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, economic and social sustainability issues of the Three Gorges Project across various project stages (e.g. conception, design …, construction and operation). The sustainability practice adopted in the Three Gorges Project generally follows the Hydropower … Sustainability Assessment Protocol developed by the International Hydropower Association. As a result, the environmental auditing is …
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(SSCM) applied to BoP projects can help MNCs to achieve their sustainability goals. Findings indicate that applying SSCM to … BoP projects can complement economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. In particular, the BoP … projects analyzed show viable paths for integrating the social domain of sustainability with general SSCM theory and practice …
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Freegans are anti-consumers who sustain themselves through dumpster diving and the consumption of disposed goods. Mainstream consumers consider Freeganism dirty and tainted—a stigma. Through a qualitative investigation of Freeganism and its practitioners, this research contributes a...
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In this paper, we provide a test of the sustainability of the Spanish government deficit over the period 1850 …
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The present work aims to support tactical and operational planning decisions of reverse logistics systems while considering economic, environmental and social objectives. In the literature, when addressing such systems economic aspects have been often used, while environmental concerns have...
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ilex L.) and cork oak (Q. suber L.). Whilst dehesa forest sustainability problems associated to exhaustive use of grazing … dynamics —thus oak woodlands sustainability can be tested for sufficiently large time horizons—, and in the other, management …
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This paper presents for the first time a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of electricity generation in Mexico. The electricity mix in Mexico is dominated by fossil fuels, which contribute around 79% to the total primary energy; renewable energies contribute 16.5% (hydropower 13.5%, geothermal...
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The sustainability of the second-generation biofuels requests to confirm that the energy produced from lignocellulosic … sugarcane bagasse and its sustainability in the bioethanol production process. In this work, four ethanol production topologies …
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potential effects of biodiesel development on sustainability in general, which can then inform and enhance proper planning and … management. The paper thus introduces the Bioenergy Technology Sustainability Assessment (BIOTSA) model that has been developed … effects of biodiesel development on selected sustainability indicators for the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The …
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, policymakers and NGO have concerns regarding their sustainability. An adequate sustainability indicator is the energy return on … this principle is achieved using exergy instead of energy. For this purpose, it introduces a new sustainability indicator …
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