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Utilization of waste as a constituent ingredient for enhancing thermal performance of bricks – a review paper [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In view of the environmental regulations, practitioners have been inclined to use bricks with higher insulation capability, however with minimal attention to sustainable material composition, let alone waste material.
A. Mostaf, Salama   +6 more
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Sustainability appraisal: Jack of all trades, master of none? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Sustainable development is a commonly quoted goal for decision making and supports a large number of other discourses. Sustainability appraisal has a stated goal of supporting decision making for sustainable development.
Alan J. Bond   +49 more
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Development of an extrudable paste to build mycelium-bound composites

open access: yesMaterials & Design, 2020
Mycelium-bound composites are promising materials for sustainable packaging, insulation, fashion, and architecture. However, moulding is the main fabrication process explored to date, strongly limiting the ability to design the complex shapes that could ...
Eugene Soh   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Wind: An Alternative for Sustainable Cities

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
The climate emergency has intensified the search for the generation of electricity from renewable energies in order to turn cities into sustainable cities. Small-scale wind power offers new opportunities for decentralized electricity production, avoiding
Isabel Cristina Gil-García   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative versus conventional attitudes in higher agricultural education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
From radical positions it is argued that it will take paradigmatic transformations to develop a sustainable agriculture and that values and attitudes have to be changed.
Kaltoft, Pernille, Rasmussen, Jesper
core   +1 more source

Alternative Mulches for Sustainable Greenhouse Tomato Production

open access: yesAgronomy, 2022
Soil mulching has advantages for horticultural crops, from both agronomic and phytosanitary points of view. The most common material used is polyethylene (PE); however, promising alternatives from the circular economy exist, such as straw (ST) and ...
Jose Ignacio Marín-Guirao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable alternative composites using waste vegetable oil based resins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Laminates were produced with epoxy resins from waste vegetable oil (WVO) intended for the manufacturing of environmentally-friendly alternatives for the composites industry.
Coles, Stuart R.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

ALTERNATIVE FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

open access: yesThe Central European Review of Economics and Management, 2018
Objective: The aim of this article is to evaluate alternative finance for the implementation of the basic assumptions and goals of sustainable development.Methodology: Using the comparative analysis the most frequent mentioned forms of alternative finance have been assessed.
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring Possibilities to Enhance Food Sovereignty within the Cowpea Production-Consumption Network in Northern Ghana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Over the last years an important focus in the combat of hunger and malnutrition,particularly in Africa has been food security. This article explores possibilities for enhancing food sovereignty, as an alternative concept to food security and an ...
Frempong, G.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Reduction of conflictivity as a prerequisite for sustainable construction [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The transformation of project management approaches and business processes organization in crisis conditions requires rethinking and supplementing the concept of sustainable construction in terms of the socio-economic component, taking into account an ...
Zaytseva L.I.
doaj   +1 more source

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