Diverting organic waste from landfills provides significant emissions benefits in addition to preserving landfill capacity and creating value-added energy compost products. Dry anaerobic digestion (AD) is particularly attractive for managing the fraction of municipal solid because its high-solids composition minimal water requirements. This study utilizes empirical data operational facilities C...

Education, Benefitting from Oil Revenues, and Sustainable Development A. Ansari, Ph.D. To assess the status of Iranian educational system within a special conceptual framework of economic development, a number of existing documents related to the expenditure of oil revenues on education were critically reviewed. The results show that within any economic framework in which sustainable deve...

This paper presents the Shopping Assistant, the prototype of a platform which provides personalized advertisements, ontology based product recommendations and user support to find a (non–web) store selling desired products. The benefits are satisfied consumers, better advertising revenues and fine grained TV usage statistics which enable broadcasters to provide a more user centric program compo...

the aim of the present paper was to assess the maximum biochemical methane potential (bmp) of municipal solid waste. a fresh stock of the biodegradable fraction of municipal solid waste was composed based on the typical composition of biodegradable waste disposed at the landfill. bmp tests were performed under controlled conditions. the cumulative methane generation profile was corrected for me...

At the beginning of year, consolidated budgets subjects Russian Federation were executed in conditions continued sanctions pressure on regional economy. Organizational and administrative innovations had a significant impact process budget revenue formation (enactment payment taxes using single tax account, cancellation income within groups taxpayers, introduction an accelerated procedure for re...

Previous studies highlight the winners and losers in fisheries under climate change based on shifts in biomass, species composition and potential catches. Understanding how climate change is likely to alter the fisheries revenues of maritime countries is a crucial next step towards the development of effective socio-economic policy and food sustainability strategies to mitigate and adapt to cli...

The paper analyzes the ways of commercialization agricultural land in Krasnodar Krai. same mechanism supply and demand operates market as all other markets. main factors stabilization growth are considered. dynamics changes average indicators lease is presented. Proposals have been made for enforcement rights municipalities to register huge areas ownerless, uncultivated shared ownership under m...

This paper describes a pilot recycling programme in Quito and the factors associated with residents’ participation in separating their wastes. This municipal programme extended garbage collection to previously unserved neighbourhoods through micro-enterprises formed by residents which provided separate collection services (on different days) for organic (compostable), recyclable and non-recycla...

according to resource curse theory, not only the revenues from selling natural resources do not result in economic growth, but also have some unpleasant effects on economy. this study shows that natural resources cannot be considered curse by itself , but it is the management of revenues which is important. the foreign reserves fund was established to control the effects of oil price volatiliti...

Local governments are particularly relevant to people’s daily lives as they manage infrastructure and services that directly influence quality of life. Elected mayors tend to be more responsive to the needs of the poor majority than centrally-appointed mayors or mayors elected by fellow councillors. Colombia’s municipal mayors have been elected since 1988, with local governments given increased...