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Identifying flood-prone landfills at different spatial scales
Neuhold, C. - In: Natural Hazards 65 (2013) 3, pp. 2015-2030
contamination and adverse health effects. During recent flood events, numerous landfill sites were reportedly exposed to inundations …
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Identifying flood-prone landfills at different spatial scales
Neuhold, C. - In: Natural Hazards 68 (2013) 3, pp. 1425-1440
contamination and adverse health effects. During recent flood events, numerous landfill sites were reportedly exposed to inundations …
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Modeling Leachate Contamination and Remediation of Groundwater at a Landfill Site
Tsanis, I. - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 1, pp. 109-132
Leachate contamination of an aquifer from a landfill site was simulated using the groundwater flow and transport model …
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The Urban Political Ecology of Post-industrial Scottish Towns: Examining Greengairs and Ravenscraig
Ioris, Antonio A. R. - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 8, pp. 1576-1592
Urban ecological politics is shaped by both moments of concerted action and more silent perceptions and responses. Instead of only being evident in situations of organised protest, the politics of urban ecology is also manifested, in material and symbolic terms, in the daily life of the...
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Perception of Disamenity Hazards on Residential Housing Values in Lagos, Nigeria
Akinjare, Omolade Adedoyin; Ogunba, Dr. Olusegun Adebayo; … - In: Far East Journal of Marketing and Management 1 No 1 Paper 1 December (2011) 1, pp. 1-09
Landfill disamenities have been known to poison and threaten the natural environment with various degrees of … within 1.2km distance from the four landfill sites and Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) workers respectively … town. This as the study envisaged would reduce to barest minimum, landfill hazards and nuisance both to the environment and …
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Estimating the Impact of Landfill Proximity on the Value of Real Estate Goods
Grădinaru, Giani Ionel; Ioan, Ildiko - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 14 (2012) 31, pp. 38-49
A part of the net benefit from goods consumption is determined by their environmental characteristics. The size of the benefit depends on the properties of the goods, but also on how these are perceived by consumers. Therefore estimating environmental benefits allows, on the one hand,...
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A Framework for Assessing Carbon Flow in Indian Wood Products
Gundimeda, Haripriya - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 3 (2001) 3, pp. 229-251
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EUROPEAN WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY (English version)
CONSTANTINESCU, Alexandru C. - In: Jurnalul de Studii Juridice 1 (2011) 1, pp. 397-404
European policy on waste management is based largely upon broad objectives centered around a „ waste hierarchy ”. The Sixth Environment Action Programmes (EAPs), Environment 2010: Our Future, Our Choice, identified waste and resources as one of the four priority areas for action. The...
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The valuation of landfill disamenities in Birmingham
Ham, Yun-Ju; Maddison, David J.; Elliott, Robert J.R. - In: Ecological Economics 85 (2013) C, pp. 116-129
The disposal of waste by landfill generates community concerns, during both site operations and following the cessation … nearest active landfill site this paper presents a study for Birmingham in England in which properties are simultaneously … located close to numerous active and historical landfill sites. Accounting for the proximity of historical landfill sites …
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste management strategies: Landfilling, sorting plant and incineration
Cherubini, Francesco; Bargigli, Silvia; Ulgiati, Sergio - In: Energy 34 (2009) 12, pp. 2116-2123
This paper focuses on a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of four waste management strategies: landfill without biogas … utilization; landfill with biogas combustion to generate electricity; sorting plant which splits the inorganic waste fraction …, total energy requirements and ecological footprints. Results, reliable for most of the European big cities, show landfill …
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