Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 29 Issue 4

Waste management system in the clothing industry in Santa Catarina State Brazil: An initial overview

Jeferson Correia, Ana Júlia Dal Forno, Cintia Marangoni, José Alexandre Borges Valle

The purpose of this paper is to identify and diagnosis waste management practices used by clothing manufacturing companies in Santa Catarina state Brazil.

Supplying water to the urban poor: Processes and challenges of community-based water governance in Dhaka city

Md Masud Parves Rana, Awais Piracha

The purpose of this paper is to explore the processes and complexities of community participation in a water supply project for the urban informal poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

An indicator of urban morphology for landscape planning in Lombardy (Italy)

Silvia Ronchi, Stefano Salata, Andrea Arcidiacono

The spatial development of urban areas affects the characteristics of landscape as well as people’s aesthetic perception of it. Specifically, sprawl results in an urban morphology…

Contribution of the lessons learned from oil refining accidents to the industrial risks assessment

Chettouh Samia, Rachida Hamzi, Mourad Chebila

The purpose of this paper is to employ lessons learned from the industrial accidents in Skikda refinery during the period from 2005 to 2016 as input data for the numerical…

Sustainable forest management in Poland

Bartosz Bartniczak, Andrzej Raszkowski

The purpose of this paper is to analyse sustainable forest management in Poland in the years 2009-2015. The concept of sustainable development itself has also been analysed as the…

Power-aware workload allocation for green data centers

Louma Ahmad Chaddad, Ali Chehab, Imad Elhajj, Ayman Kayssi

The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to reduce energy consumption in data centers. Subsequently, it reduces electricity bills and carbon dioxide footprints…

Application of theory of planned behaviour to households’ source separation behaviour in Ghana

Hamdiyah Alhassan, Felix Ankomah Asante, Martin Oteng-Ababio, Simon Bawakyillenuo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that encourage households’ source separation behaviour in Accra and Tamale Metropolises in Ghana.

Daylighting and energy performance design for single floor commercial hall buildings

Francesco De Luca, Raimo Simson, Hendrik Voll, Jarek Kurnitski

Electric lighting accounts for a large share of energy consumption in commercial buildings. Utilization of daylight can significantly help to reduce the need for artificial…

Developing and analyzing framework for understanding the effects of GSCM on green and economic performance: Perspective of a developing country

Waqar Ahmed, Waqar Ahmed, Arsalan Najmi

The concept of green supply chain management (GSCM) is gaining popularity in developing countries due to the environmental and economic impact along with increasing awareness of…

Quantity and monetary value of agrochemical pollution from intensive farming in Indonesia

Joko Mariyono, Apri Kuntariningsih, Enny Suswati, Tom Kompas

The purpose of this paper is to measure the environmental performance of intensive farming and estimate agrochemical waste in physical and monetary terms. The intensive farming…

What group of humic substances determines colour of unpolluted river water? Case study from two different rivers of North-Western Russia

Alexandra Rizhinashvili

There is no clear answer to the question as to what kind of humic substances (HSs) (fulvic acids (FAs) or humic acids (HAs)) is primarily responsible for colour of water in water…