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Dr. Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga
GTDS Research Group, University of Oviedo

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Researcher Level 1 (SNI Level 1) of Mexican National Research System (Conacyt). Partner in research at Construction Technology Applied Research Group (GITECO) and Socio-Legal Studies of the Territory and Sustainable Urban Development (GTDS) hosted by University of Cantabria and University of Oviedo (Spain), respectively. Entrepreneur of “Hurbannia” as an initiative to build a framework to implement the new Spanish Urban Agenda boosted by Spanish Government (Cabinet 19th February 2019) in Cantabria region. Holding outstanding professional credentials in Sustainability (LEED GA (buildings) and ENV SP (infrastructure)) and Project Management (Project Management Professional (PMP) and RICS Chartered Project Management Surveyor).

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Journal article
Published: 14 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The 2030 Agenda highlights the importance of governance to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). However, we observe that there is an underestimation of the governance dimension in the SDG indices. The reasons are twofold. Firstly, indices assign a lower weight to governance compared to the other dimensions of sustainability. Secondly, most governance indicators do not measure the relational dynamics that underlie sustainable development policies. The aim of this study is thus to provide alternative methods for a more accurate assessment of the governance dimension in the frame of the 2030 Agenda. With this purpose, we examine the performance of 100 Spanish cities on the SDGs included in the first report elaborated by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Spain in 2018. Using this data, we first develop a methodology to rebalance the current underestimation of the governance dimension, comparing its impact on the SDG performance of these cities. Secondly, we build a new indicator of ‘Strategic Culture’ to get a more accurate measure of governance in urban contexts. As a result, the study validates the proposed methods and provides evidence that better performance on sustainable development is favored by the implementation of strategic planning processes.

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Carmen García-Peña; Moneyba González-Medina; Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. Assessment of the Governance Dimension in the Frame of the 2030 Agenda: Evidence from 100 Spanish Cities. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5519 .

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Carmen García-Peña, Moneyba González-Medina, Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. Assessment of the Governance Dimension in the Frame of the 2030 Agenda: Evidence from 100 Spanish Cities. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5519.

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Carmen García-Peña; Moneyba González-Medina; Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. 2021. "Assessment of the Governance Dimension in the Frame of the 2030 Agenda: Evidence from 100 Spanish Cities." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5519.

Research article
Published: 11 May 2021 in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
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Corporate sustainability reporting has gained increasing prominence over the last years to quantitative and qualitatively reflect progress of enterprises toward sustainability. However, the measurement of the economic contribution of firms in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is still a pending issue. This research aims at bridging this gap by devising a new system that monetizes impacts of Spanish companies in the fulfillment of the SDGs. A panel of three experts in sustainability determined a set of 33 suitable indicators that represent the SDGs. Best–Worst method was then used to perform a multi‐criteria decision analysis to determine weighting factors through responses from a two‐part questionnaire circulated to 50 national respondents. The application of the new tool to a Spanish firm underlined a weak linkage between some SDGs and business activities, and the complexity of disaggregating accounting data to feed the metrics of the new framework. The development of instruments that associate the challenges of the 2030 Agenda with corporate accounting was recommended.

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. Monetizing impacts of Spanish companies toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 2021, 1 .

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. Monetizing impacts of Spanish companies toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 2021; ():1.

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. 2021. "Monetizing impacts of Spanish companies toward the Sustainable Development Goals." Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 02 March 2021 in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
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Despite stakeholder pressure boosts companies to help achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), only 36% of Spanish firms have implemented a corporate strategy towards the 2030 Agenda. Furthermore, the correlation between the SDGs and corporate sustainability reporting systems has barely been studied. This research aims at identifying gaps in reporting on corporate contributions in the SDGs by examining the global reporting initiative (GRI) standards and annual reports disclosed by the Spanish industry leaders in the Dow Jones sustainability world index in 2018 and 2019. Findings revealed a high inconsistency between GRI disclosures and actions performed by firms. Intangibility, omission of negative impacts, poor standardization, diversity of criteria and lack of comparability are the main features of corporate reporting employed by enterprises. The design of a quantitative framework that enables the standardization and measurement of positive and negative corporate contributions in the achievement of the SDGs was suggested.

