Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 30 Issue 2

Replacement service decisions for disruption recovery in light rail systems

Yan Fang, Yiping Jiang

Attracting commuters from driving to light rail systems has a good potential for reducing carbon emissions. However, the light rail system is interrupted by disruptions…

Social predictors and implementation intention of drivers to use public bus transport

Alexandra S. Kang, K. Jayaraman, Keng Lin Soh, Wai Peng Wong

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of social sustainable consumption in the context of improved ridership in public bus transport (PBT). It…

A cradle-to-cradle analysis in the toner cartridge supply chain using fuzzy recycling production approach

Chun-Wei Lin, Shiou-Yun Jeng, Ming-Lang Tseng, Raymond Tan

The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated approach for a green product cradle-to-cradle (C2C) fuzzy recycling production planning model.

Sustainability adoption in project management practices within a social enterprise case

Satya Shah, Elmira Naghi Ganji

The purpose of this paper is to present the preliminary findings on the use of sustainable project management practices within social enterprise projects. The research gaps within…

Non-linear effects of environmental regulations on economic outcomes

Jiangtao Li, Jianyue Ji, Yi Zhang

There is no conclusive whether environmental regulation is a constraint or an incentive to the production development. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the non-linear…

A novel MCDM model for prioritizing the renewable power plants’ construction

Fatima Sedady, Mohammad Ali Beheshtinia

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) technique to determine the priority of renewable power plants construction conceding technical…

Evaluation and comparison of environmental performance for shackle insulators – a case study

Kailash Choudhary, Saad Ali Soherwordi, Yashodhara Singh, Kuldip Singh Sangwan

The purpose of this paper is to compare environmental performance of two shackle insulator manufacturing enterprises in India by evaluating and quantifying the life cycle…

Prediction of short and medium term PM10 concentration using artificial neural networks

Elaine Schornobay-Lui, Eduardo Carlos Alexandrina, Mônica Lopes Aguiar, Werner Siegfried Hanisch, Edinalda Moreira Corrêa, Nivaldo Aparecido Corrêa

There has been a growing concern about air quality because in recent years, industrial and vehicle emissions have resulted in unsatisfactory human health conditions. There is an…

Effects of renewable energy consumption and trade on environmental pollution: The Turkish case

Alper Karasoy, Selçuk Akçay

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of (non-renewable and renewable) energy consumption and trade on environmental pollution in an environmental Kuznets curve…

The content analysis of Chinese media report on the issue of waste incineration power plants

Xueli Chen, Vivian Valdmanis

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Chinese media’s performance on reporting the issue of waste incineration power plants. The authors analyze the role of media in…

A field study of indoor air quality and occupant perception in experimental laboratories and workshops

Qi Jie Kwong, Jamalunlaili Abdullah, Sheng Chuan Tan, Tzer Hwai Gilbert Thio, Win Shyang Yeaw

Maintaining good indoor air quality (IAQ) in the built environment is essential to assure health, safety and productivity of occupants. The purpose of this paper is to report on…

Urbanization, economic growth, and environmental pollution: Partial differential analysis based on the spatial Durbin model

Jing Sun, Jing Wang, Tao Wang, Tao Zhang

Given the recent rapid economic development, the processes of industrialization and urbanization are accelerating. At the same time, the contradiction between environmental…