Recycling

Recycling of abandoned waste bottom ash has been a key issue in Republic of Korea in terms of environmental protection as well as economic concern. In this work, a method for recycling of abandoned bottom ash has been discussed based on the …

Trust plays a critical role in determining social welfare in the digital economy and has significant socioeconomic implications. To investigate the relationship between trust and social welfare in this context, we developed a social welfare …

Every year, up to 0.3 million tonnes of waste from the European shipping industry is not properly delivered at ports. Most of the waste produced by the shipping industry is plastic waste, putting plastics at the forefront of the shipping …

This work investigates the combined use of waste glass aggregates (GA) and glass powder (GP) in cementitious mortars. For this reason, the optimized incorporation of GA by natural aggregates (NA) replacements was first studied after applying a …

Next let us consider the second paradigm—“The Limited Earth.” The problems caused by the fact that the Earth is limited are far-reaching. These include not only energy, resources, global warming, air pollution, water pollution, ground pollution, food

This chapter reviews existing research on the strategies employed by SMOs that target companies and underlines that existing research has not sufficiently addressed the issue: How can SMOs positioned on the periphery of an industry change …

In March 2019, many Metro Manila residents were shocked to find that their water faucets had suddenly run dry. The water supply crisis that hit Metro Manila, the worst it had experienced in a decade, was indicative of “water stress” which is …

This chapter provides an overview of the climate emergency as a global movement and as a local reality in the Philippines. Citing the different sections of the book, it discusses how the changing climate drastically impacts multiple sectors in …