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    0-1 Piecewise linearization approach for interval-parameter nonlinear programming: application to environmental management under uncertainty
    Thomas Telford Ltd. ; 2013
    In:  Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science Vol. 8, No. 3 ( 2013-11), p. 289-302
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    In: Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science, Thomas Telford Ltd., Vol. 8, No. 3 ( 2013-11), p. 289-302
    Abstract: Interval-parameter nonlinear programming (INP) is an extension of conventional nonlinear optimization methods for handling both nonlinearities and uncertainties. However, challenges exist in its solution method, leading to difficulties in obtaining a global optimum. In this study, a 0-1 piecewise approximation approach is provided for solving the INP, through integration with an interactive algorithm for interval-parameter optimization problems. Thus, the INP model can be transformed into two deterministic submodels that correspond to the lower and upper bounds of the objective-function value. By solving the two submodels, interval solutions can be obtained, which are used for generating a range of decision options. The developed method is applied to a case of long-term municipal solid waste (MSW) management planning. Not only uncertainties expressed as interval values but also nonlinearities in the objective function can be tackled. Moreover, economies of scale (EOS) effects on waste-management cost can also be reflected. The results obtained can be used for generating decision alternatives and thus help waste managers to identify desired policies for MSW management and planning. Compared with the conventional interval-parameter linear and quadratic programs, the developed INP can better reflect system-cost variations and generate more robust solutions.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1496-2551 , 1496-256X
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1680/jees.2013.0030
    Language: English
    Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Big picture wisdom: Metatheorising ancient, scientific and indigenous wisdom perspectives for global environmental leadership
    Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Inc. ; 2013
    In:  Journal of Spirituality, Leadership, and Management Vol. 7, No. 1 ( 2013-12-21)
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    In: Journal of Spirituality, Leadership, and Management, Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Inc., Vol. 7, No. 1 ( 2013-12-21)
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1447-3771
    Uniform Title: English
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.15183/slm2013.07.1113
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Inc.
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Global sustainability at Kimberly-Clark: An interview with Mike Lloyd, Director of Environmental Services
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2013
    In:  Journal of Brand Management Vol. 20, No. 3 ( 2013-1), p. 186-190
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    In: Journal of Brand Management, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 20, No. 3 ( 2013-1), p. 186-190
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1350-231X , 1479-1803
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1057/bm.2012.39
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Do we need a global fisheries management organization?
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2013
    In:  Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences Vol. 3, No. 2 ( 2013-6), p. 232-242
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    In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 3, No. 2 ( 2013-6), p. 232-242
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2190-6483 , 2190-6491
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1007/s13412-013-0112-5
    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Governance of differential stakeholder interests in supply chains and networks
    Brill ; 2013
    In:  Journal on Chain and Network Science Vol. 13, No. 2 ( 2013-01-01), p. 99-105
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    In: Journal on Chain and Network Science, Brill, Vol. 13, No. 2 ( 2013-01-01), p. 99-105
    Abstract: Competing frames and interests regarding food provision and resource allocation, adding to the increased global interdependencies, necessitate agri-food companies and institutions to engage themselves in very diverse multi-stakeholder settings. To develop new forms of interaction, and governance, researchers with very different backgrounds in social sciences try to align, or at least share, research trajectories. This first paper in a special issue on governance of differential stakeholder interests discusses, first, different usages of stakeholder categories, second, the related intersubjectivity in sciences, third, an rough sketch of the use of stakeholder management in different social sciences. Social science researchers study a wide variety of topics, such as individual stakeholder impact on new business models, stakeholder group responses to health claims, firm characteristics explaining multi-stakeholder dialogue, and the impact of multi-stakeholder dialogue on promoting production systems, and on environmental innovations. Interestingly, researchers use very different methods for data gathering and data analysis.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1569-1829 , 1875-0931
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3920/JCNS2013.1001
    Language: English
    Publisher: Brill
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Plant pathogens, insect pests and weeds in a changing global climate: a review of approaches, challenges, research gaps, key studies and concepts
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 2013
