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Sustainability Assessment Of A Municipal Utility Complex: A System Of Systems Approach, Tarek Fahmy
Sustainability Assessment Of A Municipal Utility Complex: A System Of Systems Approach, Tarek Fahmy
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Construction of municipal utility complexes has to support continuing population growth, economic development, and a widespread of social interest in environmental preservation. Municipalities face challenges in designing, constructing, and operating environmentally sustainable utility complexes, and their primary goal in developing such a complex is to minimize the environmental impact resulting from energy production and waste treatment (both liquid and solid), management, and disposal. However, decision and policy makers lack a system of systems approach that takes into account multiple interdependent systems comprised of the functional system (infrastructure, facilities, operations within the complex…), the economic system, the social/cultural system, and the …