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Remote or off-grid communities in Canada primarily rely on diesel generators for the provision of their electricity. Often surrounded by potential renewable resources, they are characterised as the low-hanging fruit of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies. While much is said about the promises of community energy projects, as well as technologies and policy mechanisms for addressing the needs of these communities, little attention has been paid to what communities, themselves, might want for their energy projects and what the implications of those desires might be for both technology development and community energy policies. This paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the on-going energy pursuits of a number of remote First Nations communities in British Columbia. It identifies a desire for community self-sufficiency as a primary motivation for engaging with energy projects on the part of the communities and discusses the various meanings and implications of self-sufficiency in the context of community energy projects. These meanings and implications primarily include the two dimensions of material self-sufficiency and political self-determination, the latter of which suggests a view of community energy projects as processes of decolonisation among First Nation communities in British Columbia. It then suggests that the pursuit of this goal is somewhat incongruent with the approach that government and industry have taken in addressing community energy, especially the way in which remote communities are viewed as the low-hanging fruit of various sustainability projects. 相似文献
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Smaeyl Hassanzadeh Omid Hajrasouliha Ali Rezaei Latifi 《Environmental Modeling and Assessment》2016,21(6):721-730
The Persian Gulf ecosystem is facing a variety of stresses as a result of being located within the richest oil province in the world, which hosts more than 67 % of the world oil reserve. In this paper, the distribution of oil pollution on the surface layer of the Persian Gulf is predicted for the different months after the release, based on the Coupled Hydrodynamical Ecological model for Regional Shelf seas (COHERENS). An Eulerian model for the Persian Gulf is set up using the Cartesian coordinate in the horizontal direction, and the sigma coordinate in the vertical direction. Based on this model, our analysis and simulation results indicate that the winds lead to diffusion of the contaminant concentration in the direction of the Arabian coast from the initial position of the spill. The results of this study can be used to provide appropriate solutions for preventing oil from spreading further in the region. 相似文献
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Rezaei Ardani Mohammad Azwina Fathin Wern Tan Yee Ramli Siti Fatihah Rezan Sheikh Abdul Aziz Hamidi Abdul Mohamed Abdul Rahman 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2021,28(14):17587-17601
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study investigated the coagulation performance of titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) for leachate treatment and preparation of titanium oxide (TiO2)... 相似文献
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Taghavizadeh Yazdi Mohammad Ehsan Amiri Mohammad Sadegh Nourbakhsh Fahimeh Rahnama Mostafa Forouzanfar Fatemeh Mousavi Seyed Hadi 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2021,28(21):26359-26379
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins that are expressed by cells in reply to stressors. The changes in concentration of HSPs could be... 相似文献
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Hosseini Alhashemi A Karbassi A Hassanzadeh Kiabi B Monavari SM Sekhavatjou MS 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2012,184(4):1865-1878
In the present research, accumulation of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, V, and Zn were determined in sediments and fillet, liver,
kidney, gonads, and gills of three commonly fish species in the largest wetland ecosystem that is located in southwest of
Iran; Shadegan wetland. Shadegan is one of the most important wetland that posses various fauna and flora but suffers inputs
from agricultural and industrial activities. So, sediment samples and fish species including Barbus grypus, Barbus sharpeyi, and Cyprinus carpio were collected during winter 2009. Results showed that mean concentrations of trace elements (except Ni and Co) were high
in liver and gills of B. grypus. Also trace elements had the most accumulation in liver of B. sharpeyi except for Cd (0.26 mg kg − 1 d.w.) and Mn (13.45 mg kg − 1 d.w.) that were high in gills. Beside, kidney is determined as target tissue for Ni and V in B. grypus and for Pb in C. carpio, due to their high concentration. Zn levels in all tissues of C. carpio showed the highest concentrations in comparison to other fish species. Generally, accumulations of most of the studied elements
in B. grypus and B. sharpeyi were higher in females than in males, while in fillet and gonads of C. carpio, this trend was inverted. Bioaccumulation factors (BAFs) were determined for different tissues of fish species with respect
to elemental concentrations in sediment. BAFs results indicated that Zn, Pb, and Cu have higher BAF than other elements. Also
this investigation demonstrated that trace elements have different affinities with condition factor of studied fish species.
