education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings ineducational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education.Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the present article tries to address this matter, due to the fact that we are in a situ...

Problem: Unsustainable Design Processes for the Built Environment In the coming decades, project teams will design unprecedented numbers of new and renovated buildings and infrastructure, but the design methods used today are for the most part unsustainable -financially, environmentally, and culturally. As resources, such as land, energy, water, and materials become increasingly scarce and the ...

Urban water supplies are traditionally based on limited freshwater resources located outside the cities. However, a range of concepts and techniques to exploit alternative water resources has gained ground as water demands begin to exceed the freshwater available to cities. Based on 113 cases and 15 in-depth case studies, solutions used to increase water self-sufficiency in urban areas are anal...

in the new millennium, information technology (it) has become very effective and this is becoming evident in both developed and developing countries. these areas are especially within the fields of information gathering, in the broadest sense, and of developing and strengthening networks both internal and external to the surrounding environment. today, more and more companies, organizations and...

Macroinvertebrates identification and enumeration may be used as a simple and affordable alternative to chemical analysis in water pollution monitoring. However, the ecological responses of various taxa to pollution are poorly known in resources-limited tropical countries. While freshwater macroinvertebrates have been used in the assessment of water quality in Europe and the Americas, investiga...