Within the context of European Union (EU) energy policy and sustainibility in waste management, recent EU regulations demand energy efficient and environmentally sound disposal methods of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). Currently, landfill with its many drawbacks is the preferred option in the EU and many other industrialised countries. Within the waste management hierarchy thermal disposal especi...

This article examines the impact of environmental regulation within countries as well as regulatory distance between countries on international technology transfer. We employ a recently-assembled dataset of automobile emission standards and corresponding data on non-resident patent filing of automotive environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) in 49 countries between 1992 and 2007. Our analysis...

There are presently wide disagreements among experts concerning the future availability and price of petroleum and natural gas both domestically and worldwide. If these resources are to be available to future generations at affordable prices, then the technological challenge is to use these resources in ways that offer the greatest economic benefit and the minimum environmental damage. Petroleu...

richlorotrifluoroethane (CFC-113) T has been widely used to remove machining oils from metals after those metals have been stamped and formed. In many cases, removal of the hydrocarbon machining oils is necessary before the metals can undergo further processing such as electroplating. In other situations, the stamping occurs as the last step in the process and the formed metal parts must be cle...

The agriculture sector is known to be the one of the major contributors to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, global climate changes have affected the agriculture sector. In order to strengthen the sustainable development of agriculture, it is important to promote environmentally friendly farming and simultaneously increase the economic value. To improve the productivity o...

The challenge for developing country agriculture in the next 25 years is enormous, particularly if it is not only to satisfy the growing effective demand for food, but also help reduce poverty and malnutrition, and do it in an environmentally sustainable fashion. Due to population growth and rising incomes, demand in the developing countries is predicted to increase by 59% for cereals, 60% for ...

at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development held in South africa, the World Bank (Washington, Dc, uSa) and the united nations’ Food and agriculture organization (Fao, rome, italy) announced that they would organize a global consultation process on agricultural science and technology (iaaStD, 2003). they showed remarkable foresight: when the international assessment of agriculture, Scien...

Humanity has entered a new phase of sustainability challenges, the Anthropocene, in which human development has reached a scale where it affects vital planetary processes. Under the pressure from a quadruple squeeze-from population and development pressures, the anthropogenic climate crisis, the anthropogenic ecosystem crisis, and the risk of deleterious tipping points in the Earth system-the d...

This paper’s working hypothesis is that the indigenous farming practices of Timorese farmers are those most suitable and adaptable with regard to these farmers’ circumstances. Intensive acceleration land conversion in Java lead a reduction favorable cropland degradation soil biology. To meet demand for food production, unfavorable areas outside Java, including marginal semi-arid on Timor Island...