Impacts on the environment from human activities are now threatening to exceed thresholds for central Earth System processes, potentially moving the Earth System out of the Holocene state. To avoid such consequences, the concept of Planetary Boundaries was defined in 2009, and updated in 2015, for a number of processes which are essential for maintaining the Earth System in its present state. L...

escalating development of tourism and petroleum industries in small islands such as lavan-iranrequires sound solid waste management. in the present investigation, three scenarios which consist of thecombination of landfill, recycling, incineration and composting and their environmental impacts have beenevaluated for 7514 kg/day of waste generation in lavan island. for this purpose, life cycle a...

in this study a pseudo comprehensive carbon footprint model for fossil fuel power plants is presented. parameters which their effects are considered in this study include: plant type, fuel type, fuel transmission type, internal consumption of the plant, degradation, site ambient condition, transmission and distribution losses. investigating internal consumption, degradation and site ambient con...

the objectives of this study at the first step are to analyze energy consumption and economical profitability in canola production in mazandaran province of iran and then to investigate environmental emissions of the production using life cycle assessment methodology. at the next step, the corresponding coefficients are applied to investigate environmental indices in canola production. required...

A recent contribution in this journal on the application of the RAINS model for acidification in life cycle impact assessment is examined as to mathematical consistency and conceptual content. A general recipe for deriving equivalency factors for life cycle impact assessment is derived. This leads to a rejection of threshold-based impact indicators as a basis for tabulating equivalency factors ...