improving the environmental performance of small tourism firms in western australia

... efficiency of windows and doors, improving the exchange of heat, and increasing the tightness of the building envelope Improvements to the thermal envelope of a building can reduce heating loads ... responsibility of creating a system for training and certifying the experts who will certify the buildings, provide recommendations for improving low- 10 Improving the Energy Performance of Buildings performing ... certificates and the stick of penalties if their buildings are less efficient than the industry average 16 Improving the Energy Performance of Buildings Building Codes and Performance Ratings Australia...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of removal of unwanted compounds during wort boiling which can result in the boiling process taking half the ... reduce the amount of materials in packaging, i.e light-weighting; for example by minimising the amount of glass used in glass bottles There is a balance between reducing the weight of packaging/recycled ... to packaging for serving beer However, the challenges each country faces are still largely the same in minimising the environmental impact of packaging The main focus areas are in using reusable...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... missing link in Latin America One surprising finding when examining the overall results is that there is no clear relationship between overall environmental performance and city income in the Index, ... Horizonte is the capital of the mineralrich state of Minas Gerais Located in the interior of southeastern Brazil, Belo Horizonte sits at the heart of the country’s steel and mining region The city’s ... urban environmental sustainability advised the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in developing the methodology for the Green City Index, including the Latin American Green City Index and forthcoming...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... methodology for the Asian Green City Index He spoke to the EIU about the results of the Index, the difficulty of measuring the environmental impact of informal settlements and the necessity to administer ... most other cities in the Index In January 2008 Beijing became the first city in China to introduce the equivalent of “Euro Environmental governance: Beijing ranks average in the environmental governance ... living in the sixth smallest area in the Index, Seoul also is the third most densely populated city in the Index Seoul ranks above average overall in the Index, and the city is above average in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:07

... which is one of the strongest in the Index Across the other categories in the Index Charlotte places in the bottom half of cities However, since the award of the federal energy grant in 2009 Charlotte ... challenges they face The report is divided into five parts First, it examines the overall key findings Second, it examines the key findings from the nine individual categories in the Index: CO2, ... recently become one of the leading centers for high-tech firms in the US The success of these industries helps give Boston the fourth highest income in the Index – with a GDP per person of $57,100 Boston...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... Considering that, exploiting the orthogonality of the code, all the different users use the same carriers, the total transmitted signal results in (being in the downlink, the phase is the same ... improves the performance as the interference increases with respect to MRC and makes the system less sensitive to the number of interferers In fact, as an example result, in the case of 15 interferers ... impulse Since δ d in the following Focusing, without loss of generality, on the nth user, the decision variable (i.e., the test statistic), v(n) [i], is obtained by linearly combining the weighted...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... of integrated farming in which CT was used, the number of rare species had decreased at 90% of all sampling points where found In the same period frequencies of rare weeds remained the same in ... effects on fate and transport of pesticides in a coastal plain soil II Leaching In: Proceedings of the International Winter Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (Paper No 91-2544), ... help in three ways: (1) the crop stubble provides cover in the winter and nesting habitat in the spring (2) crop residues and weeds if allowed to remain provide seed food in the winter (3) the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... predicts the envelope performance of commercial office buildings in Singapore, taking into account the local urban microclimate This includes the development of a method for converting the output ... (SkyEF) of the building external surface SkyEF can be defined as the ratio of the solid angle of the sky patch visible from a certain point on a building’s facade to the solid angle of the hemisphere ... This thesis shall present a methodology for evaluating the building performance of offices in cities while taking into account its surrounding morphology The indices that are used to evaluate performance...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:14

... enhance the linguistic proficiency of students Parents of First Year Students of TNU Findings of this study will provide them useful information on the present performance of their children in Linguistic ... regard to the query on the sounds produced of the phoneme system of the languages of the world The sound system of a language is the phonology of English Included in the phonological system of a language ... understanding of the rules and construction of a given language, linguistic competence also includes the distinct sounds used in the language, the combination of these sounds, the creation of sentences...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 13:58

... Chinese construction firms ability in EPC projects in China 1.5 Scope of the Research The subject of this study is Chinese construction firms conducting EPC projects in China These firms include ... construction firms in China Thus, the study addresses the following objectives: To investigate the performance levels of EPC projects in China; To determine the key factors impacting on EPC projects’ performance ... encountered by Chinese construction firms in China This research investigates the performance of EPC projects operated by Chinese construction firms in Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing and Sichuan province Data...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:18

... overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming communities in these areas Executive Summary The following report presents information on the initiation of activities for the CARD ... quality, introduction of Bachthao bucks of proven genetic merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming ... either the Head of the Provincial DARD Offices (Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan, Lam Dong) or their representatives and the DARD officers nominated in each province who are responsible for the routine...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... quality, introduction of Bachthao bucks of proven genetic merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming ... Building The major focus of the project at this stage has been the training of DARD officers from Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan and Lam Dong provinces in goat husbandry and management, in the conduct of ... made of the gains in productivity that were achieved The initial baseline survey has provided a snap-shot view of 27 farms in districts in southern Provinces of Vietnam, and data is still being...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... Ninh Thuan in November 2008 The proceedings of this conference, workshop training manuals, evaluation of competency of staff training and a survey of farmers views of the sustainability of the ... quality, introduction of Bachthao bucks of proven genetic merit) In this way the existing limitations to improving productivity will be overcome, thereby improving the income and well-being of farming ... present the results of the research completed in the sequence in which the events happened The topics in the original list were also confounded with two different aspects of the Project, training...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... shareholders of Boral Green, PaperlinX, Gunns which have been established in Australia In 1990s, the CSR continued to influence in global as the function of business while the influences of government ... underpinning to many of the other theories and is continually consistent with what the public expects of the business community today‖ st 2.1.2 CSR in the 21 Century After the collapse of Enron and the ... differences of perspective in different countries and the function of business in society In March 2000, the new appointment of a United Kingdom Minster for CSR has strong influenced on the movement of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/06/2015, 04:35

... At the time these definitions were formulated, the third approach included the use of mosquito nets The successful introduction of insecticide-treated mosquito nets has put them in a category of ... (38—63%) in the European Region; and 64% (51—77%) in the Region of the Americas The potential of environmental management to reduce the disease burden of malaria differed according to the type of environment ... part of the general environment For instance, in the context of the working definition for environmental factors used in this report, infections acquired by health care workers from needlestick injuries,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... Representations of the author's intended ideas, the meaning of the text as it is written, and even the possible meanings of the text as construed by the imagined readers need to be Writing Skills ... fluency in generating written text is limited until they master the mechanical skills of handwriting and spelling (McCutchen, 1996) Learning the mechanics of writing to a point of automaticity during ... across the curriculum in all subjects Without training to use what they know, their knowledge too often remains inert during composition A central factor in the development of expert performance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20

... steadily gaining increased focus within the region Representative examples include the tight gas sand formations in the Green River Basin of northwestern Wyoming and the Piceance Basin of northwestern ... potentially linked to hydraulic fracturing EPA released its findings in 2004, concluding there were no confirmed cases of drinking water contamination resulting from fracturing fluid injection into CBM ... basins in the world: the San Juan Basin in southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico, and the Powder River Basin in eastern Wyoming These CBM production areas are detailed below: • The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20