The housing crisis confronts two of North America s contemporary urban challenges. affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities. Advancing a novel formula labelled BAAKFIL this book introduces a new way of thinking a... Lees meer.

Canada has become a major producer and exporter of wood pellets in the world. But the low water resistivity and the high transportation cost impede the market development. Torrefaction may provide a solution. The present study developed the torrefaction kinetics studie... Lees meer.

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Twintig jaar na de invoering van de democratie in Zuid Afrika wordt Kaapstad nog steeds gekenmerkt door de erfenissen van de apartheid. Het ruimtelijke ordeningsbeleid onder het apartheidsbewind en het middenklasse-ideaal van een vrijstaande woning op een eigen stukje g... Lees meer.

Dans un contexte ou l exigence de developpement urbain durable s affirme dans les politiques publiques l urbanisation des villes appelle de nouvelles facons de penser et d agir sur l espace urbain. Penser l avenir des villes sous l angle uniquement de leur extension sp... Lees meer.

First-generation ethanol plants did not have many operational challenges as the feedstocks e.g. corn used for fuel production are dense stable storable and shippable commodity-type products with fewer conversion challenges. These feedstock properties led the firs... Lees meer.

This monograph discusses the various biomass feedstocks currently available for biofuels production and mechanical preprocessing technologies to reduce the feedstock variability for biofuels applications. This monograph discusses the various biomass feedstocks curren... Lees meer.

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Sintering is the process of forming materials and components from a powder under the action of thermal energy. It is a key materials science subject. most ceramic materials and many specialist metal powder products for use in key industries such as electronics automot... Lees meer.

Shows the experimental strategy to determine the effects of individual parameters and specifies their impact on the resulting density of the briquettes. This book is dedicated to research in the densification processes of wood waste and its mathematical description for... Lees meer.

The Compact City Model is considered one of the planning strategies that can contain the urban sprawl and develop more sustainable cities in the environmental social and economic dimensions. In this book the Compact Model is analyzed in theory by focusing on the cla... Lees meer.

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Sintering is the process of forming materials and components from a powder under the action of thermal energy. It is a key materials science subject. most ceramic materials and many specialist metal powder products for use in key industries such as electronics automot... Lees meer.

The world s metropolises are home to steadily growing populations. Densification measures are one solution to the problems of urbanization creating inner-city living space where there was none before. The smallest of gaps between buildings is utilized perimeter block... Lees meer.

Rather it politicizes densification by neglecting how the process is planned implemented and governed by the actors involved. The book applies an actors-centered neoinstitutionalist political ecology approach to reveal the specific objectives and strategies of actors... Lees meer.