Special issue on “Green chemical process and intensification”

Special issue on green radio

Society has grown increasingly aware of the need to reduce CO2 emissions in order to mitigate consequential environmental effects. The primary contributors to CO2 emissions are electric power generation, transport, and manufacturing. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at present contributes a non-negligible 3% of world-wide energy consumption, which in turn causes about 2% of the w...

Second Special Issue on Green Networking and Computing

Optimization and reduction of energy consumption and the environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions are among the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century. Such challenges call for significant research to be carried out in order to develop new technologies that can enable a transition towards a more energy efficient society, leading to a reduced carbon footprint. Information and...

Special Issue: "Organic Reactions in Green Solvents".

To overcome the well-established drawbacks of conventional organic solvents (toxicity, non-biodegradability, flammability, accumulation in the atmosphere) remarkable research efforts have been recently devoted to the replacement of traditional organic reaction media by the so-called Green Solvents. In this sense, the choice of a safe, non-toxic, biorenewable and cheap reaction media is a crucia...

Special Issue on Sustainability Assessment: Developing ‘Green Thinking’ Towards Sustainability

During the last two decades academic and political discussions about the potential of environmental innovations to meet grand challenges have increased. With the topic's greater popularity, the discussion has become more substantial and dedicated to the elements of environmental innovations. During the 1990s one could understand environmental innovation as a new buzzword frequently referenced b...

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