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Md. Mostafizur Rahman and György Szabó
In urban land use optimization problems, different conflicting objectives are applied. One of the most significant goals in urban land use optimization problems is to maximize environmental benefits. To quantify environmental benefits in land use optimiz...
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Francisco Costa and António Vieira
The identification and characterization of barriers to river continuity are essential for the preparation of an inventory of hydraulic infrastructure. To this end, it is necessary to define the main identifying and characterizing elements of hydraulic in...
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Taskin Kavzoglu and Merve Goral
Global warming together with environmental pollution threatens marine habitats and causes an increasing number of environmental disasters. Periodic monitoring of coastal water quality is of critical importance for the effective management of water resour...
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Pabitra Aryal
Pág. 101 - 111
Carbon emission increases at an early stage of industrial expansion as a transition from overdependence on agriculture. Such industrial transformation is heavily dependent on energy-intensive technologies. Moreover, the degree of environmental awareness ...
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Pabitra Aryal
Pág. 101 - 111
Carbon emission increases at an early stage of industrial expansion as a transition from overdependence on agriculture. Such industrial transformation is heavily dependent on energy-intensive technologies. Moreover, the degree of environmental awareness ...
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Sekato Maremane, Gladys Belle and Paul Oberholster
Rivers in Africa have experienced dire pollution as a result of the poor management of wastewater effluent emanating from water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). An integrated wastewater resource recovery model was developed and applied to identify i...
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Ivan Benkov, Marian Varbanov, Tony Venelinov and Stefan Tsakovski
The water quality assessment of the surface water bodies (SWBs) is one of the major tasks of environmental authorities dealing with water management. The present study proposes a water quality assessment scheme for the investigation of the surface waters...
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Xiu Xiao, Xiaoqing Xu, Zhe Wang, Chenxi Liu and Ying He
Cold energy recovery in LNG-powered vessels can not only improve the utilization efficiency of energy, but also benefit environmental protection. This paper put forward a new cascade scheme for utilizing flue gas waste heat and LNG cold energy comprehens...
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Pinggui Wang, Xiuhua Fu, Des Gibson, Lewis Fleming, Sam Ahmadzadeh, Cheng Li, Manu Muhiyudin, Shigeng Song, David Hutson, David Moodie, Calum MacGregor and Matthew Steer
In this work, performance improvements are described for a low-power consumption non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) methane (CH4) gas sensor using customised optical thin film bandpass filters (BPFs) centered at 3300 nm. BPFs shape the spectral characteristi...
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Dulce Buchala Bicca Oliveira, Janaína Patrícia Rodrigues, Luciana Ferreira da Silva, Paulo Tarso Sanches Oliveira
Pág. 303 - 311
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the sugar and alcohol sector guides a territorial and sectoral planning that benefits most of the local society and supports this economic activity in all its stages. In this way, the present work aims to d...
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Shabbir H. Gheewala, Sébastien Bonnet, Kritana Prueksakorn and Pariyapat Nilsalab
In this paper, a biorefinery complex in Thailand was assessed vis-à-vis sustainability. The complex studied includes plantations of sugarcane and a biorefinery system composed of several units including, a sugar mill, power plant, ethanol factor...
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Eda Ustaoglu and Brendan Williams
High-density urban development is promoted by both global and local policies in response to socio-economic and environmental challenges since it increases mobility of different land uses, decreases the need for traveling, encourages the use of more energ...
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Mahdi Sedighkia, Anna Linhoss and Paul Mickle
This study develops and evaluates a simulation-optimization approach to mitigate the environmental impacts of freshwater pulses in brackish-water lakes whilst maximizing flood diversion benefits. Lake Pontchartrain, located downstream of the Mississippi ...
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Mahdi Sedighkia and Bithin Datta
This study improves the environmental water supply in a wetland using a novel framework in which the environmental impacts due to irrigation supply and the economic losses for agriculture are minimized through the proposal of an optimal cropping pattern ...
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Juanjuan Cheng, Qian Wang, Dongjian Li and Jin Yu
China is the world?s largest apple producer, and agricultural cooperatives play an important role in promoting sustainable production in its whole life cycle system. However, few studies on cooperatives have evaluated the environmental and economic perfo...
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Yunfei Hou, Xiaojing Qian, Rui Zhang, Fan Gu and Ping Feng
This paper proposes an integrated life cycle assessment-life cycle cost (LCA-LCC) model of environmental and economic factors for highway engineering technical schemes to problems such as the limitations of single-dimensional assessment, their narrow sco...
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Bianca Magalhães, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Ana Corceiro, Luzolo João and César Bumba
Food waste occurs from harvesting to consumption. Applying procedures and technologies, changing attitudes, and promoting awareness have positive social, economic, and environmental impacts that can contribute to reducing food waste. The paper presents a...
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Liujia Chen, Xiaojing Yao, Yalan Liu, Yujiao Zhu, Wei Chen, Xizhi Zhao and Tianhe Chi
Diverse urban environmental elements provide health and amenity value for residents. People are willing to pay a premium for a better environment. Thus, it is essential to assess the benefits and values of these environmental elements. However, limited b...
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Pritipadmaja, Rahul Dev Garg and Ashok K. Sharma
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a significant concern in today?s rapidly urbanising cities, with exacerbating heatwaves? impact, urban livelihood, and environmental well-being. This study aims to assess the cooling effect of blue-green spaces in Bh...
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Shengnan Jiang, Zhenke Zhang, Hang Ren, Guoen Wei, Minghui Xu and Binglin Liu
Africa has been undergoing a rapid urbanization process, which is critical to the achievement of the 11th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG11). Using population density data from LandScan, we proposed a population density-based thresholding method to gen...
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