Mahsa Mapar

• PhD- Environmental Management (Health, Safety, Environment)
• Researcher at NOVA University, School of Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

Integrating sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) requires a multifaceted approach across different dimensions of education, governance, research, operations, and outreach. Education plays a pivotal role in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 for quality education to ensure all learners acquire the knowledge and skills...

Integrating sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) requires a multifaceted approach across different dimensions of education, governance, research, operations, and outreach. Education plays a pivotal role in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 for quality education to ensure all learners acquire the knowledge and skills...

Sustainability within higher education institutions (HEIs) is a well-established topic in the literature. Many fields of education for sustainable development have been explored, mainly focused on HEI students, as well as on academic staff. The technical, administrative, and management staff, referred to as non-academic staff has not received as mu...

In higher education, approaches to how students learn to reflect and act on sustainability issues on the scope of Agenda 2030, influence their actions as change agents in society. However, education on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is still in its early stages. This paper aims to present the structure and pedagogical approach of a newly deve...

In a world characterized by Ecological Overshoot, where humanity demands more from natural ecosystems than they can sustainably renew, education can nurture sustainability-minded citizens and future leaders to help accelerate the transition toward an era where our finite planet’s resources stand at the core of all decision-making. Despite the essen...

Purpose Distance universities are of great importance for establishing sustainability literacy, as they operate as multipliers for thousands of students. However, despite several advantages of e-learning environments compared to traditional class-teaching, there are still challenges regarding suitable e-learning tools and didactical models. The pur...

Sustainability assessment tools have provided a way for local authorities to assess their performance towards sustainable development. However, a major problem of existing methods is the lack of an integrated assessment approach to cover significant aspects of municipalities’ activities, namely Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). This study was c...

One of the consequences of rapid global population growth is the increase in the energy demand. Currently, the main source of energy for various applications is fossil fuels, which are not renewable and their utilization at large scales have caused a number of environmental issues such as global warming. Hydrogen is one of the main renewable energy...

The level of contractor’s HSE is a major concern in outsourcing of the works for large organizations. In each tender a rational level of HSE holding by the contractors is recommended to reduce the project costs. By investigating the classification procedure of the contracts available in reliable manuals and models at international level, 6 main cri...

Introduction: The responsibility of achieving sustainable development goals in most megacities and subsequently in Tehran megacity are in charge of the municipalities. Since, the goal of municipalities in environmental-friendly activities is to protect the physical and mental health of citizens. Therefore, the sustainability assessment of health pe...

The sustainability assessment of public sector organizations including municipalities, with a focus on the integration of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) issues in the context of sustainability performance indicators , has almost remained underexplored. Moreover, since a large number of the activities of megacities' municipalities have dire...

Background and aims: Planning to increase production and tends to increase the efficiency of human resources in productive organizations without estimating the economic costs imposed on the organization, cause the actual value of safety is ignored in workplaces. Among the financial cost of the productive organizations, the subject of safety promoti...

The adoption of sustainability strategies and practices in local public organizations is an increasing topic of research and discussion. Many efforts have been made to develop sustainability tools that aim to evaluate, monitor and compare the integration of sustainable development polices, plans and practices at this organizational level. Despite t...

Over the last decade, sustainability assessment provides a way for local authorities to measure their performance towards sustainable development and disclose the results of progress to the target population. Despite the fact that the concept of sustainability assessment has grown rapidly in private organizations, it is not apparent that municipali...

ABSTRACT: Disasters are one of the most important challenges which must be considered by every management,system. Higher education centers have high disaster risk because of their risk factors (existence of historical and scientific documents and resources and expensive laboratory equipment in these centers emphasizes the importance of disaster man...

Background and aims: Evaluation of the contractor's HSE is a key issue for the employer that influences the selection of a contractor. An appropriate method of assessment can play a significant role in the selection of qualified contractors. This paper presents a new method for ranking of contractor's HSE at pre-contract stage of a project. Methods...