On the basis of describing characteristics and condition of application of natural growth model of population, weighted average growth model, regression forecast model and GM（1,1）forecast model, taking Gushi County in Henan Province as an example, according to the statistics of...

<title>Abstract</title> Despite the dominant role service industries play in modern society, little attention has been paid to assessing and improving their environmental performance. In this research, environmentally related performance data for six different service organisations were acquired, and the...

Wind power technology is one of the cleanest electricity generation technologies that are expected to have a substantial share in the future electricity mix. Nonetheless, the expected increase in the market share of wind technology has led to an increasing concern of the availability, production...

This paper examines Japanese resource outflows in the form of exported used (and functional) products in 2007 by quantifying the unintentional metal exports for a number of specialty metals typically used in electronics and electrical equipment. We find that more than half of the indium and...