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. Shortcomings in reporting contributions towards the sustainable development goals. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 2021, 28, 1299 -1312.

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. Shortcomings in reporting contributions towards the sustainable development goals. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 2021; 28 (4):1299-1312.

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Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga. 2021. "Shortcomings in reporting contributions towards the sustainable development goals." Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 28, no. 4: 1299-1312.

Journal article
Published: 27 October 2020 in Land
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Due to industrial civilization, the decline of the countryside has become a global phenomenon. Spain is a good example that reflects this issue in the rural areas of the European Union because more than half of all municipalities in the country are at risk of extinction. This manuscript aims at combining social engagement and the application of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to propose a sustainable rural revitalization plan. Several multi-sectoral working groups participated in three consultation rounds to prescribe 52 customized actions directed to Pesquera-San Miguel de Aguayo area. Social (17) and environmental (16) dimensions collected the highest number of initiatives, whilst the institutional dimension was only addressed by eight proposals. Furthermore, 40 out of the 169 SDG targets of the 2030 Agenda were put forward in the rural strategy, which also contemplated most priorities adopted by the Rural Development Programme for Cantabria. A cooperative association was identified as the most preferred governance system in order to build a community spirit and promote social empowerment, inclusiveness, and gender equality. Municipal and regional authorities were not invited to join the participatory process in order to not constrain the involvement of the selected stakeholders.

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Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. Combining Participatory Processes and Sustainable Development Goals to Revitalize a Rural Area in Cantabria (Spain). Land 2020, 9, 412 .

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Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. Combining Participatory Processes and Sustainable Development Goals to Revitalize a Rural Area in Cantabria (Spain). Land. 2020; 9 (11):412.

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Jose Diaz-Sarachaga. 2020. "Combining Participatory Processes and Sustainable Development Goals to Revitalize a Rural Area in Cantabria (Spain)." Land 9, no. 11: 412.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2019 in Cities
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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. Do sustainable community rating systems address resilience? Cities 2019, 93, 62 -71.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino. Do sustainable community rating systems address resilience? Cities. 2019; 93 ():62-71.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. 2019. "Do sustainable community rating systems address resilience?" Cities 93, no. : 62-71.

Review article
Published: 30 September 2019 in Natural Hazards
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The occurrence of major natural disasters in recent years has impacted large cities worldwide and boosted the need of assessing urban resilience. As a key factor of resilience, vulnerability correlates attributes of communities with the level of damage caused by hazards. Although a large amount of studies has reviewed the assessment of vulnerability from the perspective of a particular hazard, the combined analysis involving all kind of hazards and vulnerability dimensions in the urban context is uncommon. This research provides a critical analysis of a selected sample of 72 contributions released from 1998 to 2018 and related to the appraisal of vulnerability, in order to determine their adequacy in the evaluation of urban vulnerability. The findings stemming from this process revealed that the social dimension was a priority, whilst qualitative components associated with risk awareness were slightly covered. Furthermore, multi-criteria decision analysis and weighting allocation were the most widely used techniques to address urban vulnerability, whilst 32 methodologies were bespoke built to be applied to particular locations. Most of the cases examined were oriented to specific hazards, with only 10 of them focused on multiple hazards. Hence, the results suggest the need for developing a new framework applicable to multiple hazards worldwide to bridge the identified gaps.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. Analysis of vulnerability assessment frameworks and methodologies in urban areas. Natural Hazards 2019, 100, 437 -457.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino. Analysis of vulnerability assessment frameworks and methodologies in urban areas. Natural Hazards. 2019; 100 (1):437-457.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. 2019. "Analysis of vulnerability assessment frameworks and methodologies in urban areas." Natural Hazards 100, no. 1: 437-457.

