overview of the methodology used in existing published sustainability indexes. In addition, the elements …
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Sustainability and Public Transportation Theory and Analysis
… modes of travel, comprehensive research into its sustainability benefits of public transit has been limited. This thesis first reviews the literature on sustainability and sustainable transport to develop a framework to analyze public transit and then applies the framework to 33 mass transit …
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Environmental Impact of Space Launches and Societal Response
… incentivization mechanisms based on a sustainability index for launch vehicles.
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Experimental and analytical investigation of a new integrated reactor for hydrogen and methanol production with ocean carbon dioxide
… H₂ production to 2.20 mg/min. In terms of sustainability, the E-CEM reactor demonstrates a 20% higher exergetic sustainability index compared to the peristaltic pump under ambient pressures ranging from 100 to 1000 kPa. In methane production tests using an H-cell setup, 1.5 M electrolyte …
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Sustainability Assessment of a Municipal Utility Complex: a System of Systems Approach
… and system dynamics methodology to assess the sustainability of a municipal utility complex system. This DSS incorporates 1) multiple interdependent systems, 2) multiple sustainability/performance indices, and 3) composite sustainability index. Engineers, managers, and researchers should …
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Energy and Environmental Tools for Process Sustainability Evaluation
… application to real cases in order to assess the sustainability of production processes. Adopting an approach of Life Cycle Thinking allows to compare different technologies, both traditional and innovative ones, evaluating the best performance from an energy and environmental perspective. …
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Sustainability Strategies in Supply Chain Management
<p>Managers no longer view sustainability of organizations only in terms of profitability and economic growth of shareholders. Various competitive pressures are forcing managers to broaden the scope of sustainability to include explicit environmental and societal objectives too. These pressures are …
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Study on the application of ionic liquids in bio-based lubricant for a sustainable machining process
… significant uncertainties about the overall sustainability performance of the bio-based MWFs. In this study, with the objective of achieving machining sustainability, a novel chemically modified Jatropha-based trimethylolpropane ester (MJO) was refined by mixing it with ionic liquids (ILs) …
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"Nada sobre nós, sem nós": o debate sobre acessibilidade no contexto do desenvolvimento do turismo em bases sustentáveis em destinos costeiros
… theoretical proposition of the term "accessible sustainability" and its empirical unfolding that are operationalized by the Assessment Matrix of Accessible Sustainability for Coastal Destinations (MASA) whose results culminate in the Accessible Sustainability Index (ISA) that can indicate how …
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A systems approach to assessing the sustainability of hybrid community energy systems.
… is developing a quantitative assessment of the sustainability of a system. Despite the different measures available in the literature, a standard and universally accepted index for assessing sustainability does not yet exist. This thesis develops a novel Integrated Sustainability Index (ISI) for …
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Assessing Resiliency and Sustainability in an Intelligence Infrastructure System
… Therefore, assessments are conducted to increase sustainability. The literature presents different perspectives of sustainability and resiliency and measurement of sustainability with resiliency as the premier state variable which has not been adequately addressed. The purpose of this research is …
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