Widespread vegetated roofs, called green roofs, are becoming a popular option for sustainable design. Green roofs are capable of improving a variety of environmental parameters in urban areas. The construction of green roofs requires the consideration of many factors and parameters. For example, the structure of the building should be capable of carrying the extra weight of soil, water, and vegetation on the roof. The main objective of this paper is to study the impact of green roofs on buildings and to identify existing trends, technologies, and techniques. This paper investigates the implication of existing green roof technologies on structural design, energy demand, and life cycle cost. Using WUFI®, energy simulations were performed for the case study and the developed model was validated through cost analysis. Results showed that regional variations were sufficiently addressed through multi-level weight consideration in the proposed model. Findings from this study will be beneficial to urban planners and architects for the design and construction of more sustainable buildings.
{"title":"Evaluating the Sustainability Impacts of Green Roofs on Buildings","authors":"Ali Zahabkar, A. Al-Sakkaf, A. Bagchi","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.304822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.304822","url":null,"abstract":"Widespread vegetated roofs, called green roofs, are becoming a popular option for sustainable design. Green roofs are capable of improving a variety of environmental parameters in urban areas. The construction of green roofs requires the consideration of many factors and parameters. For example, the structure of the building should be capable of carrying the extra weight of soil, water, and vegetation on the roof. The main objective of this paper is to study the impact of green roofs on buildings and to identify existing trends, technologies, and techniques. This paper investigates the implication of existing green roof technologies on structural design, energy demand, and life cycle cost. Using WUFI®, energy simulations were performed for the case study and the developed model was validated through cost analysis. Results showed that regional variations were sufficiently addressed through multi-level weight consideration in the proposed model. Findings from this study will be beneficial to urban planners and architects for the design and construction of more sustainable buildings.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121565584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Environmental justice as a movement is an urgent step towards the realization of environmental equity. There is a necessity that makes environmental justice an important solution to climate change. The origin of the necessity was the damage that environmental racism was causing, and its realization in the United States and later as an international phenomenon. Through a theoretical approach, this article examined how communities of concern are denied environmental justice as a result of the current developmental models in practice and showed why they are vulnerable to the global challenge of climate change and environmental pollution. It identified the link between human rights and the environment. It explored a viable sustainable development model for communities of concern and concluded on how they can get past the economic challenges of implementing green industries.
{"title":"A Portraiture of Environmental Justice in Communities of Concern","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.292452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.292452","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental justice as a movement is an urgent step towards the realization of environmental equity. There is a necessity that makes environmental justice an important solution to climate change. The origin of the necessity was the damage that environmental racism was causing, and its realization in the United States and later as an international phenomenon. Through a theoretical approach, this article examined how communities of concern are denied environmental justice as a result of the current developmental models in practice and showed why they are vulnerable to the global challenge of climate change and environmental pollution. It identified the link between human rights and the environment. It explored a viable sustainable development model for communities of concern and concluded on how they can get past the economic challenges of implementing green industries.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114879096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Green Bond is a new concept in India that are described as debt securities issued to raise funds for financing green projects. This paper focuses on determinants that influence the performance of green bonds in India along with its comparison with conventional bonds. The analysis and literature exhibit that there are a lot of factors like price, risk, underwriters, etc. that may affect green bond performance and explains how, the issuance may be improved with the help of certifications, stock exchanges, and standardization. Finally, it is concluded that India has an immense potential to expand this gradually evolving market.
{"title":"Determinants of Green Bond Performance Evidence From India","authors":"Keerat Bhurjee, Ankur Paliwal","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.304821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.304821","url":null,"abstract":"Green Bond is a new concept in India that are described as debt securities issued to raise funds for financing green projects. This paper focuses on determinants that influence the performance of green bonds in India along with its comparison with conventional bonds. The analysis and literature exhibit that there are a lot of factors like price, risk, underwriters, etc. that may affect green bond performance and explains how, the issuance may be improved with the help of certifications, stock exchanges, and standardization. Finally, it is concluded that India has an immense potential to expand this gradually evolving market.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128118398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Nobles, D. Burrell, Tyrone Waller, Austin Cusak
The United Nations forecasts that by 2050, the world's population will reach 9.8 billion and 11.2 billion in 2100. An ever-growing global population threatens food security, accompanied by an increasing food shortage and relentless cybersecurity attacks. Agriculture 4.0, smart farming, and precision farming are essential to provide the technological breakthroughs to increase agricultural production while simultaneously expanding cybersecurity risks in the agriculture and food industries. With a global cybersecurity talent shortage and increasing cyber-attacks on the agriculture and food industries, there is a dire need to address cybersecurity solutions for the agriculture and food industries. A developing area in agriculture is cyberbiosecurity, an integrated concept of biosecurity and cybersecurity underline the need to safeguard systems, humans, animals, and plants from biological mischiefs, such as bioterrorism, environmental terrorism, infections, plagues, and pandemics. This paper explores these complex dynamics through an exploration of current and emerging literature.
