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Environmental Sustainability of Current Waste Management Practices

open access: yes, 2022
The Special Issue on ‘Environmental Sustainability of Current Waste Management Practices’ was a part of the section ‘Environmental Sustainability and Applications’ of the journal ‘Sustainability’ [...
Yuri Konyukhov   +2 more
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Cloud-based applications for accessing satellite Earth observations to support malaria early warning

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Malaria epidemics can be triggered by fluctuations in temperature and precipitation that influence vector mosquitoes and the malaria parasite. Identifying and monitoring environmental risk factors can thus provide early warning of future outbreaks ...
Michael C. Wimberly   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climatic Hazards: High Importance but Low Severity to Coastal Rural Fishing Communities

open access: yesEarth Science, Systems and Society, 2022
This study examines the relative importance and severity of climate change in the context of multiple socio-economic stressors in rural coastal fishing communities in Ghana.
Daniel Koomson   +2 more
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Stories of Sustainability: Birds, Bees, and Trees

open access: yes, 2020
Temple University. College of Science and TechnologyTemple University. College of Liberal ArtsBiologyGeography and Urban StudiesTemple Sustainability tackled urban ecology and sustainability in the city through different disciplinary lenses with our ...
Temple Sustainability
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Accelerating the Renewable Energy Revolution to Get Back to the Holocene

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2023
The UN's Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming between 1.5 and 2°C is dangerously obsolete and needs to be replaced by a commitment to restore Earth's climate.
Benjamin W. Abbott   +12 more
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Mapping for sustainability: environmental noise and the city

open access: yes, 2013
In the last decade or so, the term sustainability has become fashionable not only among scientists but also among the general public. While this undoubtedly demonstrates that public awareness of environmental issues is increasing, it is also the case ...
Enda Murphy   +3 more
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Wildfires Impact Assessment on PM Levels Using Generalized Additive Mixed Models

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
Wildfires are relevant sources of PM emissions and can have an important impact on air pollution and human health. In this study, we examine the impact of wildfire PM emissions on the Piemonte (Italy) air quality regional monitoring network using a ...
Gianluca Leone   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Science for change: A survey on the normative and political dimensions of global sustainability research

open access: yes, 2018
Global change and sustainability research increasingly focusses on informing and shaping societal transformations towards more sustainable futures. Doing so, researchers encounter the deeply political and normative dimensions of sustainability problems ...
Global Sustainability Governance   +2 more
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Theoretical Investigation of the Temperature Limits of an Actively Cooled High Concentration Photovoltaic System

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Concentrator photovoltaics have several advantages over flat plate systems. However, the increase in solar concentration usually leads to an increase in the solar cell temperature, which decreases the performance of the system.
Asmaa Ahmed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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