    In:  The Journal of Agricultural Science Vol. 151, No. 2 ( 2013-04), p. 163-188
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    In: The Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 151, No. 2 ( 2013-04), p. 163-188
    Abstract: Climate change biology is witnessing a significant quantity of new publications each year, which compromises efforts to keep up-to-date on the rapidly growing body of climate change biology literature. The present paper provides an overview on research approaches and challenges in climate change biology with respect to plant pathogens, insect pests and weeds (collectively termed ‘pests’ here). It also summarizes the suggestions of researchers about how to conceptualize and prioritize future research strategies. Recently published key studies demonstrate that climate change research is qualitatively advancing and that the interactions among environmental and biotic factors which have been found are complex. This complexity hinders attempts to generalize responses of pests to changes in climate. The challenge remains to identify the most significant causal relationships and to separate them from other factors such as crop management practices, which may also influence the observed changes in pest distribution and prevalence in managed ecosystems. In addition, the present overview shows that there are still gaps in many research areas, while other fields have been intensively investigated. For example, the identification of potential benefits in plant protection that may emerge from future climate change has not been explored as extensively as the potential threats. However, encouraging developments can be observed in recent climate change research, for instance the increased number of studies performed under subtropical and tropical climatic conditions, the increased availability of results from multi-factorial field experiments and modelling studies do consider increasingly pest–crop–climate interactions. Further progress can be expected, provided that researchers, sponsors and other stakeholders maintain their interest in climate change biology research.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0021-8596 , 1469-5146
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1017/S0021859612000500
    Language: English
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Geohazards, Tropical Cyclones and Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines: Adaptation in a Changing Climate Regime
    School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos ; 2013
    In:  Journal of Environmental Science and Management Vol. 16, No. 1 ( 2013-06-30), p. 84-97
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    In: Journal of Environmental Science and Management, School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Vol. 16, No. 1 ( 2013-06-30), p. 84-97
    Abstract: Climate change, involving both natural climate variability and anthropogenic global warming, has been a major worldwide concern, particularly with the publication of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Considering the archipelagic nature of the Philippines and its being a very minor emitter of greenhouse gases, adaptation to climate change has been the Government’s national policy. The importance of expediting these climate change-related adaptation measures was highlighted by a string of geo-meteorological-related disasters, specifically triggered landslides and floods consequent to Typhoon Parma that hit the country in 2009. We present the geologic conditions that rendered the affected areas, especially in northwestern Luzon, extremely vulnerable to the existent hazards, the meteorological conditions that set off the disaster and the different initiatives that the government and local communities have taken to further prepare the people for possible future disasters. Recognition of the pertinent issues and the extant challenges points to the urgent need for mainstreaming both geo-meteorological-related disaster risk management and climate change adaptation measures in the light of changing climate conditions.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0119-1144
    URL: Issue
    URL: Journal
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.47125/jesam/2013_1/
    DOI: 10.47125/jesam/
    DOI: 10.47125/jesam/2013_1/10
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: School of Environmental Science and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos
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    An introduction to Canada’s boreal zone: ecosystem processes, health, sustainability, and environmental issues
    Canadian Science Publishing ; 2013
    In:  Environmental Reviews Vol. 21, No. 4 ( 2013-12), p. 207-226
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    In: Environmental Reviews, Canadian Science Publishing, Vol. 21, No. 4 ( 2013-12), p. 207-226
    Abstract: The boreal zone and its ecosystems provide numerous provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services. Because of its resources and its hydroelectric potential, Canada’s boreal zone is important to the country’s resource-based economy. The region presently occupied by Canada’s boreal zone has experienced dramatic changes during the past 3 million years as the climate cooled and repeated glaciations affected both the biota and the landscape. For about the past 7000 years, climate, fire, insects, diseases, and their interactions have been the most important natural drivers of boreal ecosystem dynamics, including rejuvenation, biogeochemical cycling, maintenance of productivity, and landscape variability. Layered upon natural drivers are changes increasingly caused by people and development and those related to human-caused climate change. Effects of these agents vary spatially and temporally, and, as global population increases, the demands and impacts on ecosystems will likely increase. Understanding how humans directly affect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in Canada’s boreal zone and how these effects and actions interact with natural disturbance agents is a prerequisite for informed and adaptive decisions about management of natural resources, while maintaining the economy and environment upon which humans depend. This paper reports on the genesis and present condition of the boreal zone and its ecosystems and sets the context for a detailed scientific investigation in subsequent papers published in this journal on several key aspects: carbon in boreal forests; climate change consequences, adaptation, and mitigation; nutrient and elemental cycling; protected areas; status, impacts, and risks of non-native species; factors affecting sustainable timber harvest levels; terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity; and water and wetland resources.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1181-8700 , 1208-6053
