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The inescapable need for sustainable supply chains has fascinated controversial attention, in the last two decades, due to increasing governmental regulations and societal awareness. But, facilities and their linkages, within the supply chain network, are subject to perturbations due to natural or human-made events (e.g., strikes and floods). Therefore, managers are concerned about re-engineering a supply chain network that is simultaneously sustainable and resilient. Hence, there is an inevitable need to embrace sustainability and resilience at a strategic level for the supply chain management. Motivated by this necessity, this paper presents a new panacea methodology towards a sustainable and resilient (susilient, henceforth) two-tier supply chain network design (S-2TSCND). To this end, an extended exploration regarding the relationship and completeness between sustainability and resilience, in the supply chain context, was explored and discussed. It presents a new term for “susili ....
Soil erosion is a major environmental concern because of its devastating effects on agriculture and food production worldwide. In our research, we developed a sophisticated and effective model to predict soil erosion risk and developed a risk map to aid decision making to address earth surface degradation as a means to preserve soil. We describe the modeling process adopting the ICONA (Instituto Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza) model, in conjunction with an Analytic Hierarchy Process referred to as the AHP, together with the application of a geodatabase and remote sensing data for the Rudbar basin, Guilan Province, Iran. The basin is highly sensitive to soil erosion. With advances in remote sensing and GIS, challenges of conventional methods can be overcome such as the time-consuming and data-intensive identification of soil erosion-prone areas. The land slope, the lithofacies, land-use/cover, vegetation cover, and a digital elevation model (DEM) were our key layer input ....
In recent years, changes in demographic structure have been observed worldwide. To sustain the growing population of elderly people with special needs, homes need a radical rethink both in designing new houses and in retrofitting new solutions to existing houses. Designs that facilitate aging in place, designs that maintain thermal comfort, and designs that have net-zero energy demands and low to zero to negative carbon footprints are needed. The article discusses the issues of construction for the elderly. The trends in the demographic development of society in selected countries are presented. Additionally, information on the housing stock for elderly people in Poland is provided. The carbon dioxide emission limits to mitigate climate change make it necessary to find an alternative to concrete and steel, traditional construction materials. In this context, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) fulfills the sustainability requirements. However, to select the suitable panel a detailed analysis ....