Although in sustainable development field, innovative solutions have been sought worldwide by environmental groups, academia, governments and companies for many years, recently, citizens and communities have emerged as a new group and taken more and more active role in this field. Many scholars call for more research on the role of community and community innovation in sustainable development. ...

The concept of Integrated Design Process found in current literature is based on an understanding of the design process as Analysis/Synthesis (A/S); where the problem is broken down into sub-problems and individual problems, reaching individual solutions and sub-solutions until achieving the overall solution. This paper proposes that the integrated design process in the practice of sustainable ...

This paper addresses a sustainable supply chain network design problem that arises in the public sector. There is little research being done in mathematical modeling and solutions methods for these problems. The paper describes a mixed-integer 0-1 model (MIP) for solving this sustainable problem in which we have to determine a fixed number of facilities to be located at sites chosen from among ...

This paper distills core lessons about how researchers (scientists, engineers, planners, etc.) interested in promoting sustainable development can increase the likelihood of producing usable knowledge. We draw the lessons from both practical experience in diverse contexts around the world and from scholarly advances in understanding the relationships between science and society. Many of these l...

BACKGROUND The tourism industry which is one of the most dynamic economic activities in today's world plays a significant role in the sustainable development. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to tourism, sustainable tourism must be taken into huge account; otherwise, the environment and its health will be damaged irreparably. METHODS To determine the level of sustainability in this ...

This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operating simultaneously from local to global scales....

Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge city drainage infrastructure due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the environment of urban areas. Sustainable drainage systems have gained growing public interest in recent years, as a result of its positive effects on water quality and quantity issues and additional recreational amenities perceived in the urban l...

Low carbon energy infrastructure, such as wind and solar farms, are crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. During 2020, 5.2 GW of offshore capacity went into operation worldwide, taking the total operational 32.5 from 162 windfarms, over 200 new is planned by 2030. To meet net-zero targets, growth generation expected, which raises challenges, in...