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A new railway tunnel under Brussels? Assessing political feasibility and desirability with competence-based multi criteria analysis
No full textWater‐insoluble cosolvent in aqueous two‐phase system improved the extraction of paeonol from cortex moutan
No full textImpact of Surface-Active Guanidinium-, Tetramethylguanidinium-, and Cholinium-Based Ionic Liquids on Vibrio Fischeri Cells and Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine Liposomes
No full textQuaternary phosphonium cationic ionic liquid/porous metal–organic framework as an efficient catalytic system for cycloaddition of carbon dioxide into cyclic carbonates
No full textEnvironmental assessment of bio-based building materials
No full textThis chapter introduces the environmental assessment methods used to understand the environmental impact of bio-based materials. It highlights the current and future environmental requirement products need to meet in the built environment. Typically, this is based around life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques, and specifically of interest to bio-based products is how stored carbon is accounted for in assessment of the products. It then explains how this fits with models such as the circular economy and the low-carbon economy as the construction industry tackles its substantial contribution to climate change. The final section of the chapter highlights the measurement and certification schemes that exist including eco-labels and environmental product declarations and the whole building assessment schemes used internationally
