This special volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production is comprised of articles presented at the 3rd International Workshop Advances in Cleaner Production held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2011. The content underscores the ...

ABSTRACT The civil construction sector has been responsible for significant environmental degradation, either by the consumption of natural resources, or by the production of a critical volume of waste and pollution. In ...

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has recently emerged as a useful technique in environmental engineering. One major limitation of this approach is that its computational burden grows rapidly with the number of environmental ...

Smart cities are a safe and productive regional service that provides their residents with a good standard of living by optimizing resource development. Considering the nature of the energy resources available, energy ...

The environment, a diffuse and common use right, requires the adoption of swift and effective solution to the existing conflicts and also the prevention of new occurrences. In this sense the traditional judicial resources ...

Current article, inserted within the Cleaner Production (CP) theme, focuses on the sugarcane-alcohol segment in Brazil. The main aspects and environmental impacts of the sector are underscored and demonstrate how CP may ...