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Urban nutrient balance for Bankok [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
To enhance agricultural sustainability, former linkages between agriculture and urban waste production should be reintroduced. Therefore, to explore the options for recycling of nutrients from mega-cities, a nutrient balance model was developed.
de Vries, Fritz Pennig   +2 more
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Strategies to reduce nutrient pollution from manure management in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
As the demand for livestock products continues to increase in China, so too does the challenge of managing increasing quantities of manure. Urgent action is needed to control point source (housing, storage and processing) and diffuse (field application ...
Bai, Zhaohai   +7 more
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Light‐Programmable Interfaces: From Molecular Photoswitching to Adaptive Membrane Separations

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This review advances an interface‐centered framework for light‐responsive membranes, linking molecular photoswitches (azobenzene (AZO), spiropyran (SP), diarylethene (DAE), donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA), photoacid) to integration strategies in polymeric, porous, self‐assembled, and mixed‐matrix systems.
Liangliang Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

ECONOMIC RETURN FOR WASTE RECYCLING IN EGYPT (A CASE STUDY OF RECYCLING AGRICULTURAL WASTE) [PDF]

open access: yesArab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2015
The problem of the search in the presence of large amount of waste is estimated at 74.7 million tons, including agricultural residues, which are estimated at about 23.9 million tons, representing about 32% of the total waste in Egypt without the benefit ...
Rafaat Mustafa
doaj   +1 more source

Low Greenhouse Gas Agriculture: Mitigation and Adaptation Potential of Sustainable Farming Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Is low greenhouse gas emission (GHG) agriculture possible? Is it, in fact, desirable? In seeking answers to these two basic but extremely relevant questions, this study examines current farming practices, and incorporates scientific databases from ...
Fließbach, A.   +3 more
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Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the Value of Water in Alternative Uses [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Many public and private decisions regarding water use, allocation, and management require estimation of water's value in alternative uses. This paper discusses economic concepts essential in valuing water, outlines and compares market and nonmarket based
B. G. Colby
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Unlocking the Potential of MXene‐Based Electrochemical Biosensors: A Review of Biofunctionalization Strategies and Biosensing Principles

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electrochemical biosensors enable the accurate and timely detection of clinical biomarkers, improving healthcare and precision medicine. MXene nanosheets, a class of 2D transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides, are promising materials for developing next‐generation electrochemical biosensors due to their unique physicochemical ...
Muhsin Ali   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural waste recycling by farmers: A behavioral study

open access: yesSustainable Futures
Agricultural waste recycling is one of the principles of environmental sustainability that is directly associated with farmers’ behavior. In other words, if a farmer decides to recycle her farm wastes, she is moving towards sustainable agriculture goals.
Pouria Ataei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a breakthrough in nutrient recycling : State-of-the-art and recommendations for developing policy instruments in Finland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The report has been complemented on 11.9.2018This report describes the state-of-the-art in phosphorus and nitrogen recycling in Finland and looks at basic data on the volumes and geographical distribution of biomasses and their nutrients.
Grönroos, Juha   +18 more
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