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Singh, Veer Inder, Rahul Kumar Sharma, Yogesh Kumar et Sadique Saqulain. « Pharmacological aspects & ; medicinal uses of Trigonella foenum-graecum : A Current Review ». International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine 12, no 4 (31 décembre 2021) : 776–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47552/ijam.v12i4.2204.
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Globally a large number of people are affected by acute and chronic diseases resulting in high morbidity and mortality rate. A huge amount of pharmaceutical drugs are being manufactured on a daily basis to combat these diseases. But due to their high cost and deleterious effects, it becomes critically important to state emphasis on finding an alternative way to manage these long term conditions. Medicinal herbs could provide a good source of dietary supplement combined with existing therapies. Many scientific studies have demonstrated that medicinal plants and herbs have the potential for the treatment of many serious infections and many disorders. Out of these herbs, Fenugreek is recognized as an oldest herb with great medicinal potential. Fenugreek harbors many essential macronutrients and micronutrients along with trace elements. Numerous chemical constituents present in fenugreek highlights a variety of pharmacological activity such as anti-glycemic activity, anti-oxidant capacity, anti-inflammatory effects, hypocholesterolemic activity and many more. This article explores the diverse active compounds and potential pharmacological applications of Trigonella foenum-graecum also known as fenugreek. It also focuses on the medicinal significance and health impact of taking fenugreek in our day to day nutrition.
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Rizzetto, Mauro, Pam J. Crabtree et Umberto Albarella. « Livestock Changes at the Beginning and End of the Roman Period in Britain : Issues of Acculturation, Adaptation, and ‘Improvement’ ». European Journal of Archaeology 20, no 3 (27 mars 2017) : 535–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2017.13.
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This article reviews aspects of the development of animal husbandry in Roman Britain, focusing in particular on the Iron Age/Roman and Roman/early medieval transitions. By analysing the two chronological extremes of the period of Roman influence in Britain we try to identify the core characteristics of Romano-British husbandry by using case studies, in particular from south-eastern Britain, investigated from the perspective of the butchery and morphometric evidence they provide. Our aim is to demonstrate the great dynamism of Romano-British animal husbandry, with substantial changes in livestock management occurring at the beginning, the end, and during the period under study. It is suggested that such changes are the product of interactions between different cultural and social traditions, which can be associated with indigenous and external influences, but also numerous other causes, ranging from ethnic origins to environmental, geographic, political, and economic factors.
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Yu, Bao, Jianmei Wang et Ya Li. « Environmental Aspects of the European Experience in Landscape Planning ». Problemy Ekorozwoju 17, no 1 (1 janvier 2022) : 301–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/pe.2022.1.28.
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Understanding all the possibilities of environmentally oriented landscape planning will contribute to the effective environmental planning of the territory and nature management in general. Accordingly, the purpose of the study was to investigate the experience of the European countries towards the introduction of an effective system of environmentally oriented landscape planning and improvement of territories, as well as their protection. For this purpose, it is necessary to comprehensively study the strengths and weaknesses of existing developments in the field of environmentally oriented landscape planning in Europe. An analysis of the best practices of environmentally oriented landscape planning in such countries as Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc. has been conducted. The findings allowed to state that the effectiveness of development and implementation of substantial planning for landscape design depends not only on the volume and depth of research, but to a very large extent from their reasonable and productive organisation. The paper summarises that in environmentally oriented landscape planning, it is first necessary to determine the reasons for planning. Before choosing the object and territory of planning, it is necessary to find out: who are the potential customers and investors – their goals and motivation; what are the problem situations and conflicts in nature management in the area; what is the practical use of the results of landscape planning; the purpose of the territory, including cartographic; the availability of source information, and more. And then make decisions regarding the stages of landscape planning, taking into account the environmental component and, accordingly, the implementation of the idea of landscape planning.
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Łakomy-Chłosta, Agnieszka. « Działalność wydawnicza i graficzna Wiener Werkstätte jako przejaw ruchu artystycznego Arts and Crafts w europejskiej kulturze pierwszej połowy XX w. » Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Bibliothecarum Scientiam Pertinentia 20 (29 mars 2023) : 202–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20811861.20.13.
