An Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Sustainability Assessment: A Case Study of Memorial University

Waheed, Bushra; Khan, Faisal; Veitch, Brian

doi:10.1057/hep.2011.17

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“…Step 4 Annual energy consumption rate D 4 Economic Financial and economic growth rate D 5 Social Health and safety index D 6…”

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“…Education Education in sustainability trends P 1 Pressure Environment Production of greenhouse gases P 2 Production and consumption of ozone depleting substances P 3 Production of emission, effluents, and waste P 4 Requirement for procurement of product and services P 5 Amount of energy used P 6…”

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“…Provision of service S 1 State Environment Concentration of greenhouse gases S 2 Concentration of emissions, effluents and waste S 3 State of responsible procurement S 4 Rate of depletion of energy resources S 5 Rate of water consumption and quality S 6 Percentage daily commute by motor vehicle and transport conflicts S 7 Exceedance of noise level S 8 Economic Percentage of expenditure S 9…”

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“…Existing human health and safety procedures S 13 Education Number of courses on sustainability and administrative support S 14 Grants, publications/products, and programs and centres S 15 Community activity and learning service E 1 Exposure Environment Changes in environmental conditions E 2 Proportion of people exposed to poor air conditions E 3 Proportion of people exposed to poor water quality E 4 Proportion of people exposed to various hazards E 5 Proportion of people exposed to high noise levels E 6 Impact on energy resources E 7 Economic Financial impacts E 8 Impacts on facilities planning (continued) Step 5 -making inference. After selection of indicators, an appropriate MCDM method is used for aggregating and evaluating the activation level of dependent indicators.…”

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Developing a quantitative tool for sustainability assessment of HEIs

Waheed

Khan

Veitch

2011

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Implementation of a sustainability paradigm demands new choices and innovative ways of thinking. The main objective of this paper is to provide a meaningful sustainability assessment tool for make informed decisions, which is applied to higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach -The objective is achieved by developing a quantitative tool for sustainability assessment using a driving force-pressure-state-exposure-effect-action (DPSEEA) framework. The DPSEEA framework considers environmental, social, economic, and educational performance as main dimensions of sustainability. The proposed model is called DPSEEA-Sustainability index Model (D-SiM). The D-SiM is a causality-based model in which the sustainability index (SI) is an outcome of nonlinear effects of sustainability indicators in various stages of DPSEEA. To have an improved understanding of input factors (driving forces) and their impact on sustainability, a simplified empirical model is developed and applied to HEIs to determine the percent contribution of various driving forces on sustainability. Findings -The study reveals that economic development, social equity, and education in sustainability are the major drivers for achieving sustainability in HEI, while health and safety issues, energy requirements, institutional enhancement, and international research and development trends are the less significant driving forces. Originality/value -The indicators connected in DPSEEA framework through causal relationships lead to the quantitative assessment of sustainability, which provides a unique approach for informed decision making.

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“…Step 4 Annual energy consumption rate D 4 Economic Financial and economic growth rate D 5 Social Health and safety index D 6…”

Section: Ijshe 124mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ijshe 124mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ijshe 124mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ijshe 124mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Developing a quantitative tool for sustainability assessment of HEIs

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Veitch

2011

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

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“…This suggests that interest in sustainability assessment is going to continue to grow, and therefore we might hope to see significantly increased levels of practice in the future. The majority of the practice identified in these papers relates to very specific applications, sometimes to a product line (for example, Zhou et al 2012, for fuels), an organization (for example, Waheed et al 2011, for a University), the development of new tools (for example, Deng et al 2012) or a sector (for example, Shields et al 2011, for the minerals sector). That is, the majority of publications on sustainability assessment relate to specific, one-off, case studies and not to general practice or to the conceptual advancement of the field.…”

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Sustainability assessment: the state of the art

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Morrison‐Saunders

Pope

2012

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Sustainability assessment is a recent framing of impact assessment that places emphasis on delivering positive net sustainability gains now and into the future. It can be directed to any type of decision-making, can take many forms and is fundamentally pluralistic. Drawing mainly on theoretical papers along with the few case study examples published to date (from England, Western Australia, South Africa and Canada), this paper outlines what might be considered state-ofthe-art sustainability assessment. Such processes must: (i) address sustainability imperatives with positive progress towards sustainability; (ii) establish a workable concept of sustainability in the context of individual decisions/assessments; (iii) adopt formal mechanisms for managing unavoidable trade-offs in an open, participative and accountable manner; (iv) embrace the pluralistic inevitabilities of sustainability assessment, and (v) engender learning throughout. We postulate that sustainability assessment may be at the beginning of a phase of expansion not seen since environmental impact assessment was adopted worldwide.

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Metrics for Sustainable Development

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Zyulyaeva²

2019

Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education

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An Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Sustainability Assessment: A Case Study of Memorial University

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Developing a quantitative tool for sustainability assessment of HEIs

Developing a quantitative tool for sustainability assessment of HEIs

Sustainability assessment: the state of the art

Metrics for Sustainable Development

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