Ecosystem Services and agriculture

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Multifunctional Agriculture Definition of Multifunctional Agriculture Multifunctional Agriculture (MFA) analyzes the jointly produced economic, social and environmental functions from agricultural activities beyond the production of food and fiber. It was highly promoted by...

Water resource issues in developing countries

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Water resource issues in developing countries A concise presentation of pertinent water resource issues, with particular emphasis on developing countries and Ethiopia, is made. The various water resources issues are grouped into four...

A system thinking approach to explain the outcome of circular economy implementations

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Establishing an analytical framework In this study, a theoretical explanation or hypotheses (Bryman, 2012) for how circular economy should be implemented to result in sustainable development is carried forward as “The sustainable development...

An assessment of the European regulation on battery recycling for electric vehicles 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » RECYCLING UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL CLIMATE AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS With development difficulties of specific markets and industries, recycled inputs struggle to compete with regular inputs in production, especially when high recycling rates bear significant costs....

The use of microbial ecosystems in bioprocesses

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Microbial ecology as a discipline The term “ecosystem” was coined in 1935 by the botanist Tansley; its most consensual acceptation designates the set of all the individuals (also called community, or biocenosis) living...

COMMUNICATION TOOLS FOR TRADITIONAL PRODUCTION 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Input materials in remanufactured fashion garments Post-consumer waste from second-hand clothing is used as the input material for the remanufacturing process. In Sweden, the collection of second-hand material is taken from different sources...

Building a material flows agent-based model

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Environmental Impact Assessment Tools The first group we identified is related to the environmental impact assessment of agro-food systems. These tools have a clear focus on nutrient losses from agricultural land to the...

French households’ willingness to pay for electricity contracts using Smart Meters 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Satisfaction as a response on value Consumer and customer satisfaction is a reaction to value received in possession and/or usage. This is a bond between consumer/customer value requirements and organization's value creation efforts....

Development of modeling and simulation platform of a dynamic LCA methodology applied to buildings

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Time-dependent factors and parameters of a building system Before analyzing the temporal aspects in LCA applied to buildings, this section will present various aspects of a building system expected to vary in time....

Necrophoresis is not everything: cadaver groomings and intranidal transports in the ant Cataglyphis velox. 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Phenotypic variability Eusocial insects are able to generate worker phenotypes with distinct morphological, physiological and behavioral phenotypes from the same genome through a variety of non-mutually exclusive mechanisms. In social insects, immune defense...