ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT BASED GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR LAND SUITABILITY OF PETROL FILLING STATIONS

A sustainable approach for protection of the natural environment remains the topic of interest for the developers in the developing countries. There has been a growing concern that development activities have the potential to cause severe damage to the environment. The rapid growth in urbanization offered an ample demand of vehicles, resulting more fuel consumptio

EIA-BASED GIS APPROACH FOR LAND SUITABILITY ANALYSIS OF PETROL FILLING STATIONS

A sustainable approach for protection of the natural environment remains the topic of interest for the developers in the developing countries. There has been a growing concern that development activities have the potential to cause severe damage to the environment. The rapid growth in urbanization offered an ample demand ofvehicles, resulting more fuel consumption. Apetrol filling station (PFS) is the place catering this fuel need. APFS is no doubt a very important facility but it is evinced that it has high potential of hazards, resulting the degradation and contamination of the natural resources and cause hazards like environmental, hydrological, geological and socioeconomic

Land suitability modelling using geographical information system (GIS) and multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)

There has been growing concern that the development activities have high potential to cause environmental problems. The decision-makers are trying hard to reinforce new policies and procedures towards sustainable development projects. Finding adequate land for any new business or development activity is a key factor considered in sustainable theories. Big projects involve numerous factors, and this makes land selection as a complex activity; thus, it is not easy to find the best suitable land parcel for development projects. Therefore, this chapter highlights the significance and effectiveness of GIS and MCDM in resolving various land suitability issues. The integration of GIS and various MCDM approaches is successfully seen in resolving land suitability problems in the world

An Assessment of Research Trends on FISCAL POLICY

Fiscal policy has been a topic of research interest for researchers. It plays a very important role in the economic growth of any country. Fiscal policy does not only achieve economic development, but eliminates the hindrances that assist economic stability. Based on the significance of the term. This paper evaluates the research output of the term fiscal policy since 1970 in different fields using the Scopus database. The data was collected from the Scopus database and were analyzed using Microsoft Excel to analyze the research trends on fiscal policy. It is concluded that fiscal policy has been a topic of researchers\u27 focus since 1970 but higher attempts are made after 2000. Most of the researchers prefer journal article publications and only 1% are in the press, whereas all other articles are already published. Most of the publications are published in the English language and the researcher from the field of Economics, Econometrics & Finance, Social Sciences and Business, Management & Accounting are publishing the most on fiscal policy. This paper will assist the junior researchers to find the gap and design their future research on fiscal policy as this paper compiles the database of the last five decades available on Scopus

Integration Management: A Bibliometric Study of Research Trends

Integration management has always been a topic of interest for researchers. It plays a significant role in the success of the projects. Integration management effectively incorporates all the aspects of projects and provides a roadmap towards their success. Based on the significance of the term, this paper assesses the research output of integration management since 1970 in different fields of the application using the Scopus database. The data was collected and analyzed through Microsoft Excel to analyze the research publications trend line, publication types and their access to the audience, organizations and countries involved, languages of publications, authors participating, and their respective field of research in relation to integration management. This paper will assist the researcher of this area to observe the research trends on the integration management topic as per the Scopus database until 2021

Development of supplementary cementitious materials: a systematic review

Concrete is the essential development material utilized for common works and it is profoundly expensive. The interest in building materials, for example, concrete is becoming comprehensively because of the development in the populace. Around 3 billion tons of Portland concrete are at present devoured around the world, and around 400 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is discharged to deliver each 600 kilograms of concrete. As respects CO2 creation, its belongings are natural contamination. The presentation of Additional Cementitious Materials (SCMs) can finger it. SCMs practice is well known these days in view of its great accomplishment in the field of manageable development. Utilizing SCMs is a worthwhile movement for the development business, which gives minimal effort and earth neighborly development. SCMs have regularly been presented instead of Portland concrete, which builds solid quality and strength productivity. A great deal of work has been done on the utilization of SCMs in the assembling of green structure materials. This exploration article sums up the past outcomes concerning the utilization of SCMs as a fractional substitute for concrete. This paper will consequently give the kindred scientists, who are searching for extra cementitious materials in the field of solid assembling, with a noteworthy thought and helpful information

