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Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 2020 Mining is usually associated with draining of large quantities of water. On the other hand, mining operations themselves are water users for purposes like coal or ore washing, dust mitigation, recultivation, etc.
S. Greassidis +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Understanding building metabolism is critical for guiding urban resource management and addressing challenges in urban sustainable development.
Ting Mao +13 more
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Cascade Effect of Nitrogen on Brazilian Soybean Production Chain
Nitrogen, 2021 Soybean is one of the most traded products. Naturally, soy fixes nitrogen through biological symbiosis. Its cultivation transforms natural inert atomic nitrogen into its reactive forms.
Vanessa Theodoro Rezende +4 more
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Développement Durable et Territoires, 2014 Territorial ecology is quite a new field of research, especially in France. It first of all aims at analysing, and even transforming territorial metabolism, on the basis of both the natural and social process that impact this metabolism.
Sabine Barles
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(IM-)Material flow analysis for system innovation [PDF]
Matériaux & Techniques, 2019 Current assessment tools are mainly disciplinary and support the assessment of material flows in terms of environmental impacts or economical flows, for example. These tools provide helpful quantitative information for system (re)-design but do not explicitly question the value creation factors and their embeddedness in a specific socio-spatial context.
Allais, Romain, Gobert, Julie
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Granular flows down inclined channels with a strain-rate dependent friction coefficient. Part I: Non-cohesive materials [PDF]
, 2008 The flow of a granular material down an incline of finite width with a strain-rate dependent coefficient of friction and a conical yield criterion is semi-analytically obtained using a characteristic method for flows on a deep layer of grains.
Ansart, Renaud +2 more
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Batteries, 2019 The principle of the circular economy is to reintroduce end-of-life materials back into the economic cycle. While reintroduction processes, for example, recycling or refurbishing, undoubtedly support this objective, they inevitably present material ...
Omar Velázquez-Martinez +6 more
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Modelling adhesion-independent cell migration [PDF]
, 2020 A two-dimensional mathematical model for cells migrating without adhesion capabilities is presented and analyzed. Cells are represented by their cortex, which is modelled as an elastic curve, subject to an internal pressure force.
Jankowiak, Gaspard +4 more
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Setting the Common Ground: A Generic Framework for Material Flow Analysis of Complex Systems
Recycling, 2019 Circular economy is currently characterized by various definitions, measurement approaches, and critical analyses thereof coexisting alongside each other.
Julia Tanzer, Helmut Rechberger
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Does Policy on Plastic Waste Support Higher Waste Management Hierarchy Options?
Recycling, 2022 There is an urgent and growing need to further advance the plastic waste management system globally and in South Africa, due to the increasing impact of plastic waste.
Kunle Ibukun Olatayo +2 more
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