sustainability is a concept that emphasizes substantially on investments conservation (natural, social and economic) toward intra-generation equity. when sustainable development is achieved an overlapping is created between ecological, economic and social classes. the goal of this study is to measure and evaluate watershed sustainability. in order to evaluate sustainability in zidasht basin 1, ...

The assessment of sustainability requires that the diverse values of the stakeholders are represented in the context-specific interpretation of sustainability and in the choice of a desired course of action. Sustainability is a broad concept, and the stakeholders in sustainability are many. In order to have effective stakeholder engagement, it is crucial that all the relevant stakeholders are i...

Barry Ness⁎, Evelin Urbel-Piirsalu, Stefan Anderberg, Lennart Olsson Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), PO Box 170, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University, Sölvegatan 10, Geocentrum I, 223 62 Lund, Sweden Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre, Box 160, 10502 Tallinn, Estonia Institute of Geography, University of Copenha...

BIM (Building Information Modeling) has been recently implemented by many Architecture, Engineering, and Construction firms due to its productivity gains and long term benefits. This paper presents the development and implementation of a sustainability assessment framework for an architectural design using BIM technology in extracting data from the digital building model needed for determining ...

During the last two decades academic and political discussions about the potential of environmental innovations to meet grand challenges have increased. With the topic's greater popularity, the discussion has become more substantial and dedicated to the elements of environmental innovations. During the 1990s one could understand environmental innovation as a new buzzword frequently referenced b...

This paper focuses on the methodological aspects for emergy analysis (EA) and socioecological principles (SEP) methods that were previously used for sustainability assessment in a wastewater treatment case study (Grönlund et al. 2004). Grönlund et al. (2004) constructed a model of a microalgae wastewater treatment plant (ALGA), located in Sweden at latitude 60°N, and tested it by comparing it t...

Sustainability assessment has received numerous attentions in the mining industry. Mining sustainability includes the environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and a sustainable development is achieved when all these dimensions improve in a balanced manner. Therefore, to measure the sustainability score of a mine, we require an approach that evaluates all these three dimensions of mining ...

One of the most important issues which has been of interest for scholars during the past decades is sustainable rural development and its concerning discussions. Social sustainability as the key aspect of sustainable development is of critical importance to sustainable rural development. Bringing social sustainability issues into focus in the present century has made an opportunity for achievin...

A comparative assessment was carried out of the technical/environmental sustainability of five different contaminated land remediation projects completed in the UK between 1997 and 2002. The remediation technologies employed in those projects were in situ stabilisation/solidification, soil washing, ex situ bioremediation, cover system, and excavation and disposal to landfill. A further objectiv...

Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to non-linear processes underscore the need for meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy. Economists have developed rigorous approaches to conceptualizing sustainability based on the paradigm of weak sustainability, which assumes infinite substitution between manufactured and natural capital stocks. In contra...