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Goslar, Anthony. "Strategic risks to sustainability in infrastructural megaprojects." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28424.

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The proponents of the infrastructural megaprojects promise much but often fail to deliver. These projects are complex interactions of numerous stakeholders often providing technical solutions to many end-users. The extent to which megaprojects identify and adequately address risks to sustainability is of concern to the societies employing the megaproject framework for investing in infrastructure. The goal of infrastructural engineering is to design and build infrastructure that supports society. Sustainability in megaprojects is concerned with the delivery of products and services that benefit

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Uemura, Tetsuji. "Population decline, infrastructure and sustainability." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1038/.

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Japan has experienced population decline since 2010 and the situation is expected to become more severe after 2030 with forecasts indicating an expected 30% decline from 2005 to 2055. Many other developed countries such as Germany and Korea are also experiencing depopulation. These demographic changes are expected to affect society at many levels such as labour markets decline, increased tax burden to sustain pension systems, and economic stagnation. Little is known however about the impacts of population decline on man-made physical infrastructure, such as possible deterioration of current in

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Leong, Siew Neng Franks. "Sustainability : driver for decision making in infrastructure." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40228/1/Siew_Neng_Franks_Leong_Thesis.pdf.

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With the growing importance of sustainability assessment in the construction industry, many green building rating schemes have been adopted in the building sector of Australia. However, there is an abnormal delay in the similar adoption in the infrastructure sector. This prolonged delay in practice poses a challenge in mapping the project objectives with sustainability outcomes. Responding to the challenge of sustainable development in infrastructure, it is critical to create a set of decision indicators for sustainability in infrastructure, which to be used in conjunction with the emerging in

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Kaminsky, Jessica. "Social sustainability of sanitation infrastructure in developing communities." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3607325.

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<p> In this dissertation I build theory of the social sustainability of onsite household sanitation infrastructure by leveraging organizational theory, using data collected from rural households in Guatemala and Bangladesh. The overarching research question asks <i>what causes high failure rates in onsite household sanitation systems?</i> This work is important because of the large number of people served by onsite technology types and also because of high observed rates of infrastructure abandonment. Since sanitation technologies are vitally important to public and environmental health, unive

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Goh, Kai Chen. "Developing financial decision support for highway infrastructure sustainability." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/48328/1/Kai_Goh_Thesis.pdf.

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The development of highway infrastructure typically requires major capital input over a long period. This often causes serious financial constraints for investors. The push for sustainability has added new dimensions to the complexity in the evaluation of highway projects, particularly on the cost front. This makes the determination of long-term viability even more a precarious exercise. Life-cycle costing analysis (LCCA) is generally recognised as a valuable tool for the assessment of financial decisions on construction works. However to date, existing LCCA models are deficient in dealing wit

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Reidy, Angela D. "Incorporating sustainability in investment decision making for infrastructure projects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119192/2/Angela_Reidy_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis addresses a gap in investment decision making where sustainability is a key priority for infrastructure providers, and yet decisions on major infrastructure investments continue to be governed by rules for economic analysis. The thesis proposes that investment analysis moves to a broader infrastructure business model approach based on a clearer definition of both benefits and value. The thesis introduces the concept of a sustainability investment logic. The research has focused on the water sector in Australia, however the model that has been developed may be applied to all infrast

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Palomo, Isaac. "Implementing Green Infrastructure to Address Urban Flooding." The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626201.

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George, Matthew William. "Reservoir Sedimentation: The Economics of Sustainability." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5955.

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Despite mounting demand for a more sustainable worldwide water supply system, available reservoir capacity is relentlessly diminishing due to sedimentation. This fact, coupled with a decrease in the rate of dam construction, indicate an impending water supply dilemma. In the future, dams should be designed following a life cycle management approach rather than the typical short-sighted design life technique.Neither sustainable reservoir lifespans nor intergenerational equity is achieved through conventional cost-benefit analyses (CBA), which render all benefits and costs projected to occur mor

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Umer, Adil. "Sustainability evaluation of transportation infrastructure under uncertainty : a fuzzy-based approach." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53035.

