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Time Management in Circular Construction: A Systematic Review of Secondary Materials Integration
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition of the building and construction industry towards a circular economy (CE) increasingly relies on the integration of secondary materials. This integration can disrupt the traditional cost, time and quality metrics of project success.
Soheila Ghafoor +5 more
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Timber-steel-hybrid beams for multi-storey buildings
, 2012 For modern multi-storey buildings timber-steel-hybrid elements present a very efficient construction method. The combination of these two materials leads to economic and ecologic benefits as the construction height can be optimized, the earthquake ...
Winter, Wolfgang +3 more
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Ecology of the forest elephant in Tai National Park, Ivory Coast
Pachyderm, 1984 Also published in Swara vol 7 no 5, 1984. Research on the ecology of the forest elephant is of recent development due to its habitat, the tropical rain forest. Methods used in Tai National Park were based on indirect observation.
Gunter Merz
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) emphasises the importance of corporate sustainability reporting on biodiversity and ecosystems, particularly specified in the European Sustainability Reporting Standard E4 (ESRS E4).
Andreas Barth +4 more
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Conflicts of interests on the issue of Timber Exploitation within the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brazil [PDF]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2009 This paper analyzes the problematic situation of commercial timber exploitation as a land use option in the community of Rio Branco, located in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Acre, Brazil, and examines the controversial implementation of the ...
Alfredo Celso Fantini +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite considerable costs associated with environmental certifications, fashion organisations consistently adopt multiple schemes to address sustainability challenges. As key mechanisms of sustainability governance, certifications expand legitimacy signalling opportunities, yet questions remain about their practical implementation and ...
Josephine Alice Mckenzie +2 more
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, 2014 To an extent, the architecture of each era is dictated by the material context prevalent at the time. Architecture's Steel Age gave way to its Concrete Age, which is now giving way to the newfangled Timber Age. As has historically been the case, however,
Girhammar, Ulf Arne +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori +1 more
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Forest-mensuration indicators of marteloscopes in the Ukrainian Roztochia
Наукові праці Лісівничої академії наук УкраїниIntegrated forest resource management involves taking into account numerous ecosystem services without giving priority to timber harvesting. The implementation of such integrative strategies often faces difficulties due to the need to balance conflicting
Vasyl Lavnyy +5 more
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Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.This study demonstrates the feasibility of an underground closed‐loop thermal storage facility at a post‐mining site, intended for seasonal heat energy storage. Its principal design shows water flow directions in winter and summer (1, 2), heat pumps (3), an upper water reservoir (4), and connecting pipes (5).
Dmytro Rudakov, Oleksandr Inkin
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