Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which holds that although processes of modernization and globalization often result in environmental degradation, they also can encourage policies and programs designed to arrest degradation and improve environmental quality. Building on earlier ecological modernization studies that focused on Europe, North America, and East and Southeast Asia, Mol takes here a more global perspective. He also addresses the increasing roles of nonstate actors, especially international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, popular movements, and transnational corporations. After examining the confusion created by the failure to distinguish among globalization, global capitalism, and neoliberalism, Mol analyzes both globalization's destructive environmental consequences and its contribution to global environmental reform. Elaborating on the subject of reform, he focuses on three case studies, one involving the economic triad of the European Union, the NAFTA region, and Japan; one involving the relationship between the triad and developing countries; and one involving three developing countries: Vietnam, the Netherlands Antilles, and Kenya.

Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy

We describe an optical beam deflection technique for measurements of the thermal diffusivity of fluid mixtures and suspensions of nanoparticles with a precision of better than 1%. Our approach is tested using the thermal conductivity of ethanol-water mixtures; in nearly pure ethanol, the increase in thermal conductivity with water concentration is a factor of 2 larger than predicted by effective medium theory. Solutions of C60–C70 fullerenes in toluene and suspensions of alkanethiolate-protected Au nanoparticles were measured to maximum volume fractions of 0.6% and 0.35vol%, respectively. We do not observe anomalous enhancements of the thermal conductivity that have been reported in previous studies of nanofluids; the largest increase in thermal conductivity we have observed is 1.3%±0.8% for 4nm diam Au particles suspended in ethanol.

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Thermal conductivity of nanoparticle suspensions

In recent years there has been increasing interest in transport and sustainability studies. However, there has been no formal definition on the concept of sustainable transport. In this paper, we attempt to formalise the concept in a framework of dynamic welfare analysis. Using a control-theoretic model, we characterise a sustainable transport as the development of the transport sector that can support a maximum sustainable social welfare measured by an augmented net national product with environmental values taken into account. Dynamic interactions between transport, production, consumption and technological changes are also discussed. For the covering abstract and the URL of the conference see ITRD E205769. (A)

What is sustainable transport

Source-specific ecological risk analysis and critical source identification of heavy metals in road dust in Beijing, China

A conceptual framework for understanding the contribution of building materials in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Towards modern sustainable cities: Review of sustainability principles and trends

Heat transfer fluids are a crucial parameter that affects the size and costs of heat exchangers However, the available coolants like water and oils have low thermal conductivities, which put many limitations to the development of heat transfer to achieve high performance cooling The need for development of new classes of fluids which enhance the heat transfer capabilities attracted the attention of many researchers In the last few decades, modern nanotechnology developed nanoparticles, which have unique thermal and electrical properties that could help improve heat transfer using nanofluids A “nanofluid” is a fluid with suspended fine nanoparticles which increases the heat transfer properties compared with the original fluid Nanofluids are considered a new generation of heat transfer fluids and are considered two-phase fluids of liquid solid mixtures The efficiency of the fluid could be improved by enhancing its thermal properties, especially the thermal conductivity, and it is expected that the nanofluids will have a greater thermal conductivity than the base fluids This paper reviews the preparation of metallic and nonmetallic nanofluids along with the stability of the produced nanofluids Physical and thermal properties as well as a range of applications are also discussed in detail

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Critical Review on Nanofluids

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Mohamoud Jama

Papers

Towards modern sustainable cities: Review of sustainability principles and trends

Critical Review on Nanofluids

Corrigendum to “Critical Review on Nanofluids: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications”