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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Environmental Value"”.
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Enhancing Economic and Environmental Value in Soybean Production through Value-Added Innovation
… three interconnected dimensions of soybean value enhancement. First, we evaluated 218 diverse soybean plant introductions across multiple environments, revealing significant genotype-by-environment interactions affecting fatty acid profiles. A metabolite-based genome-wide association study …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use, Environmental Value, and Public Spending
… profoundly alters land use, preservation of environmental value, and the wellbeing of rural populations. These essays explore three such programs and derive lessons for improving their targeting. Chapter 1 tests the effect of conservation easement tax incentives on land conservation in …
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Implicit Environmental Value of Old Growth on the United States National Forests in Western Washington
The value is found to change during the study period (1963--1995) and increases with the scarcity of the resource. The average environmental value per acre is about $24,459 for the periods 1963--1976, and $128,437 for the last of periods. These values are much higher than the resulted value of …
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The perceived influence of the integration of GBFIs into an FM strategy on social, economic and environmental value of a facility
… the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and add significant value to facilities. Whilst FM used to be focused on economic value, it has the potential to impact on numerous stakeholders and add to the social, economic and environmental value of facilities. Hence, the facility manager can generate long-term …
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The Environmental Management Accounting Control as a Practice
As environmental challenges are growing, environmental engagement is becoming inevitable. The engagement itself takes many forms, e.g. environmental reporting, accounting innovations, and implementation of certain environmental management systems. As environmental engagements in accounting …
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Comparative Ecological Modeling for Long-term Solution of Excess Nitrogen Loading to Surface Waters and Related Chronic and Systemic Human-Environment Problems
Concurrent environmental problems including 1) excess CO2 emissions and climate change, 2) excess nitrogen export and eutrophication of surface waters, and 3) dependence on non-renewable fossil fuel energy supplies can be considered interdependent symptoms of a single systemic "humans in the …
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A Case for Decision-Maker Obligation Based Justification of Environmental Policy
… for different reasons. A pervasive debate in Environmental Philosophy revolves around which values should hold sway in the case of conflicts between the various kinds of value associated with the environment. This debate is relevant to, and fuelled by, debates how human communities should make …
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Assessing technological feasibility of an on-shore circular-economy treatment plant for recycling ship-generated oily waste in Peru
This study addresses the environmental impact of oily marine waste generated by cargo ships, oil tankers, and fishing vessels. The objective is to assess the technological feasibility of establishing a treatment facility to recover and repurpose such waste into usable fuel. A laboratory-scale …
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Essays on the Economic Value of Environmental Cleanup
We offer three different essays on economic values of environmental cleanup. The first essay summarizes and integrates the previous noxious and hazardous site evaluation studies by a meta analysis. We find that the property value is the most sensitive to water base contamination, published case …
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Conceptualising Social Value: Perspectives of the Public, Private and Third Sectors in the UK
… UK Government, for instance, launched the Social Value Act in 2012 and implemented it in 2013, requiring organisations to create social and environmental value in addition to the economic value during public procurement processes. This act encouraged the collaboration of public, private and third …
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Life Cycle Thinking: Strategies for Sustainable Renovation of Existing Buildings
… because of their economic, social-cultural and environmental value. Often built stock needs interventions of renovation in order to meet the actual standard of performance, both from energetic and functional point of view. Recent changes in human life style oblige to modify spaces in a quick way …
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Growing sustainable business communities : lessons from cities leading the way
… businesses committed to generating social and environmental value in addition to economic value. They are prominent and increasingly influential players in the cities where they are largest, helping these cities progress towards sustainability goals and establish national reputations as …
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Waste farm: a productive landscape for integrated waste management
… of Cape Town partnered with the Department of Environmental Affairs to initiate a project to investigate and evaluate the possible re-opening and licensing of Historic and Old landfill sites. The project to reassess these landfill sites is due to the fact that the three main operating landfill …
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The effects on memory and self-reported behaviour of four types of information about water conservation
… and Kalof's (1993) social-psychological model of environmental value orientations were examined in this study: action information about ways to conserve water; abstract factual information about water and its use; anthropocentric information about how people are affected by water use; and …
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A Senian approach to the relationship between the natural environment and the distribution of welfare: a new perspective on inequality measurement and choice
… offers an alternative approach to evaluating environmental value based on the metric of freedom, expressed in terms of the metrics of capabilities and functionings. Underlying the purpose of the thesis is the premise that the particular approach taken to inequality measurement and individual …
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An exploration of sustainable business model innovation
… capable of creating positive social and environmental value. In research years, the field of business models has gained attention in recent years in both the supporting literature and practice. Initially, the concept was mainly used in the context of technology businesses to describe …
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System Approach to Investigate Environmental Footprint and Cost Tradeoffs in Additive Manufacturing
… achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050. However, the environmental impact of AM remains unclear, given its diverse applications and the historical emphasis on cost and quality as primary adoption drivers. Pressured by climate change, AM manufacturers lack quantitative tools to balance the technology’s …
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Material efficiency in architectural glass and façade design: Steps toward reuse
Reuse and high-value recycling have a pivotal role to play in reducing waste and minimising the ecological impact of activities in the built environment. The optimisation of building energy performance in use has received significant attention to date. This, together with the aim to advance other …
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Application of life cycle assessment in process design: case study on SO₂ abatement technologies in the PGM sector
… are increasingly being used in a variety of environmentally-related technologies such as catalysts and catalytic converters which have strong expected growth to meet environmental and technological challenges this century. The platinum industry is actively seeking to progress its commitment …
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Magmatic and volcanic processing of volatile and chalcophile elements
… elements possess significant economic and environmental value. The transition to an electric economy has led to an unprecedented rise in the demand for critical metals, including several chalcophile elements such as copper, selenium, and silver. Copper in particular is essential – it is a …
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