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This is a working paper presented at Consolfood 2018 in University of Algarve, Portugal. Abstract: There has been a recent boom in renewable energy programs in African refugee settlements. Solar cookers are being disseminated with... more
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, was probably the largest event in a long series of megasummits on environmental protection and sustainable development. Roughly 44 000... more
Air pollution is one of the major environmental problems confronting developing countries like Nigeria. Lagos, a state in Nigeria is endowed with many commercial and industrial activities. These activities as well as vehicular emissions,... more
Çöplerin birikmesini takiben çürümeyle birlikte kimyasal ve bakteriyel süreçler başlamakta ve organik çöp materyalleri dönüşüme uğrayarak çöpler dekompoze olmakta ve gaz oluşumu çöplerin kapatılmasını izleyen üç aylık aerobik... more
The book points out that rural regions need proper attention at the global level concerning solid waste management sector where bad practices and public health threats could be avoided through traditional and integrated waste management... more
Electricity, being an important energy source is inadequate in Nigeria, and is mostly limited to a few towns, while the rural areas are either underserved or neglected in terms of supply. This paper examines various literatures on... more
Agriculture is the major export in Uganda and earns the government a lot of money from foreign exchange. Most of the farmers in the country rely on the local ways of drying food items such as sun drying. However, this method exposes crops... more
Yep, fuck it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it.
Highlights • An overview of the state of the art in community energy storage (CES) is provided. • CES is conceptualized and analyzed as complex socio-technical system. • Responsibility in CES design and implementation is... more
Like the digital pets the project is named for, the Tamagotchi Project will use aspects of the building system (lighting, HVAC, audio-visual) to deliver environmental cues (colors, temperature changes, sounds, even scents)... more
The global COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis, an economic crisis, and a justice crisis. It also brings to light multiple ongoing, underlying social crises. The COVID-19 crisis is actively revealing crises of energy sovereignty in at... more
This paper examined the co-movement and causality between oil price and inflation using monthly data spanning between January 2007 and March 2020. The study employed the wavelet coherence techniques which are a new technique in economics... more
Crop residues are common in rural Ghana due to the predominant role agriculture plays in livelihood activities in these communities. In this paper we investigate the prospects of exploiting agricultural crop residues for rural development... more
Türk Akım Deniz Kesimi Çevresel Etki Değerlendirme (ÇED) Raporu Yayınlandı Avrupa'ya doğalgazını Ukrayna üzerinden satan Rusya, bu ülke ile yaşadığı sorunlar ardından doğalgazını alternatif bir yolla taşımak istemekteydi. llk detayları... more
As we have broadened our vision of health, the full meaning of water to the human race has begun to reveal itself. In the most concrete terms, our dependency on water is indisputable. In its 1948 Constitution, the World Health... more
Recently, a novel approach to a highly sensitive and quantitative detection of rare earth element (REE) ions including La3+, Eu3+ and Tb3+, by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, has been reported. The detection of REE ions is... more
It is estimated that at least 600 million people in Africa lack access to electricity and three out of five people don’t have access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Though Africa is rich in a wide range of energy resources including... more
This paper aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of publication trends on the themes of biomass and bioenergy worldwide. A wide range of studies have been performed in the field of the usage of biomass for energy production, in order to... more
Income inequality has long been a frustrating feature of Malaysian economic development. The country income inequality, represented by the Gini Coefficient has decreased only slightly to 0.41 in 2014 from 0.51 in 1970. This income... more
Taxation is one of the significant phenomenons in any economy as its not only generates revenue for existing government but serve as a fiscal tool as well as stabilization policy. One of the main types of taxation is the petroleum tax... more
A simple and scalable approach has been reported for V2O5 encapsulation over interconnected multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) network using chemical bath deposition method. Chemically synthesized V2O5/MWCNTs electrode exhibited... more
Nanostructured hybrid materials have the solution to facilitate renewable energy to cover up for anticipated energy gap and related ecological problems. In this work the design of a nano structured ceramic membrane is carried out using... more
Earth pipe cooling technology is a building design approach for cooling a room in a passive process without using any customary units. It can reduce energy consumption of the buildings for hot and humid subtropical zones. This chapter... more
Introduction All studies dating back 100 years have shown we need to drastically reduce waste from leaching, off-gassing, or stockpiling manure on our streets and lands. Horse manure is yet difficult to quantify as ”horse manure" is... more
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2020 The Authors. Energy Science... more
This study directs attention towards the New Cairo community, which is one of the new urban settlements that have been developed around Cairo, Egypt. People recently have tended to install or extend mechanical cooling equipment in their... more
"Authors: Adam Horálek and Pavel Ptáček "The book contains eight chapters in four major fields (each field contains two chapters) - environment, demography and population, economy, and geopolitics. As an introduction, the short outline... more
During abattoir operation numerous wastes obviously generated and pose a significant challenge to the effective environmental management practices. Rising of offensive odour and polluted water bodies and Residential areas are affected by... more
How can an ecofeminist perspective help us understand and respond to the problems of water pollution and energy production that we face today? Using contemporary examples ranging from the Arrowhead-Weston Project to Manitoba Hydro, Sumas... more
Microbial enhanced recovery remains the most environmental friendly cost effective recovery technique in the oil production, particularly for wellbore stimulation. This research investigates the effects of microbial growth rate, microbial... more
Low energy buildings use less than 50 % of the energy used in typical buildings. Such energy efficient buildings can only be achieved by applying unconventional approaches. However, the applicability of the unconventional strategies and... more
La aprobación de la reforma energética (2012-2018) planteó cambios importantes en la explotación y en la administración de Petróleos Mexicanos, asumiendo que la apertura a la participación de las empresas privadas llevaría a una mayor... more