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At the end of the 19th century, an artistic movement called Arts and Crafts emerged in Great Britain. Its premises were eagerly accepted both in other European countries and abroad, e.g., in the United States. One of the examples of workshops that identified with the ideas of this movement was the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop). They were founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser. They produced beautiful utilitarian objects designed by artists and made by high-class craftsmen. One of the aspects of Wiener Werkstätte’s activity regarded issuing publications and related graphic designs. The article discusses this area of the studio’s operation, pointing to examples of individual products.
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Andreeva, Galina. « THE MAGNA CARTA AS A LEGAL ACT, A CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL ARTIFACT AND AN OBJECT OF FINE ART ». Herald of Culturology, no 2 (2022) : 163–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/hoc/2022.02.09.
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The article gives a comprehensive description of the Magna Carta of 1215 in the totality of three aspects as a legal act, a cultural and historical artifact and an object of fine art. The author proceeds from the fact that the originality of each of the aspects reinforces and strengthens the rest, giving special uniqueness to the Magna Carta of 1215 and turning it into an important element of modern culture. To analyze each of the aspects, the corresponding scientific method is used: comparativistic, formal-logical, source-research, retrospective, semiotic, etc. The characterization of the Magna Carta of 1215 as a legal act reflects its place in the legal system of Great Britain as part of the country's constitution. At the same time, special attention is paid to the ambiguous situation of its adoption. The article shows that this is a legal instrument that has had a huge impact on the formation of modern ideas about the constitutional system around the world, especially with regard to human rights. Considered as a cultural and historical artifact, the Great Charter of Liberties has a whole set of features that give it special value and make the preserved specimens unique. The circumstances associated with its adoption, the materials and ink used at that time to produce official documents, the methods of authenticating the document and other historical and cultural features of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta of 1215 make it an interesting object of historical and cultural research. As an object of fine art, the Great Charter of Liberties was embodied both in serious monumental works and in caricatures; both in the works of artists and sculptors creating works of elitist art, and in works related to mass culture. The latter is illustrated by examples of images on clothing and vector Internet culture.
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Harrison, R. T. « The Incidence and Nature of Redundancy in the Northern Ireland Shipbuilding Industry 1972 – 1983 ». Environment and Planning A : Economy and Space 18, no 9 (septembre 1986) : 1225–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a181225.
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The severity of the recession in Britain in the late 1970s and 1980s has stimulated considerable interest in the analysis of the spatial and sectoral incidence of redundancy. In this paper two separate approaches to this topic are identified. In the labour-market – manpower analysis approach detailed empirical case studies were used to assess the local labour-market impact of specific major redundancies. More recently, aggregate official data have been used to investigate the sectoral and spatial incidence of recession in Great Britain. This paper extends this second approach by analysing, for the first time, some aspects of the incidence of redundancy in Northern Ireland. It is argued that trends in the level and incidence of redundancy are strongly affected by sectoral influences, and the analysis is concentrated in particular on the examination of redundancies in the regional shipbuilding industry between 1972 and 1983. It is concluded that redundancies in this sector differ from those elsewhere in the regional economy in terms of both nature and timing: shipbuilding redundancies affected predominantly older and male workers and peaked two or three years later than redundancies in other sectors. This pattern can be related to changes in the external market conditions facing the industry in the late 1970s, and to the specific corporate response of Harland and Wolff plc to these in the 1980s.
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Kamolov, Bakhtiyor Kh, et Saodat U. Sulaymonova. « ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN SOURCES ON THE FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ». CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PEDAGOGICS 02, no 11 (1 novembre 2021) : 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/pedagogics-crjp-02-11-07.
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The formation of a positive attitude to environmental awareness in the individual, the study of the population's demand for environmental knowledge is one of the most important issues of the leading countries today. The theoretical analysis shows that the following aspects are a priority in the practice of leading foreign countries in the field: In developed countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Finland, Norway, Japan, the issue of environmental education for children from primary school age is considered. Education is an effective tool in the fight against poverty, saving lives and improving the quality of life. In countries south of South Asia and the Sahara, three out of four students fail to reach 5 th grade. The low level of quality and efficiency in schools, which are unable to meet the needs of many students who are not mastering in the primary school, is causing problems in the world of education. The article focuses on the systematic analysis and teaching methods of subjects taught in primary school in developed countries, and recommendations for the application of modern methodological approaches in the lower grades of secondary schools in the country.
