Philipp, Robert
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
To reduce emissions in the maritime transport sector, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) follows a global clean shipping strategy. Among the different directives of IMO, currently especially the sulphur emission regulations pose challenges for the shipping industry. Related to this are the established Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECA...
Pagano, Andrea Jonathan Romagnoli, Francesco Vannucci, Emanuele
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
The aim of this paper is to highlight the insurance dynamics in relation to catastrophic events and how the insurance companies approach the insured parties (contractors) for the definition of a tailored insurance policy contract. Within this study the emphasis has been addressed more on the regulatory situation in the Italian context as a key exam...
Vihma, Markus Moora, Harri
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
While the capacities of larger enterprises enable them to adopt new circular design approaches and business models, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are also increasingly aware of the benefits of closing loops and improving resource efficiency. The SMEs in Estonia are confronted with several obstacles that hinder their circular design relat...
Ružickij, Robert Astrauskas, Tomas Valtere, Sarma Grubliauskas, Raimondas
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
Modern world is exposed to various environmental concerns which are closely related to human health condition. Since the automatization, world became vulnerable to the noise and the waste amounts generated. World Health Organization report states, due to noise, Western Europe each year loses approximately 1 million of healthy life years. However, n...
Indzere, Zane Blumberga, Dagnija
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
Fish as food has been widely used, and as its consumption is increasing, the efficiency of fish production companies needs to be increased as well. Fish production may consist of many processes, depending on the type of fish products they produce. Based on this, the increase in the efficiency of the whole company could be expensive, especially for ...
Tortoioli, Samuele Paolotti, Luisa Romagnoli, Francesco Boggia, Antonio Rocchi, Lucia
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
The present study is a cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Assessment of a hypothetical production process of rigid polyurethane foam obtained from thistle seed oil, grown on the marginal soils of the Umbria region, Italy. Thistle is a particularly rustic crop, suitable for difficult soil and climatic conditions that allow its cultivation in the Mediterranea...
Feofilovs, Maksims Romagnoli, Francesco
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
Research focuses on linking climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. The aim of the research is to test an urban resilience assessment tool through a local case study. The tool is based on integrating two methods. Multi-criteria analysis and system dynamics model is used to create a dynamic Urban Resilience Index. For the case stu...
Dumpis, Jānis Lagzdiņš, Ainis
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
The modern technologies not only provide an opportunity to collect water depth data much more efficiently than in the past, but also there is a wide range of opportunities to process these data to develop bathymetric maps and perform various calculations in the computer environment. This research aims to construct a high-resolution bathymetric map ...
Perez-Bezos, Silvia Grijalba, Olatz Irulegi, Olatz
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
The energy poverty derived from socio-economic imbalances affects mostly households with fewer economic resources, being social housing complexes one of the most vulnerable sectors. The insufficient access to energy and the incapability to maintain dwellings at an adequate temperature can have negative impact on people’s health due to the prolonged...
Agyekum, Ephraim Bonah Afornu, Bright Kwame Ansah, Michael Nii Sanka
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Environmental and Climate Technologies
This paper evaluated the economic potential of three different photovoltaic energy technologies at a selected site, Wa, in the Upper West region of Ghana. The cost of energy and net present value metrics were used to ascertain the cost-effectiveness of these technologies (fixed, single and double axis tracker systems). From the analysis, all three ...
