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Anthropogenic metal cycles in China
The flows and stocks of seven important industrial metals were characterized for mainland China for several years in the dynamically changing decade of 1994–2004. One-year snapshot cycles are provided for chro...
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Quantification of energy related industrial eco-efficiency of China
Improving eco-efficiency is propitious for saving resources and reducing emissions, and has become a popular route to sustainable development. We define two energy-related eco-efficiencies: energy efficiency (...
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Development of a model-based flood emergency management system in Yujiang River Basin, South China
Flooding is the most frequent disaster in China. It affects people’s lives and properties, causing considerable economic loss. Flood forecast and operation of reservoirs are important in flood emergency manage...
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Source analysis of global anthropogenic lead emissions: their quantities and species
Lead emissions originate primarily from the anthropogenic lead cycle, and research into their characteristics, such as species type, provides essential information for pollution control. A dynamic model for gl...
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Environmental Issues
The global resource shortages and ecological environment crisis have been increasing since the second half of the twentieth century.
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Cyclic Flow of Material: Concepts and Classifications
Resource shortages and environmental deterioration are primarily attributed to the disturbance caused by human activities beyond the natural capacity, and the primary purpose of human activity is to satisfy th...
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Circulation Flow of Material: Fixed-Point Logistics Analysis
There are two representative methods of material flow analysis: the tracking method that focuses on the material particle and the fixed-point method that focuses on a particular region. The previous chapter ex...
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Eco-Design
Previously, the type of property an enterprise should possess was specified from two aspects, namely the requirement of a circular economy for an enterprise and the role of an enterprise to achieve a circular ...
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Introduction
First, offering a research–discussion course is timely. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the effect of human activities on the ecological environment has become increasingly obvious, and a sign...
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Value Flow of a Circular Economy
The anthropogenic flow of material was thoroughly discussed in Chaps. 4 through 6; specifically, the basic process of material...
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Circular Economy Guarantee System
In the previous chapters, we defined the pattern of a circular economy, including the type of flow relationship that material energy and value should have and the type of implementation method to apply to diff...
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Enterprise Environmental Management
From the previous discussion, we know that a sustainable development enterprise should be able to constantly provide high-quality services to society and receive economic benefits during the service process an...
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Sustainable Development Management
Because many natural resources are limited and the environmental quality of many areas is poor, environmental management is still very necessary.
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Circulation of Substances: Analysis of Logistics
To clarify the concept of mankind’s flow of material, this chapter will explore how material flows in the human socio-economic system and how the flow may be managed and optimized. Through the discussion in th...
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Flow of Energy
As previously mentioned, the goal of an anthropogenic flow of material is to meet specific needs of human beings. The transformation of material from natural resource into a product with specific service funct...
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Implementation of a Circular Economy
A circular economy is an economic form with material circular flow as its core, and it attempts to reduce the influences of human activity on the natural environment system via the flow of closed material in t...
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Sustainable Development Enterprise
From the analysis in the previous chapters, it can be observed that a circular economy has a complex structure and its economic component has an enterprise as the minimum independent accounting and basic work ...
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Assessment of Environmentally Friendly Enterprises
In the previous chapters, we have discussed a method to evaluate the environmental performance of the product (or service) provided by an enterprise, specifically, the product LCA method, and we have also disc...
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Quantitative analysis of the coupling coefficients between energy flow, value flow, and material flow in a Chinese lead-acid battery system
To reveal the historic characteristics of the material flow, energy flow and value flow in a lead-acid battery (LAB) system, a framework for the coupling relationship among the three flows was established base...
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Analysis of iron composite flow in China
Iron is an important metal material that is crucial to social and national economic development. In order to understand iron’s material flow, energy flow, and value flow in China, a composite flow framework is...
