Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 31 Issue 4

Editorial

Sanjay Kumar Singh

Improving maintenance management practices on green building projects

Zul-Atfi Ismail

The improper maintenance affects the performance of management practices for Green Building (GB) in Malaysia. This is due to the issues of lack of GB knowledge and competency for…

A house of sustainability-based approach for green product design: Setting future research agenda

Parijat Upadhyay, Anup Kumar

Investors are looking for the organizations which have robust strategy and planning method meeting the current and future guidelines and policies on environmental regulations to…

Intention to participate in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (clean India mission): Role of social identity and perceived social norm

Surendra Kumar Sia

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct contribution of social identity and perceived social norm (PSN) to the intention of participating in collective India mission;…

Factors affecting the spatial pattern of nitrate contamination in Texas aquifers

Aynaz Lotfata, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige

The elevated level of nitrate in groundwater is a serious problem in Texas aquifers. To control and manage groundwater quality, the characterization of groundwater contamination…

Effects of socio-economic factors on quantity and type of municipal solid waste

Kaveri Kala, Nomesh B. Bolia, Sushil

The purpose of this paper is to determine the socio-economic factors related to household solid waste generation and its type based on field surveys in South Delhi Municipal…

The role of financial development and corruption in environmental degradation of Sub-Saharan African countries

Nura Sani Yahaya, Mohd Razani Mohd‐Jali, Jimoh Olajide Raji

This study examines the role of financial development and its interaction with corruption in the environmental degradation of eight Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000–2014.

Empirical evaluation of the antecedents of energy-efficient home appliances: application of extended theory of planned behavior

Idrees Waris, Waqar Ahmed

The purpose of this study is to predict the antecedents of consumers' purchase intention of energy-efficient home appliances. This study incorporated two additional constructs…

Predicting of proactive environmental management for unhairing wastewater treatment in Tunisia using neural network learning algorithms

Mohamed Turki, Hamden Zahrani, Meriem Ayadi, Monem Kallel, Jalel Bouzid

The purpose of this study is to focus on Tunisian tannery sector that causes a considerable damage to the environment and consequently leads to serious health problems due to the…

Frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from municipal solid waste in Oman

Tariq Umar

The Gulf Cooperation Council member countries not only generate the highest quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) per capita when compared globally, but also in most of these…

Eco-efficient sustainable service supply chain management hierarchical model based on qualitative information and quantitative data

Ming-Lang Tseng, Chih-Cheng Chen, Kuo-Jui Wu, Raymond Tan

This study integrates economic/ecology (eco)-attributes and performance to build a sustainable service supply chain management (SSCM) model.

Performance of local level planning policies for reducing greenhouse gases: insight from new buildings in Scotland

Vincent Onyango, Neil Burford

The purpose of the study is to assess performance of local level planning policies that required new buildings to avoid a specified and rising proportion of projected greenhouse…

Sustainable manufacturing practices and performance of the Nigerian table water industry: a structural equation modeling approach

Simon Ayo Adekunle, Olamitunji Dakare

This study empirically examined and investigated the relationship between sustainable manufacturing practices (SMPs) and performance of table water industry (TWI) in Nigeria.

Using an artificial neural network for estimating sustainable development goals index

Seyed-Hadi Mirghaderi

This paper aims to develop a simple model for estimating sustainable development goals index using the capabilities of artificial neural networks.