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Resources, Volume 4, Issue 1

2015 March - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
13,054 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Future Offshore Wind Farms on Wind Power Generation in Great Britain

  • Daniel R. Drew,
  • Dirk J. Cannon,
  • David J. Brayshaw,
  • Janet F. Barlow and
  • Phil J. Coker

17 March 2015

In the coming years the geographical distribution of wind farms in Great Britain is expected to change significantly. Following the development of the “round 3” wind zones (circa 2025), most of the installed capacity will be located in large offshore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,330 Views
27 Pages

13 March 2015

Resilience assessments are increasingly used to inform management decisions and development interventions across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In light of current and future climate change and variability, there is growing interest in applying such tools...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,515 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2015

The aim of this paper is to examine if the surplus of wind energy could be added to electricity-to-heat conversion systems when there is increased congestion in the grid or when there is wind power curtailment. In this way, the produced power can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,895 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2015

Recognizing the significance of medicinal plants for rural livelihoods and primary healthcare, this paper attempted to analyze institutional interplays in medicinal plants management in Bangladesh. It assessed the governing process of natural resourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,795 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2015

Despite recent efforts to record wind at finer spatial and temporal scales, stochastic realizations of wind are still important for many purposes and particularly for wind energy grid integration and reliability studies. Most instances of wind genera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
123 Citations
42,627 Views
30 Pages

11 February 2015

Many countries have started to develop policy programs for the sustainable use of natural resources. Indicators and targets can cover both a territorial and a life-cycle-wide global perspective. This article focuses on how a safe operating space for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
11,669 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2015

In this paper, the contrasting theories of metabolic rift and ecological modernization theory (EMT) are applied to the same empirical phenomenon. Metabolic rift argues that the natural metabolic relationship between humans and nature has been fractur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,197 Views
22 Pages

Integrated Resource Planning for Urban Waste Management

  • Damien Giurco,
  • Jade Herriman,
  • Andrea Turner,
  • Leah Mason,
  • Stuart White,
  • Dustin Moore and
  • Frank Klostermann

28 January 2015

The waste hierarchy currently dominates waste management planning in Australia. It is effective in helping planners consider options from waste avoidance or “reduction” through to providing infrastructure for landfill or other “disposal”. However, it...

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