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The swift urbanisation of Indian towns has presented notable obstacles to the long-term viability of agriculture, specifically regarding water supplies. This chapter provides a thorough examination of the use of treated urban wastewater to improve agricultural resilience in Indian cities. This study examines the possible advantages, difficulties, a...
As far as cloth production is concerned, the dyeing process in textiles forms a bottleneck procedure, as this process
consumes a great deal of time and high volumes of water per unit of fabric for processing, which causes depletion of
groundwater levels at a high rate. Besides, textile effluents are discharged into rivers or wetlands without proper...
The global construction sector accounts for 13.2% of the world GDP. It contributes to the world’s economic growth engine and climate changes due to its high energy footprint. Sustainable buildings can reduce the adverse impacts of the construction industry, but their adoption is slow due to hindrances. The purpose of this paper is to extensively re...
Cement manufacturing is a hard-to-abate industrial sector that accounts for 5 to 8% of global anthropogenic emissions. Approximately 80 to 90% of these emissions occur during limestone calcination and fuel combustion processes. Decarbonising these two emission and energy-intensive processes requires a sustained and regenerative supply of low-carbon...
The global construction sector accounts for 13.2% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP).
It not only contributes to the economic growth engine of the world but also climate changes due
to its high energy footprint. Sustainable buildings have the potential to reduce the adverse impacts
of the construction industry, but their adoption is slow d...
Introduction: Textile sector in India plays an important role in the country's economy, providing employment to a significant population in rural and urban areas. Objectives: This paper focuses on health and safety aspects of textile workers in Solapur City (one of the key textile cluster) in the state of Maharashtra, India. Methodology: A sample o...
Sustainability has emerged as one of the important planning concepts from its beginnings in economics and ecological thinking, and has widely been applied to assessing urban development. Different methods, techniques and instruments for urban sustainability assessment that help determine how cities can become more sustainable have emerged over a pe...
This article addresses the environmental aspects of an unorganised textile sector with large-scale employment through a case study of the city of Solapur in the state of Maharashtra, India. Waste generated from the textile sector is causing serious problems such as changes to land and agricultural patterns, air quality, health and biodiversity. The...
Prek študije mesta Solapur v indijski državi Maharaštra se v članku obravnavajo okoljski vidiki neorganizirane tekstilne panoge, ki zaposluje veliko število ljudi. Odpadki, ki jih ustvarja tekstilna panoga, povzročajo spremembe zemljiških in kmetijskih vzorcev, kakovosti zraka in biotske raznovrstnosti ter zdravstvene težave. Uporabljena metodologi...
By using a decentralized energy-planning (DEP) approach, this paper shows that biomass-based energy systems have the potential to meet all the rural energy needs from village to district level. DEP has been formulated and applied to a typical Indian district (Tumkur). The main purpose of this study is to examine the economic feasibility of bioenerg...
Present work shows the feasibility of decentralized energy options for the Tumkur district in India. Decentralized energy planning (DEP) involves scaling down energy planning to subnational or regional scales. The important aspect of the energy planning at decentralized level would be to prepare an area-based DEP to meet energy needs and developmen...
The objective of this study is to develop a mathematical model for the effective utilization of renewable energy sources in a developing country like India. Decentralized energy planning (DEP) is in the interest of efficient utilization of resources. DEP is one of the options for meeting the rural and small scale energy needs in a reliable, afforda...
The paper aims to assess the potential of decentralized bioenergy technologies in meeting rural energy needs and reducing
carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Decentralized energy planning is carried out for the year 2005 and 2020. Decentralized energy planning model
using goal programming technique is applied for different decentralized scales (village...
Decentralized Energy Planning (DEP) is one of the options to meet the rural and small-scale energy needs in a reliable, affordable and environmentally sustainable way. The main aspect of the energy planning at decentralized level would be to prepare an area-based DEP to meet energy needs and development of alternate energy sources at least-cost to...
Bioenergy is the subject of increasing attention around the world and represents a controversial issue. The rise of commodity prices, the negative impact on food security and climate change represent different challenges to be overcome before the full potentials of bioenergy can be realized. In the context of the development of bioenergy, issues re...
In the authors' views, policy options to overcome some of the key barriers for jumpstarting environmentally sound technologies for climate change such as Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) are: 1. Policies that promote focussed R&D for cost reduction, high performance and funding of large-scale demonstration programmes: There is a need to review...
Decentralizedenergy planning (DEP) is in the interest of efficient utilization of resources. DEP is one of the options to meet the rural and small scale energy needs in a reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable way. The main aspect of the energy planning at the decentralized level would be to prepare an area-based DEP to meet energy n...
Presently used centralised energy planning model ignores energy needs of rural areas and poor and has also led to environmental degradation, whereas decentralised energy planning model is in the interest of efficient utilisation of resources. Energy planning at the village level is the bottom limit of the application of decentralised planning princ...
Energy planning is carried out at a centralized level using computer-based modeling. The centralized energy planning models and approaches have already been reviewed in literature. Decentralized energy planning (DEP) is a concept of recent origin with limited applications. Literature shows that different models are being developed and used worldwid...
