scholarly journals Mitigating Environmental Sustainability Challenges and Enhancing Health in Urban Communities: The Multi-functionality of Green Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu ◽  
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Onoja Matthew Akpa ◽  
Akinlabi Joseph Fadamiro ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

scholarly journals Fostering Urban Sustainability through the Ecological Wisdom of Traditional Settlements

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10033
Author(s):  
Naji Akbar ◽  
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar ◽  
Adel Saleh Bouregh
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts ◽  
Ecological Wisdom

Several African and Asian countries have embarked on building new towns to address urbanization challenges such as crowded cities, slums, and pressure on existing infrastructure. These projects have been criticized for being inadequate in fostering environmental sustainability. Based on a desk study, this article reviews the environmental sustainability challenges of these projects and recommends some ecologically embedded practices of traditional settlements that wonderfully survived for many centuries with little adverse social and environmental impacts yet offered opportunities for urbanism. The article discusses how the architecture, urban form, and green infrastructure of traditional settlements present excellent cases of ecological wisdom and embeddedness where the local ecosystems are respected, and every human activity, including the creation of the built environment, is defined by the ecological allowances, where resilience is part of the built environment at both micro and macro scales, and where humanity and nature are equal stakeholders living in unison. The article concludes that these instances of successful ecological embeddedness in traditional settlements can provide lessons for contemporary cities to ponder when envisioning more sustainable built environments for the present and future generations.

Social Science Theory for Environmental Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc J. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Social Science Theory ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Conflict ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Social science theory for environmental sustainability: A practical guide makes social science theory accessible and usable to anyone interested in working toward environmental sustainability at any scale. Environmental problems are, first and foremost, people problems. Without better understandings of the people involved, solutions are often hard to come by. This book answers calls for demonstrating the value of theories from the social sciences for solving these types of problems and provides strategies to facilitate their use. It contains concise summaries of over thirty social science theories and demonstrates how to use them in diverse contexts associated with environmental conflict, conservation, natural resource management, and other environmental sustainability challenges. The practical applications of the theories include persuasive communication, conflict resolution, collaboration, negotiation, enhancing organizational effectiveness, working across cultures, generating collective impact, and building more resilient governance of social-ecological systems. Examples throughout the book and detailed vignettes illustrate how to combine multiple social science theories to develop effective strategies for environmental problem solving. The final chapter draws out key principles for enhancing these efforts. The book will serve as a key reference for environmental professionals, business people, students, scientists, public officials, government employees, aid workers, or any concerned citizen who wants to be better equipped to navigate the social complexities of environmental challenges and make a meaningful impact on any environmental issue.

scholarly journals Mechanical and Durability Properties of Portland Limestone Cement (PLC) Incorporated with Nano Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lochana Poudyal ◽  
Kushal Adhikari ◽  
Moon Won
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Carbonate ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Durability Properties ◽  
Portland Limestone Cement ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Limestone Cement ◽  
New Generation

Despite lower environmental impacts, the use of Portland Limestone Cement (PLC) concrete has been limited due to its reduced later age strength and compromised durability properties. This research evaluates the effects of nano calcium carbonate (CaCO3) on the performance of PLC concrete. The study follows a series of experiments on the fresh, hardened, and durability properties of PLC concrete with different replacement rates of nano CaCO3. Incorporation of 1% nano CaCO3 into PLC concrete provided the optimal performance, where the 56 days compressive strength was increased by approximately 7%, and the permeability was reduced by approximately 13% as compared to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) concrete. Further, improvements were observed in other durability aspects such as Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) and scaling resistance. Additionally, nano CaCO3 has the potential to be produced within the cement plant while utilizing the CO2 emissions from the cement industries. The integration of nanotechnology in PLC concrete thus will help produce a more environment-friendly concrete with enhanced performance. More in-depth study on commercial production of nano CaCO3 thus has the potential to offer a new generation cement—sustainable, economical, and durable cement—leading towards green infrastructure and global environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Dematerialization and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Rebound Effects

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 845-849
Author(s):  
Demetris Petrides ◽  
Alexios Papacharalampopoulos ◽  
Panagiotis Stavropoulos ◽  
George Chryssolouris
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rebound Effects ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Environmental sustainability: Challenges and approaches

2022 ◽  
pp. 243-270
Author(s):  
Faheem Ahmad ◽  
Qamar Saeed ◽  
Syed Muhammad Usman Shah ◽  
Muhammad Asif Gondal ◽  
Saqib Mumtaz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

scholarly journals A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4450
Author(s):  
Vanessa Hull ◽  
Christian J. Rivera ◽  
Chad Wong
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Polluted Water ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Anthropogenic Threats

The world’s oceans face unprecedented anthropogenic threats in the globalized era that originate from all over the world, including climate change, global trade and transportation, and pollution. Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve important roles in conservation of marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, but their success is increasingly challenged in the face of such large-scale threats. Here, we illustrate the utility of adopting the interdisciplinary telecoupling framework to better understand effects that originate from distant places and cross MPA boundaries (e.g., polluted water circulation, anthropogenic noise transport, human and animal migration). We review evidence of distal processes affecting MPAs and the cutting-edge approaches currently used to investigate these processes. We then introduce the umbrella framework of telecoupling and explain how it can help address knowledge gaps that exist due to limitations of past approaches that are centered within individual disciplines. We then synthesize five examples from the recent telecoupling literature to explore how the telecoupling framework can be used for MPA research. These examples include the spatial subsidies approach, adapted social network analysis, telecoupled qualitative analysis, telecoupled supply chain analysis, and decision support tools for telecoupling. Our work highlights the potential for the telecoupling framework to better understand and address the mounting and interconnected socioeconomic and environmental sustainability challenges faced by the growing number of MPAs around the world.

scholarly journals Advancing STEM-Based Business Sustainability: Mending the Curricular Gap

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers ◽  
Christopher A. Craig ◽  
Susan Gilbertz ◽  
Song Feng ◽  
Rita T. Karam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Sustainability Literacy ◽  
Curricular Implementation ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Sustainability Program ◽  
Business Curricula

Businesses are increasingly facing economic, social, and environmental sustainability challenges. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are needed to address business sustainability needs, yet such competencies are noticeably absent from academic literature and business curricula. To mend the curricular gap, we make the case for developing cross-disciplinary STEM-based business sustainability curricula that enhance students’ sustainability literacy and cognitive abilities related to STEM and sustainability. A literature review is provided that documents curricular gaps specific to STEM and sustainability in the academic literature and in business sustainability program offerings. We then present a framework that can be used to integrate STEM and sustainability across the curricula and to evaluate curricular implementation. This review provides timely and relevant information that can help business management educators, instructors, and administrators justify, design, develop, implement, and evaluate STEM-based business sustainability curricula.

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