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Livia Somerville; Matthias Stucki; Regula Keller – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the environmental footprint of a university of applied sciences in 2019 and 2020, including the effects of the lockdown periods. The study identified the main sources of emissions and assessed the pandemic-related effects. Design/methodology/approach: Using the life cycle assessment methodology,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Musgrove, P. – Physics Education, 1978
Explores the possibility of installing offshore windmills to provide electricity and to save fuel for the United Kingdom. Favors their deployment in clusters to facilitate supervision and minimize cost. Discusses the power output and the cost involved and urges their quick development. (GA)
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Ecology, Electricity, Energy
Brown, Lester R. – 1978
The purpose of this book is to examine the interaction of the world's ecological, economic, and social systems. It is divided into 12 chapters, with the first chapter providing an introduction and overview. Chapter two assesses the dimensions of the ecological stresses being put on the environment, specifically, the world's oceans, forests,…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Climate, Climate Control, Conservation (Environment)