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Sustainability management strategies and impact in developing countries / Mohd Fadhil Din [and three others].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Din, Mohd Fadhil, author.
Series:
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management ; v.26
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sustainable construction.
Sustainable construction--Materials.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Place of Publication:
Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2022]
Summary:
Strategies and Impact in Developing Countriesemphasizes the research of sustainability management and strategies in developing countries providing information to the public, researchers, planners, and stakeholders dealing with sustainability management and strategies, particularly for developing and emerging economic countries.
Contents:
Intro
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
About the Authors
Preface
Part A: Management and Strategies
Chapter 1: A Review on Carbon Tax for Malaysia Construction Industry
1. Introduction
1.1. Construction Industry Carbon Emission
1.2. Malaysia Initiatives to Lower the Country Total Carbon Emission
1.3. Carbon Tax in General
2. Methodology
3. Carbon Tax as Carbon Emission Reduction Strategy
3.1. Relationship between the Carbon Tax and Construction Industry
3.2. Framework to Analyse the Impacts of Carbon Tax
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Disaster Risk Management: An Overview of Disaster Risk Assessment in Asean Countries
1.1. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Countries
2. Drm In Asean Countries
3. Dra in Asean Countries
3.1. Local Level
3.2. Regional and National Levels
3.3. Global Level
Chapter 3: Decision Criteria for Retrofitting Existing Campus with Green Roof
2. Retrofitting with Green Roof
3. Methodology
3.1. Data Collection
3.2. Data Analysis
4. Analysis and Results
4.1. KMO and Barlett's Test of Sphericity
4.2. FS - Criteria Affecting the Decision for Green Roof Retrofitting
5. Conclusions
Chapter 4: Introducing New Parameter in Green Building Incentives to Enhance Sustainable Development Paradigm in Malaysia
2. Literature Review
2.1. Green Building Definition
2.2. Green Building Incentives
2.3. GBIs Implementing in Malaysia
3.1. Financial Incentives
3.2. Fiscal Incentives
3.3. Structural/Administrative Incentives
4. Analysis and Findings
4.1. The Sample Size and Respondent
5. Conclusion
References.
Chapter 5: Recommendations for Minimising Construction Claims: Achieving Sustainable Relationships Among Stakeholders
4. Data Analyses, Results, and Discussion
4.1. Critical Claim Attributes
4.2. Different Perceptions of Major Stakeholders on Claim Attributes
4.3. Validation of the Results
6. Recommendations
Appendix
Appendix 1: List of 48 Claim Attributes from Literature Review
Appendix 2: Ranking of Claim Attributes Engendering Construction Schedule Delays
Chapter 6: The Key Practices of Lean Supply Chain Management Towards Sustainable Performance: A Review
2.1. Supply Chain Management
2.2. Lean Supply Chain Management
2.3. Practices of LSCM
4. Descriptive Statistics
4.1. Overview of Studies
4.2. Critical Practices of LSCM
5. Future Research Perspective
6. Conclusion
Chapter 7: Time Cost Quality Trade-Off in Repetitive Construction Project for Sustainable Construction Project
2. Proposed Time Cost Quality Trade-Off for Sustainable Project Scheduling
2.1. Fuzzy Logic Approach to Model Uncertainty
2.2. Scheduling and Estimating the Project
3. Case Study
4. Conclusion and Recommendation
Chapter 8: Waste Minimisation Governance through Standardised Recycling Rate in Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia
2.1. Case Study of Recycling Rate
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Setting the Recycling Rate
3.2. Attempts at Recycling Rate Standardisation
3.3. Malaysian HEIs Recycling Rate
3.4. Recycling Rate Targets in Malaysian's HEIs
Appendix 1: Malaysia National Recycling Rate (Bhonline, 2020.
Perbadanan Pengurusan Sisa Pepejal Dan Pembersihan Awam, 2018).