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The construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure consume significant natural resources, produces considerable waste and uses extensive human capital. Sustainability evaluation of alternative initiatives and policies for developing transportation infrastructure enables decision makers to make informed choices. Despite the availability of numerous sustainability rating tools for roadway infrastructure, there is a need to develop customizable sustainability evaluation tools for informed decision-making. Such tools, unlike the rating systems, ideally need to handle uncertain data,

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Rambäck, Elin. "The Recognition of Social Sustainability : A Case Study within Swedish Railway Infrastructure." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298445.

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As social sustainability has lacked recognition and consideration within physical planning since the establishment of the sustainability definition, this thesis seeks to investigate its role within a railway infrastructure’s physical planning process and project management. The study evaluates the specific case of the East Link, section Södertälje-Trosa, because it is a current project that has been ongoing for a long period of time. The thesis further seeks to investigate how the planning actors connected to the case study project have recognised the role of social sustainability and what inf

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Lim, Soon Kam. "Framework and processes for enhancing sustainability deliverables in Australian road infrastructure projects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32053/1/Soon_Kam_Lim_Thesis.pdf.

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Road and highway infrastructure provides the backbone for a nation’s economic growth. The versatile dispersion of population in Australia and its resource boom, coupled with improved living standards and growing societal expectations, calls for continuing development and improvement of road infrastructure under the current local, state and federal governments’ policies and strategic plans. As road infrastructure projects involve huge resources and mechanisms, achieving sustainability not only on economic scales but also through environmental and social responsibility becomes a crucial issue. W

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Weerakoon, Ruwan P. "Investigating opportunities for improving sustainability outcomes in post disaster road infrastructure recovery projects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102052/1/Ruwan_Weerakoon_Thesis.pdf.

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The research developed a sustainability assessment checklist for improving sustainability outcomes in post-disaster infrastructure recovery projects. The social, economic, environmental sustainability, and engineering and governance were the key elements. This research analysed three case studies and their existing disaster recovery strategies that were implemented to rebuild infrastructures damaged by natural disasters. The research sought to develop a comprehensive triple bottom line sustainability assessment checklist for post-disaster management in road infrastructure.

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Goldstein, Kevin. "Seeking a New Infrastructure: Public Works for the Contemporary City." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin15542118280784.

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Galal, Hana Sherin. "Integrating sustainability in municipal wastewater infrastructure decision-analysis using the analytic hierarchy process." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44590.

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New regulations from the Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment, released in 2009, require all wastewater treatment plants in Canada to produce effluent of secondary treatment levels. To comply with the new law, many Canadian municipalities using primary treatment plants must retrofit or renew their old systems. There is an increasing pressure from stakeholder groups and policy makers to select new infrastructure using triple-bottom-line (economic, environmental and social) analyses. The present study aims to illuminate how differing preferences among experts from different stakeholder g

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Collins, Ross D. (Ross Daniel). "Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103563.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2015.<br>Vita. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237).<br>Inclusive wealth (IW) measures the productive base of an economy, which is a linear index of its capital asset stocks. Changes to IW per capita over time track changes to intergenerational human well-being, thus non-declining IW per capita indicates sustainable development. National IW has only been measured retrospectively; this dissertation models and projects IW

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Rozema, Jakob. "Sustainability discourses on controversial infrastructure development : investigating their mobilization in environmental impact assessment." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48697/.

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This thesis investigates the mobilization of sustainability discourses in environmental impact assessment (EIA) by looking at two cases, in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Netherlands. EIA is a procedure used for predicting the sustainability impacts associated with project development. It is reasoned that, where adverse sustainability impacts are likely to occur, situated civil society stakeholders involved in deliberating these impacts will mobilize discourses on how the proposed development relates to achieving sustainability objectives. Yet a pertinent question is whether EIA accommodates

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Brazeau, Randi Hope. "Sustainability of Residential Hot Water Infrastructure: Public Health, Environmental Impacts, and Consumer Drivers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26537.

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Residential water heating is linked to the primary source of waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States, and accounts for greater energy demand than the combined water/wastewater utility sector. To date, there has been little research that can guide decision-making with regards to water heater selection and operation to minimize energy costs and the likelihood of waterborne disease. We have outlined three types of systems that currently dominate the marketplace: 1) a standard hot water tank with no hot water recirculation (STAND), 2) a hot water tank with hot water recirculation (RECIR

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D́agneaux, Inès de Sainte Marie. "Development of sustainability guidelines for infrastructure and their application to passenger ferry terminals." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2009/i_desaintemariedagneaux_113009.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in civil engineering)--Washington State University, December 2009.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 11, 2010). "Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering." Includes bibliographical references.