Gonadosomatic index (GSI) and Pb showed positive correlation together in both B. sharpeyi and B. grypus, respectively, in females and males. Moreover, females of C. carpio showed significantly positive relation of GSI and all studied elements. 相似文献
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Abolfazl Biabani-Ravandi Mehran Rezaei Zohreh Fattah 《Process Safety and Environmental Protection》2013,91(6):489-494
Iron–cobalt mixed metal oxide nanoparticles (Co/Fe molar ratio: 1/5) have been prepared by a simple co-precipitation method and employed as catalyst in low-temperature CO oxidation. The prepared catalysts were characterized by thermal gravimetric and differential thermal gravimetric analyses (TGA/DTG), X-ray diffraction (XRD), temperature programmed reduction (TPR), N2 adsorption (BET) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. The results revealed that inexpensive iron–cobalt mixed metal oxide nanoparticles have a high potential as catalyst in low temperature CO oxidation. The results showed that increasing in calcination temperature increased the crystallite and particle size and decreased the specific surface area, which caused a decrease in catalytic activity of prepared catalysts. In addition, the pretreatment conditions affect the catalytic activity and catalyst pretreated under oxidative atmosphere showed the higher activity than those pretreated under reductive and inert atmospheres. 相似文献
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Harrad S Robson M Hazrati S Baxter-Plant VS Deplanche K Redwood MD Macaskie LE 《Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM》2007,9(4):314-318
The environmentally prevalent polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) #47 and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) #28 and #118 were challenged for 24 hours with a novel biomass-supported Pd catalyst (Bio-Pd(0)). Analysis of the products via GC-MS revealed the Bio-Pd(0) to cause the challenged compounds to undergo stepwise dehalogenation with preferential loss of the least sterically hindered halogen atom. A mass balance for PCB #28 showed that it is degraded to three dichlorobiphenyls (33.9%), two monochlorobiphenyls (12%), and biphenyl (30.7%). The remaining mass was starting material. In contrast, while PCB #118 underwent degradation to yield five tetra- and five trichlorinated biphenyls, no less chlorinated products or biphenyl were detected, and the total mass of degraded products was 0.3%. Although the Bio-Pd(0) material was developed for treatment of PCBs, a mass balance for PBDE #47 showed that the biocatalyst could prove a potentially useful method for treatment of PBDEs. Specifically, 10% of PBDE #47 was converted to identifiable lower brominated congeners, predominantly the tribrominated PBDE #17 and the dibrominated PBDE #4, 75% remained intact, while 15% of the starting mass was unaccounted for. 相似文献
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Saadat Rastegarzadeh Zeinab Barkat Rezaei 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2013,185(11):9037-9042
A colorimetric assay method is described for the environmental detection of 2-mercaptobenzimidazole (MBI) using surface plasmon resonance of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Stable and dispersed AuNPs with intensified plasmon resonance were prepared in situ using a simple, rapid, and eco-friendly procedure by applying ascorbic acid as a reducer and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as a stabilizer. The presence of MBI has a strong effect on the plasmon absorbance of AuNPs, which was employed for the detection of MBI. The calibration curve was linear in the range of 1.0?×?10?6–5.5?×?10?5 mol/L of MBI; the detection limit was 8.4?×?10?7 mol/L. The relative standard deviations for eight replicate measurements of 3.0?×?10?6 and 5?×?10?5 mol/L MBI were 3.9 and 1.4 %, respectively. The method was successfully applied to the determination of MBI in tap, river, sea, and heat exchanger cooling water samples. 相似文献
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Incipient deposition of sediment in rigid boundary open channels 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Mir Jafar Sadegh Safari Hafzullah Aksoy Mirali Mohammadi 《Environmental Fluid Mechanics》2015,15(5):1053-1068