نشریه مدیریت محیط زیست و توسعه پایدار
سال چهارم شماره 1 (پیاپی 9، بهار و تابستان 1399)

Business and IT leaders understand that technology is the best opportunity to gain insights and decision‐making capabilities to discover new opportunities, increase efficiency, and achieve company objectives. This study investigates the factors affecting business management’s success using business intelligence and neural networks in green marketing and to examine the barriers to failure in organizations and businesses. The research is a library study, and the results are based on the literature review. According to the results, many organizations strive to implement strategic business intelligence initiatives to improve organizational‐level access to the information needed to support business development. In this study, we intend to answer the following questions: “If business intelligence is a top priority, what if there are budget or resource problems? Why is user acceptance so low in companies that have started to implement business intelligence? Why does business intelligence seldom succeed even when business intelligence is the number one priority?” The literature review results show that obstacles to the successful implementation of business intelligence are not purely technological. They are often within the organization itself. As a result, a business intelligence initiative can be easily offset by some factors, and produce less value due to contradictory behavior, thus failing to achieve organizational goals. Successful projects are often the result of a combination of successful people, strategies, and technologies because success is difficult in the absence of other factors.

In recent years, we have witnessed a significant increase in household waste because of rapid urbanization. Current municipal solid waste management practices can be used to select optimal policies using strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This study aims to assist in understanding the current state of household waste management. The research was conducted by studying government reports, waste management regulations, and literature review. This study opens a window through which the major stakeholders can recognize the internal and external conditions of household waste management that can be useful in developing and promoting waste management at the strategic level.
The results revealed that among all waste management practices, the emphasis on a single technology (such as RDF) is not effective for the complete management of solid waste. Therefore, a specific combination of technologies (e.g., composting plants/biofuel production/recycling unit) should be adopted for sustainable waste management to reduce the side effects of landfilling. In addition, the findings show that examining the weaknesses, threats, opportunities, and strengths can help to formulate a strategic action plan for sustainable cities. Examining the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities shows that both internal and external factors play a role in waste management. Here, the most important issue is having a sufficient and reasonable policy and budget. However, there exists insufficient infrastructure, lack of long‐term plans, social unacceptability, policy uncertainty, and fear of losing revenue. There is also a weak link between the municipality and residents and a lack of participation in waste segregation programs.

So far, due to legal regulations, the general policies of sustainable productivity of water resources have not been implemented.The purpose of this study is to provide policies and programs to control and manage water resources in the short, medium and long term.In this study, we reviewed the scientific reports published in the articles and booksto identify potential challenges in dealing with water policies.According to the topic, the key findings are summarized in 11 general policy.Research shows that major institutions such as the Ministry of Water, the Irrigation Department, the Budget Office, and the National Council for Economic and Social Developmentare needed to approve the draft water policy.The government's long‐term and short‐term water resources management strategy must be formulated.A short‐term strategy is needed to meet the government's goals of developing water resources.The Cabinet is expected to consider the proposed strategies as a national water resources project.

The global spread of coronavirus has triggered strong and widespread responses from governments around the world. Implementing general policies in this field has been successful and has brought about many social changes in organizations and society. Urgent action to counter the rapid spread of the pandemic and change the situation, and a rapid and widespread effort to restore normal conditions and establish regulatory strategies worldwide at various levels of society are among the efforts made. This study utilizes the results of previous research to find the relationship between coronavirus indicators, environment, culture, and social change. This study aimed to investigate responses to the macro‐social threat of the coronavirus pandemic. The disease has entailed extensive environmental, social, and economic consequences. Meanwhile, there have been many social changes and intense reactions to the situation. In this course, there are differences between people in the community. Ordinary people in the community usually have traits and characteristics that are not all desirable. Therefore, effort should be made to eliminate these undesirable traits initially and during the socialization process. Of course, having healthy beliefs is evident in different cultures, but what we are looking for is small and subtle changes that must take place so that people can adapt to the organization without facing resistance by people in the face of change because such resistance is one of the main obstacles to the successful implementation of environmental, cultural, and social strategies in the effort to control the spread of the coronavirus disease.

Utilizing biogas because of its environmental protection benefits as well as economic efficiency has gained increasin weaknesses, threats and opportunities in the establishment of biogas plants in Iran. The research method is based on library studies and descriptive previous scientific literature published in articles, books, and journal reports to identify the challenges facing existing biogas plants. The findings were manually filtered to include only relevant publications, which led to the selection of features of biogas plants discussed in the selected studies, the articles were classified based on the following characteristics: study location, the platform used in the biogas plant, biogas plant capacity, and examined and categorized into three groups: technical, financial, and social factors. The key findings in each challenge were summarized in separate tables; and finally, the st weaknesses, threats, and opportunities were identified. The resultsreveal that the technology has various strengths including advanced technology, high efficiency, less environmental impact, lower greenhouse gas emissions, renewable capacity, reus energy, usable by waste landfills. The weaknesses of such factories comprise high investment capital, lack of profitability without consider knowledge and sufficient experience (especially in the case of bacteria used in the biogas production process), and high maintenance costs.

Recent studies have shown that maritime transport in the long time (years) leads to the accumulation of plastic substrates in the center of the ocean basins. This means that plastic pollution is much easier to move between ocean layers and between the hemispheres than previously thought. The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges facing plastic bags at sea and the existing rules and regulations and provide solutions. It is also a clear and understandable overview of current scientific knowledge and understanding of plastic pollution and how to combat it. This study focuses on three topics according to the literature review: sources, distribution and fate of plastic pollution in the ocean; effects of marine pollution on marine ecosystem and environmental and human health, analysis of proposed measures to eliminate plastic pollution in the ocean. The results show that there are many possible solutions to the problem. Combining law and increasing environmental knowledge through education seems to be the best solution to such environmental problems. Direct action on the source of contamination is still the most effective method. Daily reduction of plastic consumption is something that everyone can do separately. Limiting plastic consumption protects the oceans. Adopting existing techniques to reduce plastic waste to reduce ocean pollution in three ways: reduction, collection, recycling and disposal is one of the most important preventive actions.

Water resources management is a process that confronts competing and conflicting interests and perspectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate the needs and policies of environmental pollution monitoring and the role of policy in implementing the program. The results show that an integrated approach to water resources management strengthens the mechanism of dialogue, negotiation, and contribution. The use of these principles creates strategies and subsequently induces the planning process. Political commitment must be maintained throughout the planning process, but resistance may occur in case of any major changes. Close consultation and cooperation with affected and interested ministries at the highest level is critical while preparing the plan. Online identification and monitoring of water resources quality as a driver of continuous quality improvement is crucial and achieves a high level of quality assurance in achieving the goals. Therefore, an intelligent computer‐based system is essential for quality management and water resource evaluation processes. Online identification and monitoring can help the quality assessor to evaluate performance effortlessly, automatically, and without delay.