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Kozin, S. V. « Society in the period of COVID–19. Review of the collective monograph “Pandemic COVID-19 : challenges, consequences, counteraction” (edited by A.V. Torkunov, S.V. Ryazantsev, V.K. Levashov) ». Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science 28, no 3 (14 septembre 2022) : 306–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24290/1029-3736-2022-28-3-306-319.
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The article presents the author's views on the new collective monograph “The COVID-19 pandemic: challenges, consequences, counteraction” (Moscow: “Aspect Press”, 2021), which claims to provide almost comprehensive coverage and generalization of foreign and domestic theoretical and practical thought, information devoted to the study of the emergence and further development of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in the world. A comparative analysis of sociological studies (for example: Great Britain, Italy, Russia, USA) devoted to measuring the social opinion of the population regarding the consequences of COVID-19 is extremely valuable. In general, the collective monograph published will tell the reader on its pages about the genesis of the development of world pandemics that have left their bright mark, about the prevailing socio-political and economic aspects during COVID-19, about existing measures of state assistance to the population and much more. Within the framework of this review, the content of all five chapters of the collective monograph was briefly highlighted, in addition, the author of the article selectively highlighted and supplemented the most controversial and even overlooked by the authors of the work significant aspects. In conclusion, it is concluded that this scientific academic work is aimed at a wide range of readers.
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Khudaykulov, Feruzbek. « OBJECTIVE SIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES AND THEIR FEATURES : ANALYSIS AND PROPOSALS ». Jurisprudence 1, no 6 (15 décembre 2021) : 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.51788/tsul.jurisprudence.1.6./dvdi7179.
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In this article, such research methods were widely used as logical, systemic, comparative legal. In particular, the article explains in detail such concepts as in the sphere of environmental, general environmental crimes and special environmental crimes crime, gives the opinions of scientists about the signs of a crime, such signs as the social dangers of a crime, illegality, delinquency and inevitability of punishment. It also highlights the necessary signs of a crime, the opinions expressed by scientists in the theory of criminal law about these signs, and then the elements of the corpus delicti and the objective signs of the corpus delicti that characterize these elements are consistently described. This reflects the views and ideas of not only scholars of the Romano-Germanic legal family, but also scholars of the Anglo-Saxon legal family. In addition, the main attention in this article is paid to theoretical and practical problems related to the criminal-legal value of the subjective and objective signs of a crime and its specific criminal-legal aspects, as well as the necessary and optional signs of the corpus delicti of some crimes listed in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan. At the same time, the criminal legislation of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and the Russian Federation is analyzed, in connection with which specific proposals and recommendations have been developed for improving the criminal legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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Venherska, Natalia, et Ruslana Vorona. « SMARTIZATION AND DECARBONIZATION OF UKRAINIAN METALLURGICAL ENTERPRISES AS DIRECTIONS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ». INNOVATIVE ECONOMY, no 3 (2023) : 44–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37332/2309-1533.2023.3.5.
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Purpose. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the innovative development of metallurgical enterprises based on smartization and decarbonization in the conditions of European integration. Methodology of research. General scientific and special methods of economic research were used in the process of conducting the research, in particular: a systematic approach – for highlighting the theoretical aspects of the digital economy, the Internet of Things, eco-modernization and “green” corporate culture; analysis – to reveal the processes of digitization, smartization and decarbonization in the metallurgical industry; interdisciplinary – for considering the problem of innovative development of the metallurgical industry; abstract and logical – when making theoretical generalizations and forming conclusions. Findings. The theoretical aspects of the digital economy, the Internet of Things, eco-modernization and “green” corporate culture are highlighted. The trends of smartization and decarbonization of international and Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises are shown. The trends, problems and needs of the metallurgical industry in the conditions of European integration are highlighted. Enterprises of the metallurgical industry need eco-modernization, “greening” of production and “green” culture, finding investments for decarbonization, increasing competitiveness on an innovative basis, and adapting to the requirements of the European Green Deal. It is proposed to ensure technological development thanks to investments in smart technologies and “green” innovations through investment partnerships with EU countries and Great Britain. It is important to build an innovative HR management system and “green” corporate culture, which affects the improvement of the environmental efficiency of the enterprise. Originality. Possible directions of the metallurgical industry enterprises transformation to a new level of technological development are proposed: 1) investments in smart technologies and “green” innovations through investment partnerships with EU countries and Great Britain; 2) studying the best European practices of transition to green production, taking into account adaptation to Ukrainian conditions; 3) formation of innovative corporate culture through cultural digital transformations and “green” culture at enterprises. Practical value. The proposed recommendations can be used for the strategic directions improvement of metallurgical enterprises development in the conditions of smartization and decarbonization of production. Key words: metallurgical enterprise, smartization, decarbonization, innovative corporate culture, green values, European integration.
