Introduction: Communicate about resource efficiency -- PART I - Introduction to the topic -- 1 Resource efficiency in the industrial society -- 2 approaches to operational resource efficiency -- 3 Methods and tools -- 4 Resource efficiency as an export product -- 5 The 100-company project -- PART II - Examples of companies -- Mining and quarrying -- Food industry -- Textile industry -- Wood ind…
The Water Footprint in Bioenergy - A Comparison of Four Biomass Sources to Produce Biofuels in Argentina -- Water Footprints of Hydropower Projects -- An Empirical Investigation into Water Footprint of Concrete Industry in Iran.This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case …
Energy Footprints of Food Products -- Energy and Carbon Footprint of Food Industry -- Energy Footprints of Textile Products.This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors. Each footprint case study presents essential background information and discusses the scientific consensus, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tools and techniques, applications…
Chapter1: Citizens vs. consumers’ attitudes towards renewable electricity. What literature tells us in a contingent valuation framework -- Chapter2: Evaluating an onshore wind farm enlargement project: A contingent valuation study in the Center of Italy -- Chapter3: Consumers’ willingness to pay for renewable electricity in Italy: A comparative analysis.The aim of this book is to analyze th…
The Nexus among Hydrogen and the Energy Systems - A Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) -- Social Life Cycle Assessment of a concentrating solar power plant -- Social Life Cycle Assessment and the Use Phase .This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the energy and textile sectors. It also presents a range of models, indices, impact categories, etc. for SLCA that are curren…
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Introduction -- Geology of the Southeast United States -- Oil and Gas Production in the United States -- Triassic Rift Basins in the Southeast United States -- Challenges and Logistics of Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Southeast United States -- Oil and Gas Production in Virginia and Tennessee -- Possible Undiscovered Oil and Gas Accumulations in the Southeastern United States -- Historic COCOR…
Addressing Environmental Criteria and Energy Footprint in the Selection of Feedstocks for Bioenergy Production -- Cumulative Energy Demand of Hydrogen Energy Systems -- Energy Footprint of India: Scope for Improvements in End-use Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.This book examines the energy footprints of various industrial sectors, including the bio- and hydrogen energy systems, and expl…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Territorial and spatial effects of dams -- Chapter 2. Human and social consequences -- Chapter 3. Comparison of South-North effects -- Conclusion.The book focuses on the human and social effects of the construction of hydroelectric dams in Brazil. It discusses themes such as forced migrations, how the families of the victims of the dams adapt to new living areas, the …
Energy Footprint of Biorefinery Schemes -- A Technical Review on Methods and Tools for Evaluation of Energy Footprints, Impact on Buildings and Environment -- Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emission in Hotel Industry.This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint cas…