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Environmental and economic optimization and prioritization tool-kit for residential building renovation strategies with life cycle approach
(Elsevier, 2023-01)The most recent regulations, as well as the scientific studies, remark the importance of the evaluation of the entire life cycle on building renovations, relative to the environmental impact and economic feasibility, making ... -
Environmental and Economic Prioritization of Building Energy Refurbishment Strategies with Life-Cycle Approach
(MDPI, 2020-05-11)An increasing number of studies apply life-cycle assessment methodology to assess the impact of a new building or to prioritize between different building refurbishment strategies. Among the different hypotheses to consider ... -
Environmental and social consequences of the increase in the demand for superfoods world-wide
(People and Nature, 2020)1.The search for healthy diets has led to a surge in the demand for functional foods or ‘superfoods’, which have now become popular among the middle- and high- income fractions of the society in developed regions of the ... -
Environmental assessment of four Basque University campuses using the NEST tool
(Elservier, 2018-08-09)Over the past few years, town planners and architects have been facing increasing demands regarding the performance of urban development projects in terms of environment, quality of life and socio-economic issues. For this ... -
Environmental Assessment of University Campuses: The Case of the University of Navarra in Pamplona (Spain)
(MDPI, 2021-08-01)Current European environmental sustainability standards call for achieving a reduction in energy consumption and CO2 emissions for a horizon set in the year 2050. It has been verified that buildings and cities have a higher ... -
Environmental Awareness and Its Relationship with the Concept of the Living Being: A Longitudinal Study
(MDPI, 2018-07)There is currently a growing theoretical discussion about the foundations that underlie the development of environmental awareness and nature care in early childhood. The aim of this study is to analyze how the environmental ... -
Environmental balance of the high speed rail network in Spain: A Life Cycle Assessment approach
(Elsevier, 2021-12)Spain has the world's second longest network of high speed rail lines built and in service. High-Speed Rail (HSR) is usually presented as a sustainable means of transport with huge potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) ... -
Environmental Concerns in Water Pricing Policy: an Application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-03-15)Water management is subject to conflicting economic and environmental objectives, and policymakers require a clear overview of the different outcomes derived from different water management options. The aim of this paper ... -
Environmental conditions associated with young delinquency events: a temporal, meteorological, and contextual perspective
(SAGE, 2022-04)Research on youth delinquency has been essential for gaining a deeper understanding of the etiology of delinquent behavior. Studies considering the environmental perspective have increased during the last decade, ... -
Environmental corporate social responsibility, R&D and disclosure of “green” innovation knowledge
(Elsevier, 2023-04)The literature on the environment has analyzed how firms carry out R&D to reduce their pollutant emissions, assuming that they maximize profits. However, empirical evidence shows that firms are increasingly concerned about ... -
Environmental Determinants of COVID 19 Transmission Across a Wide Climatic Gradient in Chile
(Nature Publishing Group, 2021-05-10)Several studies have examined the transmission dynamics of the novel COVID-19 disease in different parts of the world. Some have reported relationships with various environmental variables, suggesting that spread of the ... -
Environmental drivers and spatial scaling of species abundance distributions in Palaearctic grassland vegetation
(Wiley, 2022-08)[EN] Species abundance distributions (SADs) link species richness with species abundances and are an important tool in the quantitative analysis of ecological communities. Niche-based and sample-based SAD models predict ... -
Environmental Enrichment Rescues Endocannabinoid-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity Lost in Young Adult Male Mice after Ethanol Exposure during Adolescence
(MDPI, 2021-07-16)Binge drinking (BD) is a serious health concern in adolescents as high ethanol (EtOH) consumption can have cognitive sequelae later in life. Remarkably, an enriched environment (EE) in adulthood significantly recovers ... -
Environmental enrichment shapes striatal spike-timing-dependent plasticity in vivo
(Nature, 2019-12-19)Behavioural experience, such as environmental enrichment (EE), induces long-term effects on learning and memory. Learning can be assessed with the Hebbian paradigm, such as spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), which ... -
Environmental evolution of the Basque Coast Geopark estuaries (southern Bay of Biscay) during the last 10,000 years
(Journal of Marine Systems, 2021-07-01)In order to reconstruct the environmental evolution of the Deba and Urola estuaries located in the Basque Coast Geopark at millennial, centennial and decadal timescales, four long boreholes, three short cores and twelve ... -
Environmental Evolution of the Basque Coast Geopark Estuaries (Southern Bay of Biscay) During the Last 10.000 Years
(Elsevier, 2021-07)In order to reconstruct the environmental evolution of the Deba and Urola estuaries located in the Basque Coast Geopark at millennial, centennial and decadal timescales, four long boreholes, three short cores and twelve ... -
Environmental factors modulated ancient mitochondrial DnA variability and the prevalence of rheumatic diseases in the Basque country
(Nature, 2019-12-31)Among the factors that would explain the distribution of mitochondrial lineages in Europe, climate and diseases may have played an important role. A possible explanation lies in the nature of the mitochondrion, in which ... -
Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment in Spain
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-04-02)The theoretical literature relevant to the relationship between environmental taxation and employment creation is centred on the suggestion by Pearce (1991) that environmental taxation could lead to a “double dividend†... -
Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain in the presence of an informal sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-26)This policy briefing reports the results obtained in two recent papers (Markandya et al 2012 and Gonzalez-Eguino et al 2012) where the role of Enviromental Fiscal Reform (EFR) is revisited for the case of Spain. We analyse ... -
Environmental Impact Assessment of Chitin Nanofibril and Nanocrystal Isolation from Fungi, Shrimp Shells, and Crab Shells
(American Chemical Society, 2022-10)Chitin nanoparticles are responsible for the outstanding mechanical properties found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and are finding applications in many scientific and technological fields. Following a Circular Economy ...