This report reviews the main global trends in land and water uses, policies and investments that have taken place over the last decade and identifies the institutional arrangements that have...
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The Horizon 2020 project NextGen aims to boost sustainability and bring new market dynamics throughout the water cycle in its 10 demo cases and beyond. The project...
The growing demand for food, water and energy, in conjunction with climate change, puts pressure on land and freshwater resources. This problem can be acute in developing countries, where...
RUDN University chemist together with colleagues from India, Russia and South Africa showed that green microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana can be used for cleaning wastewater from a toxic...
This paper has mapped the opportunities of producing biogas from industrial wastewaters and quantified the biogas production potential of different EU industry sectors. The results show that biogas has...
The aim of this study was to conduct the first comprehensive life cycle assessment and economic analysis on ethanol produced from agave. Compositional and field data from a field experiment in Queensland...
Going Green and Cold: Biosurfactants from Low-Temperature Environments to Biotechnology Applications
‘Cold’ is becoming ‘cool’ in microbiology. The cryosphere is becoming more easily accessible to scientific expeditions and is predicted to fuel the discovery of novel natural products. Research on biosurfactants from psychrophilic...
Biorefineries and the food, energy, water nexus — towards a whole systems approach to design and planning
Concerns over securing basic resources to an increasing world population have stressed the importance of critical interactions between the food, energy and water supply systems, as framed...