scholarly journals Using the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool to Assess and Plan for Sustainability

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annaliese Calhoun ◽  
Avia Mainor ◽  
Sarah Moreland-Russell ◽  
Ryan C. Maier ◽  
Laura Brossart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Program Sustainability

scholarly journals Adaptation and Validation of the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT) for Use in the Elementary School Setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11414
Author(s):  
Alix Hall ◽  
Adam Shoesmith ◽  
Rachel C. Shelton ◽  
Cassandra Lane ◽  
Luke Wolfenden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Program Sustainability ◽  
Structural Validity

There is a lack of valid and reliable measures of determinants of sustainability specific to public health interventions in the elementary school setting. This study aimed to adapt and evaluate the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT) for use in this setting. An expert reference group adapted the PSAT to ensure face validity. Elementary school teachers participating in a multi-component implementation intervention to increase their scheduling of physical activity completed the adapted PSAT. Structural validity was assessed via confirmatory factor analysis. Convergent validity was assessed using linear mixed regression evaluating the associations between scheduling of physical activity and adapted PSAT scores. Cronbach’s alpha was used to evaluate internal consistency and intracluster correlation coefficients for interrater reliability. Floor and ceiling effects were also evaluated. Following adaptation and psychometric evaluation, the final measure contained 26 items. Domain Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.77 to 0.92. Only one domain illustrated acceptable interrater reliability. Evidence for structural validity was mixed and was lacking for convergent validity. There were no floor and ceiling effects. Efforts to adapt and validate the PSAT for the elementary school setting were mixed. Future work to develop and improve measures specific to public health program sustainment that are relevant and psychometrically robust for elementary school settings are needed.

Program Sustainability Assessment Tool

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Luke ◽  
Annaliese Calhoun ◽  
Christopher B. Robichaux ◽  
Michael B. Elliott ◽  
Sarah Moreland-Russell
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Program Sustainability

scholarly journals The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool: A New Instrument for Public Health Programs

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Luke ◽  
Annaliese Calhoun ◽  
Christopher B. Robichaux ◽  
Michael B. Elliott ◽  
Sarah Moreland-Russell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Program Sustainability ◽  
Public Health Programs ◽  
New Instrument

scholarly journals Social criteria to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool: UHU2SAT

2021 ◽  
Vol 237 ◽  
pp. 04031
Author(s):  
Antonio Sánchez Cordero ◽  
Marta Videras Rodríguez ◽  
Sergio Gómez Melgar ◽  
José Manuel Andujar Márquez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Human Comfort ◽  
Operation And Maintenance ◽  
Holistic Assessment ◽  
Sustainability Assessment Tools

Recently, several urban sustainability assessment tools (USAT) have appeared to reduce the human impact provided by the built environment. Few of them focus on the assessment of urban spaces like squares, streets, and parks, etc., but they don’t operation and maintenance (OM) phase is not considered. It would be necessary to develop an in use holistic urban sustainable assessment tool (UHU2SAT) to specifically assess urban spaces under OM phase. This paper provides a qualitative research among 188 studies, with the aim to classify them according to the impacts they pursue: environmental (ENV), social (SOC) economic (ECO) and Others. Finally, the SOC criteria are reduced up to 21 and arranged into 4 different groups: Human comfort, Urban mobility, SOC Cohesion, and Health & safety. These SOC criteria have been discussed and revised according to the literature review to identify the most suitable indicators for the UHU2SAT. Finally, it can be concluded that this methodology could also be useful to obtain ENV and ECO criteria to provide a holistic assessment of the sustainability.

A holistic and rapid sustainability assessment tool for manufacturing SMEs

CIRP Annals ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 437-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danfang Chen ◽  
Sebastian Thiede ◽  
Timo Schudeleit ◽  
Christoph Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment

Sustainability Assessment in a Geographical Region and of the Activities Performed

2020 ◽  
pp. 536-561
Author(s):  
Berrin Kurşun ◽  
Bhavik R. Bakshi
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
System Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Support ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
Effective Use

The applicability of emergy analysis (EA), a nature oriented thermodynamic analysis technique, as a regional sustainability assessment tool is explored in the context of an Indian village (Rampura). EA provides information about how much environmental support is required, system renewability, system efficiency, load of system to environment and dependency of system on external resources (self-sufficiency). The results of Rampura analysis reveal that sustainability is achieved neither at village level nor at subsystem levels. The chapter shows that the effective use of the renewable local resources can reduce the dependence on external resources and increase self-sufficiency and sustainability

scholarly journals Mitigation Life Cycle Assessment: Best Practices from LCA of Energy and Water Infrastructure That Incurs Impacts to Mitigate Harm

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Grubert ◽  
Jennifer Stokes-Draut
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Functional Unit ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Lca Results

Climate change will require societal-scale infrastructural changes. Balancing priorities for water, energy, and climate will demand that approaches to water and energy management deviate from historical practice. Infrastructure designed to mitigate environmental harm, particularly related to climate change, is likely to become increasingly prevalent. Understanding the implications of such infrastructure for environmental quality is thus of interest. Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is a common sustainability assessment tool that aims to quantify the total, multicriteria environmental impact caused by a functional unit. Notably, however, LCA quantifies impacts in the form of environmental “costs” of delivering the functional unit. In the case of mitigation infrastructures, LCA results can be confusing because they are generally reported as the harmful impacts of performing mitigation rather than as net impacts that incorporate benefits of successful mitigation. This paper argues for defining mitigation LCA as a subtype of LCA to facilitate better understanding of results and consistency across studies. Our recommendations are informed by existing LCA literature on mitigation infrastructure, focused particularly on stormwater and carbon management. We specifically recommend that analysts: (1) use a performance-based functional unit; (2) be attentive to burden shifting; and (3) assess and define uncertainty, especially related to mitigation performance.

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