In the context of smart sustainable cities, advanced digital networks are crucial to urban operational functioning and planning due to the interrelationships between urban components and domains that are too many to catalogue (transport, mobility, communication, building, energy, environment, water, waste, land use, healthcare, etc).
Expanding marketplace interactions with both recyclables and waste, significant land use and transportation effects, technological advances and progressive ideas about ways to reduce waste-generation and export costs all support the need for a czar with broad vision and authority to craft a long-term plan.
He provided cost-benefit data that underpinned his organization's pronouncements on issues ranging from forestry and fisheries to biodiversity, solid waste and land use.
I've spent a huge amount of time over the past couple of years delving into the innovation pipeline for all the key technology areas on which our sustainable future depends: energy, water, waste management, land use, resources and so on.
Understanding the behaviour of major ions and trace elements in the unsaturated zone is a major important tool that can be employed in the prediction of pollutant migration, transmission and implications for groundwater, especially in growing cities and communities such as Abloradjei which struggle with problems of environmental contamination, waste storage, land use and water supply.
The main sources of water contamination include indiscriminate disposal of domestic, industrial and municipal solid and liquid wastes; improper land use; poor agricultural practices and environmental degradation within the watershed catchment.
Packaging actually protects the environment and conserves resources, when you consider that "globally, about a third of the food produced for human consumption goes to waste -- which means that the water, land use, energy and financial resources that went into producing it are also squandered," notes author Kristin Heist.
They can implement policies which can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in sectors like transport, waste, agriculture and land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF).
The paper goes on to identify the issues facing construction in meeting the sustainable development agenda; these include efficient use of natural resources, reducing energy consumption, reducing emissions, minimizing waste, more efficient land use, reducing the impact on construction sites and creating better employment conditions.
At the same time, oil-shale mining and processing raise a number of environmental concerns, such as land use, waste disposal, water use, waste-water management, greenhouse-gas emissions and air pollution.
Singh et al. (2011) indicated that the vermicompost produced from municipal waste is a significant option for solid waste management prior to land use.
