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Accuracy Assessment of Surveying Strategies for the Characterization of Microtopographic Features That Influence Surface Water Flooding

With the increase in rainfall intensity, population, and urbanised areas, surface water flooding (SWF) is an increasing concern impacting properties, businesses, and human lives. Previous studies have shown that microtopography significantly influences flow paths, flow direction, and velocity, impacting flood extent and depth, particularly for the shallow flow associated with urban SWF. Th...
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A Critical Assessment of the Process and Logic Behind Fish Production in Marine Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

A recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) represents a forward-looking form of aquaculture. A RAS consists of fish tanks and water treatment processes in a closed loop to sustain the environmental conditions for fish production. However, the rapid industrialization of the technology is fraught with transfer problems. This review justifies a RAS process chain based on fish biology. The under...
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Promoting and Sustaining Urban Health: Challenges and Responses

The article "Promoting and Sustaining Urban Health: Challenges and Responses" by Roderick J. Lawrence examines the complex interplay between urbanization and health, emphasizing the need for integrated approaches to address health challenges in rapidly urbanizing environments. The study underscores the importance of understanding the multifaceted relationships between urban and planetary health...
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Shaping a Communitarian Ethos in an Era of Ecological Crisis

In response to the deep social and ecological crisis for which the international community is proving incapable of attenuating, many Peasants and Indigenous peoples in Mexico, and in other parts of the Global South, are transforming their visions of their futures, shaping a new ethos of self-management and conviviality, consistent with a responsible relationship to their territories. From the vant...
5 months ago

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Is sustainable certification's ability to combat greenwashing trustworthy?

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Can sustainability certifications help reduce greenwashing?

The paper suggests that while certifications can enhance eco-friendly brand perception, they are not foolproof and may inadvertently enable greenwashing if not properl...
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The Invisible Barrier to Safe Textile Recycling

Presence of certain chemical additives (e.g. halogenated flame retardants, perfluoroalkyl substances, and phthalates) could hinder textile recycling operations as their presence renders end-of-life materials as “hazardous” and therefore not recyclable;• In 2018, there was an estimated minimum of 1.7 million tonnes of hazardous and unrecyclable textile waste generated in the EU;• Blanket-ba...
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Equity Within Ecological Limits: Grand Challenge for Sustainable Consumption

The article "Equity Within Ecological Limits: Grand Challenge for Sustainable Consumption" by Sylvia Lorek discusses the critical need to balance sustainable consumption with social equity. It emphasizes that achieving sustainability requires not only reducing environmental impacts but also ensuring that consumption patterns are equitable across different societal groups. The author argues that...
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Forgotten dust: following plasterboard for non-destructive circular economies

The exploitative and unsustainable life of the construction material plasterboard requires more sustainable economies. In this article I examine the disposal of plasterboard as an experimental case for discussing a type of non-destructive circularity. A non-destructive circular model is one way to open imaginaries for more sustainable activities of construction. My focus is on end-of-life plasterb...
5 months ago

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Doctrines for occupational health and safety

The balance between structure and handling uncertainty through mindfulness remains a riddle in occupational health and safety. In a similar vein, the relationship between strategy, business models, management control, and its influence on actual practice is still poorly understood. Hence, the notion of doctrines is here suggested as a new way of talking about these tensions, as a middle-way betwee...
5 months ago

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A Thermodynamic Measure of Sustainability

A novel thermodynamic approach to the quantification of the “degree of sustainability” is proposed and discussed. The method includes a rigorous -and innovative- conversion procedure of the so-called externalities that leads to their expression in terms of the exergy of their equivalent primary resources consumption. Such a thermodynamic approach suggests a detailed re-evaluation of the concep...
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Can sustainability certifications help reduce greenwashing?

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