Towards digitalisation of socially sustainable neighbourhood design

Towards sustainable growth of enterprises: a supply chain design

Supply chain design has a crucial role in the prosperity and sustainable growth of enterprises. Network and innovation mutual relationship shapes the orientation and design of the supply chain. Networks are means of securing access to the resources, information and support. A number of studies have examined the relationship between networks and innovation, and show a positive relation between t...

Towards Socially Assistive Robotics

Sustainable Urban Property Development and Neighbourhood Dynamics

Concerns about the sustainability of urban property development are increasing amid broader concerns of sustainable development and contemporary financial crisis. Central to the sustainability agenda are the physical, economic, social, and cultural features of the built environment, together with various institutional parameters therein. This is a review article on property development and neig...

Introduction--the Socially Sustainable Egg Production project.

The social and political pressure to change egg production from conventional cage systems to alternative systems has been largely driven by the desire to provide more behavioral freedom for egg-laying hens. However, a change of this magnitude can affect other components of the production system and may result in unintended outcomes. To understand this issue, a Socially Sustainable Egg Productio...

Towards Socially Aware Mobile Phones

Mobile phones currently represent the most pervasive technology for enabling social networking. They collect a wide range of socially meaningful data, such as address book contacts, pictures, call logs and exchanged messages. This data, however, is highly underutilized as it is managed by separate applications which are typically unaware of the user’s social setting. This “unawareness” makes th...