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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"sustainability indicator"”.
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The design of effective policies for the promotion of sustainable construction materials
… and unanticipated policy outcome occurs when a sustainability indicator/issue is either completely ignored by policymakers, or the policymakers fail to identify intrinsic but inconspicuous links between seemingly disparate indicators.
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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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Advancing sustainability indicators through text mining: a feasibility demonstration
Sustainability indicators are metrics that are used to assess and track sustainable development, such as the number of people living in poverty or the conservation status of endangered species. Defining sustainability indicators is challenging because the studies are often expensive and time …
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Development of new ecological footprint techniques applicable to consumer electronics
… Since the ecological footprint (EF) is a sustainability indicator, the sustainability discussion and in particular its relevance and implications with regard to the EF is reviewed. The electronic products assessed in this thesis are a personal computer (PC) in an exploratory study, and …
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A Multicriteria Based Quantitative Framework for Assessing Sustainability of Pile Foundations
… built environment starts with incorporating sustainability thoughts at the planning and design stages of a project. Geotechnical engineering is most resource intensive although this intensive consumption of energy goes unnoticed mainly because of the indirect nature of the energy used in the …
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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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Environmental Performance Evaluation of Heating and Cooling Between Sustainable and Conventional Office Building
… sustainable in the long run. HP2: Current indicators fulfil the role for determining long term sustainability. From the sustainability point of view, this study focused only on the environmental aspect. The word ‘sustainable’ has been used for identifying office buildings where …
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Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) for the sustainable management of water withdrawals in Alpine watercourses
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