Assessment of Land Use Ecological Footprint in an Iranian Small City

assessment of land use ecological footprint in an iranian small city

the ecological footprint as an indicator estimates the effect of population and industrial products process on ecosystem by evaluating and calculating the used energy and materials in a city, region or country. dehgolan county is located in kurdistan province between hamadan and sanandaj cities. dehgolan is one of the important and effective counties of kurdistan in agriculture. however, with t...

Sustainability of environmental management in Iran: An ecological footprint analysis

ABSTRACT- Sustainability and environmental management are the most cited ideas linking the environment and development. The sustainability of natural resources depends upon our paradigm and related approaches to the relationship between society and the environment. Efficient management is a primary task due to the pressure on nature. Ecological footprint analysis has been intro...

An urban metabolism and ecological footprint assessment of Metro Vancouver.

As the world urbanizes, the role of cities in determining sustainability outcomes grows in importance. Cities are the dominant form of human habitat, and most of the world's resources are either directly or indirectly consumed in cities. Sustainable city analysis and management requires understanding the demands a city places on a wider geographical area and its ecological resource base. We pre...

City as an Ecological Space: Social Capital and Urban Land Use, The

Ecological footprint accounting in the life cycle assessment of products

Mark A.J. Huijbregts⁎, Stefanie Hellweg, Rolf Frischknecht, Konrad Hungerbühler, A. Jan Hendriks Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland ecoinvent Centre, Empa, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Institute for Chemicaland Bioengineering, ETH Zuri...

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...