Sustainability of the use of natural capital in a city: Measuring the size and depth of urban ecological and water footprints

K Fang, Q Zhang, H Yu, Y Wang, L Dong… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are limited in their ability to measure
progress towards environmental sustainability especially at the city level. The aim of this …

Including the environmental criteria when selecting a wastewater treatment plant

M Garrido-Baserba, A Hospido, R Reif… - … modelling & software, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology to generate environmental impact
estimates associated with the life cycle stages of a product or process. The approach …

Facile preparation of starch-based electroconductive films with ionic liquid

B Zhang, F Xie, JL Shamshina, RD Rogers… - ACS Sustainable …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Here, we discovered that starch could be straightforwardly processed into optically
transparent electroconductive films by compression molding at a relatively mild temperature …

Carbon footprint: Concept, methodology and calculation

F Scrucca, G Barberio, V Fantin, PL Porta… - Carbon Footprint Case …, 2021 - Springer
Carbon footprint (CF) is nowadays one of the most widely used environmental indicators
and calculations of CF have been recently in very high demand. Many approaches …

Barriers to product return management in automotive manufacturing firms in Malaysia

S Zailani, K Govindan, MR Shaharudin… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
The increasing of global warming and depletion of natural resources has become a concern
for society, government and industry. There is a growing importance on recovery of used …

Emergy-based ecological footprint analysis of a wind farm in China

X Zhang, L Xu, Y Chen, T Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Wind power generation has always been considered as clean energy, according with
national ecological civilization construction and responding to climate change. However …

Quantification of carbon footprint of urban roads via life cycle assessment: Case study of a megacity-Shenzhen, China

R Mao, H Duan, D Dong, J Zuo, Q Song, G Liu… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
As one of the largest energy consumers, the transport sector generated direct and indirect
emissions which significantly affect the environment, accounting for approximately one-third …

Freshwater ecotoxicity impacts from pesticide use in animal and vegetable foods produced in Sweden

M Nordborg, J Davis, C Cederberg… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chemical pesticides are widely used in modern agriculture but their potential negative
impacts are seldom considered in environmental assessments of food products. This study …

Understanding the impacts of groundwater abstraction through long-term trends in water quality

RN Gejl, M Rygaard, HJ Henriksen, J Rasmussen… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
It is vital to understand long-term trends in water quality parameters when assessing the
sustainability of groundwater abstraction. Withdrawal-to-availability analysis is still used …

The relationship between economic and carbon footprint changes in EU: The achievements of the EU sustainable consumption and production policy implementation

G Liobikienė, R Dagiliūtė - Environmental science & policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sustainable Consumption and Production policy is a key objective in the
renewed European Union (EU) Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS). EU countries …