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Published: 30 September 2019 in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Over the last two decades, numerous towns have been involved in the Local Agenda 21 program in Spain, which is founded on social participation. In the wake of this initiative, the recent promotion of the new Spanish Urban Agenda by the national government seeks to implement the 2030 Agenda in municipalities nationwide. This research aims to examine the Local Agenda 21 process by using Madrid as a case study to determine the lessons learned to enable the effective application of the new Spanish Urban Agenda. A total of 3712 activities included in the action plans of the 21 districts of Madrid were analyzed to identify linkages with the Sustainable Development Goals and the targets of Sustainable Development Goal # 11 ("Sustainable cities and communities"). Methodologies used were solely oriented to develop an ad hoc Local Agenda 21 plan for each district, hindering the comparison of schemes and findings. Social, institutional, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development were not equally considered by the plans, being the first two aspects the most predominant. Social engagement hardly reached 0.44% of the registered population. The contribution of all action plans to the sustainable development of Madrid was not assessed due to the absence of indicators in the program.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. Analysis of the Local Agenda 21 in Madrid Compared with Other Global Actions in Sustainable Development. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 3685 .

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. Analysis of the Local Agenda 21 in Madrid Compared with Other Global Actions in Sustainable Development. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (19):3685.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. 2019. "Analysis of the Local Agenda 21 in Madrid Compared with Other Global Actions in Sustainable Development." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19: 3685.

Journal article
Published: 09 October 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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The rising concern about sustainable development led most states worldwide to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to achieve 17 new goals before the end of 2030. Due to the prominent role of urbanization, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #11 was introduced to make cities and human settlements more resilient, sustainable, safe and inclusive. The frameworks built so far to assess sustainable urban development primarily focus on sustainability, disregarding inclusiveness, safety and resilience. Under the joint consideration of these four facets, this research devised a new tool to evaluate communities and cities by selecting 61 indicators from an extensive literature review, which were weighted subsequently to ensure the balance among the four sustainability dimensions, namely society, economy, environment and governance. Data extracted from international organizations and the targets of the SDGs were used to score the indicators of the system. Mexico City, as one of the most overcrowded cities in the planet, was selected as a case study to apply the proposed tool. The research determined that the minimum thresholds set for the safety, sustainability and inclusiveness domains were not reached. In contrast, the city performed over the resilience limit. Consequently, RESSICOM was revealed as a helpful framework to identify shortcomings in cities related to the achievement of SDG #11.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. Development and application of a new Resilient, Sustainable, Safe and Inclusive Community Rating System (RESSICOM). Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 207, 971 -979.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino. Development and application of a new Resilient, Sustainable, Safe and Inclusive Community Rating System (RESSICOM). Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 207 ():971-979.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino. 2018. "Development and application of a new Resilient, Sustainable, Safe and Inclusive Community Rating System (RESSICOM)." Journal of Cleaner Production 207, no. : 971-979.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Building and Environment
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The sustainability of cities is being influenced by their roofs, which cover a high proportion of built-up areas and whose design is crucial to control their economic, environmental and social impacts in a context of urban sprawl and Climate Change. For this reason, this research developed a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methodology combining the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to support the selection of four representative flat roof types (self-protected, gravel finishing, floating flooring and green) according to their contribution to sustainability, based on their performance across a list of indicators aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The analysis was carried out under three different climate scenarios (Mediterranean, Oceanic and Continental) and relied on the judgments provided by a panel of experts in the building sector to both refine and weight the proposed indicators. The results proved that green roofs were the most sustainable alternative for all the scenarios evaluated, by virtue of their insulation, recycling, cost, energy, water and ecosystem-related benefits. Consequently, this type of roof emerges as a multifunctional solution to be strongly considered in the design of planning strategies seeking urban regeneration.

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Salvador Guzmán-Sánchez; Daniel Jato-Espino; Ignacio Lombillo; Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. Assessment of the contributions of different flat roof types to achieving sustainable development. Building and Environment 2018, 141, 182 -192.

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Salvador Guzmán-Sánchez, Daniel Jato-Espino, Ignacio Lombillo, Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. Assessment of the contributions of different flat roof types to achieving sustainable development. Building and Environment. 2018; 141 ():182-192.

