A review of multi-criteria assessment of the social sustainability of infrastructures

Sierra, Leonardo; Piqueras, Víctor Yepes; Pellicer, Eugenio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.022

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“…Sustainability is a broad concept that reflects the resilience of the environment on human actions [1,2]. Over the years, the implementation of sustainability on processes, products, and services has been standardized through a variety of rating tools [3][4][5].…”

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Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

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Green buildings have recently become a key aspect of the construction field and bring along a renovation of the whole industry chain. Such changes introduce new challenges for all subjects involved, and designers are also affected by such issues, especially for the development of projects based on international green building standards. Within this scope, project management plays a key role in the optimization of the design phase. This research analyzes the design process of international projects from the project management perspective through a multiple case study approach, considering the sustainability-related tasks that negatively affect the project design development under two types of contractual approaches: Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build. It aims to identify whether the Design-Build or Design-Bid-Build process is the best solution for developing green building projects. Two case studies in Italy and two case studies in Spain are analyzed, and the effects of the project management issues are evaluated under three different points of view: Time, cost, and level of sustainability of the building. A poorly planned process for the achievement of the various green building features of the project can impact the project schedule and the budget, whereas, a poorly managed project could also negatively impact its green building features. Finally, this research also highlights the positive relationship between process integration and green building design development.Sustainability 2020, 12, 2276 2 of 16 of necessary inputs and integrate them to meet pre-defined objectives [18]. During the last years, several research studies have analyzed project management processes to optimize green building projects focusing on various aspects, such as leadership factors [19,20], building information modelling implementation [12,21], lean construction [13,14], economic value [22], schedule performance [23], procurement approaches [24], rating systems [3], best practices [11], project-based organizations [25], processes [1], design teams [26], and design development [27,28].The management of the design phase is especially critical within the facility lifecycle, as any later changes will produce cost overruns and delays [12,29]. Designers involved in the development of projects based on international green building standards face additional challenges, primarily the need for additional design time, uncertainty regarding special equipment and materials, inclusion of green requirements in the contractual specifications, and planning green activities within the general master plan [1,8,29]. In this scenario, the standardization of procedures through green building certification is appropriate [5,30]. This way, reference standards, such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design [31], or the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method [32], have begun to be implemented as an international benchmark for the definition of common sustainable quality for buildings. LEED and BREEAM are the most used reference st...

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“…Five categories of indicators were selected (shown in Table ): The primary goal of investment in infrastructure projects is to improve social productivity to increase local employment and eradicate poverty (Zeng et al, ); thus, the social contributions of specific infrastructures and PPP projects should be reviewed. In this case, two categories of indicators were reviewed: the 23 social criteria for measuring social contribution of specific infrastructures projects (referred as to SCI) proposed by Sierra, Yepes, and Pellicer () and the social sustainability performance indicators of PPP projects (referred as to SCP) proposed by Shen et al (). Then, social impact assessment (SIA) indicators proposed by Vanclay () were reviewed. SIA can be defined as the process of assessing or estimating in advance the social consequences that are likely to follow from specific policy actions or project developments, particularly in the context of the appropriate national, state, or provincial environmental policy legislation (Vanclay, ).…”

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“…The primary goal of investment in infrastructure projects is to improve social productivity to increase local employment and eradicate poverty (Zeng et al, ); thus, the social contributions of specific infrastructures and PPP projects should be reviewed. In this case, two categories of indicators were reviewed: the 23 social criteria for measuring social contribution of specific infrastructures projects (referred as to SCI) proposed by Sierra, Yepes, and Pellicer () and the social sustainability performance indicators of PPP projects (referred as to SCP) proposed by Shen et al (). …”

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“…In particular, some indicators with economic characteristics are adopted in existing indicators because the three dimensions of sustainability (economic, social, and environmental) are interdependent (Pinz et al, ). For example, Sierra, Yepes, and Pellicer () proposed the indicator “socioeconomic system approach,” and Shen et al () proposed the indicator “provision of quality services to local economic activities.” The goal of sustainable development is not isolated, and the realization of one goal may promote the realization of other goals. Economic development can indirectly promote regional social sustainability at the same time.…”

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Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Yuan

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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly adopted in China. Sustainability of PPPs has become a priority for a sustainable development of PPPs. Most prior studies focus on sustainable implementation of PPP projects. Few research efforts have been done to examine the impacts of PPPs to sustainability from an external perspective and a more macro geographical scale. Meanwhile, the social aspect of the sustainability of PPPs has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aims to propose a social sustainability contribution evaluation system (SSCES) for PPPs to evaluate PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability at the institutional level. An indicator system of the SSCES for PPPs was developed, which included 8 requirements for socially sustainable development and 33 social sustainability indicators. The weights of indicators were determined by using the analytic hierarchy process method. The results indicate that, in the context of China, promoting peopleoriented urbanization in PPPs can help enhance regional social sustainability. This study provides a useful evaluation tool for various stakeholders to evaluate the sustainability of PPPs from an institutional level, especially for local governments to review current PPP polices and make improvements.

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“…Promoting sustainability is a complex problem, and social sustainability is perhaps its most difficult tenet to be promoted and analyzed. Sustainability assessments have disregarded the social dimension [21] because of the complexity of establishing and measuring social indicators [24][25][26]; the high stakes of social sustainability and the difficulty in conciliate it to the environment and the economy; the close relationship between the historical and institutional development of sustainability, on the one hand, and environmental sustainability, on the other; the inefficacy of market-based strategies to promote social justice; and lack of attention to the relationships, synergies, and trade-offs between the three tenets, usually regarded as independent dimensions.…”

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Socio-Problematization of Green Chemistry: Enriching Systems Thinking and Social Sustainability by Education

Marcelino

Sjöström

Marques³

2019

Sustainability

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The current research on systems thinking criticizes the additive nature of green chemistry (GC) not being supportive of systems thinking to achieve holism in its practices. This paper argues that systems thinking should comprise of the social issues, and, therefore, it studies renowned papers by GC pioneers and reviews on the field regarding how they address the social dimension of sustainability. It points out how GC has ignored social sustainability in its discourses, practices, and evaluations, leading to a reductionist interpretation of sustainability. Then, this paper presents some challenges to be overcome in order to achieve balanced sustainability. A systemic chemical thinking is advocated, considering chemistry in culture and chemistry as culture, expanding the chemistry rationality from ontological and technological dimensions into the epistemological and ethical ones. It is then discussed how chemistry education can help to promote sustainability in a broad and systemic way.

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A review of multi-criteria assessment of the social sustainability of infrastructures

Cited by 151 publications

References 110 publications

Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

Optimization of Green Building Design Processes: Case Studies within the European Union

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Socio-Problematization of Green Chemistry: Enriching Systems Thinking and Social Sustainability by Education

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