Thèses sur le sujet "Harbors – Great Britain – Environmental aspects"
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de, Aguiar Thereza R. S. « Corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions : a UK study ». Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/840.
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Two beliefs drove this dissertation to be centered on the analysis of the UK corporate disclosure (CD) related to global climate change (GCC). Firstly, GCC is the most significant environmental concern of our current age (IPCC, 2001; Stern, 2006; IPCC, 2007). Secondly, CD could illustrate the values of organizations and possibilities for changing organizations’ responsibility regarding to GCC (Gray et al., 1996; Bebbington and Larrinaga-Gonzalez, 2008; Bebbington et al., 2009). This study utilizes content analysis as its principal method and seeks to achieve its goal by way of a two investigations. The first investigation focuses on disclosures made by direct participants’ (DP) in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS). It captures GCC disclosures from both stand alone (SA) and annual reports (AR) during 2000 - 2004. This part of the study explores if joining the UK ETS changed GCC disclosures. This is tested on both a longitudinal and matched pair (MP) basis. An analysis using institutional theory suggests that instruments of environmental policy may influence GCC disclosures. Results showed that DP increased GCC disclosure, especially in the AR where mainstream business rationale is accepted. MP disclosures, in contrast, focus on the SA media and on different topics than DP disclosures. AR and SA both contain CD, but in this study they showed different patterns of disclosure and therefore may constitute different disclosure media. The second investigation suggests a method to compare GCC disclosure for a sample of DP and MP, using three different media: carbon disclosure project (CDP), AR and SA. Analysis shows that GCC disclosure did not provide sufficient information to compare GCC initiatives and disclosures. Despite the fact that organizations have similar characteristics in terms of sector, size and origin country, they showed different views on GCC issues and this may partially explain differences on GCC initiatives and disclosure.
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Wickramasinghe, Kremlin. « Quantifying the impact of policies addressing sustainable and healthy diets ». Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711872.
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Ball, Christopher Stephen. « Energy policies and environmental entrepreneurship : the cases of Britain, France and Germany ». Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23945.
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To respect climate change goals, reinforced by COP21 in Paris, an overhaul of the energy system in EU countries will be necessary and this will involve a major deployment of low-carbon technology (Stern 2006). Although the relative roles of green new ventures and incumbent firms in the dissemination of environmental innovation remain unclear (Hall, Daneke et al. 2010), entrepreneurship shows promise as a response to environmental prob-lems (Anderson 1998, Schaltegger 2002, Hart, Milstein 1999). Since green new ventures are free from the innovatory constraints faced by incumbent firms (York, Venkataraman 2010, Hockerts, Wüstenhagen 2010), they are in a position to disrupt existing unsustaina-ble markets. Designing and implementing an energy policy with an “entrepreneurial fla-vour” (Wüstenhagen, Wuebker 2011) could be advantageous in achieving a successful sus-tainable transformation of the energy system. This thesis examines how entrepreneurs per-ceive energy policy in three advanced EU countries using a case study approach, with each country constituting a case. Data sources comprised policy documents, interviews with entrepreneurs and key staff in new ventures, and field notes from practitioner conferences. At this critical point at which direct support for renewables is being withdrawn, it is argued that efforts must be made to retain this entrepreneurial force in the energy market. This thesis reflects on the degree to which the market-creating support mechanisms are being withdrawn. If entrepreneurship is to thrive in a post-support context, there must be consid-eration as to how to better integrate decentralised renewables into the energy market, espe-cially in relation to how they can compete effectively with conventional technologies, namely nuclear and gas. In addition to alternative strategies to incentivise adoption of re-newable energy technologies beyond early adopter consumer categories (Rogers 1995), building greater public consent to sustainability policies is crucial to the continued success of energy entrepreneurship. Geopolitical factors surrounding energy security may rein-force the case for continuing to support entrepreneurship in the renewable power sector.
