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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Environmental Footprints"”.
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(Im)Material : a qualitative study on sustainable materials for design through a comparative review of leather and its modern alternatives
… the material on a mass scale create adverse environmental and social impact when not carefully managed and considered. Although the modern leather alternatives may have comparatively smaller environmental footprints, designing a sustainable product may not be as simple as replacing one …
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Sand mining challenges in the Western Cape: The case of the Tormin Mineral Sands and Maccsand Mining and Quarrying Mines
… activity, is characterised by arguably the most environmentally destructive operations worldwide. South Africa’s mining industry, which is an important economic driver, and its environmental footprints bear testimony of such direct and indirect destruction. In the biodiversity-rich Western Cape …
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Shear strength behaviour of sugarcane bagasse reinforced soils
… and natural fibres as a way of reducing their environmental footprints and contributing to sustainable geotechnics. Although bagasse morphological composition contains structural elements ideal for reinforcement and composite materials, it has received little research as a standalone …
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Essays on the Impact of Climate Change and Related Policies
… the transition risk, measured through firms’ environmental performance, as climate policies become increasingly stringent. In this way, we investigate the role of financial markets in providing financial incentives for firms to decarbonize and how they reallocate investments between firms with …
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Precision diet formulation incorporating isoenergetic lipid and carbohydrate supplementations as water intake mitigation strategies for Holstein nursing bull calves
… systems that can even further diminish the environmental footprints of livestock operations. Amongst the most controversial topics, water footprint is often utilized to generate unrealistically negative representations of livestock operations. Though current water footprint models are …
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Environmental sustainability assessment tool for factories
… to obtain better insight into its suppliers' environmental sustainability characteristics. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition's (SAC) Higg Index is currently viewed as the foremost way to assess a supplier's environmental sustainability; however, its facility module only applies to certain …
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Optimizing Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal at WRRFs: Impact of Low DO Operation and Full-Scale Strategies
… metal salt and external carbon requirements, and environmental footprints at WRRFs.
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Biodiversity Impact of China's Power System Transition From a Life Cycle Perspective
… was first validated using indicators of environmental footprints such as Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), Particulate Matter Formation, Freshwater Eutrophication, Mineral Resource Use, and Land Transformation, then subsequently applied to biodiversity impact assessment. The environmental …
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Understanding the Microfoundations of Environmental Improvement in SMEs: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan’s Leather Industry
This qualitative study examines the environmental behaviour of leatherworking SMEs in Pakistan. It investigates the environmental drivers, enablers and barriers in these firms. The study makes an empirical contribution by examining an under-researched developing economy context, Pakistan, which has …
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Uranium extraction from seawater : investigating hydrodynamic behavior and performance of porous shells
… reserves resulting in higher prices and greater environmental footprints. An unlimited supply of uranium, roughly 4.3 billion tonnes, is dissolved in the ocean at a concentration of 3 parts per billion. Chemists have been developing polymers to extract uranium from seawater to provide fuel and …
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Scalable Synthesis and Separation Performance of Covalent Organic Framework and Contorted Polyamide Membranes
… are energy and chemical intensive with large environmental footprints. Membrane separation processes are an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional processes due to their higher energy efficiency and precise separation capability. Nanofiltration (NF) is used to separate relatively …
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Scalable Synthesis and Separation Performance of Covalent Organic Framework and Contorted Polyamide Membranes
… are energy and chemical intensive with large environmental footprints. Membrane separation processes are an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional processes due to their higher energy efficiency and precise separation capability. Nanofiltration (NF) is used to separate relatively …
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Energyshed to Watershed: Linking Water and Energy Consumers to Their Environmental Impact and Water Resources
… that sustain them, while also examining the environmental impacts associated with these connections, particularly in terms of water and carbon footprints. Central to this research is the examination of how U.S. water supply systems rely on a network of watersheds, both local and distant, …
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Developing a Large-Scale Multi-Modal Modeling and Optimization Framework for Freight Transport Network Analysis
… and the pressing necessity to minimize environmental footprints. Current simulation models tend not to represent very well the dynamic interaction between micro-level agent behavior and macro-level system dynamics of multi-modal freight networks and therefore fall short to holistically …
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Transportation system selection in open-pit mines (Truck-Shovel and IPCC systems) based on the technical, economic, environmental, safety, and social (TEcESaS) indexes
… should consider all other limitations, primarily environmental and social challenges that are confronting. The transportation system in any mining project is one of the most significant parts, especially in the technical and economic issues. It must transfer the planned volume of ore/waste that …
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Use and management of energy resources from Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) nexus perspective: The case of Vhembe District Municipality (VDM), Limpopo Province
… on climate change, as well as address health and environmental crises. Such measures and policies are also pursued to enhance energy security and economic prosperity. Though South Africa is one of the countries that has adopted an ambitious renewable energy policy, there is a paucity of …
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Toward Microtransit: Design and Operations of Reservation-based Systems
… health for transportation operators, and reduced environmental footprints. Furthermore, we introduce new optimization frameworks for decision-making in other reservation-based, platformed systems, namely for server installation under demand uncertainty in cloud data centers. In Chapter 2, we …
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APPLICATION OF CARBON CREDITS IN THE ITALIAN AND PAKISTANI AGRI-FOOD SECTOR
… credit systems to achieve both economic and environmental benefits. In rice farming, practices such as alternate wetting and drying (AWD), and midseason drainage are shown to effectively lower CH4 emissions by altering soil conditions and breaking the anaerobic cycle. Additionally, organic …
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Wasteways : regimes and resistance on the path to sustainable urban infrastructure
For many people, recycling is a habitual environmental action. In recent years, however, critics have shown that municipal recycling programs are not always environmentally beneficial. Municipal waste management programs are, nevertheless, a key lever through which cities can influence material …
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Quantifying the Service Life and Potential Environmental Benefits of Recycled Asphalt Pavements
… it has become important to document the cost and environmental impacts of different MandR strategies over the life cycle of the pavement to facilitate project selection decisions in the future. Asphalt pavement recycling, while cost-effective and environmentally friendly compared to other …
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