The process of landscapes' fragmentation has led to having two realistic complementary options: (a) developing techniques and approaches for conserving the healthy remaining forest fragments and (b) restoring degraded places. The second option can be conducted by projects that focus on restoring or rehabilitating the degraded environment. In this r...
Published in Empirical Economics
Morgenstern et al. (J Environ Econ Manag 43:412–436, 2002. doi:10.1006/jeem.2001.1191) are well-known for its investigation of the employment effects of environmental regulations. However, the cost function specified in that paper is handicapped by its reliance on survey data of the costs of inputs assigned to pollution abatement. In this paper, we...
This paper contributes to the discussion about the globalization of corporate R&D by analyzing R&D strategies of environmental technology companies. Data is generated from a survey among German applicants for environmental technology patents. The survey elucidates motives and functions of foreign R&D as well as factors influencing the strategic cho...
Lithium-ion batteries are crucial components of electric vehicles with respect to the technical performance of the vehicles and the environmental impacts of the vehicle life cycle. Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of lithium-ion batteries have shown that the nature of the active cathode materials significantly influences the environmental impact...
Sanitation planning in developing countries: Added value of resource recovery Worldwide 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation. This impacts human live, the environment and represents a loss of valuable resources that can be regained from wastewater. This study shows that resource recovery can be a potential driver to accelerate sanitation. A...
Published in Molecular ecology resources
Micro-organisms play critical roles in many important biogeochemical processes in the Earth's biosphere. However, understanding and characterizing the functional capacity of microbial communities are still difficult due to the extremely diverse and often uncultivable nature of most micro-organisms. In this study, we developed a new functional gene ...
Published in Environmental Forensics for Persistent Organic Pollutants
Een wereldprimeur voor Nederland: 26 november 2014 opende koning Willem-Alexander op de Afsluitdijk de eerste proefinstallatie voor ‘blauwe energie’. Hier wordt energie opgewekt door contact tussen zout en zoet water. Wageningse wetenschappers stonden aan de wieg van de nieuwe energievorm.
This paper describes the application of PROMETHEE-GAIA methodology in a multiple criteria analysis to rank potential environmental investments in mineral-processing companies. The intent of the paper is to identify best technical facilities on the basis of preferential relations between a set of variants. The method of Total Cost Analysis (TCA) was...
Published in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
In this study, reduction in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission is decomposed into three parts: source prevention, process control and end-of-pipe treatment, using the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index method (LMDI). Source prevention and process control are defined as processintegrated treatment. It is found that from 2001 to 2010 the reduction of SO2 emis...
