increasing rate of world population growth has tremendous and of ten detrimental impacts on natural environment of our planet. unreasonable consumption of non-renewable sources of energy, deforestation, and the extinction of species are among these impacts. there are many who believe that global warming which is resulted due to population :growth, urbanization and over and irresponsible consump...

The use of indicators for sustainability evaluation is an important step towards operationalization of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development. Many literatures on framework for sustainable water management consider any one dimension of sustainability. In this paper, the sustainability of an irrigation system is assessed from economic and environmental dimension. An optimizat...

Social sustainability has focus on the type of development that promotes social interaction and inclusion. It gives emphasis to inclusive community, social cohesions, quality of life, social equity and diversity. In fact, as one of the three domains of sustainability social sustainability plays a vital role in enhancing the community by the means of giving delivering equal opportunities, creati...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

improving the resource use efficiency in agro- ecosystems is an importantfactor for reducing environmental pollution. to evaluate phosphorus (p) efficiency andbalance indicators, research was conducted in wheat and saffron production systems inthe qaenat region (south khorasan province, iran) during 2011 and 2012, based on themethod of the organization for economic co-operation and development ...

Sustainable development is that which meets the needs of the present without foreclosing the needs or options of the future. Many studies have been published on how to assess sustainability using indicators that describe the different activities that impact on the environment. These can be related to the three pillars of sustainability, ecological, economic and environmental dimensions of devel...

Sustainable communities are promoted as a desirable policy goal and, in particular, local authorities are encouraged to contribute to climate change mitigation through urban planning. Furthermore, recent research takes a broad perspective on the environmental sustainability of urban areas and considers the environmental impact of all consumption. A focus group study was conducted in Finland for...

as it is commonly understood, urban neighborhoods play a significant role in developing urbansustainability as the smallest unit of city so that the formation and promotion of neighborhood identity, and focusingon social relationships would be in harmony with urban sustainability. it is believed that a dramatic change in spatialstructure of urban neighborhood include a decline in levels of poli...

the increasing rate of urbanization and rate of population growth over the 20th century has led to various problems such as traffic congestion, air pollution, and lack of open and green spaces that have affected the cities and their citizen's life. this condition has led to increasing demands for more land use, homes, and work places, more public transport and mass transit systems and mode...