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Rita Puig Pere Fullana-i-Palmer Grau Baquero Jordi-Roger Riba Alba Bala 《Waste management (New York, N.Y.)》2013,33(12):2789-2797
Life cycle thinking is a good approach to be used for environmental decision-support, although the complexity of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies sometimes prevents their wide use. The purpose of this paper is to show how LCA methodology can be simplified to be more useful for certain applications.In order to improve waste management in Catalonia (Spain), a Cumulative Energy Demand indicator (LCA-based) has been used to obtain four mathematical models to help the government in the decision of preventing or allowing a specific waste from going out of the borders. The conceptual equations and all the subsequent developments and assumptions made to obtain the simplified models are presented.One of the four models is discussed in detail, presenting the final simplified equation to be subsequently used by the government in decision making.The resulting model has been found to be scientifically robust, simple to implement and, above all, fulfilling its purpose: the limitation of waste transport out of Catalonia unless the waste recovery operations are significantly better and justify this transport. 相似文献
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Skoumal M Arias C Cabot PL Centellas F Garrido JA Rodríguez RM Brillas E 《Chemosphere》2008,71(9):1718-1729
Electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) are environmentally friendly methods based on the destruction of organic pollutants in wastewaters with in situ electrogenerated hydroxyl radical. This species is formed in anodic oxidation (AO) from water oxidation at the anode and in indirect electro-oxidation methods like electro-Fenton (EF) and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) also from reaction between catalytic Fe2+ and H2O2 continuously produced at the O2-diffusion cathode. The PEF method involves the irradiation of the treated solution with UVA light to enhance the photolysis of organics including Fe(III) complexes. In this work, the oxidation power of such EAOPs to decontaminate synthetic wastewaters of the biocide chloroxylenol (4-chloro-3,5-dimethylphenol) at pH 3.0 is comparatively examined with an undivided electrolytic cell containing a Pt or boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode and a stainless steel or O2-diffusion cathode. The initial chlorine is released as Cl(-) ion, which remains stable in the medium using Pt or is oxidized to Cl2 on BDD. The biocide solutions can be completely decontaminated using AO with a BDD anode, as well as PEF with a Pt or BDD anode. The PEF procedure with a BDD anode is the most powerful method leading to total mineralization in about 300 min, practically independent of current density. When current density rises, the degradation rate of processes increases, but they become less efficient due to the larger enhancement of waste reactions of oxidants. Chloroxylenol is much more rapidly removed in EF and PEF than in AO. 2,6-dimethylhydroquinone, 2,6-dimethyl-p-benzoquinone and 3,5-dimethyl-2-hydroxy-p-benzoquinone are identified as aromatic by-products, and maleic, malonic, pyruvic, acetic and oxalic acids are found as generated carboxylic acids. A general pathway for chloroxylenol mineralization by all EAOPs including the above by-products is proposed. 相似文献
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Didac Ferrer-Balas Rodrigo Lozano Donald Huisingh Heloise Buckland Pere Ysern Gyula Zilahy 《Journal of Cleaner Production》2010,18(7):607-610
In October 2008, the 5th Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities (EMSU) international conference was held in Barcelona, Spain. It dealt with the need to rethink how our higher educational institutions are facing sustainability. This special issue has been primarily derived from contributions to that conference. This issue builds upon related academic international publications, which have analysed how to use the critical position of universities to accelerate their pace of working to help to make the transition to truly SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES!This issue focus is on the ‘softer’ issues, such as changes in values, attitudes, motivations, as well as in curricula, societal interactions and assessments of the impacts of research. Insights derived from the interplay of the ‘softer’ issues with the ‘harder’ issues are empowering academic leaders to effectively use leverage points to make changes in operations, courses, curricula, and research. Those changes are being designed to help their students and faculty build resilient and sustainable societies within the context of climate change, the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The overall systems approach presented by Stephens and Graham provides a structured framework to systematize change for sustainability in higher education, by stressing on the one hand the need for “learning to learn” and on the other hand by integrating leadership and cultural aspects. The “niche” level they propose for innovative interactions between practitioners such as EMSU is exemplary developed by all of the other documents in this special issue. To highlight some of the key elements of the articles in this issue, there are proposals for new educational methods based in sustainability science, a set of inspirational criteria for SD research activities, new course ranking and assessment methods and results of psychological studies that provide evidence that participatory approaches are the most effective way to change values within university members in order to facilitate the development and sharing of new sustainability norms. 相似文献
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Pere Pons Josep M. Bas Roger Prodon Núria Roura-Pascual Miguel Clavero 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(8):1217-1228
The study of successional gradients may help to understand the relative influence of habitat structure and competition on
territory characteristics. Here, we evaluate the effects of vegetation cover, conspecific and heterospecific densities, and
