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Green Credits Versus Environmentally Sustainable Traffic Operations:A Comparison Of Contributions To Energy And Emissions Reductions, Yan Zhou, Lee Tupper, Mashrur Chowdhury, Leidy Klotz
Green Credits Versus Environmentally Sustainable Traffic Operations:A Comparison Of Contributions To Energy And Emissions Reductions, Yan Zhou, Lee Tupper, Mashrur Chowdhury, Leidy Klotz
Leidy E. Klotz
Although society is facing a variety of environmental issues, including the depletion of energy resources, and has a much greater awareness of climate change and its serious related social impacts, transportation systems have been pushed to increasingly greater limits because of the dramatic growth in traffic demand. A case study was performed to compare the contributions of green construction credits and those of environmentally sustainable traffic operations to reducing energy use and emissions. The study measured the impacts of green credits by using the Carnegie Mellon University economic input-output life-cycle assessment model. These impacts were compared with those achieved through …
Women As Sustainability Leaders In Engineering: Evidence From Industry And Academia In The U.S., Jennilee Harrison, Leidy Klotz
Women As Sustainability Leaders In Engineering: Evidence From Industry And Academia In The U.S., Jennilee Harrison, Leidy Klotz
Leidy E. Klotz
Women are underrepresented in engineering education and practice, which limits the quality of the engineering workforce. One way to increase the participation of women in engineering is to emphasize subjects that appeal to them and require skills at which they are especially adept. A subject that may fit this description is sustainability. To examine whether the subject of sustainability may help increase the participation of women in engineering, the purpose of this research is to compare the percentage of women in selected sustainable engineering leadership positions with the percentage of women in general engineering leadership positions. Gender data were collected …