Essays about: "environmental pollution and its solution"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 32 essays containing the words environmental pollution and its solution.

  1. 16. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) from a Transport Operator’s Perspective : Opportunities and challenges

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Magnus Sellstedt; Andreas Sjöling; [2019]
    Keywords : Integrated mobility services; Mobility as a service; MaaS; transportation operators; business models; networked business models.; Integrerade mobilitetstjänster; Mobilitet som tjänst; MaaS; transportoperatörer; affärsmodell; nätverksbaserad affärsmodell.;

    Abstract : Congestion and pollution are challenges that have started to build pressure on urban cities to introduce more environmental-friendly transportation alternatives. One transport solution that has gained attention in the light of digitalization is a concept called mobility as a service (MaaS) that has the potential to change how people travel today. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Burden of Plastic Generation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Industridesign

    Author : Yihao Xiao; [2019]
    Keywords : Arts and Architecture; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Plastic pollution is not a new thing, not a new thing at all. Actually, concern about plastic had been growing date back to 1960s, almost 60 years ago, when the plastic debris in the ocean was first observed, but now the global plastic production is still increasing, as well as the amount of the plastic waste that enters the ocean every year. READ MORE

  4. 18. Energy, Environment and Transportation : An Actor-Role Network Analysis of the World Energy Outlook 1977-2016

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Felicia Söderqvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Energy Security; Environment; Transport Sector; Energy; Policy; Actor-Network Theory; Interpretive Content Analysis; Role; Actors; Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development OECD ; International Energy Agency IEA ; World Energy Outlook WEO ;

    Abstract : This thesis explores how energy and environmental issues have been presented in the transportation sector over time in World Energy Outlook (WEO) publications; the flagship publication of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The thesis covers WEO publications from the first publication of 1977 up to 2016 (with the exception of WEO 1982). READ MORE

  5. 19. How can urban gardening address social sustainability? Nature-based solution case studies in Lille, Brussels and Paris

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Hippolyte De Bellefroid; [2018]
    Keywords : Nature-based Solutions; urban community garden; social impacts; barriers and drivers; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Nowadays, European cities contain more than 70% of the population of the continent and are still growing. This growth tends to put pressure on the challenges that urban areas are already facing. The range of these challenges is wide, such challenges being social, environmental and economical. READ MORE

  6. 20. Study of spatial and temporal variation of atmospheric optical parameters and their relation with PM 2.5 concentration over Europe using GIS technologies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Panagiotis Symeonidis; [2017]
    Keywords : aerosols; air quality; satellite remote sensing; GIS; geography; Geographical Information Systems; particulate matter; Aerosol Optical Depth; MODIS; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine the use of remote sensing aerosol data as an estimator of ground level fine particulate matter concentration (PM 2.5). In order to examine this possible relation, daily MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) data were used, collected for an entire year. READ MORE