An industrial sector uses more energy than any other end-use sectors and currently this sector is consuming about 37% of the world’s total delivered energy. Energy is consumed in the industrial sector by a diverse group of industries includingmanufacturing, agriculture, mining, and construction and for a wide range of activities, such as processing and assembly, space conditioning, and lighting...

Gabon has received much attention by those promoting forest certification because of its exceptional biological diversity. Because Europe is Gabon’s second market following Asia, the domestic sector has taken interest in forest certification from its German, UK, Belgian and Dutch markets seriously. Located in the West Coast of the Central Africa sub-region, Gabon’s forests cover 20 million hect...

Title of dissertation: COMPETING OR COLLABORATING SIBLINGS? AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE POLICIES Gunjan Sharma, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Roger Betancourt Department of Economics This dissertation investigates the relationship between industrial and trade policies and their impact on firm-level incentives to become more ...

sunflower is one of four main annual oil plants that cultivated in oil and nut varieties. this plant as an important and industrial food product and because of nutritional features and the potential for earning exchange has become a valuable product in foreign and inner markets and has a special position in agricultural sector. khoy, by producing 40 percent of sunflower productions of country a...

Global waste production has raised recently due to numerous agricultural and industrial activities. Among other actions devoted to waste reduction, revaluation seems to be the most advantageous one from an environmental and economic point of view. In the olive oil sector, by-product management (namely olive pomace, olive mill wastewater, and sludge residue) poses serious problems for companies,...

An inventory of chromium emission into the atmosphere and water from anthropogenic activities in China was compiled for 1990 through to 2009. We estimate that the total emission of chromium to the atmosphere is about 1.92×10⁵ t. Coal and oil combustion were the two leading sources of chromium emission to the atmosphere in China, while the contribution of them showed opposite annual growth trend...

This is the first global assessment of nitrogen-related water pollution in river basins with a specification of the pollution by economic sector, and by crop for the agricultural sector. At a spatial resolution of 5 by 5 arc minute, we estimate anthropogenic nitrogen (N) loads to freshwater, calculate the resultant gray water footprints (GWFs), and relate the GWFs per river basin to runoff to c...