Sustainable Redevelopment – from Coal Mine to Self-Sufficient Energy Transformation Center

Aceh is a region that has a rich historical and cultural heritage, which reflects its civilization and identity from time to time. However, the threat to the preservation of these historical relics is increasing over time, especially due to natural factors, urbanization, and social changes. Digitalization has emerged as a potential solution to address these challenges. The digitization of historical and cultural heritage offers a new way to preserve, access, and promote Aceh's cultural heritage more broadly. This research aims to explore the role of digital technology in the preservation of Aceh's cultural heritage, as well as its impact on local and global communities. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study on the Aceh Historical Trail Map (acehhistorytrailmap.id). Data were collected through in-depth interviews with stakeholders, document analysis, and observation of platform usage. The analysis was conducted thematically to identify the benefits of digitalization, the technology used, and challenges in preserving cultural heritage. The study focuses on historical sites in East Aceh, such as Perlak and Idi, as the research locus. Through the analysis of case studies from the historical heritage digitization project in Aceh, this study examines the effectiveness of digital devices such as digital imaging, virtual tours, and online platforms in documenting and disseminating important elements of Acehnese culture, such as: artifacts and historical sites. The results of this research are expected to provide insight into effective strategies for cultural heritage preservation through technology, as well as the potential for collaboration between stakeholders in realizing sustainable digital transformation for the preservation of Aceh's historical heritage.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of technological changes taking place in the modern information society, the sphere of education and the system of document communications on training students in bibliography studies (speciality 029 “Information Science, Library Science and Archive Studies”).Research methodology. The author analyzes the contents of nine publications including textbooks, monographs, scientific papers and collections. In the process of research, the following general scientific and special methods have been used: analysis, synthesis, generalization, logical, structural-functional, genetic methods, and others.Results. The development of the information society changes certain traditional insights into the content, structure, tasks, methods and technology of training, makes new demands both on the content of the curricula and on the structure and content of the disciplines themselves.Bibliography studies as one of the major special disciplines of the current curriculum 029 “Information Science, Library Science and Archive Studies” are relevant, taking into account the objective and subjective reasons related to the substantiation of new scientific concepts, implementation of new technologies into practical bibliography, especially regarding the bibliographic description and use of electronic documents. Bibliography studies support the training of future specialists not only in the library sphere, but also in the book, information, archive, museum, editorial-and- publishing fields.Despite the current changes, bibliography studies remain the traditional science of bibliography, which explores the methods, processes, results and conditions of the effectiveness of bibliographic activities. The components of bibliography studies are as follows: theory, history, methodology (technology) and organization of bibliography. Accordingly, all these components should be reflected in the academic disciplines. Unfortunately, these requirements are not always taken into account when developing curricula, in particular the curriculum for the speciality 029 “Information Science, Library Science and Archive Studies”. Thus, Theory of Bibliography is not studied at the beginning of the course, but at the end of it after Methodology and Organization of Practical Bibliography Activities, and for the teaching of History of Bibliography and sector bibliographic disciplines academic hours are not provided for by the curriculum.Insufficient attention is also paid to the bibliographic disciplines in the curricula of specialization 029 “Information and Documentation Work” and speciality 027 “Museum Studies, Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage”.Novelty. The author has analyzed the curricula of the speciality 029 “Information Science, Library Science and Archive Studies” and speciality 027 “Museum Studies, Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage” in the context of adding to them the academic disciplines of the integrated science “Bibliography studies” as well as the need to teach all future specialists in document and information sphere in these disciplines. The practical significance. The author suggests revising the curricula in order to optimize them and bring into accordance with the current state of the development of bibliography studies as a science, document information sphere as an integral part of the system of social communications.Keywords: bibliography studies, theory, history, organization, methods, technology, system of document communications, the course of bibliography studies for students.

