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Voluntary Environmental Governance Arrangements [PDF]
, 2016 Voluntary environmental governance arrangements have focal attention in studies on environmental policy, regulation and governance. The four major debates in the contemporary literature on voluntary environmental governance arrangements are studied.
Van der Heijden, Jeroen
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Review of the sustainable built environment in 1998–2015
Engineering Structures and Technologies, 2016 A city is a complex physical and social phenomenon that is under constant development and undergoes quantitative and qualitative changes. The welfare of the whole society depends on the sustainability of the built environment.
Ieva Ubarte, Oleg Kaplinski
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Vers une éducation à la sobriété numérique
Humanités Numériques, 2022 The ecological transition and the digital transition have given rise to a new societal challenge: digital sustainability. This issue is at the crossroads of digital humanities and environmental sciences and consists in understanding our technological ...
Sarah Descamps +2 more
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Advances of nanotechnology in agro-environmental studies [PDF]
, 2013 With the increase in the world population and the demand for food, new agricultural practices have been developed to improve food production through the use of more effective pesticides and fertilisers.
Bacchini, Fabio +4 more
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The influence of external environment on workers on scaffolding illustrated by UTCI
Open Engineering, 2021 The aim of the article was to present the influence of the external environment on people working on scaffolding. For this purpose, the heat load of a man was determined using the universal thermal climate index. The research was carried out on 40 facade
Szer Iwona, Szer Jacek
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Environmental changes and violent conflict [PDF]
, 2012 This letter reviews the scientific literature on whether and how environmental changes affect the risk of violent conflict. The available evidence from qualitative case studies indicates that environmental stress can contribute to violent conflict in ...
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Is sustainability science becoming more interdisciplinary over time?
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2012 The theoretical foundations of sustainability science about the interconnectedness of natural, socio-cultural and economic systems imply that the emerging research field transcends traditional boundaries of academic disciplines.
Maruša Nučič
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Entropy, 2013 Ecological multivariate systems offer a suitable data set on which to apply recent advances in information theory and causality detection. These systems are driven by the interplay of various environmental factors: meteorological and hydrological forcing,
Peter S. Curtis +6 more
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Probability of occurrence of health and safety risks on scaffolding caused by noise exposure
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2018 The paper presents the results of measurements for one hundred and ten scaffolds located in five cities in different parts of Poland. Measurements were made between April of 2016 and October of 2017. The environmental tests performed on scaffoldings were
Marek Jabłoński +2 more
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Geoscience of the Built Environment: Pollutants and Materials Surfaces
Geosciences, 2011 An overview of issues with environmental relevance that arise from the interaction between pollutants and surfaces of the built environment is presented in this paper.
Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez, Carlos Alves
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