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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"sustainability assessment"”.
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Corporate sustainability assessment methodology
Sustainability is a vague concept specifically in the context of a corporate world. There are numerous definitions for corporate sustainability and just as many ways of evaluating it. This work attempts to define, structure and assess corporate sustainability in a standardized robust manner through …
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Environmental sustainability assessment tool for factories
… better insight into its suppliers' environmental sustainability characteristics. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition's (SAC) Higg Index is currently viewed as the foremost way to assess a supplier's environmental sustainability; however, its facility module only applies to certain types of …
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A Sustainability Assessment of the Harte Trail
… strengthen community bonds, learn, and support sustainability initiatives. Several stakeholder groups manage this trail, primarily the City of Winnipeg, Friends of the Harte Trail, Manitoba Trails Association, and broadly, the general public. This sustainability assessment, based on …
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Sustainability assessment and visualisation in urban environments
… of existing decision support tools (DSTs) for sustainability is presented and reasons for the lack of uptake and use of these tools is identified. Techniques from DSTs used in other disciplines are also evaluated and those that can be applied effectively in decision making for sustainable urban …
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Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment in Roadway Infrastructure Construction
Rating systems and life cycle assessment frameworks have been extensively used to measure and evaluate the sustainability performance of roadway infrastructure. However, the existing literature lacks studies that use roadway construction data to evaluate the state of practice and establish …
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Integrated Sustainability Assessment Framework for the U.S. Transportation
<p>This dissertation aims to investigate the sustainability impacts of alternative vehicle technologies and develop comprehensive sustainability assessment frameworks to analyze potential impacts of these vehicles in the U.S. In order to assess sustainability impact of vehicle alternatives, …
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Life cycle environmental sustainability assessment of woody polyculture
The student, Diana Kapanzhi, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-20 at 22:34.
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Freight container farms: a feasibility and sustainability assessment
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Sustainability Assessment of Post-Mining Land Use Planning
… generated by the mine. The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) functions in mining are somewhat of a risk reduction activity, even though the potential of halting projects is comparatively rare in situations where proposals are deemed to be of national interest and politically significant. This …
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Developing a sustainability assessment framework for buildings in Uganda
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Management Sciences specializing in Business Administration at Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Environmental sustainability assessment methods for buildings in South Africa
… by the results of building environmental assessments, which evaluate building performance. In developed countries, these assessments have stimulated market demand for 'green' building developments. Building environmental assessment methods have used the concept of ecolabelling to provide …
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Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework
… of a guiding methodological framework for local sustainability assessment is a key to achieving a sustainable future. This study develops an approach to local sustainability assessment (ALSA), a methodological framework that facilitates the formulation, selection and prioritisation of key …
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Development of quantitative methods for sustainability assessment in process industry
… strategies and specific principles, quantitative assessment tools are required to identify the marginal improvements in alternative design options, to allow the trade-off among contradictory aspects and to prevent the “risk shift”. In the present work a set of integrated quantitative tools for …
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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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Sustainability assessment of waste valorisation and recycling technologies applied in agriculture
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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A comprehensive environmental and economic sustainability assessment of roadway drainage systems
… scales (spatial and temporal) and dimensions of sustainability (functional, environmental, economic), this research developed a comprehensive model of roadway drainage systems linking design decisions to sustainability metrics using fate and transport modeling, life cycle assessment (LCA), and …
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A comprehensive economic and environmental sustainability assessment of centralized sewer systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Multiscale Design And Life-Cycle Based Sustainability Assessment Of Polymer Nanocomposite Coatings
… simulations of nano- to macro- scale models and sustainability assessment study over the life-cycle. Computational simulations aim at integrating top-down, goals/means, inductive systems engineering and bottom-up, cause and effect, deductive systems engineering approaches for material …
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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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Building a sustainability assessment model for highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan, China
… this research develops a model to assess sustainability in highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan Province. The research results indicate that although China has made great progress in sustainable development, and studies have suggested various frameworks for evaluating sustainability …
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