The presence of dragonflies and damselflies may be taken as an indication of good ecosystem quality.
The environmental objective function accounts for impacts in ecosystem quality, human health and damage to resources.
Compared to conventional systems, EcoSan can reduce the contribution to ecosystem quality damage by more than 60%.
At the same time, high-density cities also lead to: more pedestrian casualties, urban heat island effects and waste; poorer ecosystem quality; loss of privacy and direct sunlight; and reductions in our physical and mental wellbeing.
This study provides an introduction and a novel view of the impacts of oil refineries industry on human health, ecosystem quality and resources.
Lead poses the most significant risk for cancers; zinc for non-cancer diseases; copper had the largest potential impact on ecosystem quality.
Mobile PV installations with dual-axis trackers show the largest impact potential on ecosystem quality, with more than a factor 2 of difference with other considered installations.
The weighting factors, used by the analysis, expresses the relation between an impact and the amount of damage either to human health or ecosystem quality.
In particular, we focus on the interplay between tourism and ecosystem quality, distinguishing two main tourist typologies – mass and eco-tourists – and taking into account ecosystem quality in terms of ecosystem goods and services, with a time dependent function, and defining a degradation coefficient of tourist site to be used as a bifurcation parameter.
An optimization design based on life cycle assessment for the solar assisted hybrid power gas heat pump system (SHPGHP) is proposed in consideration of three main environmental impact factors: human health, ecosystem quality and resources.
However, assessment by various indicators, such as the grey water footprint, freshwater eutrophication potential and freshwater ecosystem quality, indicated potential increased risks to water quality, largely related to the higher applications of fertilizer associated with maize cropping.
