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pro vyhledávání: '"Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA)"'
Autor:
Hukum Singh, Naveen Kalra, Manjeet Singh, Rajiv Pandey, Manoj Kumar, Savita, N. H. Ravindranath
Publikováno v:
Biodiversity and Conservation. 28:2163-2182
The Himalayan ecosystem is one of the sensitive and fragile ecosystems with rich biodiversity that provides major ecosystem services. The study was conducted to measure the extent of vulnerability across forested grids of Uttarakhand—one of the Sta
Autor:
T. V. Ramachandra, Deepthi Hebbale
Burgeoning dependence on fossil fuels for transport and industrial sectors has been posing challenges such as depletion of fossil fuel reserves, enhanced greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint, with the imminent changes in the climate, etc. This has necessit
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Forests are one of the major sources of livelihood that need to be conserved. In India, there have been continuous efforts to evolve a scientific basis for sustainable management of forests. In recent century, this has primarily been addressed throug
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Publikováno v:
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy. 35:285-293
The potential of bioreactor landfills to treat mechanically biologically treated municipal solid waste is analysed in this study. Developing countries like India and China have begun to investigate bioreactor landfills for municipal solid waste manag
Publikováno v:
Heliyon
Heliyon, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp e01372-(2019)
Heliyon, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp e01372-(2019)
Marine macroalgal cell wall is predominantly comprised of cellulose (polysaccharide) with the complex chain of glycosidic linkages. Bioethanol production from macroalgae entails breaking this complex chain into simple glucose molecule, which has been
Publikováno v:
Journal of Building Engineering. 27:100966
Adoption of rammed earth technology in building construction has witnessed a surge during the recent times and hence it is essential to understand the mechanical behavior of rammed earth under various loading conditions. In this study, in-plane shear
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Planning and Development. 144
The introduction of mass transit technologies is increasingly viewed as a feasible solution to mitigate urban traffic congestion in fast growing Indian cities. The type of transit technology selection for a particular city is dilemmatic as it depends
Publikováno v:
Waste Management. 39:63-70
Strength and stiffness properties of municipal solid waste (MSW) are important in landfill design. This paper presents the results of comprehensive testing of shear strength properties of mechanically biologically treated municipal solid waste (MBT-M
Autor:
Sudhakar M. Rao, R Malini
Publikováno v:
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 5:336-340
Nearly 50% of India's population depends on variants of pit-toilet systems for human waste disposal. Nitrate contamination of groundwater by pit-toilet leachate is a major environmental concern in the country as it sources a major proportion (50–80
Publikováno v:
Environmental Earth Sciences. 74:2157-2166
The use of pit-toilets has severely contaminated the groundwater with nitrate ions in Mulbagal town, Karnataka, India. This paper examines the potential of nitrate ions in the pit-toilet effluents to transform to N2O and to escape to atmosphere from