Search for dissertations about: "Food management and Life Improvement"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Food management and Life Improvement.
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1. Reducing the environmental impact of food products logistics systems
Abstract : This thesis addresses how to reduce two types of environmental impact generated in logistics systems: transport’s impact on climate and food waste. In mitigating both these types of environmental impact, actors in food supply chains (FSC)—producers, wholesalers, and retailers—play important roles, for both causes of environmental impacts and improvement actions to moderate them emerge within their logistics systems. READ MORE
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2. Systems Analysis for Eco-Industrial Development : Applied on Cement and Biogas Production Systems
Abstract : Our industrial systems are not sustainable—a major challenge which demands several types of responses. Eco-industrial development can be seen as such a response, with the goal to establish industrial systems that are both ecological and economical. Industrial Ecology is another closely related response. READ MORE
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3. Household food waste management – Evaluations of current status and potential improvements using life-cycle assessment methodology
Abstract : An increased understanding of the world’s limited resources and the negative environmental impacts connected to solid waste management has in recent years increased interest in separate collection and treatment of organic waste in many parts of the world. As an example, increased biological treatment of organic waste is an explicit goal within the Swedish national solid waste management strategy (SEPA, 2006) and the national environmental objectives state that 35% of all organic household waste should be treated biologically by 2010 (SEPA, 2007). READ MORE
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4. Life Cycle Considerations in Sustainable Business Development. Eco-efficiency studies in Swedish industries
Abstract : This thesis shows that there are reasons for placing some trust in the possibilities of aligning business goals and environmental goals, as well as in the possibilities of increasing eco-efficiency through technological development. The possibilities, although not unlimited, are not utilised to their full potential. READ MORE
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5. Symptom patterns in irritable bowel syndrome
Abstract : Who has never had them: symptoms in the abdominal region, such as pain, bloating, constipation, and diarrhoea? These are common symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS affects 5-10% of the population, especially females between the age of 16 and 40. READ MORE