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IS SMALL-SCALE MINING A SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD ALTERNATIVE ? [PDF]
Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, 2022 Mining poses myriad environmental and social problems although economically it has some advantages. However, despite the ill effects of mining to human beings, mining is still popular among the poor and so with the rich.
Novlloyd E. Celeste
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The green economy as a sustainable alternative? [PDF]
Anthropology Today, 2017 This article explores the green economy as a sustainable alternative to austerity in Greece. The author argues that the movement towards the green economy has been hijacked by multinational corporations taking advantage of an austerity‐era policy that encourages a repetition of the neoliberal model of privatization, short‐term accumulation, rentier ...
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Development of an extrudable paste to build mycelium-bound composites
Materials & 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
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Urban Wind: An Alternative for Sustainable Cities
Energies, 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
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Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction [PDF]
Human Geography, 2010 The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue
Gaillard, Jean-Christophe +19 more
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Alternative Mulches for Sustainable Greenhouse Tomato Production
Agronomy, 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
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On the integration of the CAx systems towards sustainable production [PDF]
, 2013 Achieving sustainable development and succeeding in sustainable production requires changes in industrial processes, type and quantity of resources used, treatment of waste, control of emissions, and finally in the final products.
Salonitis, Konstantinos +1 more
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Assessing Mg84Cu16 as a novel PCM for high-temperature energy storage: Focus on thermal stability and material compatibility [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe development of efficient latent heat storage materials for high-temperature thermal energy systems is essential to improving the performance and reliability of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants.
El Karim Yassine +3 more
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Reduction of conflictivity as a prerequisite for sustainable construction [PDF]
E3S 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.
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Cleaner Environmental SystemsBleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp dominates global pulp production, yet the environmental impacts of its bleaching sequences in Brazil are not fully explored.
Rhonald Ortega +12 more
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