Modelling sustainable development planning: A multicriteria decision conferencing approach

An integrated approach to achieving campus sustainability: assessment of the current campus environmental management practices

“…Sustainability is characterized by economic growth based on social justness and efficiency in the use of natural resources [11,28,30], and it includes the recognition that all stakeholders' co-operation and participation are required to effectively achieve sustainability goals. For a city or an organization to be sustainable, it requires conservation and enhancement of its resources base, an elimination of poverty and deprivation of its inhabitants, broadening of the concept of development so that it covers not only economic growth but also social and cultural development [17]. Elizabete et al [6] have also identified five essential dimensions within the concept of sustainability, namely: ecological, social, economic, cultural and spatial.…”

Conceptual Model of Relation Between Policies of Comprehensive Growth In National Development Plans With Economic Stability In Rural Spaces

“…Based on a prospective approach, it is true to say sustainable development sought to raise level of knowledge and awareness in human beings towards the Earth's natural resources to set up a sustainable lifestyle for all of them. On the other hand, it is opposing to excessive consumption, waste of resources, ignoring future generations and breaking relations with the past (Zahedi &Najafi, 2007;Quaddus, 2001;WCED, 1987). In other words, sustainable development can be considered as a process of socioeconomic growth and development which is established based on economic approaches, provided that the total value of accumulations and capital stocks remain constant or non-decreasing forever and at any time (Rao, 2007); this means that total ecological and nonecological capital reserves will be separately preserved and maintained in the infinite time horizon nondecreasingly (figure 1).…”

Integrating Geographical Information Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Analytical Hierarchy Process in Modelling Optimum Sites for Locating Water Reservoirs. A Case Study of the Debub District in Eritrea

“…This could be done by revising the manner in which questions are asked in making the pairwise comparisons. If this should fail to improve consistency then it is likely that the problem should be more accurately structured; that is, grouping similar elements under more meaningful criteria [40,41].…”