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Montaña Jiménez-Espada, Francisco Manuel Martínez García and Rafael González-Escobar
Among the priority concerns that figure in the public manager?s portfolio, the existing problems in cities when planning a more efficient management of urban space are well known. Within the wide range of reflections that local corporations consider, one...
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Maximilian Lackner, Thomas Hribernig, Markus Lutz, Markus Plank and Karl Putz
A novel technique for the in situ removal of mineral hydrocarbons from aged brownfields is described. The approach uses emulsions of plant oil (5?10%, rapeseed) in water, which were found to extract 50?85% of mineral hydrocarbons in one leaching step fro...
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Yanan Li, Yuzhen Zhang and Shucai Zhang
The concept of the ?no-waste city? has focused increasing attention on the recycling of solid waste. One such waste is reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), which is generated during road maintenance. The potential to reuse this resource has attracted extens...
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Xiong Xu, Yaming Chu, Yi Luo, Qiaoyun Wu, Xuyong Chen and Suxun Shu
Waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) drinking bottles and end-of-life scrap rubber tires are common municipal solid wastes discarded and produced every day, which are usually disposed of in landfills and stockpiles, occupying a great quantity of land...
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Lingli Fan, Guangya Zhang and Jianjun Xu
In this paper, precipitation data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), together with atmospheric reanalysis data, are employed to identify warm-season precipitation (1998?2014) changes and their association with rapid urbanization in sout...
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Jegalakshimi Jewaratnam, Nurul Fatin Nabilah Abdul Samat
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As the country started to become an export oriented country since the early 1970s, the growth of Malaysia?s textile industry has increased greatly. In 2011 alone, the country has provided a total of RM10.8 billion of exports of textile products and RM 6....
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Millions of tonnes of leftover biosolids are increasingly stockpiled every year around the globe. Biosolids are a product of the wastewater sludge treatment process. Stockpiles necessitate the use of large areas of increasingly valuable land. Biosolids h...
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Christof Lanzerstorfer
Miscanthus is an energy crop considered to show potential for a substantial contribution to sustainable energy production. In miscanthus combustion, 2.0% to 3.5% of the mass of the fuel remains as ash. This ash is less contaminated by heavy metals than a...
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Rogert Sorí, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond, Milica Stojanovic and Luis Gimeno
The hydroclimatology of the Niger River basin, located in West Africa, is very complex. It has been widely studied because of its importance to the socioeconomic activities of the countries that share its natural resources. In this study, to better under...
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Cristina-Alejandra Villamar, Ismael Vera-Puerto, Diego Rivera and Felipe De la Hoz
Chile is an agricultural power, but also one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and water shortage. About 50% of the irrigated agriculture land in Chile is in the central zone, thanks to its agricultural-climatic characteristics that prov...
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