Heightened environmental policies along with the necessity for a resilient supply chain (SC) network have driven companies to adopt circular economy (CE) strategies. Although CE initiatives have shown significant effects on SC operations, the advent of digital technologies is encouraging businesses to digitize their SCs. However, the relationship connecting SC digitalization with CE practices remains underexplored. This study presents a novel framework that bridges the gap between CE principles and SC digitalization by identifying and prioritizing critical success factors (CSFs) for implementing SC4.0 in a circular economy context. We conducted a comprehensive literature review to determine CSFs and approaches relevant to Supply Chain 4.0 (SC4.0), and expert insights were gathered using the Delphi method for final validation. To capture the complex interrelationships among these factors, the study employed a combined approach using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set (IFS), Analytic Network Process (ANP), decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory, and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) techniques to assess the CSFs and strategies. The findings highlight that an intelligent work environment, performance tracking, and data accuracy and pertinence are the top three critical CSFs for SC digitalization. Furthermore, enhancing analytical capabilities, optimizing processes through data-driven methods, and developing a unified digital platform were identified as key strategies for transitioning to SC4.0. By embedding CE principles into the evaluation of digital SC transformation, this research contributes a novel interdisciplinary perspective and offers practical guidance for industries aiming to achieve both digital resilience and environmental sustainability. The study delivers a comprehensive evaluation of CSFs for SC4.0, applicable to a variety of sectors aiming for digital and sustainable transformation.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and blockchain technologies within the digital economy presents transformative opportunities for promoting low-carbon urban development. However, a systematic understanding of how these digital innovations influence urban carbon mitigation remains limited. This study addresses this gap by proposing two research questions (RQs): (1) What are the key success factors for artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain in urban carbon emission reduction? (2) How do these technologies interact and support the transition to low-carbon cities? To answer these questions, the study employs a hybrid methodological framework combining the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and interpretive structural modeling (ISM) techniques. The data were collected through structured expert questionnaires, enabling the identification and hierarchical analysis of twelve critical success factors (CSFs). Grounded in sustainability transitions theory and institutional theory, the CSFs are categorized into three dimensions: (1) digital infrastructure and technological applications; (2) digital transformation of industry and economy; (3) sustainable urban governance. The results reveal that e-commerce and sustainable logistics, the adoption of the circular economy, and cross-sector collaboration are the most influential drivers of digital-enabled decarbonization, while foundational elements such as smart energy systems and digital infrastructure act as key enablers. The DEMATEL-ISM approach facilitates a system-level understanding of the causal relationships and strategic priorities among the CSFs, offering actionable insights for urban planners, policymakers, and stakeholders committed to sustainable digital transformation and carbon neutrality.

In the Fall of 2004, CRP had visiting scholar Carlos Leite for post-doctoral studies, research and teaching. He offered a course where students from city and regional planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, were able to study São Paulo, a global city with a population of 18 million people. Students were challenged into innovative projects for the sustainable redevelopment of a railroad brownfield in the high-density central city as an opportunity for positive territorial and social transformations.

Multiple programs promote redevelopment of land reuse sites, which are environmentally impacted or potentially contaminated sites. Historically, such programs have focused primarily on economic development. However, public health is an important consideration to address not only sustainable redevelopment but also health inequity and disparities. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) Land Reuse Health Program is a special program to promote broad public health improvements through safe land reuse and redevelopment. Land reuse sites are virtually in every community in the U.S. and are a global problem. Brownfields are the greatest number of land reuse sites. With estimates of over 450,000 land reuse sites across the U.S., most communities suffer the burden of blight and contamination associated with these sites. ATSDR promotes and practices Healthfields Redevelopment: The safe reuse of environmentally distressed land to reduce exposures to contaminants and to improve overall health in the community. In this chapter, I highlight Navajo Nation Healthfields activities using ATSDR’s 5-step Land Reuse Strategy to Safely Reuse Land and Improve Health (5-step Land Reuse Model) and describe some of ATSDR’s Healthfields projects and related tools and resources for communities to create their own Healthfields practice.

Becoming a medical home is a radical change, requiring both a new mental model for primary care and the skills and resources to accomplish it. Although numerous reports indicate practice change is feasible--particularly with technical support and either insulation from or alignment with financial incentives--sustained transformation appears difficult. We identified the following critical success factors: leadership, financial resources, personal and organizational relationships, engagement with patients and families, competence in management, improvement methods and coaching, health information technology properly applied, care coordination support, and staff development. Each factor raises researchable questions about what policies can facilitate achieving success so that transformation becomes mainstream rather than the province of the innovative few.

