Search Articles
Journal:
all
Keyword:
systems thinking
Total
—
19 articles
Article 20 Dec 2023
Mouna Samaali, El-Hassane Aglzim, Xavier Dessertenne and Patrick Dubreuille
3040 Views989 Downloads
Article 22 Sep 2023
Carlo Berizzi, Margherita Capotorto, Gaia Nerea Terlicher and Luca Trabattoni
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 185–206
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 4, pp. 185–206
4114 Views1120 Downloads1 Citations
Article 21 Jul 2023
Nikolaos Partarakis, Effrosini Karouzaki, Stavroula Ntoa, Anastasia Ntagianta, Emmanouil Zidianakis and Constantine Stephanidis
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 3, pp. 138–156
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 3, pp. 138–156
4560 Views1100 Downloads1 Citations
Article 17 Jun 2023
Wan-Ju Chen, Rong-Ho Lin and Chun-Ling Chuang
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 110–137
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 110–137
4250 Views1335 Downloads1 Citations
Short Note 10 Feb 2023
Simone Pettigrew and Leon Booth
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 1, pp. 1–9
Volume 2 (2023), Issue 1, pp. 1–9
3501 Views1252 Downloads1 Citations
Article 18 Aug 2022
Mohammad Valipour, Helaleh Khoshkam, Sayed M. Bateni and Essam Heggy
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 171–187
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 171–187
3968 Views1307 Downloads3 Citations
Article 11 Jul 2022
Peter Jean-Paul, Tek Tjing Lie, Timothy N. Anderson and Brice Vallès
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 134–158
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 3, pp. 134–158
3895 Views988 Downloads
Article 17 May 2022
Alfred Söderberg
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 88–104
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 2, pp. 88–104
5671 Views1712 Downloads2 Citations
Review 8 Mar 2022
Hwang Yi and Abhishek Mehrotra
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 1, pp. 12–40
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 1, pp. 12–40
3815 Views1367 Downloads1 Citations
Review 8 Mar 2022
Hwang Yi and Abhishek Mehrotra
Sustainable buildings tend to maximize power and information rather than efficiency. The multidimensional concepts and tools provided by systems ecology and thermodynamics aid the understanding of building performance and sustainability as part of the global and
Sustainable buildings tend to maximize power and information rather than efficiency. The multidimensional concepts and tools provided by systems ecology and thermodynamics aid the understanding of building performance and sustainability as part of the global and complex thermodynamic phenomena in living systems—energy is not concentrated, but it flows, increasing the flow rate of useful energy. From such an extended macroscopic perspective, this paper addresses holistic eco-systemic criteria of building performance evaluation, focusing on emergy (spelled with an “m”) and information—the two critical indices of extensive and intensive analysis. Emergy aggregates the utmost and upstream energetic impacts, whereas information evaluates the structural pattern of the energy-flow distribution. These indices are theoretically correlated under the principles of ecological energy transformation and are often practically compatible. To clarify the definitions and appropriate scientific contexts of the new indices for environmental building studies, we review information theory, ecological theorems, and a few pioneering studies. Emergy and information have a great potential for advanced environmental building analysis, but building-scale implementation of emergy, information, and system principles remains a scientific challenge. The findings call for further research into the improvement of building-specific emergy/information data and reliable evidence of the analogy between building and open living systems.
or
Access Full Article
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 1, pp. 12–40
Volume 1 (2022), Issue 1, pp. 12–40
3815 Views1367 Downloads1 Citations
Volume 1 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 68–85