distance to the nearest neighbor on territory size, shape, and overlap in insectivorous birds. We studied these effects along
a gradient of postfire habitat regeneration in which foliage cover and densities of focal species varied several-fold. We
delineate 197 territories (minimum convex polygons) of the shrub-dwelling Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) and 255 of the syntopic Sardinian (Sylvia melanocephala), subalpine (Sylvia cantillans) and melodious (Hippolais polyglotta) warblers at three plots in NE Catalonia (Spain and France) in 1987–2005. After accounting for the effect of the number of
locations used to delineate polygons, generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) showed a reduction in territory area of the Dartford
warbler as conspecific density increased and distance to nearest neighbor decreased, in accordance with the contender pressure
hypothesis for territory size regulation. Heterospecific density was not included in the final model of territory size and
the effect of habitat structure was marginal. Territory roundness was positively correlated with its size and with conspecific
density, probably in relation to energetic constraints, and negatively with heterospecific density. Territorial exclusion
was almost complete among Dartford warblers, whereas interspecific territory overlap was extensive and tended to increase
with heterospecific density and with structural diversity along the gradient. Our results support the hypothesis that Mediterranean
warbler coexistence derives from ecological segregation and not from interspecific territoriality. 相似文献
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Antoni Borrell Antoni Pesarrodona Bienvenido Puerto Pere Deulofeu Jordi Joan Fuster Albert Fortuny 《黑龙江环境通报》1990,10(7):443-448
Two cases of twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence with relevant ultrasound features that would help an accurate diagnosis are described. Available management options are proposed and discussed. 相似文献
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Núria Roura-Pascual Andrew V Suarez Kristina McNyset Crisanto Gómez Pere Pons Yoshifumi Touyama Alexander L Wild Ferran Gascon A Townsend Peterson 《Ecological applications》2006,16(5):1832-1841
Modeling ecological niches of species is a promising approach for predicting the geographic potential of invasive species in new environments. Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) rank among the most successful invasive species: native to South America, they have invaded broad areas worldwide. Despite their widespread success, little is known about what makes an area susceptible--or not--to invasion. Here, we use a genetic algorithm approach to ecological niche modeling based on high-resolution remote-sensing data to examine the roles of niche similarity and difference in predicting invasions by this species. Our comparisons support a picture of general conservatism of the species' ecological characteristics, in spite of distinct geographic and community contexts. 相似文献
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Valuation of climate-change effects on Mediterranean shrublands. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Pere Riera Josep Pe?uelas Verónica Farreras Marc Estiarte 《Ecological applications》2007,17(1):91-100
In general, the socioeconomic analysis of natural systems does not enter into the realms of natural science. This paper, however, estimates the human-welfare effects of possible physicochemical and biological impacts of climate change on Mediterranean shrublands over the coming 50 years. The contingent choice method was applied to elicit the trade-offs in perceived values for three climate-sensitive attributes of shrubland (plant cover, fire risk, and soil erosion) and for the costs of programs designed to mitigate changes. Soil erosion was found to be the attribute of shrubland that most concerned the population, followed by fire risk and then plant cover. An increase of 1% in the shrubland area affected by erosion was estimated to cost each person on average 2.9 euros per year in terms of lost welfare, a figure that is equivalent in terms of perceptions of social welfare to an increase of 0.24% in the shrub area burned annually and a decrease of 3.19% in the area of plant cover. These trade-off values may help ecologists, policy makers, and land managers to take social preferences into account. 相似文献
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Mineralization of paracetamol in aqueous medium by anodic oxidation with a boron-doped diamond electrode 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Brillas E Sirés I Arias C Cabot PL Centellas F Rodríguez RM Garrido JA 《Chemosphere》2005,58(4):399-406
The degradation of 100ml of solutions with paracetamol (N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide) up to 1 g l(-1) in the pH range 2.0-12.0 has been studied by anodic oxidation in a cell with a boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode and a graphite cathode, both of 3-cm2 area, by applying a current of 100, 300 and 450 mA between 25 and 45 degrees C. Complete mineralization is always achieved due to the great concentration of hydroxyl radical (*OH) generated at the BDD surface, with release of NH4+ and NO3- ions. The mineralization rate is pH-independent, increases with increasing applied current and temperature, but decreases when drug concentration raises from 315 mg l(-1). Reversed-phase chromatography revealed a similar complex paracetamol decay in acid and alkaline media. Ion-exclusion chromatography allowed the detection of oxalic and oxamic acids as ultimate carboxylic acids. When the same solutions have been comparatively treated with a Pt anode, a quite poor mineralization is found because of the production of much lower *OH concentration. Under these conditions, the degradation rate is enhanced in alkaline medium and polymerization of intermediates is favored in concentrated solutions. Paracetamol can be completely destroyed with Pt and its kinetics follows a pseudo-first-order reaction with a constant rate independent of pH. 相似文献