The purpose of the article is to characterize digital collections devoted to the preservation and popularization of intangible cultural heritage in European and Ukrainian web information environments. The research methodology consists in the application of general scientific and special methods, in particular the system approach, analysis, synthesis, logical method, method of visualization of research results. Methods of content analysis, comparative and analytical monitoring of Internet resources for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage were used to track the state of digital collections in the web information environment. The scientific novelty of the work consists in expanding ideas about the protection, preservation and popularization of intangible cultural heritage at the world and national levels in web information environments. An analysis of four European and two Ukrainian digital collections, representing intangible cultural heritage and hosted on the relevant web information environments, was carried out. Conclusions. At the current stage of our country's development, it is irreversible to join the European integration processes and strive for a worthy representation of Ukrainian culture in the world information space. The creation of a resource of the historical and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people has become one of the activities of libraries, archives, museums and other institutions related to national memory, an integral part of the national bibliography, archeography and archival studies, museology of Ukraine in its broad sense as a resource of national documentary memory. The article examines four European and two Ukrainian digital collections dedicated to the preservation and popularization of intangible cultural heritage in the web information environment, which represent a sufficient number of intangible cultural heritage elements presented in multimedia resources. It was established that in the case of both marketing and communication policy, it is expedient to use social network platforms and mass media, which will have a positive effect on society's interest in the elements of intangible cultural heritage. Keywords: intangible cultural heritage, representation of Ukrainian culture, digital collections, web information environment, popularization of intangible cultural heritage.

The urgent need to balance affordability, sustainability, and well-being amidst constrained budgets has catalyzed an exploration into innovative technologies and sustainable practices as potential solutions to this complex challenge. This study aims to bridge the knowledge gap by developing a comprehensive framework that outlines the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) essential for the implementation of Innovative, Sustainable, and Affordable Rental Housing (ISARH) projects. The study employs a detailed methodology, which begins with a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to establish a foundational understanding of existing CSFs. This is complemented by an expert opinion survey, utilizing a five-point Likert scale to capture diverse perspectives, which is refined through the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM)—an analytical tool suited for complex decision-making scenarios. The framework’s validation includes rigorous analysis with the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks test, ensuring the reliability of the results. Within this framework, 32 critical CSFs were identified and categorized under four key sustainability domains—social, economic, environmental, and institutional—deemed crucial for achieving comprehensive ISARH. The top-ranking CSFs included ‘affordability based on income’, ‘design flexibility’, ‘use of sustainable building materials for construction’, ‘low presence of environmental problems in the surrounding’, and ‘tenure security’. This paper significantly contributes to the discourse on urban planning and housing policy by providing a methodological blueprint for assessing the viability and implementation strategies of ISARH projects. It advocates for targeted policy interventions and innovative practices to address the pressing needs of low-income populations, thereby contributing to sustainable development and equitable growth in urban areas.

In the context of managing museums, historical, artistic, and archaeological heritage, an advanced decision support system (DSS) can serve as the engine for a business game platform, optimizing decision paths and management strategies. In complex, multi-parameter scenarios, the final decision is often only part of the process; it is equally essential to follow the decision-making path, that is, the sequence of actions necessary to reach the objective. The DSS presented here simplifies the problem by transforming the initial n-dimensional space, defined by the critical success factors (CSFs) selected by experts, into a two-dimensional space. Indeed, thanks to this approach, the computational complexity is reduced to the point that the technological solution can be used even on standard desktop computers and not only on high-performance computing systems. Moreover, the user does not necessarily need to be an IT expert but rather a specialist in the cultural domain. Through grid-based motion algorithms and a hierarchy of CSF priorities, the system quickly identifies optimal solutions in the 2D plane and then maps them back to the n-dimensional space to maintain consistency with the original context. Since the correspondence between n-dimensional micro-states and two-dimensional macro-states is not one-to-one, the DSS returns the specific micro-state of interest from the optimal macro-state, selecting the most effective path. This research aims to develop algorithms that by minimizing entropy and optimizing the system’s dynamics, build optimal paths in the 2D plane, with algorithms capable of restoring the solution in the initial space. Several use cases in the form of business games have been conducted, demonstrating the value of the proposed solution. The result of this work is a simulation environment useful for museum experts to analyze the impact of their management strategies. Thanks to the ability to assign weights to each of the critical success factors (CSFs), the system can display both qualitative and quantitative simulations of museum dynamics as the weights associated with different CSFs vary. Given the system’s generality, it is applicable to various fields where complex business games are required, such as cultural heritage management, logistics, transportation, healthcare systems, and, more broadly, any context where strategic business analysis is needed for the economic enhancement of resources and their optimization.

PurposeHow can joint open innovation (OI) projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large companies (LCs) be effectively managed? This study aims to try to answer this research question with a focus on the critical success factors (CSFs) of such cooperation.Design/methodology/approachBased on 40 semi-structured interviews with Italian SMEs and LCs engaged in various industries, 20 open OI projects involving SMEs and LCs are investigated using a reflexive thematic analysis, a methodology involving both deductive and inductive approaches.FindingsFifteen CSFs grouped into seven categories emerge from the analysis of joint OI projects between SMEs and LCs. Among them, shared leadership, dynamic decision-making and priority setting emerge as essential elements at the basis of the proposed SMEs–LCs cooperation in joint OI projects that were not sufficiently addressed by prior studies.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to provide an evidence-based framework for managing joint OI projects between SMEs and LCs. Relatedly, this study links the practices and most recurring CSFs that facilitate such cooperation.

