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Richard M. Cruse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Soil erosion control practices in Northeast China: A mini-review
    Soil and Tillage Research, 2011
    Co-Authors: Xiaobing Liu, Shaoliang Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Guangwei Ding, Richard M. Cruse
    Abstract:

    Abstract Soil erosion is of great concern in every agricultural region of the world due to its long-term negative effects on soil productivity. Agricultural management strongly affects soil erosion, and thus agricultural sustainability. The control of soil erosion is the top Environmental Issue, and has been proposed as a bottleneck to the sustainable development of agriculture in Northeast China. This region is the bread basket of China where the fertile and productive Mollisol soil is primarily distributed. The advances in agronomic, biological and engineering practices including several tillage managements, terraces and strip cultivation, and soil amendments are summarized and discussed. Proposed strategies for erosion control in particular urgent government policies to maintain or restore the productivity of severely eroded farmland are emphasized in the context of agricultural sustainability for Northeast China and similar Mollisol regions.

J Carr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Olivier Bistorin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Xiaobing Liu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Soil erosion control practices in Northeast China: A mini-review
    Soil and Tillage Research, 2011
    Co-Authors: Xiaobing Liu, Shaoliang Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Guangwei Ding, Richard M. Cruse
    Abstract:

    Abstract Soil erosion is of great concern in every agricultural region of the world due to its long-term negative effects on soil productivity. Agricultural management strongly affects soil erosion, and thus agricultural sustainability. The control of soil erosion is the top Environmental Issue, and has been proposed as a bottleneck to the sustainable development of agriculture in Northeast China. This region is the bread basket of China where the fertile and productive Mollisol soil is primarily distributed. The advances in agronomic, biological and engineering practices including several tillage managements, terraces and strip cultivation, and soil amendments are summarized and discussed. Proposed strategies for erosion control in particular urgent government policies to maintain or restore the productivity of severely eroded farmland are emphasized in the context of agricultural sustainability for Northeast China and similar Mollisol regions.

Adnene Hajji - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Environmental Issue in an integrated production and maintenance control of unreliable manufacturing remanufacturing systems
    International Journal of Production Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Nadia Ndhaief, Rezg Nidhal, Adnene Hajji, Olivier Bistorin
    Abstract:

    This paper addresses a joint production and maintenance problem under Environmental constraints and reliability Issues in a manufacturing/remanufacturing context. The manufacturing system is compos...

  • Environmental Issue in an alternative production maintenance control for unreliable manufacturing system subject to degradation
    The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2015
    Co-Authors: Ali Bensalem, Ali Gharbi, Adnene Hajji
    Abstract:

    This article addresses the problem of joint production, maintenance, and emission control for an unreliable manufacturing system subject to degradation. The manufacturing system is composed of a production unit producing one product type. The production operations generate harmful emissions to the environment and may be sanctioned by an Environmental penalty imposed by the relevant authorities under the emission cap approach. Due to degradation phenomena, the availability of the machine decreases and the emission rate increases continuously over time. This paper aims to propose a feedback strategy to simultaneously control production rate, emission rate, as well as maintenance rate in order to mitigate the effect of the degradation of the system. The objective is to minimize the total cost over an infinite horizon. In this article, three different control policies from the class of hedging point (HPP1, HPP2, HPP3) are proposed, analysed and compared. Each control policy is characterized by a production and/or maintenance strategy different from the others policies, with or without the consideration of the emission aspect in the structure of the policy. An experimental resolution approach based on experimental design, simulation, and response surface methodology is applied in order to determine the optimal control policy parameters. The results show that the proposed HPP3, which integrates the emission control in the production and maintenance strategy, gives a significant gain in terms of total cost compared to HPP1 and HPP2. In addition, we integrate a preventive maintenance strategy to HPP3 in order to investigate a more general case. To illustrate the robustness of the proposed policies, several sensitivity analyses are presented to show the effect of system parameters on the structures of each policy. This analysis allows defining an overhaul and a preventive maintenance zone from the interactions between the parameters of HPP3.