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Wersäll, Johanna. "Evaluation and recommendations for an improved sustainability management in infrastructure projects at ÅF." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254586.

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The infrastructure sector is essential for the social development in relation to for example urbanisation, but the infrastructure sector also has a negative impact on the environment. Infrastructure projects are part of the UN SDG and is an important factor regarding sustainable development. It is therefore important to make sure the development of infrastructure projects are sustainable in all phases. This can, among other things, be achieved through a sustainable project management. However, there is no clear systematic frameworkfor how sustainability can be implemented in the project manage

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Wallberg, Stefan, and Karin Lofgren. "Sustainable Construction in the Transportation Infrastructure Industry– as a vision and in practice." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-98389.

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This study has been conducted on behalf of Vectura Consulting AB with the purpose to examine how different actors perceive the dimensions of sustainability and sustainable construction. The purpose is also to provide an understanding of existing barriers and opportunities for sustainable construction within the industry and exemplify with different directions for the actors in order to develop sustainability. The study has approach the research problem by using systems theory, developed by Checkland, to identify the relevant system. Other systems theories has been used as an theoretical framew

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Kluger, Martin. "How the sustainability transition in energy is transforming the built environment of South African cities." Master's thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31425.

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South Africa is undergoing a sustainability transition (ST) in its energy sector as part of its broader move towards a lowcarbon future. Past studies of the nascent ST using a multi-level approach have already proven obsolete after strong resistance from the incumbent energy regime almost derailed the fledgling renewable energy (RE) industry. After initially going to ground and contracting, the industry re-emerged strongly in South Africa’s cities, mostly in the form of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. This study applies an integrated approach utilizing the Multi-level Perspective (MLP

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Abiodun, I. "The role of public private partnership in highway infrastructure development and sustainability in Nigeria." Thesis, University of Salford, 2012. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/38082/.

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The Nigeria's highway infrastructure are currently being procured and maintained using the traditional Design, Bid Build (DBB) method. The procurement method and funding mechanism appeared not to have produced the desired result of timely and cost effective project outcome nor good quality and sustainable road network. This study set out to investigate the challenges being experienced in this traditional procurement method. The study also explored the features of Public Private Partnership (PPP) and its potentials as an alternative procurement method for highway development, operation and main

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Alnoaimi, Ali D. "Development of Sustainability Assessment Framework for Sewerage Infrastructure Projects in the Kingdom of Bahrain." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/402266.

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Sustainable sewerage infrastructure projects are the keys in achieving sustainable development, as such infrastructure directly impacts on all sustainable development initiatives. Throughout its life cycle, a sewerage system faces a number of challenges and threats to its sustained efficiency, including the impact of ageing, aggressive environmental factors, underfunding, inadequate design, and insufficient operation and maintenance activities. These problems may lead to a rise in the risk of failure, including sewage leakage, overflow, discharge and odour issues. These issues can have signifi

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Yuan, Mei. "An integrated knowledge management framework for managing sustainability knowledge in the Australian infrastructure sector." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/46843/1/Mei_Yuan_Thesis.pdf.

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In Australia, it has been increasingly accepted that sustainability needs to be at the top of the agenda when contemplating infrastructure development. In practice however, many companies struggle to find effective ways to embrace sustainable ideas and implement them in real projects beyond minimum compliance. One of the reasons is the lack of underpinning knowledge and evidence to demonstrate and measure the linkage between sustainability implementations and the relevant outcomes. This is compounded by the fact that very often there are no common understandings between the stakeholders on sus

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Lu, Zhiyan, and 卢智妍. "Community capacity building for sustainability : case studies of Guangdong China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194568.

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Academic studies tend to focus on environmental and economics aspects in achieving sustainability. This paper emphasizes the social sustainability aspect from the angle of building community capacity. Community capacity can be viewed as readiness for empowerment, a prerequisite condition for greater social equity and social justice leading to inter- and intra-generation equity. A community capacity building framework is derived from the existing literatures to guide the analysis of four communities to assess the current status of the community capacity in Guangdong by conducting interviews and

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Hayes, Samantha. "Biomimetic design and engineering to enhance resilience and regenerative performance outcomes for infrastructure." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400560.

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Infrastructure assets and networks including transport, water and energy systems, are impacted by a range of complex 21st Century challenges from climate change and resource scarcity to rapid technological advances and changing user demands. These challenges highlight that infrastructure assets are integrated components of complex social, ecological and technological systems, rather than siloed technical entities. It is critical therefore that design and engineering responses to such challenges are similarly multi-faceted, adaptive and systems focussed. The relationship between infrastructure

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Alsulami, Badr Tameen. "Incorporating Complexity and Uncertainty into Appraising Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems: Hybrid Fuzzy Modelling Approach." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366495.

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Sustainable development (SD) is a concept with multi-dimensional aspects. Through a pattern of resource use, SD aims to enhance both economic and social growth, while minimizing negative environmental impacts. Vital contributors to SD are the civil infrastructure systems (CIS) which have a huge impact on the spatial and temporal dimensions. Examining the performance sustainability of CIS requires an interdisciplinary approach involving engineering, environmental, economic and social sciences. This hard and complex process necessitates a proper assessment of the diverse conditions under which t

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Eisenman, Ana Athalia Plaut. "Sustainable streets and highways: an analysis of green roads rating systems." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43702.

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As sustainability increasingly becomes a concern to society, it is in state transportation agencies' best interests to embrace and adopt initiatives that will both educate their employees and the communities they serve on how transportation systems and system operations can be viewed within such a context. One of the strategies some state departments of transportation (SDOTs) have adopted for providing a more sustainable approach to highway design is a "green streets and highways rating system." Adopting a strategy such as the one proposed in this thesis for the Georgia Department of Transpo

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Lehmann, Richard J. [Verfasser]. "Sustainability Information Services for Agri-Food Supply Networks : Closing Gaps in Information Infrastructures / Richard Joachim Lehmann." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1016183666/34.

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Sperling, Josh B. "Exploring the nexus of infrastructures, environment, and health in Indian cities| Integrating multiple infrastructures and social factors with health risks." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621855.

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<p> The overarching goal of this thesis is to explore and assess infrastructure-environment-health interactions in Indian cities, addressing social factors such as wealth and literacy, as well as the provision of multiple infrastructures. </p><p> Five main studies are conducted. First, exploration of Delhi all-cause mortality data and survey of local experts on associations between infrastructures, environment, and health outcomes. Key findings include: a) that 50% of deaths in Delhi are reported with cause not classified (demonstrating the need for bottom-up study to supplement hospital dat

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Kulkarni, Madhuri. "Implementation of green infrastructure as stormwater management in Portland, Oregon." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13780.

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Master of Regional and Community Planning<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Huston Gibson<br>Green infrastructure is an emerging concept which utilizes vegetated systems rather than traditional gray infrastructure for stormwater management. Conducting a literature review revealed the effectiveness of incentive based planning, the benefits of green infrastructure, information on bioswales and wetlands, stormwater management, Portland, and planning implementation strategies. Portland, Oregon, was selected as the area of study because of its widespread ap

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Behrens, Ilse. "infraTECTURE : transforming infrastructure into architecture, a services building in Pretoria CBD." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30289.

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How does one appropriately design a selfsufficient building in the existing urban fabric without damaging historical urban centres? The role of architecture is to adapt, to not only serve and support people but, also to support its context and surrounding architectures. Thus a new typology needs to be created, by designing the architecture of ‘giving’. By looking at how resources travel between and through buildings, one could start to re-address the nature of services within architecture, starting with the outer workings of infrastructure. Through experimenting with the potential of creating

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Fisch, Jessica. "Green Infrastructure and the Sustainability Concept: A Case Study of the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1869.

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Sustainability has been touted as an ideal in city and environmental planning in recent decades, evolving to include environmental, economic, and equity-focused goals. While much has been written about these ideals, it remains unclear how their inherent tensions and challenges affect planning practice. This thesis analyzes these goals as they are perceived and prioritized in The Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, a regional water management plan released by Waggonner and Ball Architects in September 2013, utilizing interviews with architects involved in the plan’s development, staff at agen

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Hartzell, Tynan Scott. "EVALUATING POTENTIAL FOR FLOATING SOLAR INSTALLATIONS ON ARIZONA WATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608582.

