A General Modelling and Simulation System for Sustainability Impact Assessment in the Field of Traffic and Logistics

2001 ◽  
pp. 167-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenz M. Hilty ◽  
Ruth Meyer ◽  
Thomas F. Ruddy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Stress ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Simulation System ◽  
Resource Consumption ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Physical Mass ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

Traffic comprises a large and persistently growing share of resource consumption and environmental stress in modern economies. Even on our way towards an Information and Knowledge Society, the demand for physical transport has not let up. Although the total physical mass transported is no longer increasing in modern economies, the distances and exchange frequencies still are, both in freight and in passenger traffic. That is making traffic with its effects on the environment into one of the most difficult problems that has to be solved if we want to attain sustainable development.

scholarly journals Sustainability Impact Assessment – An Overview with a Holistic and Transdisciplinary Perspective towards Agricultural Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savio Barros de Mendonca ◽  
Anne-Elisabeth Laques
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Managerial System ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

It is important to insert agricultural research in this paper by considering it as a strategic area for providing knowledge and a technological base for agricultural production, considering that this sector generates outcomes with respective impacts to rural zones, supply-chain, economy, society and environment, representing a key piece for reaching United Nations objectives of sustainable development to each country and to the planet. Aiming to analyze how agricultural research organizations (as for instance: INRA and CIRAD, from France and EMBRAPA, from Brazil) have driving sustainability impact assessment methodologies and their interaction with transdisciplinary and holistic principles, using as a base innovation concepts. This paper will display an overview on concepts and approaches about sustainability impact assessment, but looking from a transversal perspective, passing by an historical description on impact assessment and on concepts related to sustainable development and sustainability. We will search for unedited models of sustainability impact systems by converging holism, transdisciplinarity and sustainability. There are several methodologies but few demonstrate an integrated view with a transversal perspective. It is also imperceptible any concrete governance-managerial system for sustainability impact assessment, considering every stage of the process, from a strategic to an operational level, including, analyzing environment, economy and society dimensions as one unique perspective. Such as a complex and multidimensional sector of economy, agricultural research requires profiled sustainability impact assessment with an innovative and dynamic approach.

METHODOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS OF PROPOSALS FOR NEW TRADE AGREEMENTS

2001 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 395-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN LEE ◽  
COLIN KIRKPATRICK
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
World Trade Organisation ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

In the build-up to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Meeting in November 1999, and its aftermath, considerable interest has been expressed in the likely economic, environmental and social effects of trade liberalisation on sustainable development. This article explores the methodological challenges which are faced when undertaking a sustainability impact assessment (SIA) at different stages in multilateral trade negotiations. The article draws upon the authors' experiences when undertaking a preliminary SIA in advance of the proposed WTO New Round, and explores how the methodology used might need to be elaborated for use in later stages of the negotiating process. Given existing methodological deficiencies and data shortages, it points to some of the dangers in being over-ambitious and proposes, as an interim solution, the more detailed and specific application of "simpler" methods already in use.

scholarly journals Governance for sustainable trade

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive George ◽  
Colin Kirkpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
International Trade Agreements ◽  
Sustainable Trade ◽  
Sustainability Impact Assessment

Sustainability Impact Assessment is increasingly being used as a tool for assessing the consequences for sustainable development of international trade agreements. While theoretically, Sustainability Impact Assessment can make trade agreements more sustainable, in practice, difficulties are encountered in integrating the assessment findings into decision-making.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood Modelling for Urban Sustainability Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4654
Author(s):  
Javier Orozco-Messana ◽  
Milagro Iborra-Lucas ◽  
Raimon Calabuig-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Policy Impact ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Climate Action

Climate change is becoming a dominant concern for advanced countries. The Paris Agreement sets out a global framework whose implementation relates to all human activities and is commonly guided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which set the scene for sustainable development performance configuring all climate action related policies. Fast control of CO2 emissions necessarily involves cities since they are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. SDG 11 (Sustainable cities and communities) is clearly involved in the deployment of SDG 13 (Climate Action). European Sustainability policies are financially guided by the European Green Deal for a climate neutral urban environment. In turn, a common framework for urban policy impact assessment must be based on architectural design tools, such as building certification, and common data repositories for standard digital building models. Many Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools have been developed but the growing availability of open data repositories for cities, together with big-data sources (provided through Internet of Things repositories), allow accurate neighbourhood simulations, or in other words, digital twins of neighbourhoods. These digital twins are excellent tools for policy impact assessment. After a careful analysis of current scientific literature, this paper provides a generic approach for a simple neighbourhood model developed from building physical parameters which meets relevant assessment requirements, while simultaneously being updated (and tested) against real open data repositories, and how this assessment is related to building certification tools. The proposal is validated by real data on energy consumption and on its application to the Benicalap neighbourhood in Valencia (Spain).

Conference Report: WORKSHOP ON "LINKING IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS"

2002 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 465-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM R. SHEATE
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Decision Aiding ◽  
Sustainability Appraisal

As the concepts associated with sustainable development mature, and new and modified decision aiding tools are developed, so links between environmental assessment and management tools become all the more essential. Increasingly there is experience of trying to make links between tools, e.g. EIA/SEA and EMS, LCA and SEA, SEA and sustainability appraisal etc. The purpose of this workshop was to exchange experience and to discuss theoretical and practical linkages between tools that can be made and further developed.

Environmental impact assessment (EIA): an overlooked instrument for sustainable development in Pakistan

2011 ◽  
Vol 184 (4) ◽  
pp. 1909-1919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashid Saeed ◽  
Ayesha Sattar ◽  
Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Muhammad Imran ◽  
Raziya Nadeem
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment
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