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Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi, Milenko Tokic

Limited reserves of oil and natural gas and the establishment of new environmental policies sparked off intensive research towards sustainable production of the 2nd generation of biofuels, with Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) being one promising fuel candidate. ...

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Transition of the Swiss Phosphorus System towards a Circular Economy — Part 1: Current State and Historical Developments

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Jonas Ramon Mehr

Current phosphorus (P) use in European countries is highly dependent on mineral P imports and not sustainably managed. In order to identify and implement measures for sustainable P management, a comprehensive understanding of national P flows and stocks an ...

2018

Discovery and Evaluation of Biosynthetic Pathways for the Production of Five Methyl Ethyl Ketone Precursors

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi, Milenko Tokic

The limited supply of fossil fuels and the establishment of new environmental policies shifted research in industry and academia towards sustainable production of the 2nd generation of biofuels, with Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) being one promising fuel candi ...

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The spatial impact of socio-technical transitions – The case of phosphorus recycling as a pilot of the circular economy

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Socio-technical innovations for the recovery of phosphorus (P) from sewage sludge (ashes) and the recycling of the secondary material in the agri-food system have been gaining prominent roles in current debates on circular economy. While research has been ...

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Assessing the sustainability of biofuel production from camelina in Spain, results of the ITAKA project - analysis of GHG emissions

Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet

Purpose With the rapid growth and increased consumption of biofuels worldwide, and the multitude of policy decisions supporting this expansion, growing concerns about the biofuels sustainability have arisen. Therefore, the European project ITAKA, aiming at ...

2018

CHANGE AGENTS ENGAGED IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION IN THE FINNISH FOOD SYSTEM

Food security is a crucial topic in sustainability science. Agricultural land occupies approximately 37–38% of the Earth’s land surface, and about one third of the EU’s environmental impact is caused by the current food system. Further, feeding the world’s ...

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Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez, Pavel Vaskan

Meeting the growing food demand with minimum impact on the environment is a major challenge to face for ensuring a more sustainable food production. To tackle this problem, in this article we present a novel systematic method for agriculture planning that ...

Elsevier2017

Ecosystem services and federalism: a case study of Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

A fundamental element of a federated state is the division of power between a central government and the component states. Switzerland is a federation consisting of twenty-six sovereign states named canton. Each canton has its own government and parliament ...

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Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

The food industry belongs to the most significant economic sectors worldwide. Regarding resource use, human nutrition is responsible for about 30 % of global resource consumption. In order to decrease resource consumption to a level in line with planetary ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Sustainable Food Supply

Simone Lydia Voldrich

In the context of a growing world population, the fundamental need for foodstuff makes a sustainable management of the food supply an imperative. Sustainability issues in the food supply chain range from responsible use of limited resources, safe and secur ...

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