Environmental management systems in organizations in general and in universities in special are normally analyzed based on technical or ecological considerations. Legal compliance of the applicable environmental legislation ...

Waste generation and management are closed linked to population, urbanization and affluence. The waste production per capita rises as a result of many factors such as migration to urban centers, population growth, change ...

In this paper an attempt to analyze the feasibility of an electric energy generation system using tides as its source is made. Tides are a well known source of renewable energy, their energy is available as kinetic or ...

Providing access to safe drinking water becomes increasingly difficult on a worldwide level. Various regions of the Mexican Highlands have issues of groundwater contamination in terms of inorganic (e.g. arsenic or fluoride) ...

En este trabajo se empleó bagazo de Agave salmiana (BA) para la remoción de azul de metileno (AM) en soluciones acuosas mediante sorción. Los datos experimentales se determinaron en reactores de lote con una relación ...

Traditional land use systems such as home gardens serve as a reservoir for plant genetic resources. Mexico is one of the centre of origin of cultivated plants and one of the richest countries in vascular plants. Therefore, ...

La Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo en Río de Janeiro (1992) con su consolidación en la Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Sostenible en Johannesburgo (2002) han sido los motores ...

La inulina es el carbohidrato de reserva en las plantas del género Agave. En las fábricas de mezcal este polisacárido se somete a hidrólisis térmica para liberar su fructosa y algo de glucosa, los cuales al fermentarlos ...

n these days climate change and global warming have become topics of great importance. Global warming normally is a natural process that occurs on Earth throughout millions of years due to fluctuations in solar radiation, ...