54 Result(s)
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Process on “global guidance for LCA databases”
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Open AccessNumerical study of hydrogen production by the sorption-enhanced steam methane reforming process with online CO2 capture as operated in fluidized bed reactors
A three-dimensional (3D) Eulerian two-fluid model with an in-house code was developed to simulate the gas-particle two-phase flow in the fluidized bed reactors. The CO2 capture with Ca-based sorbents in the steam...
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Border Inspection and Trade Diversion: Risk Reduction vs. Risk Substitution
International trade increasingly brings previously separated geographical regions into contact with one another and increases the frequency of those contacts. These trends bring many benefits to the trading pa...
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Open AccessAnalysis of recoverable waste heat of circulating cooling water in hot-stam** power system
This article studies the possibility of using heat pump instead of cooling tower to decrease temperature and recover waste heat of circulating cooling water of power system. Making use of heat transfer theory ...
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Basic Thinking and Policy & Suggestion to Enhance GEC
Under the multiple pressures of traditional development pattern frustration, economic restructuring, industrial technology innovation, etc., the strong will for worldwide economic transition and economic resur...
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Main GEC Research Contents
Environment and economy are two factors of a system. Between the two there is a kind of both opposition and unity dialectical relations. On the one hand, the environment and the economy are interdependent and ...
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Enlightenment from the Results of GEC Evaluation
Since the 1970s, with the increasingly prominent of population growth, resource shortages, energy crisis, food security, environmental pollution, soil degradation, biodiversity destruction and other issues, th...
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Global Environmental Issues and Human Wellbeing
Environment is the foundation and support of human existence and survival and the guarantee of sustainable human development; environmental protection has undoubtedly become a common understanding and developm...
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Overall Evaluation and Comparative Analysis on GEC
What the tide of globalization brings is unprecedented impact on humankind by global environmental problems and these problems have become the economic, political and cultural problems that restrict human exis...
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Theoretical and Reality Basis of GEC Research
Looking at environment, economy and social development, to promote sustainable development through global partnership must enhance environmental competitiveness to solve the global ecological environmental cri...
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Regional Analysis of GEC
The GEC scores and rankings of the countries obtained through non-dimensional processing with threshold method and weighted summing only reflect the status of environmental competitiveness of single country. T...
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Technical Roadmap of GEC Evaluation & Analysis
GEC research is a whole new area; there is neither mature research model or methodology, nor existing research contents for reference. Therefore, such researches need to first summarize the related previous re...
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Open AccessTransdisciplinary research in support of land and water management in China and Southeast Asia: evaluation of four research projects
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) aims at identifying implementable solutions to difficult sustainability problems and at fostering social learning. It requires a well-managed collaboration among multidisciplin...
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Open AccessDoes FDI Bring Environmental Knowledge Spillovers to Develo** Countries? The Role of the Local Industrial Structure
This paper examines the environmental knowledge externalities of FDI within and across cities in an emerging economy context. It argues that the extent of these environmental externalities is contingent upon l...
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Open AccessCommunication processes in intercultural transdisciplinary research: framework from a group perspective
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) that aims at the co-production of knowledge in the process of addressing sustainability problems requires effective communication among scientists and practitioners. In interna...
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Open AccessThe incompatibility of local economic prosperity and migrants’ social integration: evidence from the Netherlands
This paper investigates the effects of the conditions of local labour markets on the social networks of immigrants, with an emphasis on co-ethnic contact and contact with people native to the locality. This st...
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Open AccessOn the reporting and review requirements of ISO 14044
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Open AccessHow the meanings of ‘home’ influence energy-consuming practices in domestic buildings
The UK introduced carbon budgets in 2008, with an aim to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 compared with the 1990 levels. It has been argued that the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting the global average te...
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Open AccessResearch on heavy metal level and co-occurrence network in typical ecological fragile area
Due to the special sensitivity of typical ecologically fragile areas, a series of human life, mining, and other activities have a greater impact on the environment. In this study, three coal mines in Ordos Cit...
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A Survey of Community-Based Adaptation in Develo** Countries
are now widely used in develo** countries to address impacts in vulnerable communities. There has been considerable growth in in peer-reviewed journals. There also exists a plethora of gray literature i...
