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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"sustainability analysis"”.
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Sustainability analysis of distributed, green stormwater infrastructure
… residents with additional co-benefits. In this analysis, GSI is investigated in several capacities. First, GSI is taken out of its traditional urban context and analyzed in an agricultural setting. ``Agricultural green infrastructure'' is sought after as a potential solution to increasing water …
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Domestic debt sustainability analysis: The case for Zambia
This study has investigated the sustainability of Zambia’s domestic debt (mainly composed of Government securities). Most of Zambia’s external debt has been forgiven and donors have put in place measures to avoid a repeat of an accumulation of an unsustainable external debt stock. Zambia’s current …
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Domestic debt sustainability analysis: The case for Zambia
This study has investigated the sustainability of Zambia’s domestic debt (mainly composed of Government securities). Most of Zambia’s external debt has been forgiven and donors have put in place measures to avoid a repeat of an accumulation of an unsustainable external debt stock. Zambia’s current …
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A Business Analytics Approach to Corporate Sustainability Analysis
Sustainability has become increasingly important to corporations, as stakeholders have called for increased transparency and as corporations have recognized the benefits of considering corporate sustainability. As a result, there has been a dramatic increase in disclosure both through corporate …
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Sustainability analysis in integrated inventory control and transportation systems
<p>"Due to the importance of costs as well as environmental effects of logistical activities throughout supply chains, such as inventory holding, freight transportation, and warehousing activities, this dissertation models and analyzes four integrated inventory control and transportation problems …
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Sustainability analysis: A stochastic formulation for evaluating the sustainability of engineering systems
… impact of such strategies on the life-cycle sustainability of engineering systems. This work proposes a novel stochastic formulation, named Stochastic Life-cycle Sustainability Analysis (SLCSA), for evaluating the sustainability of engineering systems throughout their service lives. In the …
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Sustainability Benefits Analysis of CyberManufacturing Systems
<p>Confronted with growing sustainability awareness, mounting environmental pressure, meeting modern customers’ demand and the need to develop stronger market competitiveness, the manufacturing industry is striving to address sustainability-related issues in manufacturing. A new manufacturing …
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Invincible but Invisible: A Phenomenological study of African American Female Principals in Wisconsin’s Public K - 12 Schools
… challenges, and strategies for professional sustainability. Analysis of participants’ narratives revealed four central themes: Journey to Leadership, Challenges, Philosophies, and Strategies for Sustainability. Findings demonstrate that participants consistently encountered intersecting …
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Reconciling Twin Transitions with sustainability. A Circular Economy perspective.
… to be mutually reinforcing, the effective sustainability of the TT is endangered by two issues of environmental nature: the dependence of modern technologies on specific mineral resources and the management of end-of-life technologies, that is electronic waste. Circular Economy (CE) …
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Examining The Sustainability Of The Current Account Balance Using A Probability Approach
This dissertation examines the sustainability of current account deficits through a probabilistic lens, challenging the intertemporal solvency framework which assumes perfect foresight and complete markets. The intertemporal solvency framework defines current account sustainability as a country’s …
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The Development of Sustainable Lime-Based Building Wall Components
… (PC) were used as controls. In order to enhance sustainability, these two binders were partially replaced with Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBS) an industrial by-product from the manufacture of steel. During the preliminary phase of the research, two different approaches to establishing …
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A Spatial Dynamic Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment
Achieving coastal sustainability in low-lying coastal areas is a great challenge. This study developed a spatial dynamic model to study the coupled natural-human responses in the form of population changes in the Lower Mississippi River Basin region. The goal was to identify the key social-economic …
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Integrating water resources and power generation: the energy-water nexus in Illinois
… water constraints motivate a resource accounting analysis to both establish a baseline of current water requirements and simulate possible impacts from future water and energy management decisions. Furthermore, a potential future increase in the magnitude and duration of droughts and heat waves in …
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Migrant remittances, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and energy poverty in Sri Lanka
… growth, human development, and environmental sustainability. However, almost 2.4 billion people worldwide still use solid fuels for cooking, exacerbating energy poverty and endangering human health and the environment. Therefore, this thesis investigated the non-price determinants of cooking …
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The development of unfired clay building materials for sustainable building construction
… clay masonry units. From the environmental and sustainability analysis results, the unfired clay material has shown energy-efficiency and suggests a formidable economical alternative to the firing of clay building components. This study is one of the earliest attempts to compare fired and …
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Advancing biocatalytic technologies for degradation of micropollutants in drinking water
… environmental assessment was performed. In the analysis, the conservative, baseline biocatalytic scenario (single-use in batch reactors) was found to have median costs of $1.92 and global warming potential of 3.72 kg CO2 eq per m3 of drinking water treated. These values are more than current …
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Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability for Macroeconomic Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the role of fiscal rules for fiscal space, debt sustainability dynamics, and macroeconomic stability in economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated on the premise that fiscal policy plays a primary role in a country's policy undercurrents, and that fiscal rules can enhance fiscal …
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A technical, economic and environmental analysis of renewable gas produced from power to gas systems
… thesis: a linear additive model was used for sustainability assessment; an Excel model and Superpro designer software were applied for technology and costs analysis; and GaBi software was used to assess environmental impact. The result of the sustainability assessments of large scale energy …
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