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The Embodied Energy of Building Envelopes: Filling the Environmental Gap in Ene...

The Energy performance certificates (EPCs) are an integral part of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) and should have an essential role in enhancing the energy performance of buildings. For this reason, further improvements to EPCs might be necessary. Nowadays, contractors can refurbish building envelopes without providing environmental benefits. This paper emphasizes the need to track the env...

Empowering non-academic staff for the implementation of sustainability in highe...

Sustainability within higher education institutions (HEIs) is a well-established topic in the literature. Many fields of education for sustainable development have been explored, mainly focused on HEI students, as well as on academic staff. The technical, administrative, and management staff, referred to as non-academic staff has not received as much attention as the remaining HEI community, which leaves a gap ...

Da inseminação contra legem ao nascimento extemporâneo – o (des)equilíbrio da l...

Com a presente dissertação temos por objetivo analisar as prerrogativas jurídico-sucessórias relacionadas com o nascimento de um filho póstumo do autor da sucessão, por via da técnica de Inseminação Artificial post mortem. A admissibilidade da técnica em análise, ou neste caso, a sua falta, tem sido palco de discussão a nível nacional, motivando a que os partidos políticos se unificassem no sentido de quebrar a...

Reducing Rural Fire Risk through the Development of a Sustainable Supply Chain ...

In the European Mediterranean region, rural fires are a widely known problem that cause serious socio-economic losses and undesirable environmental consequences, including the loss of lives, infrastructures, cultural heritage, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and the provisioning of raw materials. In the last decades, the collapse of the traditional rural socioeconomic systems that once chara...

Assessment of Woody Residual Biomass Generation Capacity in the Central Region ...

Biomass is an alternative energy source with high potential to contribute to the global energy mix and to countries’ energetic independence. The case of Portugal is particularly relevant, given its biomass availability. Thus, the quantification of woody residual biomass is assumed to be urgent. To achieve the objective of quantifying residual woody biomass, various available data were used, namely the Land Cove...

Residual Biomass: A Comprehensive Review on the Importance, Uses and Potential ...

The paradigm shift towards sustainable growth is urgent, and biomass, which is the oldest energy source that humans have used since the discovery of fire, might play an important role. Biomass waste from forestry and agriculture is expected to fuel part of the increasing demand for biomass, and its valorization allows for more the efficient use of nutrients and resources. In this study, we carried out an extens...

Ecological footprint reduction recommendations for higher education Iistitutions

How to integrate sustainability teaching and learning in higher education Insti...

Fighting climate change with circular economy

(Excerpt) Climate change has been internationally recognized as a global problem, caused by human action and intensified by national development. Global warming is its most known effect, affecting agricultural activity, increasing drought periods, and causing serious health conditions in worldwide population. Initiatives such as the IPCC have been established to prevent and mitigate climate change and global wa...

‘Greening’ the hospitality and restaurants industry

While the impact of tourism on the environment has now been widely discussed in the literature, there is not much knowledge about the environmental orientation of firms in the tourism sectors. Are tourism firms active in what concerns adoption of environmental innovations? How these eco-innovations articulate with other forms of innovation? Are the firms in these sectors being pressured to ‘...