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Sayed Shah Jan Sadiqi, Won-Ho Nam, Kyoung-Jae Lim and Eunmi Hong
This study investigated the effects of nonpoint source (NPS) pollution reduction and pollutant dynamics in a highland agricultural watershed in Korea. We employed the SWAT model to simulate hydrological processes and pollution transport within the waters...
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Aiman Ziout, Mohammed Alkahtani, Abd Elatty E. Abd Elgawad and Bashir Salah
Remanufacturing is considered as the most preferable recovery option. The objective of this paper was to identify the environmental inventory of a remanufacturing initiative. A window-mount air conditioner (AC) was selected as a case study to verify the ...
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Tayyab Ahmad and Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem
Building materials with a low environmental impact are critical to the sustainability of the built environment. The environmental impact of materials can be determined by a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), which constitutes multiple parameters such a...
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Wenbin Ma, Kairui Zhang, Yanlian Du, Xiangwei Liu and Yijun Shen
With technological improvement such as ore exploration, robotics, and hydrodynamic lifting, deep-sea mining has attracted more attention from governments, companies, and scientific research institutions. Although its research and development has made gre...
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Joan Pujol, Francesc X. Espinach, Miquel Duran-Ros, Gerard Arbat, Toni Pujol, Francisco Ramírez de Cartagena and Jaume Puig-Bargués
Irrigation is very important for global food production and, therefore, it is key to moving towards increasingly sustainable irrigation systems. However, the adoption of more efficient water-use techniques, such as drip irrigation, increases energy consu...
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Vasileios Takavakoglou, Apostolos Georgiadis, Eleanna Pana, Pantazis E. Georgiou, Dimitrios K. Karpouzos and Konstantinos V. Plakas
The growing environmental awareness of society, the advancement of nature-based solutions (NbSs), and the need for reliable and cost-effective solutions create a favorable environment of opportunities for floating wetlands as alternative solutions for ma...
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Food packaging helps to protect food from being lost or wasted, nevertheless it is perceived as an environmental problem. The present study gives an overview of methods to assess the environmental sustainability of food packaging. Furthermore, we propose...
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Kai Fang, Reinout Heijungs, Zheng Duan and Geert R. de Snoo
Growing scientific evidence for the indispensable role of environmental sustainability in sustainable development calls for appropriate frameworks and indicators for environmental sustainability assessment (ESA). In this paper, we operationalize and upda...
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Timothy J. Sullivan
Land management and natural resource public policy decision-making in the United States can benefit from two resource damage/recovery concepts: ecosystem service (ES) and critical load (CL). The purpose of this paper is to suggest an integrated approach ...
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Kenneth W. Abbott and Gary E. Marchant
A notable aspect of sustainability is its holistic and cross-cutting nature?it cannot be achieved by any single rule, statute or agency. Instead, sustainability must be institutionalized across the legal system and government as a whole. In this paper, w...
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Valentina Castellani and Serenella Sala
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Binh K. Nguyen and Hasim Altan
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Luís Bragança, Ricardo Mateus and Heli Koukkari
Although social, economic, and cultural indicators are of substantial importance to the concept of sustainable building, this concept is usually related to environmental characteristics. Any building level assessment method is complex and involves contra...
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Danail Hristozov and Ineke Malsch
The objectives of this article are to: (1) investigate the current state of knowledge of the risks of engineered nanoparticles for the environment and human health, (2) estimate whether this knowledge is sufficient to facilitate their comprehensive and e...
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Valeria Placidi, Michele Cenci, Francesco Castellani and Marta Falasca
The increasingly complex dynamics of urban planning require an innovative approach to land use suitability analyses and environmental assessments. Traditionally, these disciplines have provided a critical foundation for sustainable urban development, but...
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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Jacek Michalak
This article presents the results of analyzing environmental impact indicators of thirteen ceramic tile adhesives (CTAs). The analyzed data came from ten third-party-verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) created in 2016?2022. The paper exami...
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Adriane Cavalieri, João Reis and Marlene Amorim
The scientific literature reveals that there is a gap oriented towards empirical study of the relationship between the Internet of Things (IoT) and sustainability in manufacturing industries. This paper aims to fill this gap by proposing a new conceptual...
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Thomas J. Straka and Patricia A. Layton
Forest sustainability and forest certification are important natural resource management and environmental issues. Forest certification addresses the social and environmental issues in the acquisition of raw materials (e.g., lumber to be used in the buil...
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Harald A. Mieg, Ralph Hansmann and Peter M. Frischknecht
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