The Natura 2000 Network has one purpose: to ensure the long-term survival of the species and the most threatened habitats in Europe, in this way, contributing to stop the loss of biodiversity. It is convenient to let every ...

The chestnut tree (genus Castanea), deciduous species of great economic and historical importance in Galicia. Species capable of producing quality timber, edible nut biomass as environmental protection and landscape. Or ...

Following Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) standards, an analysis of the state of the art related with Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions of road projects is developed with emphasis on the inventory assessment, the existing data ...

Projects impact differently according to their type, scope and interaction with the medium they are involved. This paper suggests a methodology to quantitatively determine the effects of each impacting action on the final ...

The civic amenity sites are facilities for selective collection where citizens have to remove those special domestic wastes that require to be managed apart from other household waste (furniture, rubble, electrical appliances, ...

Several products with different characteristics and uses are usually obtained from oil refining process (olefins, propane, butane, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, paraffin, asphalt, etc.). Allocation of proportional impacts ...

Landscape integration in forest management has improved for the last three decades by deeper landscape ecology research and several regulations as the environmental impact assessment or specific forest management policy. The ...

The indiscriminate use of renewal water in swimming pools results in some environmental problems. The main water consumption in pools is due to evaporation losses and accumulation of certain chemical substances, one of ...

Oil hydrotreating units in refineries are aimed at reducing the sulfur content of fuels to accomplish standard particular specifications. However, this process is currently one of the best available technologies to produce ...

In this paper we develop and evaluate a new system of indicators aimed at assessing the environmental performance in port environments. To validate these taken into account the correlation between the level of port activity ...