Search results for "SUSTAINABILITY"
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Forecasting pollutant emission of the urban vehicular running fleet by means of synthetic indicators
2003
The simple method here presented, devoted to the evaluation of the environmental performances of transportation systems, is mainly referred to the pollutant emission factors released within the "COPERT III” approach. The method is here adopted for building up a synthetic indicator of the whole pollutant emissions from the transportation sector in a given urban area. The indicator can be utilised in the aim of comparing the environmental effects of different transportation policies: the introducing of modal changes in the transportation demand from private cars to public vehicles, for examples, could be suitably analysed. Apart the knowledge of the proper pollutant emission factors, the meth…
Greening a university campus: trends of energy consumption and possible sustainable paths
2014
Recent years have seen an increasing public interest in issues related to energy saving and environmental pollution reduction of public buildings, such as those in university campuses, that should set an example of sustainable development. University campuses are usually characterized by the daily presence of a high number of people working and living in a relatively limited area. They are sites of a wide spread of functions, ranging from teaching to laboratory activities, from housing and food preparation to local transportation. All these activities require remarkable amount of energy that, actually, are not always utilized with the best possible efficiency. This calls for a deep reconsid…
Sustainability initiatives and the stakeholders involved : a case study of the GOLDEN Project and the electric utility industry
2017
This piece of research focuses primarily on which are the main types of sustainability initiatives within the electric utility sector with direct attention on five companies being Eletrobras, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG, Fortum, Copel and Edison. Additionally this research looks at the primary stakeholders who are both the drivers and recipients of these specific set of sustainability initiatives. In order to obtain results to these questions, I examined the sustainability reports of the five aforementioned companies for years 2008 and 2014 from the GOLDEN Project database. I used qualitative content analysis as my method to establish which initiatives and stakeholders were…
CAP POLICY DIMENSIONS: A CATALYST FOR COLLABORATION AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGES
2015
A great challenge to EU livestock production markets is the growing production price and the farmers' income variability. The public request for traceability and accountability determined the EU agri-food policy to implement new sustainable reform. In this paper the author identified a set of inputs and impacts of CAP sustainable reform on livestock system.International major competitors are assessed to benchmark the competitiviness of EU agri-food industry.
’Green’ strategies and approaches. A contribution from the off-site and upcycling of discarded shipping containers
2021
La Terra versa oggi in una condizione di vulnerabilità che gran parte degli studiosi attribuisce a un modello di crescita infinita inseguita su un pianeta con risorse limitate. In relazione a questo contesto ambientale critico il contributo si propone di stimolare nuove prassi per il settore delle costruzioni suggerendo una visione sistemica che faccia ricorso contemporaneamente a più approcci sostenibili e circolari e che, combinando tecniche e tecnologie tradizionali e innovative, consenta l’eliminazione di scarti e rifiuti. In particolare, l’articolo illustra le potenzialità della prefabbricazione nel contenimento degli impatti ambientali diretti e indiretti rispetto a un’equivalente cos…
Requalification of the Tobacco Factory in Palermo with destination to social finalities
2016
From the Sixties and for many years later the construction of new buildings, both public and residential, has made our cities more and more large, with a great squandering of ground, pollution and reduction of the green areas. A necessary trend reversal has implied a growing interest towards the rehabilitation and requalification of the brownfields. These, both inside the urban fabric and in suburban areas, offer complexes of buildings with great potentiality for a sustainable reuse both from the social point of view and from the environmental one. The large dimensions, the great spans and the materials usually used make these buildings suitable to a recovery which makes possible a rehabili…
Sustainable Hospital Architecture: Quality Principles for a Responsable Design
2006
The theme of sustainability in the hospital design is today a subject widely discussed in the architectural field. The functioning of the health facility, also under the point of view of physical and organizational consistency is one of the primary objectives of the national government. There is the urgency to answer adequately and responsibly for the needs of society, assuring physical and psychological comfort and putting the center of the design process the individual sanitary needs. The social transformations and the technological progress in sanitary field have considerably modified the hospital conception. The hospital becomes space in which the individual is revalued for him itself a…
Evoluzione tipologica e tecnologica dei sistemi di abitazione per l'emergenza _ Typological and technological evolution of housing systems for emerge…
2017
Le tipologie di abitazione temporanea oggi utilizzate in caso di emergenza si possono ricondurre a due sistemi strutturali fondamentali: il sistema ad involucro flessibile ed il sistema ad involucro rigido. Da questi deriva un sistema misto in cui elementi flessibili si integrano ad elementi rigidi, generando soluzioni particolarmente interessanti sia dal punto di vista tecnologico sia formale. Ai sistemi flessibili appartiene la tenda, insieme a tutte quelle strutture leggere, estensibili e/o gonfiabili, quali strutture a pantografo, pneumatiche o, tensostruttu-re. Ai sistemi rigidi si fa risalire la casa, da cui derivano il container ed il prefab-bricato, ma anche la roulotte ed il camper…
Ecology Approach in Education and Health Care
2017
Abstract In the 21st century, numerous complex challenges in education and health care have come to the fore, among them: 1) how to implement the ecological approach in the education process and health care practice; 2) how to implement study programmes in line with the education trends for sustainable development and the process of formation and development of the ecological competence. The results of this research refer only to the content analysis of the essays written by the first and second year students of the programs in Nursing and Medicine on completing the study course The Ecological Approach in Patient Care. To increase the credibility and validity of the obtained results of the …
A Dynamic Framework for Sustainable Open Innovation in the Food Industry
2022
PurposeThis study aims to take a holistic perspective to investigate how open innovation supports sustainability and the contribution to the Unite Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on an in-depth single case study of Andriani SpA, a leading Italian company in the food industry. The case is built by triangulating data from direct observations, documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews.FindingsThe findings show an organization that has developed its competitive advantage by adopting open innovation to embed sustainability in its strategy and business model. The case study complements the understanding of how open innovati…