EDITORIAL Material & Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development ECOMONDO 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1905-1906
Author(s):  
Fabio Fava ◽  
Grazia Totaro ◽  
Maria Gavrilescu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Editorial Material ◽  
Material Energy

QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD OF THE CITY ENVIRONMENT

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
O. Mikhno ◽  
I. Patrakeiev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Free Energy ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
Material Energy ◽  
Takagi Sugeno ◽  
The City

The approach to the estimation of the condition of the surrounding anthropogenically-transformed environment, based on the metabolic concept of the urban environment is proposed. Improvement of existing and development of new indicators are an important stage in the implementation of the geoinformational monitoring of the forecasting of the state of the city environment in practice, which will realize in practice the concept of sustainable development of the urban environment, which is today the development of V.I. Vernadsky's doctrine of the noosphere. Keywords: energy balance, entropy, free energy, Takagi-Sugeno-Kang algorithm, material-energy flows, geoinformational monitoring.

scholarly journals Industrial Symbiosis, Ecoefficiency, Sustainability a Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Teodorescu ◽  
Mirela Danubianu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Material Energy ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Eu

Abstract In the last decade, international organizations have expressed their concern about the capacity of classical economical indicators to encompass the whole story of the developing processes, especially in their relationship with the environment. A comprehensive environmental metrics has been adopted (states and organizations reports indicators like greenhouse gas emissions, ozone concentrations, surface of contaminated land, number of threatened species, etc.) and operates in parallel with the traditional industrial indicators. But it seems not enough since this complementary metrics does not illustrate the entire complexity of development processes, in the 21st Century. Recent EU documents stress the importance of sustainable development, of the importance of industrial symbiosis as a tool to better manage material, energy and human resources and evaluate the possibility of generating and reporting new, synthetic, composite indicators that could include both the information in the classical economical indicators but also the environmental impact and the quality of life. The paper is a contribution in this respect and, starting from the results of the implementation of the Industrial Symbiosis paradigm in the case of a power plant, it presents how the EU recommendations about a more sophisticated metrics of ecoefficiency works, for the first time at the level of a Romanian enterprise. An original, new metrics is generated, that takes into account whether and how the technological and economical processes are accompanied by a favourable trend for the environment, A new, composite index for ecoefficiency and sustainability is presented in its structure and dynamic evolution, enabling local managers not only to assess their sustainable development trend, but also to identify where should their action be directed in the short term to correct unfavourable trends. The study was a part of the PAZEWAIA Project financed by Innovation Norway.

Sustainable development in the Legal Amazon: energy recovery from açaí seeds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco W Maciel‐Silva ◽  
Luz S Buller ◽  
Maria L M B B Gonçalves ◽  
Mauricio A Rostagno ◽  
Tânia Forster‐Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Recovery

Landscape service capability, landscape service flow and landscape service demand: A new framework for landscape services and its use for landscape sustainability assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 817-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuening Fang ◽  
Wenwu Zhao ◽  
Bojie Fu ◽  
Jingyi Ding
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Landscape Sustainability ◽  
Service Demand ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Service Capability ◽  
Equilibrium Relationships ◽  
Material Energy ◽  
Sustainability Assessments ◽  
Energy Information

Creating methods to achieve sustainable development is a global challenge faced by civilization in the 21st century. As an operational element of sustainability science, landscape sustainability science (LSS) plays an important role in the development of methods for sustainable development. Landscape services (LS) is a newly emerging concept associated with ecosystem services (ES) that exhibits great potential for promoting landscape sustainability research despite its nascent stage of development. In this article, the historical development of the LS concept is reviewed, and the special implications and advantages of LS relative to ES for landscape practices are further expanded. Furthermore, a sustainability-oriented LS conceptual framework specifically developed for the integration of LS and landscape sustainability research is proposed. We refer to this framework as the landscape service capability-flow-demand (LSCFD) framework. Finally, the prospects for the application of the new framework in landscape sustainability assessments are explored. By using LSCFD, we suggest that a distinction be made between landscape service capacity (LSC), landscape service flow (LSF), and landscape service demand (LSD). LSC refers to the long-term potential of a landscape for producing various types of materials, energy, information, conditions, and effectiveness that are valued by people. LSF refers to the transmission process for material, energy, information, conditions and effectiveness from a landscape to benefit people that occur either within or across the landscape. LSD is the societal dimension of LS and refers to the types and volume of material, energy, information, conditions, and effectiveness that a landscape’s inhabitants need to satisfy their existence, livelihood, and development. Based on the LSCFD framework, landscape sustainability assessments can be performed by considering the following four areas: LSC sustainability, LSF sustainability, LSD sustainability, and the dynamic equilibrium relationships among the other three areas. Thus, various types of LS capabilities, integrated services capabilities, and the diversity and balance of LS demands should be evaluated. Additionally, analyzing the supplying regions of LS flow, spatial orientation of the population that benefits, transmission media, transmission mechanism, and transmission limiting factors is essential to explore the dynamic equilibrium relationships between LS capability, flow, and demand. The LSCFD concept framework of LS provides a method for implementing LSS into actual practice. In the context of global environmental changes and sustainable development, the LSCFD framework of LS will definitely contribute to future research.

scholarly journals Waste material and/or energy recovery

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Åke Erlandsson
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Waste Material ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Material Recycling ◽  
Iso 14001 Standard

Many far-seeing companies have taken part in the Agenda 21 work for sustainable development.  Kährs group has several units being certified in accordance with the ISO 14001 standard and having achieved the EMAS registration. Waste sorting often is the adaptation of recycling that has been the most important one and that has given all collaborators the opportunity to contribute. The system of today for material recycling counteracts an efficient use of energy and a market price level of residues. The energy value is higher than the compensation of collected paper and plastic material.

scholarly journals MOVBIO - Mobilization of Biomass for Energy Recovery Towards a Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Carvalho ◽  
André Mota ◽  
André Ribeiro ◽  
Margarida Soares ◽  
Jorge Araújo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Recovery ◽  
Biomass For Energy
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