Showing 7 results for Sustainable Development
Dr Ali Yaran, H. Mohammadi Khoshbin,
Volume 22, Issue 1 (6-2012)
Abstract
House is considered not only as one of the main needs of human beings but also as one of the best determining characteristics
of living standard. Housing shortages is one of the most acute problems next to the rapid growth of the large cities and their
suburbs in developing countries. These cities take all the opportunities, services and the funds Which a country has to offer,,
Despite this fact,, These cities are still dealing and struggling with a variety of urban problems such as : housing shortages, high
unemployment rate, urban transportation problems and failure to supply other services, as well as environmental destruction. As
the direct result of the allocation of all the resources to the large cities, the other regions of the country, including small cities
and the rural areas have become stagnant and underdeveloped. The efforts to speed up the development of the small cities have
been intensified to deal with the lack of equilibrium and harmony created by the unbalanced growth and development of the cities.
To guide and monitor these developments, the Urban Regional Development and Planning was found to ensure and emphasize
dynamism of the small cities. Small cities development can have an effect on the region only if these cities' development is
sustainable and Takes place properly therefore, sustainable urban development is one of the requirements for the regional
development approach. Housing and its appropriate development is one of the affecting and important factors in achieving urban
development and realization of sustainable development in small cities. This article discusses housing's place and its role in the
process of achieving sustainable urban development in small cities based on its characteristics and indicators and refers these
cities' function in the regional development planning.
Dr Asghar Mohammad Moradi, Dr Bagher Hosseini, Hamid Yazdani,
Volume 23, Issue 2 (12-2013)
Abstract
Abstract Today, due to the rapid growth of population, development of the construction industry is a necessity. All around the world, new subjects such as sustainable development, environmental pollution, conservation of resources, and reduction of CO2 emission have become the most important research topics among the scientific societies. In recent years, especially after 1997, new tools were invented to assess the building environmental impacts, including total life cycle, from production to demolition. National regulation of the buildings in Iran has a complete chapter on how to calculate and control energy consumption of the buildings during their operation phase, but unfortunately, construction and demolition phases are totally neglected. Absence of a practical regulation to control unpleasant impacts of the construction and demolition phases of a building could cause unsustainable development, as a silent crisis is currently happening and is going to appear in next decades when the buildings gradually reach the final phase of their life cycles. This paper will try to draw a framework for assessment of the environmental impacts of buildings during their entire life cycle using the ISO standards for life cycle assessment (LCA). According to this framework and by defining and measuring the numerical parameters representing the building environmental sustainability, it would be possible to compile regulations to estimate the optimum limit of these parameters and to keep them in a limited range. By doing so, it would be possible to provide for the current generation's needs without compromising the ability of the future generations to provide for their needs. This is an abstract meaning of sustainability itself.
P. Hessari, M. Zandieh, I. Mahmuodzadeh Kani,
Volume 28, Issue 1 (6-2018)
Abstract
Power plants with complex technology have various gradations in design process so that this level in the current time by maintaining the goals of sustainability and sustainable development have a critical importance. These buildings require to be sustainable according to their complexity to provide the finance and discrete budgets for functional needs, meanwhile to design solutions to avoid creating pollution and the reduction of energy should be careful and they are in their life cycle which have a social function. These solutions are possible to offer providing a method in design. Focusing on interventional and unique procedures in design can be very efficient. The present research is applicable with the aim to emphasize and recognize the importance of prioritizing in selecting different areas in combined cycle power plants based on the parameters of sustainable development and responds to the question on what priority should be set in the areas of combined cycle power plants,while observing the principles of sustainable development in the direction of control and decrease of economic, social and environmental risks, describes the infrastructures of sustainable development in the areas of combined cycle. Therefore while addressing senior managers, advisors and contractors ,has presented a list with the consultation of the experts and in the second stage through scrolling using questionnaire and survey from experts and AHP software analysis among consulting companies managers, contractors and professionals the criteria were prioritized in hierarchical method. The economic-functional criteria with rank 0.541 have been in the first priority of attention form the experts’ choice and considering the effect of these criteria on the choices, the choice of steam in combined cycle power plants was placed in the first priority with final weight 0.313 and the gas area was determined in the second priority with final weight 0.266. This was also true in the sensitivity test. Thus paying attention to the functional criteria in order to gain economic productivity in the steam area was defined in the priority of attention.
