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Building composite indicators for the territorial quality of life assessment in European regions: combining data reduction and alternative weighting techniques
Development of composite indicators is a challenging task given that sustainability indices are strongly dependent on how the sub-indicators are...
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Co-creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators
Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability...
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Carbon footprints of lending and bank performance: international evidence from panel data
The paper studies the interaction between a set of bank performance indicators (concentration, profitability, and risk) and the carbon footprint of...
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Vulnerability assessment on human settlement environment of coastal towns with entire-array-polygon method: evidence from Ninghai, China
Rapid urbanization in develo** countries is accompanied by changes in the human settlement environment. There is limited research on mixed...
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Assessment of Solar Power Sustainability in Urban Areas
The majority of power produced around the world come from fossil fuels, which emit environmentally harmful carbon dioxide. The use of fossil fuels...
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Evaluation of sustainable hydrogen production technologies on an industrial scale using comparative analysis of decision-making methods
Due to its various advantages in different industrial fields, hydrogen can provide energy based on sustainability goals and recreates a critical...
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Indicator-based assessment of extreme threats (XTs) and their impacts on the resilience of geographical areas and critical infrastructures
The paper proposes an approach for anticipating and dealing with future extreme threats (x-threats or XTs, e.g., due to climate change) and threats...
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Predicting the effect of hydro-climatic and land-use dynamic variables on watershed health status
This study aimed to predict the impact of changing hydro-climatic variables and land use changes on the future health status of the Safaroud...
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Importance of green roof criteria for residential and governmental buildings: a multi-criteria decision analysis
Megacities recently are experiencing a shortage of green spaces basically due to the rapid growth of urbanization and increasing demand for different...
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Environmental sustainability assessment of single-family modular homes using performance benchmarks of conventional homes: case studies in British Columbia, Canada
Modular construction has become exceedingly relevant against the current scenario of increasing housing demand and can respond to this need in Canada...
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A framework for evaluation of sustainability index of small scale dairy farms in India
Cattle management forms an integral part in deciding the efficiency of any dairy farm, small scale or large. Addressing the key operands of a dairy...
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Application of spatial environmental indicators in the assessment of degradation potential of water resources in water basins
Changes in land use have been occurring in a continuous and disorderly way in recent decades due to rapid population growth and the growing demand...
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Normalization of geotechnical sustainability assessment tool (Geo-SAT) using multiple criteria decision analysis for dams
Geotechnical engineering, being preliminary in any construction project, is of paramount importance for achieving sustainability. One of the...
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Green development evaluation of China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt based on hierarchical clustering and composite ecosystem index system
Green development evaluation is an important way for understanding the development status of a region. This study focuses on the green development...
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Effect of agricultural land management practices on the selected soil quality indictors: empirical evidences from the south Ethiopian highlands
BackgroundLand degradation is a major challenge that adversely affects soil fertility, agricultural production, and environmental sustainability. To...
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Assessment of multidimensional drought vulnerability using exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity components
This study provides a method for analyzing the drought-vulnerability index (DVI) from a multidimensional perspective that includes biophysical and...
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Sustainability Indicator Performance Measurement Framework for the Malaysian Defence Industry Offset Program
The Framework of Sustainability Assessment (FSA) in businesses is a topic of considerable pressing interest to the nation, academics, and business...
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The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021
As sea-level rise (SLR) accelerates due to climate change, its multidisciplinary field of science has similarly expanded, from 41 articles published...
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Measurement and analysis of water ecological carrying capacity in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China
Water ecological carrying capacity (WECC) is a crucial index for measuring regional sustainable development. To investigate the evolution of WECC in...
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Agricultural livelihood sustainability assessment among the indigenous communities of Sundarban biosphere reserve in India: a cross-sectional mixed methods approach
Improving the tribal community's livelihood security is a top priority for the Indian government. This study measured the livelihood security among...
