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The role of closed ecological systems in carbon cycle modelling [PDF]

Climatic Change, 2011
Acquiring a mechanistic understanding of the role of the biotic feedbacks on the links between atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperature is essential for trustworthy climate predictions. Currently, computer based simulations are the only available tool to estimate the global impact of the biotic feedbacks on future atmospheric CO2 and temperatures.
Milcu, Alexandru, Lukac, Martin, Ineson, Phil   +2 more
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Modeling and Simulation Tools for Smart Local Energy Systems: A Review with a Focus on Emerging Closed Ecological Systems’ Application

Applied Sciences
The growing importance of microgrids—linking buildings with distributed energy resources and storage—is driving the evolution of Smart Local Energy Systems (SLESs).
Andrzej Ożadowicz
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Creation of Closed Ecological Life Support Systems: Results, Critical Problems and Potentials [PDF]

Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2008
As experiments have shown, a closed ecological life support system based on a biological material exchange is fully realizable and contains possibilities for further improvement.
Iosef I Gitelson, Genry M. Lisovsky
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Investing in monarch conservation: understanding private funding dynamics

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
Non-profit environmental organizations (NGOs) rely heavily on external donors to fulfill their mandates. However, forecasting donations for long-term planning is an elusive task at best.
Rodrigo Solis-Sosa, Christina A. D. Semeniuk, Maxim Larrivée, Sean Cox   +3 more
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Condensate as a water source in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial conditions

Water Resources and Industry, 2023
A condensate generated from air in air conditioning (AC) units is a reliable, and a stable source of water possible to be reused in different forms.
Anna Jurga, Anna Pacak, Demis Pandelidis, Bartosz Kaźmierczak   +3 more
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Ecological Criteria for Comparing Linear and Circular Economies

Resources, 2018
In the present article, the main principles of the circular economy are outlined in contradistinction with the existing and traditional linear economic model.
Nikolay I. Didenko, Yuri S. Klochkov, Djamilia F. Skripnuk   +2 more
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The Evolutionary Mechanism of Formation of Biosphere Closure

Mathematics, 2023
In accordance with the ideas of V.I. Vernadsky, the Earth’s biosphere can exist only because of the high degree of closure of the cyclic matter transformations carried out by all living organisms by using the energy from the Sun.
Sergey Bartsev, Andrey Degermendzhi
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A economia ecológica e evolucionária de Georgescu-Roegen

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2010
The ecological and evolutionary economics of Georgescu-Roegen. The main argument of this paper is that Georgescu-Roegen's contributions represent a major disruption with economics' pre-analytic vision.
Andrei Domingues Cechin, José Eli da Veiga   +1 more
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Some aspects of modern vision for geoenergy usage [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
The paper represents analysis, which have helped to determine tendencies of usage secondary and renewable resources by means of their utilization within the closed ecological complex while implementing integrated cogeneration systems belonging to various
Dychkovskyi Roman, Tabachenko Mykola, Zhadiaieva Kseniia, Cabana Edgar   +3 more
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Methodology of Calculating Cost of Sustainable Business-Processes Dealing with Solid Municipal Waste Treatment

Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2022
The article studies the problem of calculating the cost of business-processes of treating solid municipal waste (SMW) in conditions of shaping closed-cycle economy.
E. A. Zakharova
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