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. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and … integrated system approaches for the integrated and environmentally sound management of energy, water and organic waste, are used … paper discusses such new and innovative building services engineering systems, which could contribute to increased energy …
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fundamental support systems (energy, food, and water supply). The process introduced some creative tensions between imaginative …
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The global future lies before us as a highly uncertain and contested landscape with numerous perils along the way. This study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly...
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of potable water, sanitation, energy, water and ambient air. It showed the conflict between the need to exploit …
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resources such as water, energy, soil (agriculture), liquid and solid organic waste streams as well as in the development of … for the transformation from conventional to SuSan systems. For this purpose, the potential savings of drinking water …
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This paper critically reviews ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approaches for food security under climate change … of coherence in AIMS SIDS approaching food security, in terms of policies and actions not reflecting the ecosystem-food … (AIMS) region. The focus is on integrating different knowledge forms. An analysis of current EbA approaches for food …
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economic and ecosystem wide response to a policy of reduced runoff is quantified. The approach provides an assessment of …
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focus on ecosystems and their interaction with people is essential for climate change adaptation. Increasingly, ecosystem …
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Companies make significant investments in environmental impacts assessments, biodiversity action plans, life-cycle assessments, and environmental management systems, but guidance on where and when these tools can be best used, and how they may scale-up to inform corporation-wide planning, is...
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impose a dilemma of excessive harvesting of fuel wood for heating and the use of large quantities of water. Thus, the nature … to validate study parameters. Results from this experiment showed that the quantity of water used in urban processing …
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