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Thacker, Scott. « Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems ». Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e7313c-0967-47e3-becc-2e7da376f745.
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Infrastructure network systems support society and the economy by facilitating the distribution of essential services across broad spatial extents, at a range of scales. The complex and interdependent nature of these systems provides the conditions for which localised failures can dramatically cascade, resulting in disruptions that are widespread and very often unforeseen. This systemic vulnerability has been highlighted multiple times over the previous decades in infrastructures systems from around the world. In the future, the hazards to which infrastructure systems are exposed are set to grow with increasing extreme event risks caused by climate change. The aim of this thesis is to develop methodology and analysis for understanding and reducing the risk of failure of national interdependent infrastructure network systems. This study introduces multi-scale, system-of-systems based methodology and applied analysis that provides important new insights into interdependent infrastructure network risk and adaptation. Adopting a complex network based approach; real-world asset data is integrated from the energy, transport, water, waste and digital communications sectors to represent the physical interconnectivity that exists within and between interdependent infrastructure systems. Given the often limited scope of real-world datasets, an algorithm is presented that is used to synthesise missing network data, providing continuous network representations that preserve the most salient spatial and topological properties of real multi-level infrastructure systems. Using the resultant network representations, the criticality of individual assets is calculated by summing the direct and indirect customer disruptions that can occur in the event of failure. This is achieved by disrupting sets of functional service flow pathways that transcend sectorial and operational boundaries, providing long-range connectivity between service originating source nodes and customer allocated sink nodes. Kernel density estimation is used to integrate discrete asset criticality values into a continuous surface from which statistically significant infrastructure geographical criticality hotspots are identified. Finally, a business case is presented for investment in infrastructure adaptation, where adaptation costs are compared to the reduction in expected damages that arise from interdependency related failures over an assets lifetime. By representing physical and geographic interdependence at a range of scales, this analysis provides new evidence to inform the targeting of investments to reduce risks and enhance system resilience. It is concluded that the research presented within this thesis provides new theoretical insights and practical techniques for a range of academic, industrial and governmental infrastructure stakeholders, from the UK and beyond.
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Selman, Paul Harry. « An approach to the assessment of the agricultural impacts of coal mining ». Thesis, University of Stirling, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1787.
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Contentions that expansion of the British coal mining industry into predominantly rural areas may pose serious threats to agriculture and food production are reviewed in the light of the available evidence. It is considered that, whilst the severity of impacts and rate of future development may have been overstated, the conflicts are sufficiently significant to warrant close examination. Further, land use planners are responding for the first time to mining proposals affecting entire coalfields, thus making it essential to establish the correct principles of development from the outset. It is noted that past assessments of agricultural impacts have failed to reflect their diverse and pervasive nature, thus necessitating the identification of more appropriate methods of forecasting. In the light of current weaknesses in practice, it is argued that a formal system of impact assessment may prove necessary. Those characteristics of mining operations and associated end-uses which are likely to affect agriculture are analysed, as are those aspects of the farm enterprise most vulnerable to disruption. These various characteristics are then used as a basis for the assessment of mining-agriculture impacts. A review of the strategic nature of impacts arising from mining programmes is considered desirable, and limited proposals are made regarding assessment at this scale. More detailed consideration is given to an appraisal framework for individual mining proposals, and this is tested in relation to part of the 'Vale of Belvoirl coalfield. It is concluded that, although further methodological refinements and field investigations are necessary, the early implementation of an impact assessment procedure is nevertheless justified.
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Topouzi, Marina. « Occupants' interaction with low-carbon retrofitted homes and its impact on energy use ». Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ac363b69-c414-4ef8-875a-ada6a9867f8f.
