Comparative Assessment of Kurukshetra City Waste Dumping Sites Using RIAM Analysis: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Kumar ◽  
Surinder Deswal
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Assessment

scholarly journals Do direct-access and indirect-access adaptation projects differ in their focus on local communities? A systematic analysis of 63 Adaptation Fund projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ornsaran Pomme Manuamorn ◽  
Robbert Biesbroek
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Policy Adoption ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Adaptation Investment ◽  
New Framework

AbstractRecent literature suggests that direct national access to multilateral climate funds could promote climate change adaptation investment that focuses more on the needs of vulnerable local communities when compared to indirect access through multilateral agencies. However, there has been no systematic comparative assessment of the level of community focus of direct-access and indirect-access projects. The lack of a standardized methodology to assess the level of community-focused adaptation has also constrained such comparison. To address this gap, this paper proposes a new framework to assess the level of community focus in adaptation projects, using a combination of financial, participatory, devolutionary, and design for policy adoption and replicability criteria. Using the Adaptation Fund (AF) as a case study, we apply the framework to systematically assess 63 projects approved by the Fund as of May 2017, comprising 22 direct-access and 41 indirect-access projects. We find that direct-access projects are more community-focused than indirect-access projects because they exhibit higher community-oriented financial, participatory, and devolutionary characteristics. We find no difference between the direct-access and indirect-access projects with regard to how they are designed to promote policy adoption and replicability of AF project-financed adaptation actions through policy and geographical mainstreaming. Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of the pattern of adaptation investment that takes place in developing countries with the support of international adaptation finance under both access modalities. The proposed assessment framework could also inform the development of a standardized methodology to track the delivery of international adaptation finance to the community level.

scholarly journals Performance-Based Comparative Assessment of Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansour Alsaleh ◽  
Noura Alomar ◽  
Monirah Alshreef ◽  
Abdulrahman Alarifi ◽  
AbdulMalik Al-Salman
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Dynamic Testing ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Vulnerability Detection ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Agreement

The widespread adoption of web vulnerability scanners and the differences in the functionality provided by these tool-based vulnerability detection approaches increase the demand for testing their detection effectiveness. Despite the advantages of dynamic testing approaches, the literature lacks studies that systematically evaluate the performance of open source web vulnerability scanners. The main objectives of this study are to assess the performance of open source scanners from multiple perspectives and to examine their detection capability. This paper presents the results of a comparative evaluation of the security features as well as the performance of four web vulnerability detection tools. We followed this comparative assessment with a case study in which we evaluate the level of agreement between the results reported by two open source web vulnerability scanners. Given that the results of our comparative evaluation did not show significant performance differences among the scanners while the results of the conducted case study revealed high level of disagreement between the reports generated by different scanners, we conclude that the inconsistencies between the reports generated by different scanners might not necessarily correlate with their performance properties. We also present some recommendations for helping developers of web vulnerabilities scanners to improve their tools’ capabilities.

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