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    This article discusses the development of a GIS-based model for assessing environmental sustainability on university campuses. The model was applied at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and evaluated the campus based on indicators like water consumption, energy use, waste management, and transportation. It incorporated these spatially by assessing their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. The model aims to help visualize and examine scenarios to strategically improve the campus's environmental performance and emissions reductions. Further research is needed to validate the model and evaluate its ability to assess other sustainability factors like campus compactness.

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    This article discusses the development of a GIS-based model for assessing environmental sustainability on university campuses. The model was applied at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and evaluated the campus based on indicators like water consumption, energy use, waste management, and transportation. It incorporated these spatially by assessing their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. The model aims to help visualize and examine scenarios to strategically improve the campus's environmental performance and emissions reductions. Further research is needed to validate the model and evaluate its ability to assess other sustainability factors like campus compactness.

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    This article discusses the development of a GIS-based model for assessing environmental sustainability on university campuses. The model was applied at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and evaluated the campus based on indicators like water consumption, energy use, waste management, and transportation. It incorporated these spatially by assessing their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. The model aims to help visualize and examine scenarios to strategically improve the campus's environmental performance and emissions reductions. Further research is needed to validate the model and evaluate its ability to assess other sustainability factors like campus compactness.

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    This article discusses the development of a GIS-based model for assessing environmental sustainability on university campuses. The model was applied at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia and evaluated the campus based on indicators like water consumption, energy use, waste management, and transportation. It incorporated these spatially by assessing their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. The model aims to help visualize and examine scenarios to strategically improve the campus's environmental performance and emissions reductions. Further research is needed to validate the model and evaluate its ability to assess other sustainability factors like campus compactness.

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    Article: “The Development of a GIS-Based Model for Campus Environmental

    Sustainability Assessment”
    Summary
    This article focuses on indicators of sustainability and assessment. The author of this article
    stated that it is a worldwide issue to secure long-term economical growth while minimizing
    negative environmental effects. Humanity is facing multiple challenges in terms of unsustainable
    resource use, which include environmental damage, pollution, climate change, poverty,
    starvation, and waterlogging. We risk absolving coming generations of any possibility to meet
    their own needs if we do not protect the natural human health and the environment while
    maintaining equity in meeting our needs. From last many years, there has been a increasing
    emphasis on the long-term viability of city building-blocks. Higher education institutions are
    among these building blocks. University campuses are primarily concerned with sustainability.
    As a result of the growing number of resources and energy utilization, different operational
    activities, and resulting pollution, campus sustainability has become an extremely important
    topic.

    According to the article, the GIS model has a wide range of applications in sustainability
    assessment and has been used to assess the sustainability of a metropolitan region. This GIS-
    based model was used to evaluate campus environmental sustainability at Saudi Arabia's “King
    Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) while Indicator availability, determination
    of operational parameters of the KFUPM academic campus, as well as their model development,
    environmental sustainability assessment of campus parameters” and measuring units, were all
    part of the process.

    This model incorporates “Water Consumption, Energy Use, Solid Waste Management, Overall
    Environmental Sustainability of the KFUPM Campus, Transportation Systems because they not
    only have a spatial elememts, but these all are also key contributors to GHG emissions” that
    must be reduced to ensure the campus’s sustainable development. University sustainability
    assessment systems are undergoing rapid transition and transformation to accommodate growing
    problems and requirements in the campus sustainability assessment according to the findings.
    The model addresses some of the problems of the campus sustainability assessment in
    underdeveloped nations by incorporating spatial dimension into overall campus operations
    sustainability assessment.

    It is proposed that a “GIS-based campus environmental sustainability assessment” will allow for
    beneficial visualization of status of the environmental campus’s sustainability and the
    examination of various scenarios. The assimilation of the university campus and operating
    parameters with a spatial dimension, as well as the conversion of different parameters into
    emissions levels, allows for a more systematic and organized assessment of campus
    environmental sustainability.

    This visual representation will assist in the development of a strategic plan that will yield the
    satisfactory performance in terms of emissions reduction from campus operations and
    cumulative environmental sustainability. Following technological techniques can also help
    government officials to develop strategical planning for enhancing university campuses’
    environmental sustainability. While other GIS technical models in the campus sustainability
    assessment, like evaluating the compactness of the University campuses, will require more
    research in the future. It's also crucial to research to validate the model. Running a mock analysis
    and comparing the results to the current situation is one method for model validation.

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