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Young Hwan Choi and Joong Hoon Kim
This study compares the performance of self-adaptive optimization approaches in efficient water distribution systems (WDS) design and presents a guide for the selection of the appropriate method employing optimization utilizing the characteristic of each...
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Tomé Sicuaio, Pengxiang Zhao, Petter Pilesjo, Andrey Shindyapin and Ali Mansourian
Land use allocation (LUA) is of prime importance for the development of urban sustainability and resilience. Since the process of planning and managing land use requires balancing different conflicting social, economic, and environmental factors, it has ...
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Christy M. Caudill, Peter L. Pulsifer, Romola V. Thumbadoo and D. R. Fraser Taylor
The halfway point for the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was marked in 2023, as set forth in the 2030 Agenda. Geospatial technologies have proven indispensable in assessing and tracking fundamental components of...
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Anderson Carvalho, Daniel Riordan and Joseph Walsh
This study presents a newly developed edge computing platform designed to enhance connectivity between edge devices and the cloud in the agricultural sector. Addressing the challenge of synchronizing a central database across 850 remote farm locations in...
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Mazanai Musara
Various methods are used in entrepreneurship education. However, the effectiveness of these methods in inculcating the much-needed improvement in entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, intentions, and ultimately entrepreneurial activity is underexplored in l...
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Ruohan Zhang, Jialan Zhang, Kuan Zhang, Dingde Xu, Yanbin Qi and Xin Deng
The mental health crisis poses a major challenge to global sustainable development. In response, the United Nations has launched an ambitious plan to ?reshape the environment that affects mental health?. Clean toilets are an important measure of civiliza...
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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Somayeh Emami and Hossein Dehghanisanij
The recent problems of Lake Urmia (LU) are caused by extensive and complex socio-ecological factors that require a comprehensive approach to consider the relationships between users and identify failure factors at the basin level. For this purpose, an ag...
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Margot Hurlbert, John Bosco Acharibasam, Ranjan Datta, Sharon Strongarm and Ethel Starblanket
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have shown great strength and resilience in maintaining their cultures and ways of life to date in the face of settler colonialism. Centering the Water crises within Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, we explore t...
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Lina Yu, Dongxin Duan, Kwi-sik Min and Tao Wang
This study presents a groundbreaking approach to evaluating the resilience of China?s blue economy, shedding light on its critical role in promoting sustainable development along the nation?s coastlines. By employing advanced methodologies such as social...
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