This paper identifies 20 critical success factors (CSFs) of innovation in China’s construction projects through literature review, a case study and expert interviews. Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) and MICMAC (Impact Matrix Cross-reference Multiplication Applied to a Classification) analysis were used to hierarchically structure CSFs as well as to analyze their inter-relationships. The dependence and driver power of each factor were also analyzed. By doing this, this paper presents structural clarity and establishes a hierarchical order for prioritization for the decision-making. The findings show that most of the CSFs (19 out of 20) have strong inter-relationships. According to the law of vital few and trivial many, 80% of effects come from 20% of the causes for many events. This paper suggests that intensive effort should focus on the root source of CSFs: owner’s involvement and leadership, top management com­mitment, and strategic importance of the innovation project. Besides, external support, which is beyond the innovation project network, plays an important role in the success of innovation in China’s construction projects.

PurposeBuilt heritage or historic assets (BHAs) constructed in the pre-nineteenth century in the UK are perceived to have certain characteristics which instill cultural significance in them and have seen them become valuable to the economy of the country. The heritage sector makes significant contributions to the UK economy through provision of tourist attractive sites, construction and servicing of heritage assets, heritage conservation, research, and commercial activities carried out within and around heritage assets. These benefits have seen them draw considerable interests from diverse stakeholders within and outside the heritage sector. Hence, a lot of attention is drawn toward restoration of such assets, from stakeholders of different interests, ranging from advocacies for no alteration to complete alteration of the heritage assets. As with construction projects, conflict of interests amongst stakeholders affect the outcome of restoration projects and the purpose of this paper is to examine the critical success factors (CSFs) for managing the stakeholders to achieve the projects’ objectives.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the views and experiences of practitioners in the heritage sector who have been involved with BHA restoration projects. A total of 32 CSFs for stakeholder management, obtained through rigorous reviews of literature, were subjected to a severe scrutiny with eight restoration experts to determine the importance of the CSFs in restoration projects. The outcome of the exercise was a modified list of 20 CSFs which were further tested on 52 restoration practitioners in the UK using a structured questionnaire to determine the degree of importance of each of the CSFs in restoration projects and their relationships as perceived by the practitioners.FindingsThe results of the analyses performed on the data show that most of the CSFs were perceived by restoration practitioners as truly critical and vital for successful management of stakeholders in restoration of BHAs. The results also indicate that there is a strong consensus amongst over 50 percent of the practitioners on the rankings of the CSFs.Practical implicationsThe identified CSFs could be used by the restoration practitioners as a “road map” for the development of appropriate solutions for successfully managing stakeholders associated with the promotion and BHAs restoration assets.Originality/valueAlthough CSFs for stakeholder management in construction have been studied by many scholars, no specific research could be identified prior to this study to have been done in defining the CSFs for stakeholder management in restoration projects.

Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice

Objective This paper explores the sustainable transformation of the fashion industry, focusing on integrating circular economy principles and promoting ethical consumer behavior. It seeks to analyze the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the industry’s operations and identify opportunities for adopting more sustainable practices. Methodology A qualitative research approach is used, with expert interviews providing insights into current trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable transformation in the fashion sector. The data were analyzed with MAXQDA. Findings The research reveals an increasing awareness among both consumers and industry stakeholders regarding the importance of sustainability. This shift is motivated by the recognition of the industry’s significant ecological footprint and the ethical concerns associated with its supply chains. Responsible consumption patterns, such as the rise in second-hand shopping and ethically produced fashion, are becoming more popular. Additionally, circular economy practices–such as recycling materials, designing for longevity, and reducing waste–are identified as key strategies for reducing environmental impacts and improving resource efficiency. Despite these positive developments, there are ongoing challenges, including the need for increased transparency, overcoming greenwashing, and the development of stricter regulatory frameworks. Value Added This paper contributes to the growing body of knowledge on sustainable fashion by highlighting the intersection of consumer behavior, industry practices, and circular economy principles. It emphasizes the critical role of collective action and systemic change in fostering a sustainable transformation within the fashion industry. Recommendations The paper provides actionable recommendations for industry stakeholders, policymakers, and consumers, encouraging the promotion of transparency, innovation, and regulatory measures to ensure accountability and drive the widespread adoption of sustainable practices.