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Salvador Guzmán-Sánchez; Daniel Jato-Espino; Ignacio Lombillo; Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga. 2018. "Assessment of the contributions of different flat roof types to achieving sustainable development." Building and Environment 141, no. : 182-192.

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Published: 15 March 2018 in Sustainable Development
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Under the consideration of different measures adopted by most United Nations (UN) members, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aim to address the main challenges related to social, economic and environmental issues. Numerous single indicators have been established to monitor progress toward sustainable development; however, the need for benchmarking the degree of sustainability of countries triggered the creation of the SDG Index, which originally compiled 77 indicators and has evolved to 99 at present. This research analyzes the suitability of applying this composite index for assessing the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda. The lack of information resulted in 60% of the SDG indicators being disregarded in the SDG Index. The scores obtained through the application of this index clustered UN countries according to specific geographic areas, highlighting the need for developing regional SDG Indices to emphasize the achievement of lower-performing goals.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. Is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index an adequate framework to measure the progress of the 2030 Agenda? Sustainable Development 2018, 26, 663 -671.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino, Daniel Castro-Fresno. Is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index an adequate framework to measure the progress of the 2030 Agenda? Sustainable Development. 2018; 26 (6):663-671.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. 2018. "Is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index an adequate framework to measure the progress of the 2030 Agenda?" Sustainable Development 26, no. 6: 663-671.

Journal article
Published: 12 February 2018 in Sustainability
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The unstoppable world population growth is increasing the concentration of people in urban settlements and the number of megacities, especially in developing countries where urbanization exacerbates social and economic inequalities. Green rating systems have been launched during the last decades to facilitate the assessment of sustainable development in terms of building and infrastructure, including the evaluation of sustainable urban development through the study of communities. This article assesses two of the most renowned sustainable rating systems through the prism of economy, environment and society and the international actions undertaken toward the promotion of sustainable development worldwide, in order to determine their effectiveness to assess urban development in poorer nations. Hence, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighbourhood Development (LEED ND) and Envision, both from the United States, were chosen as representatives of building and infrastructure fields, respectively, so that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda (Habitat III) were the benchmarks selected to define the sustainability aspects required to evaluate their potential application in less developed countries. The absence of metrics in the New Urban Agenda led to relate its commitments to the SDGs, which revealed that the prerequisites and credits included in LEED ND and Envision mainly focused on managerial and environmental aspects and disregarded the economic and social dimensions. Consequently, the premises under which LEED ND and Envision were developed must be updated and complemented with the two latest guidelines recently adopted by the United Nations in the field of urban and sustainable development.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. Evaluation of LEED for Neighbourhood Development and Envision Rating Frameworks for Their Implementation in Poorer Countries. Sustainability 2018, 10, 492 .

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino, Daniel Castro-Fresno. Evaluation of LEED for Neighbourhood Development and Envision Rating Frameworks for Their Implementation in Poorer Countries. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (2):492.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. 2018. "Evaluation of LEED for Neighbourhood Development and Envision Rating Frameworks for Their Implementation in Poorer Countries." Sustainability 10, no. 2: 492.

Journal article
Published: 01 March 2017 in Environmental Science & Policy
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The improvement of infrastructures in developing countries has become a priority for the most advanced economies, which have founded a broad range of international development organizations to undertake infrastructure projects worldwide. Infrastructure is the key driver that can accelerate the balance among the economic, social and environmental aspects forming the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) in these countries. Given the lack of appropriate tools to ensure the achievement of this goal, this paper describes the methodology conceived for the development of a Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System (SIRSDEC) aimed at promoting the design, construction and operation of sustainable infrastructure projects in these geographical areas. SIRSDEC is structured into a hierarchical decision-making tree consisting of three levels of elements (requirements, criteria and indicators) selected to assess infrastructure systems according to sustainability principles. The methodology on which SIRSDEC is based combines the action of two multi-criteria decision-making methods (MCDM) such as the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Integrated Value Model for Sustainable Assessment (MIVES). AHP is proposed to weight the elements forming the decision-making tree after processing the opinions provided by a group of international experts regarding the importance of requirements, criteria and indicators, whilst MIVES is suggested to value infrastructure projects according to their contribution to the TBL. The article emphasizes the added value provided by the combination of AHP and MIVES in the design of an ad-hoc rating system aimed at fostering the implementation of sustainable infrastructure projects in developing countries

