Sustainable planning and decision-making model for sugarcane mills considering environmental issues

Chouhan, Vivek Kumar; Khan, Shahul Hamid; Hajiaghaei–Keshteli, Mostafa

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114252

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“…These measures can be used to improve the management of HSC services and reduce these inequalities. Many studies that focus on optimizing scheduling for all types of home care services [ 22 , 26 , 27 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ] apply heuristics or metaheuristics. Our research can work as a first step to start building an algorithm to schedule services for SAD, as we have more information to simulate scenarios to validate the proposed solutions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Socioeconomic Environment on Home Social Care Service Demand and Dependent Users

Badell

Armas

Julià

2022

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An aging population and rising life expectancy lead to an increased demand for social services to care for dependent users, among other factors. In Barcelona, home social care (HSC) services are a key agent in meeting this demand. However, demand is not evenly distributed among neighborhoods, and we hypothesized that this can be explained by the user’s social environment. In this work, we describe the user’s environment at a macroscopic level by the socioeconomic features of the neighborhood. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the dependent user’s socioeconomic environment and service needs. We applied descriptive analytics techniques to explore possible patterns linking HSC demand and other features. These methods include principal components analysis (PCA) and hierarchical clustering. The main analysis was made from the obtained boxplots, after these techniques were applied. We found that economic and disability factors, through users’ mean net rent and degree of disability features, are related to the demand for home social care services. This relation is even clearer for the home-based social care services. These findings can be useful to distribute the services among areas by considering more features than the volume of users/population. Moreover, it can become helpful in future steps to develop a management tool to optimize HSC scheduling and staff assignment to improve the cost and quality of service. For future research, we believe that additional and more precise characteristics could provide deeper insights into HSC service demand.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Impact of Socioeconomic Environment on Home Social Care Service Demand and Dependent Users

Badell

Armas

Julià

2022

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“…37 In recent times, designing a network of the supply chain has been prevalent in various sectors. 38 Chouhan et al 39 presented a location-allocation framework for designing a network of sugarcane supply chain in the agricultural sector considering carbon emission while the network of sugarcane supply chain given by Chouhan et al 40 was focussed on handling the by-products. Salehi-Amiri et al 34 considered the walnut industry and proposed an optimization model for designing a supply chain network.…”

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“…In recent times, designing a network of the supply chain has been prevalent in various sectors 38 . Chouhan et al 39 . presented a location‐allocation framework for designing a network of sugarcane supply chain in the agricultural sector considering carbon emission while the network of sugarcane supply chain given by Chouhan et al 40 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A solution procedure is therefore required for proposed model to solve larger instances. Abbasi et al., 109 Akbari‐Kasgari et al., 43 Bagherinejad and Shoeib, 64 Chouhan et al., 39 ElKady and Abdelsalam, 60 Ghaderi, 67 Heyns and van Vuuren, 72 Kumar and Bardhan, 54 Lei and Church, 69 Mosallanezhad et al., 33 Mousavi et al., 38 Nasiri et al., 66 Pouraliakbarimamaghani et al., 41,63 Shishebori et al., 68 Zarrinpoor et al 57 . have discussed the importance and implementation of solution methods.…”

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A public‐private partnership based model for regulating out‐of‐pocket expenditures to strengthen primary care system

Kumar

2022

Health Planning & Management

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In developing countries like India, the cost of health care is largely borne by patient out‐of‐pocket payments. Recent studies have reported that patients skip public‐funded clinics providing free consultation for distant private care providers. Some of the reasons identified for such behaviour include longer waiting times, perception regarding quality of care, etc. Therefore, optimal allocation of existing and new capacity is critical for a greater public interest. This article presents a decision‐making framework towards this intent for strengthening the existing government primary healthcare network. In this article, a mixed‐integer linear programing (MILP) model is developed for optimal reconfiguration of the existing government primary healthcare network to minimise patient out‐of‐pocket expenditures (OOPE). The model involves three types of facilities: Primary Health Centre (PHC), Community Health Centre (CHC), and Private OPD (outpatient department). Implementation of the proposed model can help in reducing out‐of‐pocket expenditures. The optimization model proposed in the article is unique as it incorporates for the first time, patient out‐of‐pocket expenditure, capacity reconfiguration, and public‐private partnership decisions in the primary healthcare system. A solution algorithm is also proposed for the optimization model. The model would be useful for theory development and also in policy‐making.

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“…Chouhan et al ( 2021 ) presented a closed-loop structure for a sugarcane supply chain network. The environmental features of the sugarcane supply chain were also studied by Chouhan et al ( 2022 ). They formulated the supply chain network under carbon tax regulation.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Blood plasma supply chain planning to respond COVID-19 pandemic: a case study

Fallahi

Anaraki

Mokhtari

et al. 2022

Environ Dev Sustain

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The COVID-19 pandemic causes a severe threat to human lives worldwide. Convalescent plasma as supportive care for COVID-19 is critical in reducing the death rate and staying in hospitals. Designing an efficient supply chain network capable of managing convalescent plasma in this situation seems necessary. Although many researchers investigated supply chains of blood products, no research was conducted on the planning of convalescent plasma in the supply chain framework with specific features of COVID-19. This gap is covered in the current work by simultaneous regular and convalescent plasma flow in a supply chain network. Besides, due to the growing importance of environmental problems, the resulting carbon emission from transportation activities is viewed to provide a green network. In other words, this study aims to plan the integrated green supply chain network of regular and convalescent plasma in the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 for the first time. The presented mixed-integer multi-objective optimization model determines optimal network decisions while minimizing the total cost and total carbon emission. The Epsilon constraint method is used to handle the considered objectives. The model is applied to a real case study from the capital of Iran. Sensitivity analyses are carried out, and managerial insights are drawn. Based on the obtained results, product demand impacts the objective functions significantly. Moreover, the systems' total carbon emission is highly dependent on the flow of regular plasma. The results also reveal that changing transportation emission unit causes significant variation in the total emission while the total cost remains fixed.

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Sustainable planning and decision-making model for sugarcane mills considering environmental issues

Cited by 40 publications

References 44 publications

Impact of Socioeconomic Environment on Home Social Care Service Demand and Dependent Users

Impact of Socioeconomic Environment on Home Social Care Service Demand and Dependent Users

A public‐private partnership based model for regulating out‐of‐pocket expenditures to strengthen primary care system

Blood plasma supply chain planning to respond COVID-19 pandemic: a case study

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