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Xing Xie, Xinjun Tu, Jinglei Zhu, Vijay P. Singh and Yuanyuan Chai
Given China?s status as one of the most water-scarce countries globally, its rapid development of urbanization and sustained economic growth have led to increasing pressure on the urban water supply. Water pricing is also receiving increasing attention a...
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Suliman Ali Al-Khateeb, Faisal Ibrahim Zeineldin, Nagat Ahmed Elmulthum, Khalid Mohammed Al-Barrak, Muhammad Naeem Sattar, Tagelsir Ahmed Mohammad and Akbar S. Mohmand
Water scarcity has necessitated the adoption of water-saving techniques in both protected and non-protected farming. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a water-saving soilless cultivation technique and compare it to conventional soil-based c...
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Enrique Bonet and María Teresa Yubero
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is the most water-intensive sector, consuming around of 80% of water resources. Moreover, irrigation water distribution systems are the infrastructure by which one-third of water resource losses take place. Monitoring and ...
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Jan M. Sitterson, Allan A. Andales, Daniel F. Mooney, Maria Cristina Capurro and Joe E. Brummer
Recent Colorado, USA water law provisions allow a portion of irrigation water to be leased between agricultural and other users. Reducing consumptive use (CU) through deficit irrigation while maintaining some crop production could allow farmers to earn r...
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Harald Mehling
The availability of food to a growing world population is a matter of concern for decades. Despite that, post-harvest losses are large in many countries, due to insufficient food preservation. And recently rising prices for fossil energies additionally i...
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Thang Trung Nguyen, Hung Duc Nguyen and Minh Quan Duong
The paper applies jellyfish search algorithm (JSA) for reaching the maximum profit of IEEE 30-node and IEEE 118-node transmission power networks considering electrical market and wind turbines (WTs). JSA is compared with the particle swarm optimization (...
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Yuchen Ju, Pauli Hiltunen, Juha Jokisalo, Risto Kosonen and Sanna Syri
Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response. In ...
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Emmanuel Karapidakis, Marios Nikologiannis, Marini Markaki, Ariadni Kikaki and Sofia Yfanti
The EU has set ambitious targets to combat climate change. Incorporating renewable energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a critical aspect of achieving the European Union?s (EU) 2030 climate goals. Similarly to all member countries of...
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Laura Essak and Aritra Ghosh
The world is transitioning towards a net zero emissions future and solar energy is at the forefront of the transition. The land use requirements to install solar farms present a barrier for the industry as population density increases and land prices ris...
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Adham Badawy, Amgad Elmahdi, Sayed Abd El-Hafez and Ali Ibrahim
The food self-sufficiency policy has always featured as an unquestionable policy objective for Egypt. This is understandable when one considers both the high population growth and the social and political vulnerability associated with a dependence on foo...
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