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. Methodology for the development of a new Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC). Environmental Science & Policy 2017, 69, 65 -72.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino, Daniel Castro-Fresno. Methodology for the development of a new Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC). Environmental Science & Policy. 2017; 69 ():65-72.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. 2017. "Methodology for the development of a new Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC)." Environmental Science & Policy 69, no. : 65-72.

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Published: 01 March 2017 in Environmental Science & Policy
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A large amount of international public and private not-for-profit organizations strives to enhance the conditions of less developed economies under the flagship of sustainability throughout a wide range of infrastructure projects. However, the results are uncertain. Sustainable development in poorer countries requires effective frameworks to ensure the balanced consideration of social, economic and environmental dimensions. This paper discusses the application of the Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC) to a mining infrastructure project located in Peru, in order to validate the methodology developed for this framework. The opinions returned from a questionnaire addressed to international experts according to the pairwise comparison scale of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method were processed to obtain the weights of the elements forming the decision-making tree of SIRSDEC. The Integrated Value Model for Sustainable Assessment (MIVES) was introduced to assess infrastructure projects through the definition of value functions for each sustainability indicator, which enables the integration of variables measured in different units into a standardized value index. The weights obtained for SIRSDEC reflected the balance of the three pillars of sustainability, with a slight predominance of the social dimension. The case study highlighted the contribution of the new system to identify key sustainability issues which were omitted in the original project and posed several actions to improve community?s perception and facilitate the development of the project

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. Application of the Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC) to a case study. Environmental Science & Policy 2017, 69, 73 -80.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino, Daniel Castro-Fresno. Application of the Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC) to a case study. Environmental Science & Policy. 2017; 69 ():73-80.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Daniel Castro-Fresno. 2017. "Application of the Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System for Developing Countries (SIRSDEC) to a case study." Environmental Science & Policy 69, no. : 73-80.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2016 in Ecological Indicators
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Several sustainable building rating systems were created worldwide during the last decades due to economic growth and the significance of environmental impact associated with the building industry. Similar infrastructure rating tools have started to be developed and implemented, being highly necessary to promote its development. Even though the existing sustainable infrastructure rating systems are focused on advanced economies, growing environmental concerns are increasing the need for new systems in the Developing World. This research analyses some of the mainstream infrastructure rating frameworks such as Envision (USA), Civil Engineering Environmental Quality (CEEQUAL) assessment (UK) and Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) Rating Tool (Australia) from the perspective of the Triple Bottom Line (economy, environment and society), in order to determine the effectiveness of their application in the context of the least developed countries. The analysis revealed that the three tools are biased towards the environmental dimension and are mainly oriented to developed countries. Consequently, the foundations on which these systems are based need to be further developed and enhanced to be of real relevance in poorer nations by balancing the weight of sustainable pillars, incorporating effective management guidelines and development goals set by United Nations declarations, and considering impacts beyond the single project framework

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Badr Alsulami; Daniel Castro-Fresno. Evaluation of existing sustainable infrastructure rating systems for their application in developing countries. Ecological Indicators 2016, 71, 491 -502.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga, Daniel Jato-Espino, Badr Alsulami, Daniel Castro-Fresno. Evaluation of existing sustainable infrastructure rating systems for their application in developing countries. Ecological Indicators. 2016; 71 ():491-502.

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Jose Manuel Diaz-Sarachaga; Daniel Jato-Espino; Badr Alsulami; Daniel Castro-Fresno. 2016. "Evaluation of existing sustainable infrastructure rating systems for their application in developing countries." Ecological Indicators 71, no. : 491-502.