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Providing Sustainable Housing through Sustainability Transitions
, 2023 AbstractIn this chapter, we explore the concept of sustainability transitions and how it offers a framework to change some of the deep structural elements and embeddedness within the current housing regime. Much of the focus in improving the design, quality, and performance of housing has resulted in minor tweaks rather than the more significant ...
Trivess Moore, Andréanne Doyon
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Land Grabbing in Sierra Leone: Implications of Local Political Influence.
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesForeign companies have acquired vast land for bio-fuel crop plantations and agricultural investment in Saharan African countries, often referred to as "Land grabbing." This practice violates human rights, lacks indigenous consent, and has no social or ...
Bankolay Theodore Turay
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Građevinar, 2022 This study aims to investigate the energy-saving potential in the housing sector and encourage the employment of energy-efficient applications in Turkey by adapting the current European building techniques, policies and building standards in the Turkish ...
Hatice Kalfaoglu Hatipoglu +2 more
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Developing a sustainability KM strategy for HA planned works [PDF]
, 2015 Effective management of sustainability-related knowledge is central to the development of sustainable construction practices. Despite progress In other contexts, existing knowledge management efforts have been of limited value to contexts such as ...
Cameron, Iain +2 more
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PUSH Buffalo\u27s Community Housing Co-operative: A Case Study in Green Building Rehabilitation [PDF]
, 2017 Between March 2006 and March 2007, a group of community organizers at People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) used green building methods to create affordable, safe, and sustainable housing by rehabilitating a formerly abandoned four unit building ...
O\u27Donnell, Mary
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
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"Bora" and Beyond: Implications on Women's Access to Land in Peri-Urban Settlement in Sierra Leone.
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciencescontext and background customary land access in the north-west of sierra leone hinges on "bora," a traditional system based on respect and social obligations rather than formal ownership.
Bankolay Theodore Turay +1 more
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Liveability Considerations: Towards Designing Sustainable Public Housing in Niger State, Nigeria
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023 This study investigates liveability in the context of sustainable public housing in Niger State, Nigeria, where existing housing efforts have fallen short of residents' satisfaction.
Paul Baba Haruna +3 more
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Assessing the awareness and importance of housing sustainability in Queensland [PDF]
, 2011 Sustainability has been a major factor and determinant of commercial property design, construction, retro-fitting and landlord and tenant requirements over the last decade, supported by the introduction of rating tools such as NABERS and GreenStar and ...
Bryant, Lyndall, Eves, Chris
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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