A. Rahmanzadeh, H. Haghighi, A. Tarihi,
Volume 28, Issue 2 (12-2018)
Abstract
Nowadays, “Smart City” is a very growing and promoting concept. Unlike other concepts related to cities, like digital or green city, it encompasses all technological, human and institutional factors. However, there are too many different viewpoints and definitions of this concept in the literature. The problem statement of this research is that despite the existence of many points of view and definitions for the “smart city” concept, the management part of a particular city needs to formulate a special definition of “smartness” based on the specific characteristics, goals, priorities, policies, and constraints of that city. This paper provides urban planners and managers with an approach that helps them to determine a set of validated, customized and prioritized characteristics for the target city. These characteristics can be used to formulate a desired definition for the city, as an input for strategic planning of a smart city, a guide for aligning the main goals of a city, and a criterion for prioritizing the urban projects for a particular city. Our proposed approach consists of two phases. The first phase is based on a thorough content analysis on the significant body of the literature in order to take a valid and acceptable range of different viewpoints and characteristics of the smart city notion. The second phase relies on the characteristics resulted in the first phase and involves a specific form of validation, customization and prioritization steps for a particular city so as to determine a set of unique characteristics based on the upstream documents and stakeholders’ opinions. In order to show the applicability of the proposed approach, we present the results of applying this approach for the city of Tehran, the capital of Iran.
N. Khaleghi, F. Kovacs,
Volume 29, Issue 2 (12-2019)
Abstract
Historically, access to water resources had always been a key issue in the formation and perpetuation of ancient cities, more importantly in the arid and semi-arid regions like the central plateau of Iran. Based on the environmental situations, Persian civilization considered ecological realities and social interaction of conservation and proper distribution of the water to sustain its availability to all the users. Thereupon, they succeeded in achieving a lasting solution to the problem of the shortage of water. To overcome the inevitable climate condition, Iranians developed unique water structures such as qanats.
However, as a consequence of modernization in the 20th century, the traditional water structures underwent considerable damage and were replaced by deep wells. These changes affected the groundwater supplies in turn and intensified the water crisis in Iran.
Focusing on its importance in the sustainable development, this paper aims to study the qanat system. Introducing Tehran University Qanat as a vivid example, the role of qanats in a sustainable urban development is elaborated. Based on the analysis, suggestions are brought forward for the rehabilitation of this qanat. The findings of this research are believed to raise the awareness about the role of qanats in the sustainable development.
Sara Sadeghian, Yasaman Nafezi, Saeideh Soltanmohammadlou, Amir Kianfar, Emily Irvin,
Volume 31, Issue 2 (4-2021)
Abstract
Sustainable development is one of the important subjects in our world. It means supporting the needs of current populations without dangerous effects on the resources of future generations. This subject finds its vital role in different sciences. As an effort towards sustainable development goals (SDG), goals were defined by the United Nations organization (in the United Nations General Assembly) in 2015. This short-term agenda is to be implemented by 2030 and contains 17 goals centering climate change and environmental preservation and focusing on health, education, equality, economic growth. In this paper, two parks, Qeytariyeh Park and Niyavaran Park were studies in Northern Tehran, Iran according to SDG. The study was designed specifically around goal 11 and the application of sustainable development in cities. After a literature review of research, the parks were reviewed to trace their success as a public space according to the SDG point of view. Qualitative methods were used to investigate field observations and personal interviews with daily visitors of the parks selected randomly with small control over demographics of gender and age. The main aim of the paper is to find how much these parks be successful public space according to sustainable development standards and in the end, there are proposed solutions to solve the weakness of these case studies.
Seyed Hashem Mosaddad, Hassan Sadeghi Naeini, Mahdiyeh Jafarnejad Shahri, Karmegam Karuppiah,
Volume 32, Issue 3 (7-2022)
Abstract
In this study, the importance of decisions of industrial designers in the primary stage of the design of products in terms of reducing environmental impacts was evaluated. In this descriptive research, the relationship between designers’ awareness and design quality in terms of waste reduction considerations was assessed. Then,
56 industrial designers as the research participants filled out the questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed by SPSSWin 23. Statistical analysis of the results based on the Spearman rank test showed that there was a significant relationship between choosing a sustainable approach to design and reducing product waste after its life cycle. Moreover, the level of responsibility of industrial designers for the environment is effective in reducing product waste. Questionnaire analysis showed that designers who cared about the fate of their designed products after the end of the life cycle frequently used sustainable approach. The results showed that designers who took a sustainable approach to design and cared about the fate of the products after the end of their life cycle designed products in such a way that they could be reused. There was also a significant relationship between the choice of a sustainable approach by designers and the use of recycled materials in new products. It seems that more awareness should be raised and further studies should be conducted to improve benefiting of designers’ sustainable approaches as well as to raise their awareness about the necessity of observing the sustainable development objectives.
