Overview
The University cares for the land it occupies, greening its desert campus responsibly and contributing to wider community greening.
The University pursues this goal across its teaching, its scientific research, its campus operations and its service to the community. The sections below set out how it delivers the goal, the activities held during the year, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitment.
How the University delivers this goal
- Manages its desert campus with recycled-water irrigation and native, drought-tolerant planting.
- Runs tree-planting drives and campus greening with the community.
- Delivers environmental education and biodiversity awareness.
- Applies land- and waste-conscious estate management under environmental law.
Activities in 2022/23
Work towards this goal in 2022/23 was carried forward through the standing programmes described above, which run continuously across the University.
Research & publications in 2022/23
During 2022/23, researchers at Future University in Egypt published 4 Scopus-indexed research outputs that contribute to this goal, across its faculties and research centre. Representative works include:
- Analysis of the relationship among land surface temperature (LST), land use land cover (LULC), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with topographic elements in the lower Himalayan region. Ullah, W. and 8 more (2023). Heliyon · cited 181 times.
- Comparative analysis of soil quality indexing techniques for various tree based land use systems in semi-arid India. Uthappa, A.R. and 16 more (2023). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · cited 22 times.
- Artificial Ecosystem-Based Optimization with an Improved Deep Learning Model for IoT-Assisted Sustainable Waste Management. Al Duhayyim, M. and 7 more (2022). Sustainability (Switzerland) · cited 22 times.
- Sensitivity analysis and estimation of improved unsaturated soil plasticity index using SVM, M5P, and random forest regression. Gnananandarao, T. and 3 more (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning · cited 5 times.
Policies supporting this goal
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