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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project<br>This capstone project evaluates the current state of floating solar photovoltaic technology and proposes use of the technology on water management infrastructure in Arizona. The study finds that floating solar photovoltaic has a higher energy density (100 W/m^2) than land-based, utility-scale solar and does not involve significant cost increases. The study proposes and models a small pilot installation on Lake Pleasant Reservoir, part of the Central Arizona Project, and finds that lifetime costs per unit energy are higher than what th

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McWhirter, Nathan Daniel. "Teaching Engineering Students About Cognitive Barriers During Design for Sustainable Infrastructure." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81310.

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Sustainability is a complex socio-technical challenge that requires new ways of thinking. To help meet this challenge, I have created three case-based modules that teach engineering students how to apply sustainability principles and help them recognize potential cognitive traps, or barriers, that may prevent more consideration for sustainability during design. Each of my three case studies is built into a PowerPoint-guided module for undergraduate engineering classes, which may be taught in 1-3 class days. I have implemented each of the three modules in senior-level classes at Virginia Tech,

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Hedges, Glenn A. "Developing a business case for sustainability in the construction industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017.

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In this thesis a framework is provided to assist construction industry personnel overcome industry-wide inertia to innovation and sustainability. Using an ethnographic-based case study method, the relevant business improvements and value drivers linked to total shareholder return were identified. The resultant framework can enable construction industry personnel to compose effective business cases for sustainability within the context of existing project and organisational performance practices. The framework will also enable the construction industry to make more meaningful contributions to s

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Panchenko, Evgeny. "Sustainable Planning of Linear Infrastructure Corridor in Remote Areas." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1542777301682337.

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Dong, Jodi Vanessa. "Splintering Urbanism and Sustainable Urban Water Management in Sydney and Melbourne." Thesis, Griffith University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367918.

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In Australia, examination of water problems has traditionally centred on the country’s frequent droughts and their impact on agricultural communities. However, since the 1980s, weather patterns have shifted and urban water storages have reached the lowest levels on record. Further, pollution from industry, agriculture and urban regions into waterways, creeks and rivers is degrading entire ecosystems. Studies have been carried out in the 1990s and early 2000s on the tools, techniques and policies to overcome these urban water problems. However, a major barrier to implementation is that the anal

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Cronin, Victoria Louise Molly. "Slum upgrading in India and Kenya : investigating the sustainability." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/242378.

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Slums are informal housing settlements commonly found in urban areas of developing countries which are characterised by poor shelter, low service provision and lacking in security of tenure. Slums are growing and new slums are forming. The international development community has been actively working to improve the living conditions of slum-dwellers and to reduce poverty via slum upgrading methods. There are various slum upgrading delivery models and approaches to tackle the urbanisation of poverty in developing countries. Many adaptive and proactive measures have been implemented through a va

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Bryce, James Matthew. "Applying Pavement Life Cycle Assessment Results to Enhance Sustainable Pavement Management Decision Making." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64335.

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Sustainable pavement management implies maintaining acceptable condition of pavements while also considering the tradeoff between cost, environmental impacts and social impacts of pavement investments. Typical pavement management practices only consider economic considerations, and environmental mitigation techniques are employed after the selection of the maintenance action is complete. This dissertation presents a series of papers that demonstrate the impact of decision making on the environmental impact of the pavements both at the project and network levels of pavement management. An anal

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TEAL, SUSAN J. "INTERCONNECTION: NATURAL PROCESSES AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1085760290.

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Alam, Shafiqul. "Developing life cycle environmental indicators for road infrastructure." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102099/1/Sheikh%20Mohammad%20Shafiqul_Alam_Thesis.pdf.

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This study delivered a comprehensive life cycle carbon footprint indictor for sustainable development and management of road networks. The developed indicator termed ‘Road Use Greenhouse Factor (RUG Factor)’ is scientifically validated for its quantification, impact assessment on the conventional cost-benefit analysis based economic interventions, and suitability of integration with other indicators required for sustainable road asset management. The study also made important contribution on quantitative indicator development methodology, dynamic aspect of life cycle assessment, road social in

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Masilela, Phumlani. "Life cycle sustainability assessment of next generation energy infrastructure in Africa: Is there a case for biohydrogen after biomethane?" Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29211.

