Sustainability of Energy Resources

Sustainability of Linguistic Resources

This paper describes a new research initiative addressing the issue of sustainability of linguistic resources. This initiative is a cooperation between three linguistic collaborative research centres in Germany, which comprise more than 40 individual research projects altogether. These projects are involved in creating manifold language resources, especially corpora, tailored to their particula...

Sustainability of common pool resources

Sustainability has become a key issue in managing natural resources together with growing concerns for capitalism, environmental and resource problems. We hypothesize that the ongoing modernization of competitive societies, which we refer to as "capitalism," affects human nature for utilizing common pool resources, thus compromising sustainability. To test this hypothesis, we design and impleme...

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability

Prioritizing Renewable Energy Resources of Hormozgan Province

Energy as a geopolitical factor has gained a special occasion in power games of the world and access to energy resources has become a strategic importance for all levels of hierarchy of global power. Hormozgan province is one of the industrial provinces of Iran and this subject has caused to has been growing energy consumption in the province. Limited fossil energy resources and the problems of...

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Waste to Energy Technologies in Iran

Introduction: Current energy sources are coming to end and one of the main priorities of the country’s management is the energy recovery from renewable energy. Considerable quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the most serious urban pollution sources. Impact assessment matrix is a new and fast tool for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Materials and Methods: In this regard, r...