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1139/er-2013-0040
    Language: English
    Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Assessment of the Life Cycle Environmental Impact of the Olive Oil Extraction Solid Wastes in the European Union
    Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. ; 2013
    In:  The Open Waste Management Journal Vol. 6, No. 1 ( 2013-11-15), p. 12-20
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    In: The Open Waste Management Journal, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., Vol. 6, No. 1 ( 2013-11-15), p. 12-20
    Abstract: There is an increasing interest in developing sustainable systems in the European Union (EU) to recover and upgrade the solid wastes of the olive oil extraction process, i.e. wet husk. A Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment (LCIA) of wet husk has been carried out aiming at facilitating an appropriate Life Cycle Management of this biomass. Three scenarios have been considered, i.e. combustion for domestic heat, generation of electric power, and composting. The Environmental Product Declaration and the ReCiPe method were used for Life Cycle Impact Assessment. Domestic heating and power generation were the most important impact factors in damaging human health, ecosystems, and natural resources depletion. Composting was 2-4 orders of magnitude less impacting than domestic heat and power generation. Considering human health, the impact of climate change, human toxicity and particulate matter formation represented the main impact categories. Considering ecosystems, climate change and natural land transformation were the main impact categories. Within natural resources, fossil fuel depletion was impacted three orders more than metal depletion. Within domestic heating and power generation scenarios, storage of wet husk along with the extraction by organic solvent, and the waste treatment were the most impacting phases for global warming potential, ozone layer depletion, acidification and non renewable fossil resources depletion. The results obtained for the waste disposal have been comparatively assessed with respect to the environmental impact of the olive oil production chain.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1876-4002
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.2174/1876400220131014001
    Language: English
    Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
    Publication Date: 2013
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    Community based waste management and its utilization for sustainable environment
    Bangladesh Academy of Sciences ; 2013
    In:  Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science Vol. 42, No. 2 ( 2013-12-31), p. 165-173
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    In: Bangladesh Journal of Animal Science, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 2 ( 2013-12-31), p. 165-173
    Abstract: The goal of this study of community based waste management and utilization was to reduce the major negative impact of environment and health hazards created by improperly managed waste mainly focusing on livestock production system of Bangladesh. The waste amounted 4,78,220 kg annually managed by the community contribute to significant role regarding human and livestock health, sanitation, economic as well as environmental aspects. In terms of economic, the Chadkarim community could earn net benefit of Tk. 2,70,146 in 2012 by selling waste by-products, major earnings come from 95,644 kg of organic fertilizer producing amounting Tk. 1,37,546 The global environmental perspective is to reduce livestock-induced, land-based pollution and environmental degradation. One of the major costs of running an agricultural farm can include buying nitrogen in the form of anhydrous ammonia to fertilize crops. But there are other agricultural costs associated with nitrogen, especially when the nitrogen in livestock waste produces pungent and potentially harmful ammonia emissions. To get expected production and to trap optimum socio-economic benefit from livestock rearing, waste must be managed in proper ways through a community based biogas producing approach of waste management to have sustainable environment. During one year community managed 4,78,220 kg degradable waste and produced about 17,216 m3 of biogas and utilized that gas for cooking and electricity generation. The notable benefits come from womens saved time and money. The 200 households at the community in one year have saved 15,881 working days through reduced time required for managing of fuel and cooking purposes. Most of the saved time is being utilized for household tasks and for education of the children. This is one of the greatest contribution to the nation. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjas.v42i2.18506 Bang. J. Anim. Sci. 2013. 42 (2): 165-173
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0003-3588
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.3329/bjas.v42i2.18506
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 2013
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