Title :
Developing a systems thinking perspective of hospital water sustainability
Author :
Faezipour, Miad ; Ferreira, S.
Author_Institution :
Syst. Eng. Res. Center, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
A goal of water sustainability in hospitals is to manage the use of water without causing unacceptable social, economic, or environmental consequences. This paper discusses the development of a hospital water sustainability causal model including the model validation process, and validation results. The model provides a systems thinking representation of water sustainability in hospitals.
Keywords :
hospitals; sustainable development; economic consequence; environmental consequence; hospital water sustainability causal model; model validation process; systems thinking perspective; systems thinking representation; unacceptable social consequence; Hospitals; Modeling; Wastewater; Water conservation; Water pollution; Water resources; causal model; system dynamics; validation; water sustainability;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Conference (SysCon), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3107-4
DOI :
10.1109/SysCon.2013.6549867
