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The aim of the study is to assess the Socio-economic and environmental implications of small-scale mining activities including illegal operations in the Manso Abore in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. SSM is an abbreviation that represents Small Scale Mining. The local term used to describe small-scale illegal mining in Ghana is Galamsey. Survey questionnaires were used to collect data from 65 respondents which include miners and non-miners. Interview guide was also used to collect data from key informants. The data was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The study found that SSM activities have caused irreversible negative effects on the environment. Miners are given large areas of land for their mining activities, often close to water bodies, which has resulted in deforestation and water pollution, thereby endangering the health of the indigenes. Greater proportions of people had lost their farmlands as a result of the SSM activities. However, SSM has also created opportunity for people to engage in multitasking jobs for a living. It contributed about 80 percent to monthly income. The living conditions of people have been improved through the SSM activities. People have used the income on education of their children, feeding, rent and housing. Farmers adopted measures like planting of trees to replace the lost forest in order to curb the effects of SSM. The institutions such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the District Assembly have put measures to address the negative impacts of the mining activities. The study recommends that all stakeholders should come together and device measures of gaining from SSM activities and at the same time minimizing its negative effects on the environment.

Růžková, V. The phenomenon of food waste with a focus on restaurant facilities. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2018. The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of food waste across the supply chain and especially on food waste in Czech restaurants. The aim of the thesis is to describe the process of food loss and food waste. The diploma thesis also identifies the causes of food waste and propose measures to reduce it.

The presented paper deals with the various possibilities of insulating gases designed as an insulating blend for high voltage distributional switchgear and equipment. The technical superiority of sulfur-hexafluoride is discussed with its environmental disadvantages and limitations. Alternative gases as SF6 replacement are introduced and their usage is discussed. The paper concludes with the system operator’s best-practices with the alternatively insulated equipment.

This Bachelor thesis is discussing issues of how electronic devices production, its input and output production processes and subsequent recycling of those devices have impact on individual components of the environment: air, soil and water systems. The thesis describes workers conditions as well as state of child labour in the context of the electronics industry in China. Regarding other social aspects, the work is concerned about impact on health condition of two groups: workers in production and recycling and residents in areas impacted with the electronics industry. This text is based on literary research. Scientific papers in database journals, statistical data, annuals and expert publications were used as sources for this work. Based on research data of individual authors, the work discusses the current situation in China with respect to excessive pollution and human rights violations due to the Chinese electronics industry.

This thesis is focused on the issue of ensuring sustainable development through ICT, especially focusing on the subsequent use of the theoretical knowledge in the implementation of Green ICT practices in small and medium-sized companies in the Czech Republic (SME). This work aims to achieve five specific side objectives, which are: Theoretical anchoring the Green ICT in relation to SME, the analysis of the potential impact of ICT on environmental sustainability, analysis of the available methodologies and ways of implementation of Green ICT and principles of sustainability, rating of Green ICT steps from different perspectives in order to select appropriate steps for the implementation and subsequent determination of methodical progress with implementing the most Green ICT steps into practice. Reaching these milestones is subsequently indicated achieve the main objective of the paper, which is a specification of a methodological framework for the selection and evaluation of appropriate Green ICT steps and a procedure for its subsequent implementation in practice. The primary tool for achieving the objectives of this paper is analysis of available and adequate current information resources focusing on the Green ICT and sustainable development, which is complemented by the author's expert reviews of Green ICT steps. This paper is possible to divide into two parts. The first part is contents of thoroughly analysis of information sources and based on them is subsequently implemented theoretical grasp of Green ICT. The second part is then specified own benefit of the paper through analysis and evaluation of Green ICT steps, accompanied by their methodology implementation.