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Resources, Volume 8, Issue 1

March 2019 - 57 articles

Cover Story: In urban areas, health externalities generated by air pollution represent a barrier to the development of a circular and sustainable economic model. Local air quality policies often lack of instruments for the quantification and evaluation of external health costs. Support for decision-makers is needed, in particular during the implementation stage of air quality plans. Modelling tools based on the impact pathway approach can provide such support. In this paper, the implementation of health impacts and externalities analysis in air quality planning is evaluated. The air quality plan of the Piemonte region in Italy is considered. A case study is analyzed to evaluate a plan action, i.e., the development of the district heating system in the city of Turin. The dispersion and externalities model DIDEM are applied to detect the scenario with the highest external cost reduction. View this paper.
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Articles (57)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,054 Views
15 Pages

In arid and semiarid zones, groundwater plays a key role in the ecology and availability of freshwater. Coastal lagoons in arid zones have great importance as a refuge for species of flora and fauna, as a source of freshwater, and for recreational pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,688 Views
14 Pages

In the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, hereinafter SR, the Arctic zones are the original habitat of indigenous peoples, who can conduct economic activities only in undisturbed or lightly disturbed lands. From this point of view, the problem of compensation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,779 Views
16 Pages

Environmental Sustainability of Pasta Production Chains: An Integrated Approach for Comparing Local and Global Chains

  • Lucia Recchia,
  • Alessio Cappelli,
  • Enrico Cini,
  • Francesco Garbati Pegna and
  • Paolo Boncinelli

Major pasta industries have started to evaluate the environmental footprint of their productions exploiting both Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and, in some cases, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) methodologies. In this research, two different pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,734 Views
16 Pages

Improved Active and Reactive Control of a Small Wind Turbine System Connected to the Grid

  • Theofilos Papadopoulos,
  • Emmanuel Tatakis and
  • Efthymios Koukoulis

This paper deals with the interconnection of a small wind turbine with the low voltage distribution grid and the implementation of an improved control scheme, which also serves educational purposes. Initially the subsystems—wind turbine, rectif...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
17,310 Views
23 Pages

Sustainable Production and Consumption of Paper and Paper Products in Nigeria: A Review

  • Obiora B. Ezeudu,
  • Jonah C. Agunwamba,
  • Ikenna C. Ezeasor and
  • Christian N. Madu

Paper as a consumer product offers a undisputed benefits to human society, and it has been proven to be critical in driving most sensitive needs of mankind—principally in areas of security, education, sanitation, and communication—and thu...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,888 Views
11 Pages

Life-Cycle Assessment of Adsorbents for Biohydrogen Production

  • Yuna Seo,
  • Masaya Suzuki,
  • Tetsuichi Takagi and
  • Kiyoshi Dowaki

Adsorbents are used to remove impurities such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and hydrogen sulfide in the pressure swing adsorption process of biohydrogen production. These impurities are present in the produced gas along with hydrogen a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,193 Views
16 Pages

This work evaluates the techno-economic prefeasibility of waste to energy projects in Colombia using four different conversion technologies of incineration, gasification, anaerobic digestion and landfill gas. Three study cases were selected to repres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,079 Views
20 Pages

Evaluating the Response of Mediterranean-Atlantic Saltmarshes to Sea-Level Rise

  • Miriam Fernandez-Nunez,
  • Helene Burningham,
  • Pilar Díaz-Cuevas and
  • José Ojeda-Zújar

Saltmarshes provide high-value ecological services and play an important role in coastal ecosystems and populations. As the rate of sea level rise accelerates in response to climate change, saltmarshes and tidal environments and the ecosystem service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,422 Views
12 Pages

Geochemistry of Flood Waters from the Tar River, North Carolina Associated with Hurricane Matthew

  • Charles Humphrey,
  • Guy Iverson,
  • Caitlin Skibiel,
  • Christa Sanderford and
  • Jamil Blackmon

Hurricane Matthew caused flooding in Eastern North Carolina that was categorized as a one in 500-year frequency event. Matthew was the second such event in less than 20 years, following Hurricane Floyd in 1999. The frequency of intense storms is proj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,005 Views
17 Pages

Modeling Competition between Countries in the Development of Arctic Resources

  • Pavel Konyukhovskiy,
  • Victoria Holodkova and
  • Aleksander Titov

The article is devoted to the approaches that can be applied in the distribution of Arctic resources between the main reference countries of this region. The objective economic nature of the problems that arise in this region makes it possible to cha...

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