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The return to land-based biofuels ignores the lessons of the past that led to the collapse of civilizations such as that of Easter Island. Even the more efficient ethanol feedstocks such as sugar cane and switchgrass can greatly worsen the environmental damage associated with agriculture because...
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Efforts to increase forest cover in the developing world will only succeed if the root causes of deforestation are … addressed. Researchers designing reforestation initiatives tend to emphasize macro-level drivers of deforestation, about which …, but both illuminate critical aspects of the deforestation problem on the island. I conclude that reforestation initiatives …
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The Soy Moratorium is an initiative to reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon biome based on the hypothesis that soy … is a deforestation driver. Soy planted in opened areas after July 24th, 2006 cannot be commercialized by the associated … deforestation driver. The quantitative geospatial information provided by an effective monitoring approach is paramount to the …
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In the Amacayacu National Park in Colombia, which partially overlaps with Indigenous territories, several elements of …
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compounds (VOC) emissions. Base VOC emissions for a typical plant are estimated using a mass balance approach. Pollution …
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This study is dedicated to the assessment of the possibility of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy as a source of power in modern agriculture. We examined the use of a completely sustainable agricultural mechanization system based on a renewable energy system and a battery powered,...
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To achieve sustainable development, massive changes towards fostering a clean and pollution-reducing industrial sector … are quintessential. The textile industry has been one of the main contributors to water pollution all over the world …, causing more than 20% of the registered levels of water pollution in countries like Turkey, Indonesia and China (among the G20 …
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The study reviewed developmental challenges confronting African countries with specific reference to the availability of potable water, sanitation, energy, water and ambient air. It showed the conflict between the need to exploit environmental capital in order to keep up with the pace of human...
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Rice forage systems can increase the land use efficiency in paddy fields, improve the self-sufficient feed ratio, and provide environmental benefits for agro-ecosystems. This system often decreased economic benefits compared with those through imported commercial forage feed, particularly in...
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been increasingly used to improve the environmental performance of food systems and simplification of LCA appears to be a vital question, especially for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Following a literature review on simplified LCA tools and their...
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