Lessons Learned from Airport Sustainability Plans (2015) / Chapter Skim
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14 chapter four Drivers, AiDs, AnD BArriers to sustAinABility ProgrAms The idea of making human activities more sustainable gained traction in the 1980s. During the past 30 years, the concept has grown into a movement widely adopted by both the public and private sectors.
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15 toP AiDs For AirPort sustAinABility The survey asked airports to list and prioritize three factors that aided sustainability program design and implementation. Table 2 divides the responses into three parts, with cross-functional aids to both planning and implementation listed first, followed by aids to the planning process and then aids to the implementation process.
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16 top aids mentioned by the respondents highlights the diversity of views and approaches to sustainability at the airports. Some airports ranked outreach, education, improved internal communications, and organizational and community support as the most significant aids, all of which could be viewed as relating to the social component of sustainability.
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17 competing priorities also hindered planning. Once the plan has been developed, its implementation can be slowed or stopped by a wide variety of impediments, such as old habits, lack of available time, limited education and training, lack of operational control and inadequate capacity of renewable energy resources, constrained financial resources, and procurement processes and laws.
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