... developing countries sustainability Hanoi University of Civil Engineering 25–2024/KHXD-TD. This study was funded by Hanoi University of Civil Engineering under Project No. 25–2024/KHXD-TD. A quantitative survey instrument, employing a structured questionnaire, was designed to assess...

... is properly cited. climate change construction developing countries developing economies housing industrialised construction resource efficiency Rapid urbanisation has brought high levels of unmet housing demand and is a significant challenge facing developing economies in Africa. Due...

...Soumyajit Koley, MTech, BTech The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated the world of work, particularly labour. Worldwide economic crises and unemployment present a difficult road ahead in ensuring the sound health and productivity of labour. Among developing countries, India has been at the centre...

... 03 2020 10 08 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 developing countries environment sustainability A_i agglomeration effect CEF_i carbon dioxide emissions factor COF_i carbon...

...). Thus, it is important to explore whether there is a relationship and time lag effect between the implementation of different types of ER and the GTFP. This study analyses these two factors in the context of the Chinese construction industry. First, as the world’s largest developing country...

... and natural disasters, but also to go further and understand the social, cultural, economic and spatial factors that make up a city (Wikström, 2013). (corresponding author: loggia@ukzn.ac.za) 22 01 2019 23 09 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 developing countries...

...Arman Hashemi, PhD Developing countries in tropical and subtropical areas will be the worst hit by climate change. Very little research has been done to assess the impact of climate change on thermal comfort in low-income housing in these regions. The effects of solar shading strategies and solar...

...) and proposed industrial estates in Bhutan (adapted from BMT (2013)) (corresponding author: madhav.nepal@qut.edu.au) 21 10 2015 28 03 2017 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 developing countries environment sustainability Bhutan, a least-developed country...

... landslides. Slope stability assessment is particularly challenging in developing countries with limited resources for acquiring slope data, meeting conservative design standards and mitigating landslide risk. This study applied a combined slope hydrology and stability model to address these issues...

...-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. developing countries information technology water supply Many communities...

...’ to urban flooding that negotiates these limitations. 30 10 2015 03 05 2016 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 developing countries infrastructure planning sustainability Poor urban areas are consistently located along natural drainage paths and high flood-risk areas...

... overruns. This research is set in a developing country context, where the economic stakes are higher and the effect of delay may be more obvious than in developed economies. Some years ago, a colleague related a story: she had been to interview communities affected by a proposed dam in Nepal, and spoke...

... rather than citizens and environment has put a big question mark over the future of the world’s developing countries. Urban sustainability has emerged as the only solution to the environmental, social and economic challenges facing our cities. In recent years in countries struggling with the concept...

... the sustainability of their services based on scores received from performance metrics. Carden and Armitage (2013) suggested a composite index called SIUWM (the sustainability index for integrated urban water management) for sustainability assessment of urban water services, especially in developing countries...

...). developing countries public health waste management & disposal The need for safe sanitation has been highlighted in millennium development goal (MDG) 7 on environmental sustainability, of which target 10 is to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation (i.e. the lowest...

... 2010 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2011 developing countries infrastructure planning sewage treatment & disposal Since the late 1980s, the idea of sustainable development has emerged as one of the leading conceptual and organisational frameworks for the assessment...

...Omar W. Massoud, MBA MSc CEng MICE This briefing investigates the human impact of metro projects cutting through densely populated metropolises in developing countries, taking Cairo Metro line 2 (CML2) as its case study. 30 6 2010 14 10 2010 developing countries social impact...

...Hilary J. Grimes, MPhil Over the past decade, the focus of water sector improvements in developing countries has moved away from enhancing physical infrastructure towards strengthening water sector governance. However, good water governance is a mechanism for improvement, not an end in itself...

... through an iterative, responsive design process. 03 5 2010 13 9 2010 © 2011 The authors and the Institution of Civil Engineers 2011 developing countries infrastructure planning social impact Engineers work for a wide range of clients in their day-to-day activities – from...

... of Civil Engineers 2011 developing countries education & training sustainability To understand the present and future possibilities and constraints for engineers involved in sustainable community development (SCD), episodes of the history of engineers' involvement in development were...