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To capture uncertainty in preferences, definitions based on grey numbers are incorporated into the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR), a realistic and flexible methodology to model and analyze strategic conflicts. A general grey number is a real number that may be a member of a discrete set of real numbers, or may fall within one or several intervals. It can represent uncertain preference...
To achieve the goals of: (1) reflecting the value information of resource flows and points to the key areas for improvement in an enterprise, (2) providing effective decision-making in environmental and resource management, and (3) showing the direction of the enterprise's sustainable development, this paper develops the resource flow equation which includes three kinds of indicators: (1) resource...
Coordinated development of resources, environment, economy and society in Henan province during the years of 1990-2007 as an example is made by empirical research. Conclusions such as physical capital investment and energy are important input factors, the utilization of number of employed persons is low, and inputs of resources and the environment made inadequate contribution to the social system...
Land use change (LUC) model is fundamental in decision making process for regional sustainable development. It is practically important to analyze LUC in rapidly urbanizing region, such as Panyu District of Guangzhou, China, where a fast economy development makes it necessary to study the rule of urban land use change. Taking time-spatial land use change as the key point, a case study is carried out...
It is difficult to adapt traditional accounting system to an enterprise's environmental management systems. Environmental accounting emphasizes resource outputs and environmental pollution. Equally, resource and environmental science ignores value accounting. But Resource Flow Accounting (RFA) defines the resource values in the following terms: (1) effective values, (2) value losses, (3) environmental...
Existing pedagogical approaches to ethics education in engineering and science reinforce what this paper terms “the fallacy of the individual decision-maker” by suggesting an oversimplified, individualistic model of ethical decision-making, rather than recognizing the organizational, cultural, or group deliberative context of an ethical dilemma. Consequently, students fail to develop the group deliberative...
Multiple non-traditional resources based energy system is used against a range of energy risks and environmental issues. The present study aims to develop a sustainability indicator for evaluating the sustainability of hybrid renewable energy (HRE) system. The indicator will reflect the Triple Bottom Lines (TBL) based definition of sustainability, including the meanings of environmental, economic...
System dynamics (SD) is used to build the model of dynamic driven factors of cleaner production system, and by using the driver variables of simulation model, and the relevant test function, the knock-on effects of different factor changes on the system are simulated. The development of the enterprises clean production implementation is simulated, combining with the involvement of different driving...
An algebraic approach is developed to calculate stabilities in two decision maker graph models with strength of preference. The original graph model uses ??simple preference?? to represent a decision maker's relative preference between two states. This preference structure includes only a relative preference relation and an indifference relation. Basic stability definitions, and algorithms to calculate...
Relative carrying capacity of resources is a method for measuring sustainable development through carrying capacity. Case studies of eleven cities in Zhejiang (Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Quzhou, Zhoushan, Taizhou and Lishui) illustrated regional sustainable development approach. In this study, in order to provide insight into spatial analysis of region sustainable...
The water resources vulnerability (WRV) is defined as the characteristics that water resources system easily suffers damage from natural factors or human activities, and it is difficult to recover to its former status once this damage happens. The quantitative assessment of the WRV is important for the scientific decision-making for the sustainable water resources exploitation and utilization. In...
Undergraduate education quality serves as a major issue in the development of higher education. In this new era, the actual condition requires a university to construct an effective system to objectively evaluate the education quality, and therefore sustainable development can be achieved. By analyzing the connotation and characteristics of school-based evaluation, this article proposes an undergraduate...
This paper investigates how to establish a performance evaluation system mainly based on the knowledge contribution of the staff in the knowledge management information platform of project management enterprise. First, the necessity of creating knowledge-based enterprise was analyzed and many existing problems about how to value contribution to the knowledge of the staff were discussed in the current...
Green Manufacturing (GM) is an inevitable trend of the sustainable development of manufacturing enterprise. In order to reduce environmental damage and save resources Green Design (GD) is a key. Customized product design scheme selection taking into account the environmental considerations is a practical approach for reducing the resource consumption and negative environmental impacts in customized...
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