{"title":"Food Sustainability, Cyber-Biosecurity, Emerging Technologies, and Cybersecurity Risks in the Agriculture and Food Industries","authors":"C. Nobles, D. Burrell, Tyrone Waller, Austin Cusak","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.309744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.309744","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations forecasts that by 2050, the world's population will reach 9.8 billion and 11.2 billion in 2100. An ever-growing global population threatens food security, accompanied by an increasing food shortage and relentless cybersecurity attacks. Agriculture 4.0, smart farming, and precision farming are essential to provide the technological breakthroughs to increase agricultural production while simultaneously expanding cybersecurity risks in the agriculture and food industries. With a global cybersecurity talent shortage and increasing cyber-attacks on the agriculture and food industries, there is a dire need to address cybersecurity solutions for the agriculture and food industries. A developing area in agriculture is cyberbiosecurity, an integrated concept of biosecurity and cybersecurity underline the need to safeguard systems, humans, animals, and plants from biological mischiefs, such as bioterrorism, environmental terrorism, infections, plagues, and pandemics. This paper explores these complex dynamics through an exploration of current and emerging literature.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129282420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The community starts to interrogate the accelerate economic development marketability caused by the unreasonable natural wealth consumption. In the international agenda, connection between environment and industrialization is launched with considerable power, to maintain upcoming generations without impacting the present production and nations development. This paper intends to study how green technologies are engineered in the Moroccan industrial approaches through a qualitative study that labels the principal industrial processes that influence the environment in Morocco, the green technology implementation is described by this process. In this research, we establish the project that manipulates green technologies in industrial processes, and in what way, country aid has promoted greener production and consequently trigger durable growth. Moreover, it is predicted to differentiate green technologies that are adjusted presently in the Moroccan industrial development.
{"title":"Green technologies implementation in the Moroccan industrial processes","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.289032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.289032","url":null,"abstract":"The community starts to interrogate the accelerate economic development marketability caused by the unreasonable natural wealth consumption. In the international agenda, connection between environment and industrialization is launched with considerable power, to maintain upcoming generations without impacting the present production and nations development. This paper intends to study how green technologies are engineered in the Moroccan industrial approaches through a qualitative study that labels the principal industrial processes that influence the environment in Morocco, the green technology implementation is described by this process. In this research, we establish the project that manipulates green technologies in industrial processes, and in what way, country aid has promoted greener production and consequently trigger durable growth. Moreover, it is predicted to differentiate green technologies that are adjusted presently in the Moroccan industrial development.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114540717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Fahim Khan, M. M. Hasan, Sheikh Aysha Khatun
The Agri-Trading system and farmer's economic situation in Bangladesh are two major factors work as a catalyst and inhibitor in the process of countries development growth. The objective of this research is to identify factors responsible for the flaws of Agri-trading system in Bangladesh including farmer’s financial cruxes and recommend improvements. Based on the results, it can be seen that farmers are mainly dependent on the traditional Agri-trading system dominated by a group of intermediaries where the lion’s share of the profit is consumed by them. Due to not having proper ICT skills and knowledge about digital marketing farmers are bounded to trade in traditional Agri-trading systems without getting their fair price. To bring the progression in farmer’s economic situation, first, the farmers have to be educated with ICT skills to adopt a digital Agri-Trading system. Secondly, intermediaries free direct trading communication between farmers and consumers must be established.
{"title":"Advancement of Agri-Trading Systems Towards Improving Farmers' Economic Situations in Bangladesh","authors":"Mohammad Fahim Khan, M. M. Hasan, Sheikh Aysha Khatun","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.306236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.306236","url":null,"abstract":"The Agri-Trading system and farmer's economic situation in Bangladesh are two major factors work as a catalyst and inhibitor in the process of countries development growth. The objective of this research is to identify factors responsible for the flaws of Agri-trading system in Bangladesh including farmer’s financial cruxes and recommend improvements. Based on the results, it can be seen that farmers are mainly dependent on the traditional Agri-trading system dominated by a group of intermediaries where the lion’s share of the profit is consumed by them. Due to not having proper ICT skills and knowledge about digital marketing farmers are bounded to trade in traditional Agri-trading systems without getting their fair price. To bring the progression in farmer’s economic situation, first, the farmers have to be educated with ICT skills to adopt a digital Agri-Trading system. Secondly, intermediaries free direct trading communication between farmers and consumers must be established.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127196511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The hotel industry is one of the sectors that is heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Compensating for this lost revenue requires understanding which aspects of guests’ priorities have changed, including their feelings about sustainable practices. Drawing from an online survey with 250 adults who were at least 18 years of age, described themselves as familiar with sustainable practices, and stated they had stayed in a hotel both before and during the pandemic, this study finds that the pandemic had a significant impact on their attitudes towards sustainable practices. Although they believe that hotels’ adopted protocols are adequate to protect them from COVID-19, they do not intend to adopt sustainable practices in the pandemic era.
