This paper examines the resultant impact of environmental degradation on the temporal dynamics in between 2001 and 2006. Data for the study are from both primary and secondary sources. The primary source is the survey of selected settlements and heads of households in which a questi technique was employed in the selection of sample. This involves a systematic random selection of 785 heads of ho...

Sustainable development (SD) requires companies to take into account both the social and environmental consequences within their activities. This paper presents research about green supply chain management and highlight the differences between green supply chain and traditional supply chain management. Then, the paper analyses the sources of the risk in green supply chain according to the SD. S...

India is home to 472 million children under the age of 0-18 years, comprising 39% of the country’s total population. Out of the 128.5 million children residing in urban areas, close to 7.8 million children under the age of 0-6 years still live in abject poverty and poor conditions in informal settlements, making it imperative that we plan and build sustainable and inclusive cities from their pe...

This paper examines the resultant impact of environmental degradation on the temporal dynamics in between 2001 and 2006. Data for the study are from both primary and secondary sources. The primary source is the survey of selected settlements and heads of households in which a questionnaire was administered. A multi technique was employed in the selection of sample. This involves a systematic ra...

Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Mesoamerica. The non-monumental components of these cities differed from the high-density ancient and historical cities in the Old World that are often considered the norm for pre-modern urbanism. Distinctive features include the practice of intensive agricultural cultivation within urban settlements, r...

As the sustainable settlements have been included as a vital end product of all planning exercises, the architectural layouts should be well integrated with the sun path charts and the orientations of windows. Appropriate orientations can offer thermally indoor conditions besides physical and psychological comfort in any settlement at lesser energy demand. This investigation uses a vast number ...

for a long time, the concept of sustainability and unsustainability, the ways to assess them, and the factors involved in the process of various areas of scienc, especially the environmental ones. sustainability in rural areas as human settlements depends heavily on a series of factors including environmental and socio-economic factors. this paper aims at introducing fuzzy set theory and the ex...