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Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

By: Arjen Meijer

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Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

By: Arjen Meijer

The aim of this thesis is to improve the environmental life cycle assessment methodology for buildings by incorporating damage to the health of occupants of emissions from building materials and local traffic. It also intends to determine the overall impact reduction by building environmentally improved dwellings. This reduction is referred to as the socalled factor X for dwellings. a methodology has been developed to calculate damages to human health caused by pollutants emitted from building materials or from the soil to the indoor environment.

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IOS Press

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1586036904

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The Politics of Crisis Management

By: Arjen Boin,Paul 't Hart,Eric Stern,Bengt Sundelius

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The Politics of Crisis Management

By: Arjen Boin,Paul 't Hart,Eric Stern,Bengt Sundelius

A newly updated edition of a concise and evidence-based approach to strategic crisis leadership.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107118468

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9781107118461

The European Union as Crisis Manager

Patterns and Prospects

By: Arjen Boin,Magnus Ekengren,Mark Rhinard

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The European Union as Crisis Manager

Patterns and Prospects

By: Arjen Boin,Magnus Ekengren,Mark Rhinard

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have to manage such crises? Why and how have these capacities evolved? How do they work and are they effective? This book offers an holistic perspective on EU crisis management. It defines the crisis concept broadly and examines EU capacities across policy sectors, institutions and agencies. The authors describe the full range of EU crisis management capacities that can be used for internal and external crises. Using an institutionalization perspective, they explain how these different capacities evolved and have become institutionalized. This highly accessible volume illuminates a rarely examined and increasingly important area of European cooperation.

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207

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Cambridge University Press

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1107276810

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9781107276819

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

By: Arjen Y. Hoekstra

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The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

By: Arjen Y. Hoekstra

Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. This book shows how the water footprint concept can be used to quantify and map the water use behind consumption and how it can guide reduction of water use to a sustainable level. With a number of case studies, it illustrates water use along supply chains and that water consumption at one place is often linked to water use at another. For example, it is calculated that it takes 15,000 litres of water to produce 1 kg of beef, or 8,000 litres of water to produce a pair of jeans. The book shows that imports of water-intensive products can highly benefit water-scarce countries, but also that this creates a dependency on foreign water resources. The book demonstrates how water-scarce regions sometimes, nevertheless, use lots of water for making export products. It raises the issue of sustainable consumption: how can consumers, businesses and governments get involved in reducing the water footprints of final consumer goods?

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Routledge

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1136457046

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The Water Footprint Assessment Manual

Setting the Global Standard

By: Maite M. Aldaya,Ashok K. Chapagain,Arjen Y. Hoekstra,Mesfin M. Mekonnen

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The Water Footprint Assessment Manual

Setting the Global Standard

By: Maite M. Aldaya,Ashok K. Chapagain,Arjen Y. Hoekstra,Mesfin M. Mekonnen

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. Indirect use refers to the 'virtual water' embedded in tradable goods and commodities, such as cereals, sugar or cotton. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. This book offers a complete and up-to-date overview of the global standard on water footprint assessment as developed by the Water Footprint Network. More specifically it: o Provides a comprehensive set of methods for water footprint assessment o Shows how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses o Contains detailed worked examples of how to calculate green, blue and grey water footprints o Describes how to assess the sustainability of the aggregated water footprint within a river basin or the water footprint of a specific product o Includes an extensive library of possible measures that can contribute to water footprint reduction

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1136538526

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Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

By: Arjen Meijer

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Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

The Politics of Crisis Management

The Politics of Crisis Management

The European Union as Crisis Manager

The European Union as Crisis Manager

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

The Water Footprint Assessment Manual

The Water Footprint Assessment Manual

Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

Improvement of the Life Cycle Assessment Methodology for Dwellings

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