{"title":"The Impact of COVID-19 on Hotel Guests' Sustainable Practices","authors":"Faranak Memarzadeh, Shiva Jahani","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.304820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.304820","url":null,"abstract":"The hotel industry is one of the sectors that is heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Compensating for this lost revenue requires understanding which aspects of guests’ priorities have changed, including their feelings about sustainable practices. Drawing from an online survey with 250 adults who were at least 18 years of age, described themselves as familiar with sustainable practices, and stated they had stayed in a hotel both before and during the pandemic, this study finds that the pandemic had a significant impact on their attitudes towards sustainable practices. Although they believe that hotels’ adopted protocols are adequate to protect them from COVID-19, they do not intend to adopt sustainable practices in the pandemic era.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126557575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Humanity is facing a series of critical challenges, global warming being one the most important. Consequently, sustainability and resilience have become key elements in better response to the crisis and maintaining an equilibrium between ecology, economics, and various social domains. The design and use of urban land should consider including a multi-functional green infrastructure to obtain different benefits, from ecosystem services to value creation. Additionally, the urban land-use planning system contributes to economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability, while biodiversity can provide renewal and reorganization capacities for changes in the social-ecosystems. All these elements bring forth a different paradigm for the future decisions of communities. Paper seeks to synthesize Keywords: Resilience, sustainability, urban land use.
{"title":"Sustainability and Green Socio-ecosystem Resilience","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.292453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.292453","url":null,"abstract":"Humanity is facing a series of critical challenges, global warming being one the most important. Consequently, sustainability and resilience have become key elements in better response to the crisis and maintaining an equilibrium between ecology, economics, and various social domains. The design and use of urban land should consider including a multi-functional green infrastructure to obtain different benefits, from ecosystem services to value creation. Additionally, the urban land-use planning system contributes to economic growth, social development and environmental sustainability, while biodiversity can provide renewal and reorganization capacities for changes in the social-ecosystems. All these elements bring forth a different paradigm for the future decisions of communities. Paper seeks to synthesize Keywords: Resilience, sustainability, urban land use.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115323294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Use and control over natural resources was the main agenda behind ecological movements in India. Environmental movements brought environmental sensitivity. Uttarakhand has had been a beautiful state but the region remained isolated and unsung for a longer period of time. However, the local organizations and protests linked the region with the rest of the country. The central motivation of the study is to trace out the tactics adopted when hardly any tech-based communication existed to set Chipko as the mass movement. The study is exploratory in nature and data has been gathered using Schedule which has been analyzed via percent analysis. Results of the study approves that Chipko validated nonviolent resistance and brought out unique strategies to sustain the Chipko as the movement. Chipko was a continuation of the old peasant struggle where the population mainly stressed on the group communication.
{"title":"Environmental Movements and Rise of Indigenous Communication Strategies during CHIPKO","authors":"","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.289033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.289033","url":null,"abstract":"Use and control over natural resources was the main agenda behind ecological movements in India. Environmental movements brought environmental sensitivity. Uttarakhand has had been a beautiful state but the region remained isolated and unsung for a longer period of time. However, the local organizations and protests linked the region with the rest of the country. The central motivation of the study is to trace out the tactics adopted when hardly any tech-based communication existed to set Chipko as the mass movement. The study is exploratory in nature and data has been gathered using Schedule which has been analyzed via percent analysis. Results of the study approves that Chipko validated nonviolent resistance and brought out unique strategies to sustain the Chipko as the movement. Chipko was a continuation of the old peasant struggle where the population mainly stressed on the group communication.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117282379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic had a global impact since it was first discovered in late 2019, in Wuhan, China. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 has affected over 179 million people and killed approximately 3.9 million people in more than 200 countries across the globe (WHO,2021). This outbreak has not only affected people’s lives but also disrupted global supply chains. It has shown significant effects on businesses, consumers, and the global economy. Fear of the virus has led to many companies scrambling to respond regarding employees’ job security, ensuring supply security, risk mitigation strategy, and addressing market uncertainties that are driving down demand. Broadly, the objective of this article is to highlight issues faced by the upstream palm oil supply chain actors during this pandemic. Based on the problem, the study concluded that some forms of actions (short-term & long-term) have been proposed to ensure an agile palm oil supply chain.
{"title":"Disruptions in the Upstream Palm Oil Supply Chain – A case of Covid-19 Impact on Upstream Intermediaries in Malaysia","authors":"M. Ratnam","doi":"10.4018/ijesgt.289035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijesgt.289035","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic had a global impact since it was first discovered in late 2019, in Wuhan, China. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 has affected over 179 million people and killed approximately 3.9 million people in more than 200 countries across the globe (WHO,2021). This outbreak has not only affected people’s lives but also disrupted global supply chains. It has shown significant effects on businesses, consumers, and the global economy. Fear of the virus has led to many companies scrambling to respond regarding employees’ job security, ensuring supply security, risk mitigation strategy, and addressing market uncertainties that are driving down demand. Broadly, the objective of this article is to highlight issues faced by the upstream palm oil supply chain actors during this pandemic. Based on the problem, the study concluded that some forms of actions (short-term & long-term) have been proposed to ensure an agile palm oil supply chain.","PeriodicalId":150300,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Sustainability and Green Technologies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126738131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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