The grandest challenge of all: The role of environmental engineering to achieve sustainability in the world's developing regions

JR Mihelcic, CC Naughton, ME Verbyla… - Environmental …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
The environmental engineering discipline has focused much of its historical efforts in
developing regions of the world on advancing environmental sustainability through …

[HTML][HTML] Political ecology perspective for a new way of understanding stakeholders and value in infrastructure projects

MS Çıdık, MG Royo, J Mulligan, AO K'oyoo… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The long-term goals and objectives that infrastructure projects aim to deliver are
contextualised by complex grand challenges, which involve an entanglement of economic …

[图书][B] Business and sustainability

M Blowfield, M Blowfield - 2013 - books.google.com
Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are
amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in contemporary business today …

Frameworks for urban water sustainability

SJ Bell - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated water management, sustainable water management, water sensitive cities, and
other formulations are often presented as the latest in a series of paradigms of water …

Engineering sustainability: A technical approach to sustainability

MA Rosen - Sustainability, 2012 - mdpi.com
Sustainability is a critically important goal for human activity and development. Sustainability
in the area of engineering is of great importance to any plans for overall sustainability given …

[HTML][HTML] Permeable pavement design framework for urban stormwater management considering multiple criteria and uncertainty

Y Zhu, H Li, B Yang, X Zhang, S Mahmud… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cities worldwide continue to face severe water management problems. Therefore,
researchers have endeavored to study stormwater management alternatives. However, the …

Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure

L Diep, P Parikh, D Dodman, J Alencar… - Urban …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes the concept of Green Infrastructure (GI) in urban context, challenging
the extent to which it can support a transition towards more socially inclusive forms of urban …

Developing novel approaches to tracking domestic water demand under uncertainty—A reflection on the “up scaling” of social science approaches in the United …

AL Browne, W Medd, B Anderson - Water Resources Management, 2013 - Springer
Climate change, socio-demographic change and changing patterns of ordinary consumption
are creating new and unpredictable pressures on urban water resources in the UK. While …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing receptivity for change in urban stormwater management and contexts for action

A Cettner, R Ashley, A Hedström, M Viklander - Journal of Environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Individual and organisational receptivity for change towards the use of sustainable
stormwater management systems has been previously examined, but the significance of the …

A dialectical system framework for enhancing the modular construction supply chain

W Pan, M Pan, Y Yang - Proceedings of the Institution of Civil …, 2023 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Modular construction (MC) is an innovative approach to enhancing productivity and
sustainability, but its complex and dynamic supply chain is challenging. This paper develops …