Disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability. We must acknowledge the human-made components of both vulnerability and hazard emphasize human agency in order to proactively reduce disaster impacts.

Simplifying to the point of blaming limits learning and the ability to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Often, the characteristics of the blame culture are very subtle and what appears to be valuable work is actually a subtle sign of the blame game. Leaders must change the language to a proactive, future preventative state rather than focusing on the past and looking for single causes...

The research in this paper aims at using world knowledge to aid the user in retrieving information from the World Wide Web. Some issues are identified together with methods to address them.

The emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the treatment municipal, agricultural and industrial waste occurs in virtually every city on our planet. This is due to various microbial activities at different stages treatment. Traditional methods have a significant environmental impact, producing methane, carbon dioxide nitrous oxide emissions, addition demanding high energy input having low effi...

Recycling subsidy and carbon tax policies are ways to achieve energy environmental sustainability. The implementation of these has changed the operating environment traditional closed-loop supply chains, while privacy relevant information increases difficulty decision-making. Under background, this paper considers green chain (GCLSC) under hybrid policy recycling where manufacturer is in charge...

Wicked problems form the most significant challenges to society and science. The current next generation of researchers, educators, planners policy-makers require inter- trans-disciplinary understanding skills address these issues. Higher Education has a role responsibility lead research (Dentoni & Bitzer, 2015) into also teach wicked (Wilson, 2009). Young people are increasingly aware proactiv...

Performance of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications depends highly on the employed scheduling approach. While centralized network schedulers offer high V2V communication reliability, their operation is conventionally restricted to areas with full cellular coverage. In contrast, in out-of-cellular-coverage areas, comparatively inefficient distributed radio resource management used. To exploit...

Achieving global sustainability objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals or Aichi Targets, including remaining within planetary boundaries, necessitates proactively avoiding a proportion of environmental impacts otherwise expected to result from economic development. Quantifying these “avoided” is important for monitoring progress toward meeting objectives, but doing so in consis...

Modal shift to more energy-efficient alternatives, such as from road rail or sea, is one path reduce negative environmental effects. Transport providers and shippers have crucial roles in modal choice decisions, a better understanding of the influence interorganisational factors on needed. The purpose increase opportunities for shifts by exploring power trust at interface between transport ship...