Browsing Academic by Subject "Sustainable Development"
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A hybrid approach using entropy and TOPSIS to select key drivers for a successful and sustainable lean construction implementation
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)Successful implementation of the lean concept as a sustainable approach in the construction industry requires the identification of critical drivers in lean construction. Despite this significance, the number of in-depth ... -
A Combined Bibliometric Analysis on the Data Collection and Reporting Systems for Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education
( IEOM Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) has been tagged as an emerging topic of concern among the research community and higher education institutions over the past decade. This paper aims to investigate the existing body ... -
Contradictory Forces in the Gulf Environment: Old and New Cultural Values and Knowledg
( Berghahn Books , 2014 , Book chapter)While the behaviour of individuals impacts on the environment, institutional attitudes may be more damaging. Government policies and private sector initiatives result in large-scale construction and industrial projects, ... -
Economic Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: From Rentier States to Diversified Economies
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Book)This book delves into the economic development of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Since the 1960s, the GCC states have harnessed their potential to exploit the wealth accrued from the oil boom to build ... -
Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development
( Springer Nature , 2018 , Book chapter)With changing and mounting pressures on environmental resources due to economic and demographic developments, environmental policymaking is a wide and continuously growing field. The birth hour of modern environmental ... -
Food Security in the GCC Countries: Towards a More Diversified and Sustainable Economic Development
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Book chapter)This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities for food security in GCC countries and shed lights on the strategies undertaken by these countries to enhance their domestic food security. These include the measures ... -
Framework for 'sports' infrastructure assets management and transformation post-2022 world cup adapting PPP module - critical success factors
(2021 , Master Thesis)The research aims to study the importance and the effect of the critical success factors that are important to engage the private party resources to assist the public party objectives from both parties' perspectives under ... -
Impact Assessment of Land Use Planning on Travel Behavior in Doha, Qatar
(2017 , Master Thesis)In the last decade Qatar has witnessed a rapid growth in its economic and industrial sector as a result of oil and gas economies. This transformed small port cities to large sprawling metropolitan and increased the population. ... -
Impact of Gender-related Legal Regulations on Pursuing Sustainable Development: A study of Kuwait's National Development Plan (Vision 2035)
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper seeks to analyze the impact of gender inequality on the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 as expressed in the UN Post-Millennium global program. More specifically, it aims to illustrate how gender equality and ... -
Institutional Change and Sustainable Development
( Springer, Cham , 2019 , Book chapter)The study field of institutions and institutionalism is quite complex, encompassing theories, concepts, and tools that can be applied in various ways related to sustainable development. At the same time, sustainable ... -
Surround-Screen Mobile based Projection: Design and Implementation of Mobile Cave Virtual Reality
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Virtual Reality (VR) is the employment of computer devices to simulate real or imaginary environments. Conventional user interfaces stresses the usage of screen displays to interact with the developed environment. The ... -
Sustainable development in the Arab world–is the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region fit for the challenge?
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and the wider Arab world are faced with multiple interconnected dilemmas embedded in the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The question of how ... -
The Role of 5G/6G Networks in Building Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Smart Cities
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)Future wireless networks aim to provide high-energy efficiency, high spectral efficiency, low cost, and support a massive number of connected devices in prospect the evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities. ...