Despite the interest that environmental prudence has garnered worldwide, construction industry remains behind in incorporating sustainable concepts contracts and contract administration. Some research promotes adoption of sustainability clauses into contracts, some standard forms include sections on sustainability. However, there is no to date analyzes current state adopting practices technique...

SUMMER 2014 31 Ecological processes that occur at global scales are among the most impressive natural phenomena on Earth; they link environments across the globe and capture the imagination of observers. For example, billions of North American birds, representing more than 400 species, migrate annually, often thousands of miles, frequently under the cover of darkness, between breeding and nonbr...

This paper presents an approach for rapid assessment of sustainability for Mainland China based on a multilayer index system. Efficient assessment is conducted with the basic mapping units at county and city levels. After evaluating a comprehensive sustainable development index, SDI, for each unit, five rankings of sustainability are determined, and a zonation map produced. Regional characteris...

Degradation of the natural environment is presently attracting significant attention among the Information Systems (IS) academic community. Consequently, the subject of sustainability continues to gain a foothold in the mainstream of IS research. However, as the body of research grows, the exact meaning of sustainability is increasingly becoming a source of uncertainty. The absence of a clear d...

A framework is built, wherein hydrological/water quality model is used to measure watershed sustainability. For this framework, watershed sustainability has been defined and quantified by defining social, environmental and biodiversity indicators. By providing weightage to these indicators, a “River Basin Sustainability Index” is built. The watershed sustainability is then calculated based on t...

The aim of this work is the investigation of the correlation between seismic damage measures and the sustainability of response displacement peak, deduced from novel 3-D response spectra. These spectra are produced with relatively small additional computational cost compared to their 2-D counterparts and incorporate valuable additional information concerning the sustainability of conventional s...

In the assessment of long term behavior of the complex system we have to introduce notion of sustainability as the measure for the quality of the system. It is defined as the quality which is measuring the ability of our society to secure and not compromise the ability of future generation to have quality of the life at least the same as our generation. The safety property of complex system is ...