Sustainability assessment of arsenic-iron bearing groundwater treatment soil mixed mortar in developing countries, Bangladesh

Contributing to Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030 is a shared objective of all institutions and people. The challenges differ according to the characteristics of every context. In developing countries, strongly dependent on the agricultural sector, agricultural supply chains are recognized as crucial for economic growth and enablers for livelihood improvement. Moreover, sustainable development issues are correlated and can meet in agricultural supply chains. For several decades, parallel to decision-makers, the research community has elaborated sustainability assessment tools. Such tools evolved to fit with actuality, but it is challenging to find decision-making support tools for sustainable development adequate in agricultural supply chains and developing countries contexts. There is a necessity to define evidence-based tools and exhaustive analytical frameworks according to sustainability multidimensionality and strategical tradeoffs necessity. The VCA4D method aims to go beyond the limits of previous methods. It proposes a combination of multidisciplinary analytical tools applied empirically to analyze agricultural supply chains in their context. It provides evidence-based analytical results allowing to identify enablers for strategic sustainable and inclusive interventions. However, to even better meet contextual exhaustiveness’s expectations and indicators’ robustness to lead to relevant interventions, we should insist on a stricter framing of contextual data collection processes.

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A planning-oriented sustainability assessment framework for peri-urban water management in developing countries

Water Research ◽

10.1016/j.watres.2013.10.037 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 47 (20) ◽

pp. 7175-7183 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Markus Starkl ◽

Norbert Brunner ◽

Eduardo López ◽

José Luis Martínez-Ruiz

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Urban Water ◽

Assessment Framework ◽

Urban Water Management

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Methodology to Identify and Prioritise the Social Aspects to Be Considered in the Design of More Sustainable Residential Buildings—Application to a Developing Country

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings8100130 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 130 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nisreen Ardda ◽

Ricardo Mateus ◽

Luís Bragança

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Social Indicators ◽

Social Sustainability ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Sustainability Indicators ◽

International Standards ◽

Social Aspects ◽

The Social

The priorities in the design of more sustainable buildings are quite dependent on the specific social context. In developing countries, the sustainability concept and priorities in the residential buildings sector are quite different from the ones of the developed countries, since there are still basic needs to answer. Therefore, this research is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the concept of social sustainability in the residential building sector of the developing countries. A methodology to define and prioritise the social sustainability indicators is proposed and applied in the context of Palestine. The presented methodology is based on the sustainability indicators of international standards, on the most well know building sustainability assessment methods and in the analysis of their application to a specific context. It includes a methodology to prioritise the list of social indicators, by considering the expectations of two groups of building stakeholders: designers and building users. At the end, this research proposes a framework of social aspects to consider in the design of more sustainable residential buildings in West Bank, Palestine that is composed of twenty-one indicators, distributed among six sustainability categories and ranked according to their weight in the overall of sustainability level.

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Building Information Modeling Based Building Sustainability Assessment Framework for Kazakhstan

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings11090384 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 384

Author(s):

Gulzhanat Akhanova ◽

Abid Nadeem ◽

Jong R. Kim ◽

Salman Azhar ◽

Malik Khalfan

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Literature Review ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Building Information Modeling ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Assessment Framework ◽

Considerable Time ◽

Building Information ◽

Country Specific

The use of building information modeling (BIM) for building sustainability assessment (BSA) is a thriving topic within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Despite the various research approaches to employing BSA with BIM support, the research is limited to the BIM implications of BSA methods in developing countries. This paper presents how BIM can assist the BSA processes in Kazakhstan, using a previously developed building sustainability assessment framework for Kazakhstan (KBSAF). This framework has 46 assessment indicators grouped into nine assessment categories. The categories and assessment indicators of KBSAF were derived considering the regional variations and country-specific differences in the assessment factors. In this paper, BIM functions for BSA were identified through literature review; their applicability for KBSAF was evaluated by mapping the functions with the assessment indicators of KBSAF and a BIM-based BSA framework (BIM-KBSAF) was proposed. The proposed framework was validated through a three-round Delphi survey. One of the results demonstrates that for KBSAF, BIM can assess 24 out of 46 assessment indicators. The proposed framework could serve as a systematic guide to the application of BIM for BSA. Furthermore, it can facilitate the BSA process and save considerable time and effort.

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Desalination and On-site Energy for Groundwater Treatment in Developing Countries Using Fuel Cells

Emerging Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water Treatment ◽

10.1016/b978-0-444-63312-5.00006-1 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 135-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rajindar Singh

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Fuel Cells ◽

Groundwater Treatment ◽

Site Energy

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The development of SUCCEED: urban sustainability assessment tool for developing countries with focus on Nigeria

International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation ◽

10.1108/ijbpa-04-2021-0049 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Job Momoh ◽

Joseph Chelemu Kangwa ◽

Chika Udeaja ◽

Jin Ruoyu ◽

Rafiu Dimeji Seidu

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Sustainability Assessment ◽

Urban Sustainability ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Sustainability Indicators ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Content Type ◽

Environmental Evaluation ◽

Project Sustainability

PurposeDeveloping countries are currently on the verge of adopting principles used in achieving a sustainable urban future. As the urban population increases due to factors like urban–rural migration, increase in birth rate, migration, industrialisation, commercialisation, amongst others, there is a drastic need to adopt sustainability principles within urban spaces. To understand how sustainability can be achieved, there is a need to recognise how developed countries have designed assessment tools that work within their context which can inform how developing countries can work on their assessment tool. Urban neighbourhood sustainability assessment tools are used to reflect on the overall goal of the project and the most important indicators needed to be implemented within the project. Sustainability indicators are used to measure the levels and progress at which sustainability has been implemented within a project based on the data collected and these results can be used to make informed decisions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the development of urban sustainability assessment tool.Design/methodology/approachThis research investigates the techniques utilised in developing an urban sustainability assessment tool Sustainable Composite Cities Environmental Evaluation and Design (SUCCEED-ND) tool within the Nigerian context. The data instrument used includes a questionnaire survey that sampled 50 correspondents, and the results were used to develop an urban assessment tool tailored for the Nigerian countries.FindingsThe findings used social, environmental, economic and planning sustainability dimensions in the design of the assessment tool which composes of 21 core sustainability indicators and 105 indicators to develop SUCCEED-ND tool.Originality/valueThis work developed the first urban sustainability assessment tool for the Nigerian urban environment. The result is meant to evaluate and implement sustainability within existing and proposed neighbourhood development.

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