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Social equity in sustainability certification systems for the built environment: understanding concepts, value, and practice implications

open access: yesEnvironmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023
Sustainability certification systems play both an agenda-setting and practical role for a variety of architecture, planning, and engineering project types.
Adam Yeeles   +5 more
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Recent advances in organic agriculture: innovations, challenges, and opportunities [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science
Organic agriculture has become a more sustainable option compared to conventional agriculture, emphasizing biodiversity, healthy soils, and restrained pesticide applications.
Shweta Meshram   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CERTIFICATION [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Development, Environment and People, 2012
ISO 14001 prescribes the requirements for a system, not environmental performance itself. Similarly, certification is of the management system itself, not environmental performance.
Aniko Miler-Virc, Zdravko Glusica
doaj   +3 more sources

Life Cycle Assessment and the Environmental Certification Systems of Buildings

open access: yesGestão & Tecnologia de Projetos, 2013
The life cycle assessment (LCA) is an important methodology for the assessment of building components and systems and should be used within the building environmental performance certification systems. The present paper reports on the state of the art of
Cristiane Bueno   +2 more
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Theory of Quantum System Certification [PDF]

open access: yesPRX Quantum, 2021
The precise control of complex quantum systems promises numerous technological applications including digital quantum computing. The complexity of such devices renders the certification of their correct functioning a challenge. To address this challenge, numerous methods were developed in the last decade.
Martin Kliesch, Ingo Roth
openaire   +2 more sources

Safety Certification for Stochastic Systems via Neural Barrier Functions [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022
Providing non-trivial certificates of safety for non-linear stochastic systems is an important open problem. One promising solution to address this problem is the use of barrier functions. Barrier functions are functions whose composition with the system
Frederik Baymler Mathiesen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adoption of Green Building Assessment Systems to Existing Buildings under Kazakhstani Conditions

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
The construction industry is an enormous economic sector with a profound economic, social, and environmental impact. The building sector is responsible for one-third of total energy consumption and, notably, construction activities account for 39% of the
Alexey Remizov   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Building Standards, Codes and Certification Systems: The Status Quo and Future Directions in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
Sustainable building practices are a response to environmental issues. Businesses and industries are assessing how their activities affect the environment.
B. Jamoussi, A. Abu-Rizaiza, Ali AL-Haij
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Impact of Certification Systems for Architectural Solutions in Green Office Buildings in the Perspective of Occupant Well-Being

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
The green building certification system has long-lasting benefits by improving building efficiency and sustainability. The ultimate goal of such classification is to promote the preservation of the global environment as well as the occupants’ well-being ...
Magdalena Grzegorzewska, P. Kirschke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Certification systems for machine learning: Lessons from sustainability

open access: yesRegulation & Governance, 2021
Forthcoming (open access) in Regulation and GovernanceAbstract—The increasing deployment of machine learning systems has raised many concerns about its varied negative societal impacts.
K. Matus, Michael Veale
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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