environmental impacts
Assessing environmental impacts using a comparative LCA of industrial and artisanal production processes: “Minas Cheese” case
... There are some differences between the use of inputs, such as raw materials and energy, in the artisanal and the industrial manufacturing of this kind of cheese. Calcium chloride is not used in the artisanal process ...
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Assessing the life cycle environmental impacts of wind power: A review of present knowledge and research needs
... of environmental impacts, focusing not only on cumulative energy demand and GHG emissions [5–7], but on a wider set of impact categories assessed in the LCA literature; (ii) discussing impor- tant aspects ...
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Diversity of cetaceans as tool in monitoring environmental impacts of seismic surveys
... Species diversity has proven to be an excellent tool for the analysis of environmental impacts (e.g. Myers 1989, Gaston 2000, Weitzman 1993). However, variation in cetacean diversity measured using ...
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Environmental impacts of urban sprawl in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
... INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERUTILIZATION One of the most costly impacts of urban sprawl identified in the literature is infrastructure, keeping in mind that this is offered, almost entirely, by the Government. Scattered ...
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Environmental impacts and nutrient recycling on pastures grazed by cattle
... practices may involve bringing new land under agriculture or intensively farming existing land. Both systems can have drastic adverse impact on consumptive use and quality of water resources (Lal and Stewart, 1994). From ...
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Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest Management Certification in Indonesia.
... Because the sustainability of the FSC certification largely depends on the involvement of the local communities, it is important the program generates benefits to them [20]. We find that, compared to the villages in ...
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Social and environmental impacts of the Brazilian wind energy market
... Em razão da curta história do aproveitamento eólico no Brasil, estudos para avaliação mais aprofundada dos impactos socioambientais devem ser realizados com apoio de recurs[r] ...
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HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT IN THE AMAZON AND SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS ON FISHERMEN IN FERREIRA GOMES COUNTY – AMAPÁ STATE
... and environmental impacts on fishermen living in Ferreira Gomes ...These impacts resulted in serious issues such as increased social vulnerability in the fishing process as sustainable economic ...
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Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, Perfil de Engenharia em Sistemas Ambientais Orientador: Doutor Rui Jorge Fernandes Ferreira dos Santos, Professor Associado com Agregação da FCT- UNL Co-orientador: Doutor Francisco Ma
... There is a plethora of adverse environmental impacts related to the current methods of producing electricity. Aside from the massive amount of emissions released every year by power plants, as discussed in ...
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Characterization of the shale gas production: A case study in a sector of the Lusitanian Basin ]
... The study area in a sector of Lusitanian Basin is focused on a region where both surface water and groundwater already have some level of contamination and, therefore, the exploitation of shale gas would increase the ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE BRAZILIAN AGRARIAN REFORM PROCESS FROM 1985 TO 2001
... of environmental impacts, shows significant re- gional variation, with lower values for the North and Northeast of Brazil, intermediate values for the Cen- tral-west and Southeast, and high values for the ...
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Resolving Conflicts between Agriculture and the Natural Environment.
... agriculture’s environmental costs is ...over environmental issues that lack immediate returns for the public ...demanding environmental policies [30,31], and tailoring policies appropriate for the ...
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Braz. J. Chem. Eng. vol.26 número3
... the environmental impacts resulting from methane, whose impact is approximately twenty times higher than that of the carbon dioxide regarding the contribution to the increased greenhouse effect (Evans, ...
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Desempenho ambiental de uma estação de tratamento de esgoto em escala real aplicando a Avaliação de Ciclo de Vida
... Ov er the WWTP’s life cycle the greatest environmental impacts contributing were as follows: the final effluent, operation and, to a lesser extent, the construction. The most relevant impact for the ...
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Rev. Esc. Minas vol.66 número4
... the environmental impacts caused by mining activities and suggest options that would allow the establishment of mitigation measures for these impacts, the feasibility of the technical and economic ...
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... possible environmental impacts caused by the corresponding ...beneits, environmental protection and better working ...and environmental management, environmental aspects and ...
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Hidrovia Tocantins-Araguaia: importância e impactos econômicos, sociais e ambientais...
... The present study aims to evaluate the perception of potential users of the Tocantins-Araguaia Waterway concerning the possibility of economic, social and environmental impacts in 7 mu[r] ...
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Capture techniques’ use of Caranguejo-uçá crabs (Ucides cordatus) in Paraíba state (northeastern Brazil) and its socio-environmental implications
... negative impacts on mangrove ecosystems and specifically on ...socio-environmental impacts produced by the redinha technique based on the view of two ...known impacts, and in the investigation ...
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Impact of maintenance of Macrobrachium rosenbergii De Man, 1879 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) broodstock on the water used in culture ponds
... the impacts caused by the maintenance of broodstock of the giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) on the physical and chemical characteristics of the water used in culture ponds, and b) to evaluate the ...
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The State of Alaska's early experience with institutionalization of health impact assessment
... National Environmental Policy Act 1969 (NEPA) requires that federal agencies prepare a state- ment of environmental impacts (EIA/EIS) whenever a proposed development project could significantly ...
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