Construction industry is considered as one of the main contributor of natural resources depletion, responsible for high level pollution and it is one of the attributes that pose climate changes and other environmental threats. A lot of efforts had and have been done to reduce and control these impacts. Project Environmental Management (PEM) includes the processes required to ensure that the imp...

This study targets six North Asia and African hospitals that provide clinical treatment, diagnostic, consultation services. The revealed a lack in the selected hospitals’ infrastructure to support implementation successfully Environmental Management Systems (EMS). A factor analysis was performed based on five factors; EMS efficiency, hospital’s culture, from top management, legislation, time bu...

The increasing demands for reducing greenhouse emissions and improving fuel efficiency of marine transportation have presented opportunities electric ships. Due to the complexity multiple power resources coordination, varied propulsion loads, changeable economical, environmental requirements, power/energy management system (PMS/EMS) becomes essential in both designing operational processes. exi...

Metadata in environmental management systems support searching and browsing operations. XMLbased metadata systems can store metadata in a flexible manner that is suitable also for small and medium size organizations. Our EcoExplorer software package consists of three closely cooperating programs for the management of XML-based environmental metadata. It is implemented in Java and therefore plat...

Using Japanese facility-level data,we estimate the effects of ISO 14001 certification on the promotion of more advanced practices, namely green supply chainmanagement (GSCM). Our results show that ISO 14001 promotes GSCMpractices. Facilities with environmental management systems (EMS) certified to ISO 14001 are 40% more likely to assess their suppliers’ environmental performance and 50%more lik...