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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Cleaner production"”.
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An investigation of cleaner production opportunities in the South African coal mining industry
… focus is still largely on end-of-pipe solutions. Cleaner Production (CP), which is a continuous preventative approach to environmental issues, has been demonstrated to be a cost-effective means of reducing wastes, increasing process efficiencies and improving the resource utilisation of coal mines …
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Preventive Environmental Strategies in Eastern European Industry: An analysis of donor support for cleaner production
Since 1991 cleaner production projects have been pursued by the donors in Eastern European industry. These projects have aimed at demonstrating the benefits of a preventive approach to environmental protection, and to train people within the industry to perform the cleaner production assessments …
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Extended Producer Responsibility in Cleaner Production: Policy Principle to Promote Environmental Improvements of Product Systems
The focus of the environmental policy-making has shifted noticeably during the last decade. From having played a fairly insignificant role in the 1980s and earlier, product-related environmental problems have attracted an ever-increasing interest from policy-makers, especially in industrialised …
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Investigation of the applicability of a cleaner production approach to road side catering in urban Africa
… sector. It has been argued that the use of cleaner technologies, especially those relevant for the energetic aspect of informal production, would provide affordable net benefits to society in terms of public health, climate change mitigation and food security, but without showing how this …
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National environmental funds and externally-supported revolving funds : financing schemes for cleaner production in developing countries--experience from various economies and recommendations for future application
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Understanding the Microfoundations of Environmental Improvement in SMEs: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Leather Industry
… owner-managers and support programmes of cleaner production centres serve as key microfoundations to these capabilities. More specifically, due to the absence of effective formal institutional support, cleaner production centres have acted as the (informal) compensatory institutional …
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The effect of energy input on precipitation in an oscillating grid reactor
The move to cleaner production has led to the process industry aiming at producing chemicals in a pure form and at the lowest possible cost. In practice this has resulted in a shift from treating processes as "black boxes" towards developing more concise models which reveal what happens within …
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Environmental risk management system design for hazardous waste materials
… and government in the field of clean production is generated with various game scenarios to reflect the variation trend of strategic actions, and then developed to discuss the reduction of the inherent risk posed by 'hazardous' materials and carbon emissions on the supply chain …
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Essays on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints: Accounting, Bias, and Trade Policy
… measuring emissions intensities of agricultural production and the carbon footprint of international trade at the commodity-country level. These uncertainties arise from fragmented emissions accounting frameworks. At the same time, a significant portion of agricultural GHG emissions arises from …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
… and the United States (US) tried to diffuse cleaner production technologies in the pulp and paper industry from 1980-1998. The environmental organizations were: Greenpeace Sweden, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace USA, and Natural Resources Defense …
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The regional innovation system facing grand societal challenges
… firms and local governments respond through cleaner production, industrial park integration, by-product utilization, and hydrogen projects. Although hydrogen introduces new technologies, knowledge, and actor relations, it remains dependent on coke oven gas, coking assets, industrial …
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A life cycle assessment method for alternative material selection strategies in boat structures
… general the use of composites results in shorter production time, lightweight and lower maintenance costs to the marine industry in the leisure, fast and fishing boats sectors. The social and economic benefits of using composite materials have made users complacent about the pollution and the …
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Promoting Sustainability in Africa’s Small Industries: An Exploratory Study of Intermediary Performance Drivers
… adopts a multiple case-study of National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs) across four countries in Africa. Data collection involved semi-structured expert interviews with 51 experts across all four countries. This was combined with 29 weeks of field visits between the countries. …
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Circular Supply Chain Management: Conceptualisation and Empirical Investigation of Performance and Barriers in China
… circular product design, circular procurement, cleaner production, and end-of-life product and waste management), and resource circularity performance. These constructs are developed through extensive review, and their measurement items are validated by academic and industry experts. The …
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A problemática do desempenho ambiental na indústria de curtumes : o estudo de caso das indústrias do concelho de Alcanena
A Indústria de Curtumes, a mais importante no concelho de Alcanena, pertence a um dos sectores da actividade económica com maior incidência ambiental, resultado do processo de curtimento das peles dos animais. O processo de curtimento gera várias fontes de poluição, quer por descarga de efluentes – …
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Exploring the factors at play to make wastewater biorefineries a reality
… of an integrated model to interrogate bioproduction from wastewater and determine product yields associated with wastewater treatment 5. Creation of new knowledge through the interpretation of the model on different wastewater systems. The wastewater biorefinery is defined as a …
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Valorización sostenible de lodos y residuos agroalimentarios para la producción de hidrógeno, metano y biofertilizante: transición a la economía circular
… y otro bajo revisión en la revista Journal of Cleaner Production. Posteriormente, y en base a estos resultados, se diseñan nuevos experimentos en régimen de alimentación semicontinuo a escala de laboratorio utilizando reactores de tres litros. Estos ensayos permiten optimizar el funcionamiento …