Life cycle assessment of Libyan crude oil

Petroleum products such as petrol and diesel are fossil fuels and have a high environmental impact. There is a demand to minimize these impacts especially in the upstream and midstream oil operations, i.e. exploration, production and refining processes, due to current and upcoming environmental regulations/policies and increased environmental consumer awareness. Thus, integration of the tools, methods and techniques for sustainability into products is becoming essential to comply with environmental regulations. The Libyan petroleum industry appears to be very slow in approaching modern concepts of approaches of sustainability including Life Cycle Assessment and studies. Therefore, this paper presents a novel environmental Life Cycle assessment of Libyan petroleum refining processes conducted with the support of Life Cycle Assessment methods and related tools including Software SimaPro. The refining processes from the Azzawya Oil refinery, are analyzed and used in the assessment and the data for the assessments was collected through fieldwork conducted in Feb 2013 in both El-Sharara oil field (Repsol Oil Company) and Azzawya Oil refinery in Libya. The results show that the first significant environmental impacts are associated with fossil fuels and the second major impacts are the respiratory inorganic impacts

Palliative and End of Life Care for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic Groups in the UK

This report marks the start of a programme of work by many partners. A better understanding of the nation's changing demographics, of the needs of individual ethnic and cultural groups and of the types of services which will best meet their end of life care needs must be early outputs from the partnership. There are many areas which researchers will investigate further and many opportunities for service providers to work together with local communities to develop care which is sensitive and responsive to their needs as well as on a scale which will be needed for the large numbers of people who could benefi

Local Preferences and Place of Death in Regions within England 2010

This report shows public preferences for place of death in the nine English Government Office Regions (GORs), obtained from a population-based telephone survey in 2010. It compares the results with a similar survey carried out in 2003 to understand how preferences are evolving over time. It goes on to contrast these preferences with actual place of death (as reported for that region) in order to shed light on how people's wishes relate to reality and to aid care planning so that preferences are more frequently met

Promoting sustainable Indian textiles: final report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), London, UK

In 2009, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), through the Sustainable Development Dialogue (SDD) fund, backed the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at London College of Fashion and Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF), New Delhi to run a project to promote Indian sustainable textiles. Improving patterns of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in India and the UK is one of the agreed areas for collaboration under the UK-India Sustainable Development Dialogue. The project is also part of a body of work taking place under the Defra Sustainable Clothing Roadmap, which aims to improve the sustainability of clothing. Defra has identified that ‘while an economic success story (globally worth over £500 billion) the industry has a significant environmental and social footprint across its supply chain.’ The Roadmap aims to improve the sustainability of clothing by gathering a robust evidence base of impacts and working with a wide range of stakeholders, to build on existing interventions. For more details on the roadmap see: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/products/roadmaps/clothing/index.htm This report is only one of the dissemination tools associated with the project. The project film, images and website should be viewed in conjunction with this report

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"Making short work of tradition": popular rural protest and the state of emergency in Bophutatswana, Marico and Rustenburg, as perceived by TRC witnesses, 1977-1993

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 199

Temperate gangsters in a sub-tropical place

African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 18 October, 1993Recent conversations with some native artisans who have been at the Rand since the war elicited certain facts which may be calculated to render all attempts at learning any kind of profession altogether futile. Coloured mechanics can get no employment in Johannesburg--the greatest centre of all sorts of industry at the present time. It appears that the white professional tradesman treat all kinds of professions as a monopoly and master builders and contractors are subject to the dictatorship of "rings" formed by the labouring classes who are determined to preclude all persons of colour, of whatever capabilities, from partaking in occupations that make it worth their while to be on the Rand ..

Tortured Bodies, Loved Bodies: Gendering African Popular Fiction

This essay examines the gendering of the crime novel in an African context. Specifically, it proposes that Malian Author Aida Diallo\u27s novel Kouty, memoire de sang uses the gendered body to critique the West\u27s delight in pornographies of sub-Saharan African violence while challenging the masculinist tendencies of African male authors of crime fiction. Most powerfully, the protagonist abides by and disturbs the continuity between gender and genre. By introducing recognizable tropes from the romance novel, Diallo productively challenges the persistent hegemonic strains residing latently within this popular literary tradition. In so doing, she finally, and this through a strategic manipulation and blending of popular forms proposes an inaugural African writing free to represent increasingly global, and yet resolutely local subjectivities

Towards Intercultural Understanding and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Building an Internationally Minded School

As an International Baccalaureate school in a diverse Canadian city, Welton Academy’s (pseudonym) vision is to be a world-class, academic school with a focus on shaping students into globally minded, engaged citizens. The demographics of the school are changing, as the student body is becoming increasingly more ethnically diverse. Currently, one of the school’s strategic missions is focused on international mindedness. Although the school’s vision to promote international mindedness includes global engagement and multilingualism, the area of intercultural understanding is not identified. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) explores a Problem of Practice (PoP) that highlights the need to develop intercultural understanding within the high school context. This OIP incorporates transformational leadership and instructional leadership approaches, as key leadership practices for stakeholders, such as the leadership team and teachers, to employ while identifying the potential for promoting social justice and inclusion. With a global focus, the values Welton Academy shares in the school community should reflect the diverse student population. The goal of this OIP is to provide stakeholders with recommendations to develop intercultural understanding within the school. The solutions in this OIP address all three interrelated dimensions of culturally responsive pedagogy: institutional, personal, and instructional. If implemented, this OIP could result in a more inclusive community at Welton Academ