Development of canopy vigour maps using UAV for site-specific management during vineyard spraying process

Site-specific management of crops represents an important improvement in terms of efficiency and efficacy of the different labours, and its implementation has experienced a large development in the last decades, especially for field crops. The particular case of the spray application process for what are called “specialty crops” (vineyard, orchard fruits, citrus, olive trees, etc.)FI-DGR grant from Generalitat de Catalunya (2018 FI_B1 00083). Research and improvement of Dosaviña have been developed under LIFE PERFECT project: Pesticide Reduction using Friendly and Environmentally Controlled Technologies (LIFE17 ENV/ES/000205)This research was partially funded by the “Ajuts a les activitats de demostració (operació 01.02.01 de Transferència Tecnològica del Programa de desenvolupament rural de Catalunya 2014-2020)” and an FI-DGR grant from Generalitat de Catalunya (2018 FI_B1 00083). Research and improvement of Dosaviña have been developed under the LIFE PERFECT project: Pesticide Reduction using Friendly and Environmentally Controlled Technologies (LIFE17 ENV/ES/000205).This research was partially funded by the “Ajuts a les activitats de demostració (operació 01.02.01 de Transferència Tecnològica del Programa de desenvolupament rural de Catalunya 2014-2020)” and an FI-DGR grant from Generalitat de Catalunya (2018 FI_B1 00083). Research and improvement of Dosaviña have been developed under LIFE PERFECT project: Pesticide Reduction using Friendly and Environmentally Controlled Technologies (LIFE17 ENV/ES/000205)Postprint (updated version

Consumer Car Preferences and Information Search Channels

In this paper, we measure the relations between stated and revealed car preferences and the use of information sources in the car purchasing process, based on a survey of households in the Netherlands. The analysis showed that attitudinal and behavioral constructs are found for ‘environmental’, ‘performance’, and ‘convenience’ preferences, but that there is a ‘gap’ between attitude and behavior. The results show that people with a positive environmental attitude who also show environmentally friendly behavior have more involvement with cars than people who do not translate their environmental attitude into the corresponding behavior. This leads to the idea that not only environmental knowledge but also involvement with cars is a prerequisite for buying an environmentally friendly car.car purchase, involvement, attitude–behavior gap, information search

Modern paradigm of ecological marketing

Green marketing refers to the process of selling products and services based on their environmental benefits. Such a product or service may be environmentally friendly in itself or produced and packaged in an environmentally friendly way. Advertising and promotion of such a product often makes claims of less environmental impact in terms of energy, materials, processes, or toxic substances [1, 2]. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/2667

Identification of Thermal Degradation Process of Starch in Production of Environmentally Friendly Flocculants

Chemical modification of starch can be used to produce environmentally degradable flocculants. This is carried out at elevated temperature, which in turn causes thermal degradation, influencing the quality of the product. Starting from experimental results and the probabilistic nature of the process stochastic model was established to identify the rate and the mechanism of degradation under various conditions. It was concluded that applying moderate temperature around 143 Celsius ensures sufficient production rate without excessive thermal degradation

Disentangling Specific Subsets of Innovations : A Micro-Econometric Analysis of their Determinants

Based on a unique firm-level data set from the German manufacturing sector, this paper disentangles environmental and non-environmental product and process innovations. The multivariate probit analysis shows that the various innovation types are determined by different factors. The estimation results suggest a policy mix which comprises the encouragement of R&D activities, certified management systems, and specific management activities referring to environmentally friendly products when the implementation of all innovation types is to be supported.Product and process innovations, Environmental and non-environmental innovations, Management systems, Multivariate probit models

Photo-assisted inkjet printing of antibodies onto cellulose for the eco?-friendly preparation of immunoassay membranes

International audienceThe current global issues have stimulated the search for both ecologically and economically friendly (eco?-friendly) materials and processes. As a sustainable and affordable biopolymer, cellulose is an ideal material for developing diagnostic devices. Recently, paper-based bioanalytical devices have trended towards three-dimensional microfluidic platforms allowing multiplex diagnosis. This technological mutation now challenges the production process of those devices. The whole design, as well as the biosensing material immobilization, should be as eco?-friendly as possible. To this end, the biomolecule immobilization process presented here combines a photolinker-free photografting procedure with inkjet printing which is a versatile and environmentally friendly dispensing method. While many printing cycles are usually achieved to get efficient immune answers, only one to five printing passes were sufficient in this study. Antibodies have been successfully printed and immobilized onto paper sheets. These membranes were further used to perform lateral flow immunoassays. The visual detection limits observed were identical to those usually displayed by the classical dispensing method, regardless the membrane material. The process developed herein is simple, time and cost-saving as well as environmentally friendly. More generally, it is a powerful tool for robust and abundant immobilization of chemical-sensitive proteins onto various cellulose-based papers and according to complex designs

The Potential of Deconstruction in Buffalo, New York

Building deconstruction is not a novel idea but represents an ancient practice reinvented for our modern era. Deconstruction is an environmentally friendly (yet fiscally remunerative) alternative to traditional building demolition. Deconstruction is: [t]he process of carefully dismantling a building in order to salvage components for reuse and recycling. Typically, a small team of skilled and licensed professionals disassemble the structure, setting aside the valuable materials for direct reuse or resale, before recycling the rest. In most instances, deconstruction is combined with an element of demolition, with the latter process plugging the gaps not covered by the former process. Deconstruction has traditionally been used successfully with decommissioned military bases and all-wood barns. Building deconstruction is simply an expansion of this practice to both commercial and residential structures. In fact, it can be argued that deconstruction is the original demolition

Land with specific characteristics as a resource of safe agricultural nature management

Проаналізовано сучасний стан земель України та складові його оцінювання. На основі проведеного аналізу визначено роль екологічно чистих земельних масивів як базису ведення безпечного агрогосподарського природокористування. Досліджено вимоги земель з особливими характеристиками, орієнтовані на «безпечне використання земельних ресурсів». Рекомендовано шляхи вибору та ідентифікації придатних землекористувань для трансформації їх в екологічно безпечні.In the article the current state of the land of Ukraine and the components of its assessment is analyzed and characterized by a strong and very severe impact, and almost one fifth of it is considered unsuitable for economic use. On the basis of the analysis, the role of environmentally friendly land is defined as the basis for maintaining a safe agro-economic nature management: as an indispensable natural resource and basis for the production of safe products, which does not directly or indirectly cause harmful effects on human health; as the basis for the formation of ecologically balanced agroecosystems that require modeling in accordance with the specialization of economic activity. The organization of environmentally friendly land will resolve the issue of preventing erosion, promote the efficient use of land resources, improve the quality and safety of the resulting products, will ensure the preservation of agroecosystems based on the use of exclusively natural factors increasing the yield of crops. The requirements of land with special characteristics oriented to „safe land use“ are investigated: in assessing land management, all environmental, social and economic aspects, including their timely development, must be taken into account; potentially interested people should be able to bring their views and interference into the process of developing a system for the formation of environmentally sound land use; the review process should be based on sound knowledge of the environmental, social and economic implications of the estimated land use options; an information base on environmentally friendly land suitable for safe agro-economic production is needed; available information should be presented in such a way that all interested parties can understand and use it; the evaluation process requires transparency for all stakeholders. The ways of selecting and identifying suitable land use for their transformation into environmentally safe are recommended by defining the territory for the formation of environmentally friendly lands of a set of criteria in the geoinformation database and demarcating the territories for their agro-ecological characteristic