Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 24 Issue 5

Sustainability strategies of the company TimorL: extending the applicability of legitimacy theory

Teresa Pereira Eugénio, Isabel Costa Lourenço, Ana Isabel Morais

This study aims to identify the legitimacy strategies employed by one of the largest Portuguese cement companies to defend and downplay its sustainability performance and…

GIS based environmental decision support system for municipal landfill site selection

Anurag Ohri, Prabhat Kumar Singh

A GIS based environmental decision support system for municipal solid waste management under Indian socio‐economic and regulatory conditions, named as EDSS‐MSWI has been…

Can environmental performance rating programmes succeed in Africa? An evaluation of Ghana's AKOBEN project

Adowa Boatemaa Darko‐Mensah, Chukwumerije Okereke

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse Ghana's AKOBEN programme which is the first environmental performance rating and public disclosure programme in Africa…

Optimization of wastewater treatment technology selection using hybrid MCDM

M. Ilangkumaran, V. Sasirekha, L. Anojkumar, G. Sakthivel, M. Boopathi Raja, T. Ruban Sundara Raj, CNS. Siddhartha, P. Nizamuddin, S. Praveen Kumar

This paper aims to describe an application of hybrid Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) technique for the selection of wastewater treatment (WWT) technology for treating…

Evaluation of quality of air, water and noise in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh (India)

Khursheed Ahmad Wani, K. Mamta, R.J. Rao

The first approach mainly aims at measurement of SPM, SO2 and NO2 from different sources in the Gwalior region and the second and third approach aims at the quantification of…

Development of a biomass heating device for low energy and passive houses

Manuel Schwabl, Markus Schwarz, Franz Figl, Lara Carvalho, Martin Staudinger, Wolfgang Kalb, Christoph Schmidl, Walter Haslinger

Decreasing energy demand due to improved building standards requires the development of new biomass combustion technologies to be able to provide individual biomass heating…

Assessment of the applicability of the Pay As You Throw system into current waste management in Estonia

Viktoria Voronova, Kristjan Piirimäe, Mailis Virve

This paper aims to assess the current waste management situation in Estonian municipalities and outlines the main constraints hindering the implementation of the Pay‐As‐You‐Throw…

Impacts of heat recovery ventilators on energy savings and indoor radon level

Keramatollah Akbari, Robert Oman

This paper aims to investigate the impact of heat recovery ventilators (HRVs) on the energy use and indoor radon in a one family detached house. Heat recovery ventilation systems…

IEA report – "Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2013"

Editorial

Walter Leal Filho

"Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets"

Energy Access Practitioner Network newsletter features solar energy in Africa, access in Asia

Diary

Earth Economics – An Introduction to Demand Management, Long-Run Growth and Global Economic Governance

Environmental Governance In Europe – A Comparative Analysis of New Environmental Policy Instruments

Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Research Atlas

UNDP report calls for US$113 billion investment to relieve Asia-Pacific energy poverty by 2030

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launches Centre for Water for Sustainable Development and Climate Change Adaptation

Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) launches enquiry on well-being

Innovation Development for Highly Energy-Efficient Housing: Opportunities and Challenges Related to the Adoption of Passive Houses

Planning Sustainable Transport

Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa