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Sustainable Development Goals Data-Driven Local Policy: Focus on SDG 11 and SDG 12 [PDF]

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2022
Municipal solid waste charging schemes can be powerful drivers for local policy efforts in reaching the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015.
Giacomo Di Foggia, Di Foggia Giacomo
exaly   +9 more sources

Circular economy implementation challenges for achieving SDG 12 [PDF]

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Despite the relevance of Circular Economy (CE) and the Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12) and the growing body of literature on the CE and SDG 12, there remains a significant research gap in systematically linking theoretical barriers to CE ...
Walter Leal Filho   +9 more
doaj   +5 more sources

The Framing of Sustainable Consumption and Production in SDG 12 [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Policy, 2019
AbstractThis paper examines the processes of formulation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12) – ‘Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns’ – and its targets and indicators. We argue that business interests have steered its narrative of sustainable growth.
Des Gasper, Amod Shah, Sunil Tankha
openaire   +4 more sources

SDG-12: Responsible Consumption and Production

open access: yes, 2022
AbstractSDG-12, Responsible Consumption and Production, strives to break the current cycle of economic growth, resource usage and environmental degradation, which has fuelled unsustainable global development for decades. While producing countries bear responsibility for natural resource depletion, pollution and other negative consequences of their ...
Radclyffe-Thomas, Natascha
core   +4 more sources

Preparation and characterization of rice husk activated carbon-supported zinc oxide nanocomposite (RHAC-ZnO-NC)

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Indiscriminate waste discharge into water bodies has increased the level of water pollution via anthropogenic activities. Hence the need for the development of sustainable and environmentally benign nanomaterials has the potential for wastewater ...
Adewumi O. Dada   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential use of biomass ash as a sustainable alternative for fly ash in concrete production: A review

open access: yesHybrid Advances, 2023
The broad utilization of concrete results in significant carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and depletion of natural resources due to substantial increase in cement production.
Oladele J. Olatoyan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resonant DC/DC Converters: Investigating Phase-Shift Control

open access: yesEnergies, 2023
The paper presents an innovative approach to control the voltage of an LCL-T type converter at the output side against variation at input and load ports, utilizing a fixed-frequency phase-shift control scheme.
Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Digital Circular Economy for SDG 11 and SDG 12

open access: yesPsychology and Education Journal, 2021
Due to the population growth, cities and metropolitan areas contribute about 60% of global GDP, but they generate about 70% of global carbon emissions and account for over 60 % of resource use and increasing urban energy consumption and pollution. Worldwide consumption and production also increase the use of the natural environment and resources in a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Underactuated embedded constraints gripper for grasping in toxic environments

open access: yesSN Applied Sciences, 2023
Article Highlights An eco-friendly underactuated soft gripper is presented and described for application in the waste industry, to help or partially replace humans in harmful works.
Gabriele Maria Achilli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unfinished buildings, a new point of departure. Designing difference for a sustainable future

open access: yesAgathón, 2020
Contemporary unfinished buildings, which represent a widespread sort of abandoned built environment around the globe, have only recently shaken off the taboo to which they have been relegated by their inescapable condition as symbols of failure.
Maria Luisa Germanà, Francesca Anania
doaj   +1 more source

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