Decomposing Process of Food Waste using Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL): Case Study in Taman Pura Kencana, Johor

Food waste is one of the critical issues which has been discussed in many countries including Malaysia. Apart from that, about 50% of food waste usually being dumped at landfill sites and incinerators which root to more problems towards the environment, economic and society. In this research, Taman Pura Kencana, Johor was chosen to identify the average total of food waste generation from selected households in 3 months from April 2021 to June 2021 and to determine decomposing days of food waste using BSFL. Raosoft Sample Size Calculator was used to calculate sample respondents bringing 48 households in this research. Hence, the average total of food waste generation from households per month was 1056.82 kg The collection of food waste from selected households in Taman Pura Kencana during the normal month of June was the highest compared to the fasting month in April and Eid month in May. 25 samples of food waste were examined to identify duration of decomposing days using BSFL based on pH, temperature and moisture content. The results showed that, the food waste successfully decompose after 10 days compare to control sample which was taking the longest time to fully decompose at about 90 days. The range of average temperature of the food waste using BSFL were 27℃ to 34℃. The initial range of average pH value for the food waste samples were 3.22 to 4.00 while on the last decomposing days of the food waste samples were 7.06 to 7.12. Moisture content for food waste samples is 51% except for control sample. Inconclusion, BSFL were the ideal insects to decrease amount of food waste in landfills and incinerators as they could accelerate the time of composting food waste and could reduce the negative impacts towards the environment, economic and society.This research’s findings will help create awareness and a better understanding of how much food waste could be generated from residential area, as this contributes to many negative issues when discarding them through landfills and incinerators

Pavement Management System Research Output: A Scientometric Assessment

Developing countries are struggling with cost management of pavement construction and rehabilitation. This case is similar to developedcountries butdeveloping countries are suffering issues of inadequate funds. Therefore, most of the countries started usage of Pavement Management Systems (PMS) to manage the decision-making process and alternate/priority assessments for pavement construction and rehabilitation. Hence, the PMS remains the topic of research interest for various researchers. This paper evaluates the scale and effectiveness of articles published by Web of Science (WoS) Group on PMS since 1990. The data has been collected from the WoS database from 1990 till 2020. The datawas processedand analyzed by Microsoft excel. This paper concludes that the trend of publication PMS articles is increasing and researchers are publications in high-quality articles on theWoS. The citation trend is alsoincreasing butit is analyzed that theWoSis not publishing the PMS conference articles as per the collected data. This paper compiles all the high-quality papers on PMS. It will also assist the authors to find a suitable publisher based on previously published work by the publisher

Low-Cost Pavement Management System for Developing Countries

Governments face numerous challenges in sustaining road network conditions. This is attributed to road authorities’ shortages of financial and physical infrastructure. As a result, low-cost automated solutions are being pursued to solve these problems and provide people with appropriate road conditions. Several attempts have been made to improve these technologies and incorporate them into a Pavement Management System (PMS) but limited attempts are made for developing countries. This study aimed to design a low-cost pavement management system for flexible pavement maintenance. A detailed literature review has been carried out, followed by a qualitative assessment of the various indicators considered for PMS. The priority ranks of the PMS indicators were made using an Analytical Network Process (ANP) and each rank was validated by a sensitivity assessment test using the Super Decision-Making tool. This paper also provides the conceptual framework for the low-cost PMS, followed by a fishbone diagram of the indicators and sub-indicators. It is concluded that an emergency maintenance plan with an ANP weight of (0.41) is one of the most significant plans for a low-cost PMS, followed by a routine with an ANP weight of (0.39) and periodic maintenance plans with a (0.20) ANP weight. Moreover, the functional indicators with an ANP weight of (0.32) are the most significant indicators for a low-cost PMS, followed by structural (0.26), safety (0.24), and serviceability(0.18) indicators. This model will assist the road planners in making better decisions on pavement maintenance management plans. The model will suggest the pavement sections on a higher priority to be added in the maintenance plans, especially where the maintenance budget is limited