The insolvency rate of construction companies is much higher than that of other types of companies. In order to survive, many contractors may try to submit suicidally low bids and/or obtain work that is beyond their financial capability. The employment of financially incapable contractors not...

In the last years sanitation companies have restrained their investments, not just due to the fact that the necessary resources of thesector exceed by far the classic possibilities of the national budgets financing, but also due to the fact that the traditional solution ofexternal financings...

In the first chapter, I consider the institutional structures as well as the doctrines typically encountered in the surface water sector. To investigate the sources and methods of government support in the water sector, I categorize different sorts of government support according to the location...

On the basis of the previous researches and the ecological footprint theory, we use the cross-sectional data of Chinese energy consumption in 2007 to calculate the regional differences of energy consumption footprint of 30 provinces in China; by using the method of EEF calculation method, we...

Este trabalho propõe analisar o retorno econômico e o impacto ambiental da atividade recria e engorda na pecuaria de corte, resultantes da utilização do amendoim forrageiro nas pastagens no Acre. Para determinar o retorno econômico foi estimado o benefício econômico gerado pelo sistema...

Engineered nanomaterial (ENM) use has proliferated in research, manufacturing, and in consumer products. Material exchange with the environment is ongoing and inevitable, and thus it is crucial to understand the fates and effects of ENMs in ecological systems. Expecting that ecological fates and...

While no-till (NT) cropping systems can provide conservation benefits in the northern Corn Belt, adoption has been low due to concerns about potential yield reductions and economic risk. Strip-tillage (ST) systems have been proposed as an alternative that may provide many of the conservation...

Now it exist the demand for the research of the emerging approaches to the use of new legal means and mechanisms within the framework of gradual introduction of a new system for standardizing the environmental impact in the Russia. It foresees the establishment of an optimal balance of state...