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Uma avaliação comparativa da sustentabilidade do setor de energia brasileiro com os países da OCDE
Gutierrez, Maria Bernadete Gomes Pereira Sarmiento - 2022
This study has as main objective the assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector compared to the … assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector is undertaken compared to OECD countries. The results show not … only the relatively high sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector but also that the carbon market in legislative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486125
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Uma avaliação comparativa da sustentabilidade do setor de energia brasileiro com os países da OCDE
Gutierrez, Maria Bernadete Gomes Pereira Sarmiento - 2022
This study has as main objective the assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector compared to the … assessment of the sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector is undertaken compared to OECD countries. The results show not … only the relatively high sustainability of the Brazilian energy sector but also that the carbon market in legislative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013489569
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Sustainable Urban (re-)Development with Building Integrated Energy, Water and Waste Systems
Schuetze, Thorsten; Lee, Joong-Won; Lee, Tae-Goo - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1114-1127
. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and … paper discusses such new and innovative building services engineering systems, which could contribute to increased energy … integrated system approaches for the integrated and environmentally sound management of energy, water and organic waste, are used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675923
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The disconnect between indicators of sustainability and human development
Fuentes-Nieva, Ricardo; Pereira, Isabel - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
performance and energy consumption, which has been mostly based in the use of fossil fuels. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674285
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The Century Ahead: Searching for Sustainability
Raskin, Paul D.; Electris, Christi; Rosen, Richard A. - In: Sustainability 2 (2010) 8, pp. 2626-2651
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683036
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The Influence of Thermodynamic Ideas on Ecological Economics: An Interdisciplinary Critique
Hammond, Geoffrey P.; Winnett, Adrian B. - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 4, pp. 1195-1225
behaviour of energy and matter are not equally mirrored by thermodynamic laws. Thermodynamic insights as typically employed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683156
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Transport Pathways for Light Duty Vehicles: Towards a 2° Scenario
Fulton, Lewis; Lah, Oliver; Cuenot, François - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 1863-1874
The transport sector is the second largest and one of the fastest growing energy end-use sectors, representing 24% of … global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. The International Energy Agency has developed scenarios for the transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029970
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An integrated conceptual model to secure digitally enabled smart grid towards sustainable energy
Mbonye, Vicent; Padayachee, Indira; Subramaniam, … - In: International journal of innovation & sustainable … 16 (2022) 3/4, pp. 400-424
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319670
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Small farms: Changing structures and roles in economic development
von Braun, Joachim; Mirzabaev, Alisher - 2015
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404299
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Environmental problems and economic development in an endogenous fertility model
Joest, Frank; Quaas, Martin; Schiller, Johannes - 2006
Population growth is often viewed as a most oppressive global problem with respect to environmental deterioration, but the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various feedback mechanisms. We analyze society’s economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422130