Steps Towards Sustainability: Assessment of Walkability of Streets in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Gul ◽  
Gul Ahmed Jokhio ◽  
Zahid Sultan ◽  
Wan Saiful Nizam Bin Wan Mohamad ◽  
John Alexander Smith
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Sustainability Assessment

scholarly journals Analysis of Relationships and Sustainability Performance in Organic Agriculture in the United Arab Emirates and Sicily (Italy)

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khalid Butti Al Shamsi ◽  
Paolo Guarnaccia ◽  
Salvatore Cosentino ◽  
Cherubino Leonardi ◽  
Paolo Caruso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Organic Agriculture ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Organic Farms ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Food And Agriculture

Climate change, recurrent economic and financial crises and food security issues are forcing society to look at the increasingly widespread use of “sustainable” production practices. These are often translated into innovations for businesses that are not always easily achievable other than through specific investments. This work sets out to assess the sustainability performance of organic farms, which represent a sustainable production model in terms of values, standards, practices and knowledge on the ground. The research was carried out in two geographical contexts (the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sicily, Italy) which have certain environmental and socio-economic issues in common, particularly in productive sectors representative of organic agriculture. This was done with the help of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA, in the rest of the text) framework and social network analysis to study the sustainability performance of organic farms within non-structured local production systems in the form of formal enterprise networks that, on the contrary, operate with a recognized and common aim. The results demonstrate both their attainment of excellence and the existence of criticalities, thus, identifying routes to possible improvement.

Employee suggestion scheme sustainability excellence model and linking organizational learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flevy Lasrado ◽  
M. Arif ◽  
Aftab Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Success

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a sustainability assessment model and to discuss the implications for organizational learning. Paper presents a sustainability excellence model comprising of three stages and discuss the good practices for sustaining the employee suggestion scheme. Design/methodology/approach – The assessment framework was developed drawing on a thorough review of the literature and data collected and analyzed using various statistical tools. The developed assessment framework was validated through a case of an organization based in the United Arab Emirates. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit relevant information during the case study. Findings – An assessment framework comprising five major factors for sustainability of suggestion scheme of has been presented. The five factors include: leadership and work environment, system capability, system effectiveness, organizational encouragement and system barriers. Sustainability of a suggestion system can be understood as a three-stage model comprising the initial stage, the developmental stage and the advanced stage. The key practices associated for each of these stages are discussed in detail. Practical implications – The framework has taken into consideration the critical success factors and critical success factors emerged from the literature review conducted for this study. Therefore, the framework could be further refined by conducting more case studies and can propose maturity levels. Originality/value – The paper has developed a framework that can be used to assess the sustainability of the suggestion scheme in an organization. This model has been applied to assess the individual schemes and draw upon potential change strategies.

scholarly journals Grease the Green Wheels: A Framework for Expediting the Green Building Movement in the Arab World

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Sabbagh ◽  
Osama Mansour ◽  
Abdulaziz Banawi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Rating Systems

It has been over three decades since the term “sustainable development” was coined in Brundtland’s report in 1987, and 28 years have passed since the world’s first sustainability assessment method for buildings was founded by the Building Research Establishment in UK in 1990. During these three decades, many sustainability standards, codes, and rating systems were created and used to help in designing, constructing, maintaining, rating, and labeling buildings with attaining the principles of sustainability. Yet by looking at the Arab world at the beginning of 2019, one can argue that, although the Arab countries have dedicated the effort and budget to save energy, water, and natural resources, the region as a whole is still struggling to shift the paradigm of the building industry from conventional to sustainable. This struggle raises some questions; are there any challenges that Arab countries must overcome to leap forward to a prosperous sustainable building design and construction practices? Why are existing green building rating systems such as Estidama in United Arab Emirates, global sustainability assessment system (GSAS) in Qatar, and ARZ in Lebanon lagging behind the trends of green building rating systems in the developed countries? What are the coordinated steps needed to expedite this movement across the region? The current study explores the limits and potentials of the green building industry in the Arab world through analysis of the green building initiatives, academic scholarship activities in architecture and engineering sectors, and feedback from green building professionals across the Arab world. This article introduces a theoretical framework to expedite the green building movement in the Arab region; the framework is shaped by the environmental, social, and economic factors that are crucial to the transformation of the building industry from conventional to sustainable. The study seeks to support a line of research that could help governments in the Arab world catch up with the global green building trends.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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