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The recovery of energy in the form of biomethane gas from inexpensive biodegradable organic wastes is starting to become a cornerstone of green economy investments. It is possible that such installations could serve as a precursor for the infrastructural development of a hydrogen economy, since biogas processes can be modified to produce hydrogen instead of methane. It is unclear whether such a change would improve or worsen the environmental, social, and economic performance of such waste-to-energy installations. Earlier studies show that the dark fermentation process for biohydrogen producti

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Gonzalez, Paola Andrea. "Water, Sanitation, and Citizenship: Perceptions of Water Scarcity, Reuse, and Sustainability in Valparaiso de Goias, Brazil." Scholar Commons, 2017. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7403.

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Access to reliable water and sanitation are two important goals to improve livelihoods around the world. Providing access to improved and safe water resources that are equitable and appropriate to local needs is important to improve sustainability long-term. In addition, framing access to water and sanitation as basic human rights is often used as a rationale in developing new water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions in developing countries around the world. But not all countries consider access to safe water and sanitation as a human right. In the thesis, the politics

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Hönninger, Jan. "Smart City concepts and their approach on sustainability, transportation and tourism – Waterborne transportation, an opportunity for sustainability?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-182461.

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Due to urbanization and the population of cities producing up to 75% of emission, Smart City concepts, looking at sustainability and more efficiency within the city, with the help of IoT and ICT based technology, are seen as an opportunity to act future-oriented, today. Construction and transportation are seen as the main contributors on the way of change from energy consumption to energy production. Enhancing infrastructure to improve the quality of all sorts of public transportation is thus of utter importance to governance, interested in Smart City concepts. Looking at the literature, water

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Ndau, Lloyd. "Building designers' perception and the effect on sustainability in Malawi." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3185.

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Environmental sustainability in buildings is an important part of preserving the environment and reducing climate change. The increasing amount of physical infrastructure systems in Malawi has not been accompanied by policy-makers clearly understanding perceptions and attitudinal behaviors of building designers to promote environmental sustainability. Some building designers in Malawi might not be practicing sustainability innovations adequately, requiring more research to understand their perceptions and behaviors. The purpose of this mixed methods sequential and explanatory study was to expl

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Pandit, Arka. "Resilience of urban water systems: an 'infrastructure ecology' approach to sustainable and resilient (SuRe) planning and design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53443.

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Increasing urbanization is a dominant global trend of the past few decades. For cities to become more sustainable, however, the infrastructure on which they rely must also become more efficient and resilient. Urban infrastructure systems are analogous to ecological systems because they are interconnected, complex and adaptive, are comprised of interconnected components, and exhibit characteristic scaling properties. Analyzing them together as a whole, as one would do for an ecological system, provides a better understanding about their dynamics and interactions, and enables system-level optimi

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Villebonnet, Violaine. "Scheduling and Dynamic Provisioning for Energy Proportional Heterogeneous Infrastructures." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSEN057/document.

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La consommation énergétique des centres de calculs et de données, aussi appelés « data centers », représentait 2% de la consommation mondiale d'électricité en 2012. Leur nombre est en augmentation et suit l'évolution croissante des objets connectés, services, applications, et des données collectées. Ces infrastructures, très consommatrices en énergie, sont souvent sur-dimensionnées et les serveurs en permanence allumés. Quand la charge de travail est faible, l'électricité consommée par les serveurs inutilisés est gaspillée, et un serveur inactif peut consommer jusqu'à la moitié de sa consommat

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Abedi, Solaleh, Marvin Lannefeld, Elizabeth Moore, and Elin Olsson. "Sustainable Physical Legacy Development via Large-Scale International Sport Events." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-19634.

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In an increasingly urban society, cities pose both challenges and opportunities to move towards a more sustainable society. This study examines the role of large-scale international sport events in sustainable development within host cities, with a focus on the physical legacies that they leave behind. The research seeks to offer guidance to enhance sustainable physical legacy development, informed by Games’ strategy documents, impacts on host cities and professional opinions. The research was conducted using three key methods: an examination of key strategy documents, a literature review of a

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Louis, Rachel Annette. "Sustainable Bridges: Green Links to the Future." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274455847.

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