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Current regulatory and other policy trends in housing refurbishment relating to low-carbon performance standards tend to involve complex technologies and systems as well as innovative solutions to achieve 80% emissions reduction in line with the UK national target for 2050. Indicators of domestic energy performance tend to assume ideal performance of materials, complex systems and services, and that they are installed to high standards and under specific conditions, as well as rational occupant behaviour and interactions. Previous studies exploring the influence of socio-technical factors on the UK's domestic energy use highlight that one of the main reasons for under-performance of individual projects is the lack of understanding of how people interact with domestic technology. Considering this, and given that there is still little evidence on deep refurbishments that implement low-carbon 'whole house' approaches in the UK, this research explored occupants' interaction with heating and ventilation measures as these were designed, installed and operated. The main concern was to identify the type of interactions that occur between occupants (social housing tenants) and building systems (mainly low-carbon heating and ventilation systems), and how that influences actual energy use. Using a sample of 26 social housing properties involved in the Retrofit for the Future competition in the UK, the study employed an socio-technical mixed methods approach, in which qualitative and quantitative empirical data were explored together, cross-checking occupants' 'doings' and 'sayings'. A combination of theories was used to analyse the complex interrelated factors involved in users' interaction with building systems. The analysis identifies key factors that affect significantly occupants' everyday practices and their interactions with the new measures: thermal comfort and pastexperiences with measures and controls; knowledge and skills (of both occupants and those involved in the project); design of the technical interventions (systems/measures) and quality of their installation. The findings from this research showed that active measures (such as intelligent and conventional heating controls, MVHR boosters, etc.) fostered direct interaction with active users when there were no design or installation faults. On the contrary, low-carbon measures that are designed and installed to be passive (such as MVHR systems operation) tend, in practice, to involve indirect interactions with active users. The research findings provide an insight into the 'in-use' factors, demonstrating to policy makers and implementers of mass refurbishment programmes the need for a framework where critical combinations of different measures and design solutions are targeted on specific house types, locations and households, in order to achieve maximum savings. Higher standards in installation of the new measures and improved quality control are also found to be a key part of refurbishment policies.
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Kök-Kalaycı, İrem. « Politics of transparency : contested spaces of corporate responsibility, science and regulation in shale gas projects of the UK and the US ». Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:79f34c61-709d-44f1-ae1c-c298cd4cb07c.
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This thesis presents a political geography of transparency, regulation and resource making in shale gas projects in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). The emergence of shale gas as a politically and economically desirable resource occupied national political aspirations, most notably in the US and to some extent in the UK, for reasons of energy security and economic development. Although shale gas has become a globally desirable resource, this thesis shows that the resource is not same everywhere. Following knowledge making practices in distinct regulatory regimes of the UK and the US, I trace how making of shale gas resource is subjected to contestation in a range of technical fields, such as law, economics, geosciences and environmental impact assessment. The study is based on in-depth analysis of technical and policy documents, and interviews with a wide range of actors (i.e. regulators, gas companies, investors, scientists, landowners), and field visits in the US (New York, Pennsylvania and Texas) and the UK (Lancashire, Litchfield and London). Drawing on theoretical insights from the Science and Technology Studies (STS), legal and resource geographies, I empirically showed that both regulatory practices and resource materialities matter in encapsulating making of shale gas projects in different national contexts. Documenting how information production and its contestation is entangled with assemblages of materials and technologies, as well as regulatory, geoscientific and market interventions in the context of the UK and the US, this thesis offers an alternative account of the geography of transparency and regulation regarding the development of shale gas policies. The political viability of shale projects depends on how these informational spaces are generated, contested and transformed in nationally specific scientific practices and regulatory regimes.
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Hermans, Renee Elisabeth Maria. « Impact of forest-to-bog restoration on greenhouse gas fluxes ». Thesis, University of Stirling, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27319.
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Large areas of northern peatlands have been drained and afforested in the second half of the 20th century with significant impacts on important ecosystem services, including loss of biodiversity and potential changes in C storage. A considerable effort is currently invested into restoring original peatland function and ecosystem services, with an increasing area of newly restored peatland areas over recent years. However, the effect of restoration on the greenhouse gas (GHG) budget is unknown. This study is the first quantification of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes from forest-to-bog restoration sites spanning 0 to 17 years in age. Further, the impact of afforestation on peat decomposition is measured in situ, and the impact of afforestation on the biochemical composition of the peat in relation to CO2 and CH4 fluxes is investigated. Results show that forest-to-bog restoration is successful from a GHG perspective, since all three major GHG fluxes of the restoration sites are changing along the chronosequence towards the fluxes from near pristine bog sites. The peat decomposition rate under the forest plantations is a big part of the total soil respiration at 126.8 ± 14.7 g C m-2 y-1 (44% of total soil CO2 efflux) and our results indicate a slowing down of peat decomposition towards the near pristine bog. CH4 fluxes increase with restoration age, whilst all sites remain a small sink for N2O. I observed changes in peat quality and nutrient availability in the pore water under forests. Different CO2 fluxes between vegetation-free peat cores from different sites for the same temperature and water level show that these differences in peat quality and nutrient availability shape the biogeochemical processes in the peatlands. However only small differences in CH4 fluxes between sites were evident, suggesting that on its own (and in absence of biotic interactions under field conditions), forestry effects on CH4 flux are limited.
