Research in the area of sustainable urban infrastructure reflects the need to design and manage engineering systems in light of both environmental and socioeconomic considerations. A principal challenge for the engineer is the development of practical tools for measuring and enhancing the sustainability of urban infrastructure over its life cycle. The present study develops such a framework for...

This article presents a method entitled “Design for environmental sustainability: design strategies, methods and tools in the furniture sector”. This method was developed by the research unit DIS – Design and System Innovation for Sustainability – of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, directed by Prof. Carlo Vezzoli. This study consists of a presentation of the method for the development of desi...

Purpose – University campuses behave as complex systems, and sustainability in higher education is best seen as an emergent quality that arises from interactions both within an institution and between the institution and the environmental and social contexts in which it operates. A framework for strategically prioritizing campus sustainability work is needed. This paper seeks to address these i...

Ever increasing ecological treats and unlimited, accelerated economic growth shall be evaluated in interaction with each other. In real estate industry investment environment unable to ensure sustainability without conformity of other economic sectors with the criteria of sustainable development. In practice entrepreneurs devoting insufficient attention to the outcome of a construction process,...

Conventional field cropping systems have been criticized as being unsustainable because they contribute to on-farm and off-farm environmental degradation, and are often economically uncertain. Methods to increase environmental and economic sustainability are needed. There is a critical need to develop management technologies to maximize yield and crop quality yet improve environmental impacts o...

Sustainable development and corporate environmental responsibility are becoming closely tied with business competitiveness in modern economy. Given the impetus organizations have to enhance their sustainability image, there is a lack of research that examines the relationship between corporations’ messages to shareholders and their environmental and social responsibility. The current paper pres...

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...

rapid urbanization has brought environmentally, socially, and economically great challenges to cities and societies. to build a sustainable city, these challenges need to be faced efficiently and successfully. this paper focuses on the environmental issues and investigates the ecological approaches for planning sustainable cities through a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. the re...

While many organisations have been quick to jump onboard the ‘sustainability bandwagon’ little appears to have been done to consider the role of, and effect on, the HR function and manager. In fact, organisations have tended to treat sustainability and HR in silo. This paper examines questions such as: How are HR managers defining and enacting corporate sustainability? And what is the effect of...