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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Environmental economic"”.
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Restoring freshwater quality: an integrated environmental, economic and ecosystem services assessment of reducing nutrient loads to Lake Rotorua
… of ecosystem responses to management actions, economic constraints, societal pressures and policy contexts. Research in this thesis was aimed at an integrated assessment covering these aspects to inform future lake restoration action. The overarching objective of this thesis is to evaluate …
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Navigating environmental, economic, and hydrologic tradeoffs in the design of green infrastructure for stormwater management in urban settings
… flooding can be extreme for a community, economically, environmentally, and with regards to human health. Green infrastructure has the potential to alleviate some of these issues by infiltrating more water and reducing pollutant loading in the water. This study analyzed six green …
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Carrots and Sticks in Green Moves: Assessing the Mobility, Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Sustainable Mobility Solutions
… challenges. The third study explores the economic impact of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) beyond their primary function of promoting cleaner transportation. Analyzing a dataset covering 5,000 EVCS and 130,000 Points-of-Interest (POI) in California, this study employs a …
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Building stability through decentralization : the environmental, economic, and ethical argument for informal sector collection and decentralized waste processing in urban India
… management in India will increase stability, economic and environmental sustainability, and social benefit. To answer those questions, I conducted a case study of Pune, since the city has implemented centralized waste processing, followed by supporting informal sector collection and …
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Wasted treasure in the trash: evaluating the diversion and reduction systems of food waste in an institutional setting based on environmental, economic and social implications
… approach leads to a more advantageous environmental, economic and social outcome for everyone.
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Intelligent Decision Support for Dynamic Carbon Finance Management
… finance as a key mechanism within sustainable environmental economics. However, the dynamic and cross disciplinary nature of carbon credits spanning environmental, economic, social, and financial domains poses significant challenges for effective decision making. This doctoral research proposes …
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The Production of Uneven Geographies: Environmental Hazard Exposure and Socioeconomic Inequality
This thesis examines how environmental, economic and digital change are reshaping the geographies of inequality. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates economic geography, environmental economics and critical urban studies, it argues how space is an active dimension that structures …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta productora de aceite extraído a partir de semillas de mango
… research work is to determine the technical, environmental, economic-financial, social and market viability for the installation of an oil producing plant extracted from mango seeds. Through the different chapters included in the study, several key aspects that serve to understand and …
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Tourists' and community perceptions on sustainability of Umthayi Marual festival in Kwazulu-Natal.
… generations. The study therefore explored how environmental, economic and socio cultural sustainability of Umthayi Marula Festival is perceived by tourists and community members, using the case of uMhlabuyalingana Local Municipality. The study used a convenience sampling method of the …
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A new model for assessing sustainability of complex systems: Integrating LCA and RA for sustainability
… was based on reconciling the three pillars (environmental, economic and social) using the weak sustainability model. Today there are numerous indicators (single and composite) for measuring impacts in the three systems (environmental, economic and social) using the strong sustainability model …
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Exploring adaptive policy management and evaluation for improved water resources management in the face of uncertainty and complexity in South Africa
… resources policy management system with other environmental, economic, social and political systems. Such complexity imposes external interference with the performance dynamics of water resources policy management efforts. Consequently, water resources policy management strategies in …
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A Macro-Level Sustainability Assessment Framework for Optimal Distribution of Alternative Passenger Vehicles
… there are many studies focusing on the environmental impacts of alternative vehicle options, social and economic dimensions and trade-off relationships among all of these impacts were not investigated sufficiently. Moreover, most economic analyses are limited to life cycle cost analyses …
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A decision model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of alternative Virginia oyster grounds management strategies
… management plan VMRC must consider a variety of environmental, economic and political factors affecting the production and harvest of market oysters. A linear programming model developed for VMRC's use in evaluating alternative oyster grounds management strategies is described. The objective of …
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Environment and development: A study of North-South conflict
… we investigate the effects of different environmental-economic policy choices on the well-being of people in the affluent North and the relatively poor South blocks of countries. We also investigate how regional cooperation or noncooperation in choosing these policies affects the …
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Temporary Housing Arrangements After Natural Disasters
… sustainability metrics to quantify the social, environmental, economic, and public safety impacts of decisions on the integrated housing recovery efforts; (2) a sustainability index to measure the level of sustainability of various integrated housing recovery plans; (3) an optimization model to …
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Developing a sustainability rating framework and indicator decision sub-logic for highway design and construction sector in Nigeria.
… across communities and cities, and increase the economic growth and societal expectations of a country. Due to anthropogenic activities, the use of sustainability strategies is encouraged for highway infrastructure development. However, knowledge of and practical approaches towards sustainability …
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An integrated assessment of environmental impact and sustainability of oil refinery development and operations in a developing country: a case study of Kaduna refinery in Nigeria
Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is one of the environmental planning tools undertaken by developing countries to avert environmental degradation and ecological problems. Sustainability assessment is a vital tool for measuring the aspects of environmental, economic, or social systems that is …
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Examining the role of social capital in community development: How the creation of a land trust set a small town on the path to sustainability
… institutions engaged in civic efforts to achieve environmental, economic, and social balance in development decision-making. The role of a land trust and its members as a community system changing variable---a self-organized institutional response to the concerns of citizens to the unsustainable …
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A Critical Exploration of Permaculture’s Global Role in Sustainable Development
… as a sustainable solution-based approach to the environmental, economic and social consequences of non-sustainable global growth, many accounts infer it is a political practice working against many corporate and bureaucratic forms of power. Using examples of Permaculture from a global context, …
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