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Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Asia
ID: 211873
Start date: 2009-01-01, End date: 2011-06-30
The general inadequate, when existing, methods of collection and disposal of solid waste in most Asian cities are causing important environmental and social harms, as human diseases spreading, environmental pollution and ground and water pollution. In order to raise awareness...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 89335
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
Development of an integrated biorefinery for processing chitin rich biowaste to specialty and fine chemicals
ID: 289284
Start date: 2011-11-01, End date: 2014-10-31
The fishing industry in the EU and elsewhere produces an increasing mass of negative value crustacean shell waste (>6 MTPA), whose current disposal in landfills results in significant costs and risks to human health as well as to the environment. While in Asia small amounts o...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 101129
Last updated on: 2016-04-26
Tools for Sustainabiltity Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain
ID: 518128
Start date: 2005-11-01, End date: 2010-01-31
The objective of EFORWOOD is to develop a quantitative decision support tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the European Forestry-Wood Chain (FWC) and subsets thereof (e.g. regional), covering forestry, industrial manufacturing, consumption and recycling. The objectiv...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 78752
Last updated on: 2013-03-26
Land use policies and sustainable development in developing Countries
ID: 36955
Start date: 2007-02-01, End date: 2011-03-31
The proposed project will develop integrated assessment tools for sustainable development for application by scientists in a selected number of developing countries. Attention will be given to both natural and agricultural ecosystems. The project provides assessment procedures...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 81388
Last updated on: 2011-07-15
Integrated health, social and economic impacts of extreme events: Evidence, methods and tools
ID: 36877
Start date: 2007-02-01, End date: 2011-01-31
Recent events such as the Pakistan earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the European heat waves of 2003 reveal the vulnerability of societies to extreme events. The goal of this project is to strengthen prevention, mitigation and preparedness strategies ...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 81278
Last updated on: 2011-03-01
Co-ordinated Action on Ocean Energy
ID: 502701
Start date: 2004-10-01, End date: 2007-12-31
Ocean energy industries and research organisations are at present small and scattered. Nevertheless between 5 and 10 different large scale Ocean Energy systems including new and unproven technology are in the process of seeking funding and private investors to carry out the de...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 73951
Last updated on: 2010-06-04
TWINBASINXN : Promoting Twinning of River Basins for Developing Integrated Water Resources Management Practices
ID: 1450
Start date: 2004-01-01, End date: 2007-12-31
A Basin Organisation is generally regarded as one of the best solutions to adopt for developing an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at a catchment level. There have then been many types of BO, some of them existing for several decades, and a lot in a development pr...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 74237
Last updated on: 2009-02-27
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