Dünyada yaşanan teknolojik gelişmelerin üretim sektöründeki yansımaları sonucunda doğaya verilen zarar kaynaklı küresel bilinç yıllar içinde artış göstermiştir. Firmalar, ekonomik rapor hazırlamak dışında, sosyal ve çevresel raporları içeren sürdürülebilirlik raporu hazırlamaya başlamıştır. Gelinen noktada paydaşlar firmaların sadece finansal verilerini değil faaliyetlerini de bu raporlar aracı...

The growing interest in the use of indices is closely connected to the increasing complexity of policy problems and the amount of available data. In the water sector, beyond their face value, indices can provide various types of information: description, communication, assessment, showing trends and predicting the future. Because the Arab world is the most water-scarce part of the world, most o...

With the urbanization process of the hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) zone in China, the energy consumption of space and water heating in urban residential buildings of the HSCW zone has increased rapidly. This study presents the energy efficiency and sustainability evaluation of various ways of space and water heating taking 10 typical cities in the HSCW zone as research cases. Two indicators...

This chapter consider new methods of component extraction and identification for the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) – an aggregation of environmental variables created as a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability. Principally, the authors propose and illustrate a parametric version of Independent Component Analysis via Copulas (CICA). The CICA procedure yields...

Energy Systems Theory (EST) provides a framework for understanding and interpreting sustainability. EST implies that "what is sustainable" for a system at any given level of organization is determined by the cycles of change originating in the next larger system and within the system of concern. The pulsing paradigm explains the ubiquitous cycles of change that apparently govern ecosystems, rat...

This paper presents a methodology based on digraph and matrix method for the evaluation and selection of Mechanical Brakes at system conceptual design stage. The sustainability attributes of a mechanical brake are identified and are used to evaluate the design sustainability of mechanical brakes. The ideal value of this index is also obtained, which is useful in assessing the relative sustainab...

functionality, sustainability indicators, sustainable development. Abstract—The index of sustainable functionality (ISF) is an adaptive, multi-criteria technique that is used to measure sustainability; it is a concept that can be transposed to many regions throughout the world. An ISF application of the Southern Regional Organisation of Councils (SouthROC) in South East Queensland (SEQ) – the f...

An organization’s long-term viability and competitiveness should not be evaluated solely in terms of financial measures. Investors, policy makers, and other stakeholders increasingly seek to evaluate performance with respect to sustainability—the environmental, social, and economic performance of an organization. But measuring and improving the sustainability performance of supply chains is cha...