Appendix 2: Targets Recycling Rate for Malaysia's HEIs
Chapter 9: Web-Based Big Data Integration Visualisation Solutions
2. Identification and Classification of Data
3. Data Visualisation Process
4. Data Visualisation Solutions
4.1. Microsoft Power BI
4.2. Dynamic Web System
5. Assessment of Visualisations Solutions
Part B: Impact and Assessment
Chapter 10: Creating the Sustainability Environment for Students Well-Being: The Awareness Level of Victims After Fire Incident in Private Islamic School
2. The Growth of the Islamic Private Schools in Malaysia
2.1. Fire Safety System in School
3. Implementing Sustainable Building Measures in Private Islamic School
4. Methodology
4.1. Case Study Approach and Study Subjects
5. Findings Analysis
5.1. The Critical Assessment of Fire Level
5.2. Findings of Availability of Fire Prevention Equipment
5.3. Investigate the Fire Awareness Level
6. Discussion
Chapter 11: Assessing the Criteria of Eco-Industrial Park Site Selection for the Sustainable Development Goals Initiatives
2.1. Data Collection
2.2. Method
Chapter 12: Causal Factors of Accident Related to Design Aspect in Construction Industry
1.1. Occupational Safety and Health in Construction Industry Management
1.2. Causal Factors of Accident
3. Results and Discussions
3.1. Statistic of Fatal Accidents from 2016 to 2020
3.2. Fatality Causal Factors in Construction Industry
3.3. Falls from Height
3.4. Being Hit by Object
3.5. Being Hit by Vehicle
3.6. Electrocution
3.7. Drowning.
3.8. Being Buried
3.9. Explosion
3.10. Being Trapped
3.11. Asphyxiation
3.12. Being Stung by Hornets
3.13. Design-Related Causal Factors in Construction Industry
Chapter 13: Covid 19 and its Impact on Malaysian Women Travel Behaviour
2.1. Covid-19 and Travel Behaviour
2.2. Travel Behaviour: Gender Perspective
3.1. Survey Design
4. Results and Discussions
4.1. Demographic Analysis
4.2. Travel Analysis for Work, Education and Groceries Trip
4.3. Discussions
5. Conclusions and Outlook
Chapter 14: Critical Success Factors of Contractors in Affordable High-rise Public Housing in Malaysia
2.1. Affordable
2.2. High-Rise Buildings
2.3. Critical Success Factors
3. Research Methodology
4. Analysis and Result
5. Conclusion and Recommendations
Chapter 15: Green Roof System: Implementation and Challenge in Commercial Buildings
2.1. Green Roof Overview
2.2. Classification of the Green Roofs
2.3. Benefits of the Green Roof in Commercial Buildings and Urban Areas
2.4. Barriers and Challenge
4. Result and Discussion
Chapter 16: Identification of Barriers and Challenges Faced by Construction Key Players in Implementing the Green Building Incentives in Malaysia
1.1. Financial Incentives
1.2. Fiscal Incentives
1.3. Structural Incentives
1.4. Other Related Issues
3. Finding and Analysis
3.1. Barriers and Challenges in Implementing Financial Incentives
3.2. Barriers and Challenges in Implementing Fiscal Incentives.
3.3. Barriers and Challenges in Implementing Structural Incentives
3.4. Other Related Barriers and Challenges in Implementing GBIs
Chapter 17: Local Stakeholders and Consumer Awareness on Fluorocarbon Gas Management in Malaysia
2.1. Questionnaire Design
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Statistical Analysis
3. Result
3.1. FC and Effect on Environment
3.2. Leakage and Maintenance of FC
3.3. Electricity Consumption
Chapter 18: Public Opinion Analysis for Management of Urban Infrastructure Systems: Social Media Data Mining Approach
3.2. Data Preprocessing
3.3. Data Analysis
3.4. Topic Modelling - Latent Dirichlet Allocation
3.5. Sentiment Analysis
4.1. Topic Modelling - LDA
4.2. Sentiment Analysis
Chapter 19: The Influence of Language Proficiency on Occupational Safety of Foreign Workers in the Sustainable Construction Industry
2.1. Communication on Construction Site
2.2. Method of Communicating with Foreign Workers on Construction Sites
2.3. Factors Influencing Communication
2.4. Languages Used in Malaysia
2.5. Language Proficiency
2.6. Measuring Language Proficiency
2.7. Impact of Language Proficiency
2.8. Foreign Workers
2.9. Foreign Workers in Malaysia
2.10. Foreign Workers in Malaysia Construction Industries
2.11. Issues with Foreign Workers
2.12. Accident on Construction Sites
2.13. Causes of Accident on Construction Site
2.14. Accident in the Malaysian Construction Site
2.15. Accident Investigation Method
2.16. Accident on Foreign Workers
3. Results and Findings.
3.1. Rate of Accident to Foreign Workers Due to Language Proficiency.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Din, Mohd Fadhil Sustainability Management Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries
ISBN:
1-80262-449-X

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