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Jenkins, Kirsten. « Discourses of energy justice : the case of nuclear energy ». Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10255.
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The energy sector faces sustainability challenges that are re-working the established patterns of energy supply, distribution and consumption (Anderson et al. 2008; Haas et al. 2008; Stern 2008; Shove and Walker 2010). Amidst these challenges, socio-technical energy transitions frameworks have evolved that focus on transitions towards decarbonised, sustainable energy systems (Bridge et al. 2013). However, the ‘socio-‘ or social is typically missing as we confront climate and energy risks in a moral vacuum (Sovacool et al. 2016). The energy justice framework provides a structure to think about such energy dilemmas. However, the full extent and diversity of justice implications within the energy system have been neglected. Thus, borrowing from and advancing the framework this research explores how energy justice is being articulated with attention to three emergent areas of growth, the themes of: (1) time, (2) systems component and (3) actor. It does so through a case study of nuclear energy, which was chosen because of its points of enquiry with regards to these three areas of growth, and its historical and on-going importance in the UK energy mix. Using results from 36 semi-structured interviews with non-governmental organisations and policy actors across two case studies representative of the nuclear energy stages of energy production and of waste storage, disposal and reprocessing – the Hinkley Point and Sellafield nuclear complexes – this research presents new insights within each of these previously identified areas of development. It offers the contributions of (1) facility lifecycles, (2) systems approaches and (3) the question of ‘justice by whom?' and concludes that the energy justice framework can aid energy decision-making in a way that not only mitigates the environmental impacts of energy via socio-technical change, but also does so in an ethically defensible, socially just, way.
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STATHAM, Paul. « Pressing matters : environmental organisations, public communication strategies and media discourse in contemporary Britain ». Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5391.
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Defence date: 17 May 1996Examining board: Prof. Klaus Eder, EUI, supervisor ; prof. Bernd Giesen, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen ; Prof. Christian Joppke, EUI ; Dr. David Morrison, University of Leeds ; Prof. William Outwhaite, University of Sussex
First made available online: 23 September 2016
Livres sur le sujet "Harbors – Great Britain – Environmental aspects"
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Great Britain. Department of Transport. Assessing the environmental impact of road schemes. London : H.M.S.O., 1992.
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Environmental Analysis Co-operative (Great Britain), dir. Released substances and their dispersion in the environment : Guidance for applicants for process authorisation under integrated pollution control. London : HMSO, 1996.
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Philip, Lowe, dir. Moralizing the environment : Countryside change, farming and pollution. London : UCL Press, 1997.
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Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry. Guidelines for the environmental assessment of cross-country piplines. London : HMSO, 1992.
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Ward, Colin. Goodnight campers ! : The history of the British holiday camp. London : Mansell Pub., 1986.
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Eden, Sally. Environmental issues and business : Implications of a changing agenda. Chichester : John Wiley, 1996.
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Conrad, Jobst. Nitrate pollution and politics : Great Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Netherlands. Aldershot, Hants., England : Avebury, 1990.
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Scotland. Environment and Rural Affairs Dept. Environment Group. Mineral extraction : Code of practice for the owners and operators of quarries and other mineral extraction sites : Groundwater Regulations 1998. Edinburgh : Scottish Executive Environment Group, 2003.
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Eddington, Rod. The Eddington transport study : The case for action : Sir Rod Eddington's advice to government. London : Stationery Office, 2006.
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Eddington, Rod. The Eddington transport study : Main report : transport's role in sustaining the UK's productivity and competitiveness. Norwich : TSO, 2006.
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