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Recovery and Reuse of Waste Materials: Foreign Experience and Implications for China

Zhang, Yaxi - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 1, pp. 626-634

How to reuse waste materials has been one of the most important problems that China has to address. Compared with foreign countries, the overall recovery ratio of waste materials in China is still at a low level, and there is still a giant gap between China and foreign countries on laws and...

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Issues regarding environmental protection in Romania

Draghicescu, Mirela - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2010) 15

The “environmental protection” activity in our country should be approached by taking into consideration its entire complexity, and the most reliable solutions may be provided only by direct and permanent reference to the vast issue of social development in its entirety. The present work...

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Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in Canada

Day, Kathleen; Grafton, R. Quentin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Kathleen Day and R. Quentin Grafton explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources and ecosystems and by increasing emissions of...

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Natural Capital, Sustainability and Productivity: An Exploration of the Linkages

Olewiler, Nancy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

The issue of sustainability of natural capital and implications for economic growth ranks high in the interests of both policy makers and the general public, as manifested by the intense debate on Canada's ratification of the Kyoto accord. In this chapter, Nancy Olewiler makes an important...

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Greening Africa? Technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect

Collier, Paul; Venables, Tony - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

Africa is well endowed with potential for hydro and solar power, but its other endowments - shortages of capital, skills, and governance capacity - make most of the green options relatively expensive, while its abundance of hydro-carbons makes fossil fuels relatively cheap. Current power...

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Comparative impacts of wind and photovoltaic generation on energy storage for small islanded electricity systems

Mason, I.G. - In: Renewable Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 793-805

possible stage, and that new policy settings may be required to facilitate a transition to energy storage in fully renewable …

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Performance Analyses of Renewable and Fuel Power Supply Systems for Different Base Station Sites

Lorincz, Josip; Bule, Ivana; Kapov, Milutin - In: Energies 7 (2014) 12, pp. 7816-7846

Base station sites (BSSs) powered with renewable energy sources have gained the attention of cellular operators during …) of telecom operators due to the possibility of on-site renewable energy harvesting. In this paper, the green BSSs power … discussed in terms of renewable energy supply (RES) system performance. In the case of powering those BSS with standalone …

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Impact of nonrenewable on renewable energy: The case of wood pellets

Xian, Hui; Gregory, Colson; Michael, Wetzstein - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2015

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Sludge: A waste or renewable source for energy and resources recovery?

Tyagi, Vinay Kumar; Lo, Shang-Lien - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 25 (2013) C, pp. 708-728

Utilization of waste sludge as a renewable resource for energy recovery is the appropriate solution of how to manage … fulfill present and future energy requirements and thus reduce the dependency on non-renewable resource. Thus, this review …

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Application of solar energy in the oil industry—Current status and future prospects

Absi Halabi, M.; Al-Qattan, A.; Al-Otaibi, A. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 43 (2015) C, pp. 296-314

industry presents a very good opportunity for future business of the renewable energy industry. These opportunities includes …

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