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Indicators and recommendations for assessing sustainable healthy diets
(MDPI, 2021)
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Research coupling human nutrition and sustainability concerns is a rapidly developing field, which is essential to guide governments' policies. This critical and comprehensive review analyzes indicators and approaches to ...
At the crossroad between green and thirsty: carbon emissions and water consumption of Spanish thermoelectricity generation, 1969–2019
(Elsevier, 2022)
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The energy sector is the main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and one of the thirstiest sectors worldwide. Within the energy sector, thermoelectricity directly impacts on both emissions and water. This study assesses ...
Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: the Spanish strategies to deal with US, French and German nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985
(Routledge, 2020)
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We analysed the process of construction and connection to the electrical grid of four Spanish nuclear power plants with different financial and technological foreign partners: those of Zorita (PWR by Westinghouse), Garoña ...
Freshwater for cooling needs: a long-run approach to the nuclear water footprint in Spain
(Elsevier, 2017)
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From the invention of the steam engine to the present, water has represented a significant input to the energy system, although this has been mostly ignored in the literature. In Spain, the most arid country in Europe, ...
The weak data on the water–energy nexus in Spain
(IWA Publishing, 2019)
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This paper focuses on the fact that the water–energy nexus remains an irrelevant issue on the energy policy agenda and on the priorities of the energy leaders in Spain. This is a striking fact given that this takes place ...
The energy and gross domestic product causality nexus in Latin America 1900-2010
(EconJournals, 2020)
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A better understanding of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth is important for the less developed regions of the world such as Africa or Latin America, which future might be compromised by the ...
Tracking water for human activities: from the ivory tower to the ground
(Elsevier, 2021)
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Water policy requires well established metrics for success. Precise metrics allow for quantifying progress and adjusting processes to produce the desired outcomes. We analyze the different schools of thought, nomenclatures ...
Machines and energy. Energy capital ratios in Europe and Latin America 1875 - 1970'
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
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The relationship between energy and capital is one of the most important
aspects of modern economic growth. Machines need energy to produce all
the goods we enjoy; energy would be far less useful for humankind in
absence ...
The atomic business: structures and strategies
(Routledge, 2020)
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Nuclear energy was one among business opportunities brought by the take off in science and technology after the Second World War. The narratives of the milestones of atomic history neglect the commercial, industrial and ...
Long-term diversification paths and energy transitions in Europe
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)
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The authors propose a synthetic indicator that allows one to compare and contrast the evolution of the composition of the primary energy baskets of eight European countries over the last two centuries, and quantitatively ...