Technology mandate for greening brick industry in Bangladesh: a policy evaluation

Haque, Nabil

doi:10.1007/s10098-016-1259-z

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“…Some of them know that they are harming the environment, but they do not compromise their greed for economic interests (personal communication, 20 December 2020). Haque (2017) and Luby et al, (2015) explored the causes of usage of highly polluting mechanisms in a brick kiln in Bangladesh. Economic incentives to set up green technology are important to reduce environmental degradation which results from the brick kiln.…”

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Environmental crimes and green criminology in Bangladesh

Sharif¹,

Uddin

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Bangladesh is an environmentally vulnerable country, where environmental crimes are massive and common. However, the environmental crime prevention mechanism in the country is very weak, and traditional policing is utilized to stop these crimes. Therefore, the green criminological approach to prevent environmental crimes in Bangladesh is underdeveloped in many ways, with a total absence of the green policing model. Hence, this study focuses on attaining a critical understanding of environmental crimes in Bangladesh by exploring the key underlying factors of environmental crimes. It also attempts to contribute to the environmental crime prevention mechanism by recommending a green policing model, while identifying the key weaknesses of the existing environmental crime prevention approach. This article implements the qualitative technique of data collection, and the analysis is based on an in-depth interview of 25 respondents, belonging to different categories of stakeholders, and participant observation. It also analyses the content of newspapers to understand the patterns of environmental crimes in Bangladesh. This article finds that environmental crimes are propagated by several political, economic, institutional, and social elements, such as the political affiliation of criminals, economic profit from natural resources, absence of institutional collaboration, and lack of social consciousness. The issue has become further aggravated due to the weakness of the crime prevention mechanism. Thus, the findings of this study suggest that environmental crimes in Bangladesh should be considered and understood from green criminological perspectives and the development of a green policing model would be effective in reducing environmental crimes in the country.

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Section: Economic Interestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental crimes and green criminology in Bangladesh

Sharif¹,

Uddin

2021

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…To enhance environmental performance, the replacement of traditional kilns with cleaner and high-tech alternatives has been suggested. Haque [33] analyzed some kinds of brick kiln technologies in Bangladesh, such as BTK, zigzag kiln, fixed chimney kiln (FCK), VSBK, hybrid Hoffman kiln (HHK), and TK based on fuel consumption, investment cost, and air pollution. These kilns are determined in order of polluting to more environment-friendly and high-tech one is proposed.…”

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Sustainable High-Tech Brick Production with Energy-Oriented Consumption: An Integrated Possibilistic Approach Based on Criteria Interdependencies

2021

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Brick making contributes significantly to the of supply materials for the building industry. The majority of brick production sectors, especially in developing countries, employ polluting and energy-inefficient technologies. Due to the increasing pressures on manufacturing firms to improve economic performance and growing environmental protection issues, sustainable and clean production is the main concern for brick makers. This paper considers the technological, economic, environmental, social, and energy-oriented criteria to select the optimal brick production technologies. Therefore, technology selection is viewed as a multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problem. This research proposes a novel hybrid fuzzy MCGDM (HFMCGDM) model to tackle the problem. In this respect, first of all, the modified triangular fuzzy pair-wise comparison (MTFPC) method is proposed to compute the local weights of criteria and sub-criteria. Then, a fuzzy DEMATEL (FDEMATEL) method is presented to calculate the interdependencies between and within the criteria. Moreover, the integration of MTFPC and FDEMATEL methods is applied to calculate the global criteria weights. Afterward, a novel method is proposed to determine the experts’ weight. Considering the last aggregation approach to diminish data loss, a new version of a fuzzy TOPSIS method is proposed to find the local and global priorities of the candidates. Then, a case study is given to demonstrate the applicability and superiority of the proposed methodology. To get a deeper view about considering kilns, energy and environmental performance of which has been investigated. Moreover, a comparative analysis is presented to illuminate the merits of the proposed methodology. Eventually, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to peruse the influence of criteria weights on ranking order.

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“…New technologies must improve the fluid dynamics of the gases inside the BK so that the emissions from the BK do not pollute. This is achieved through: (1) the use of fans, (2) mechanization of brick entry and removal and (3) automation of fuel injection [79][80][81]. Tasnim et al [82] demonstrated through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations that the Zigzag kiln (ZZK) is more efficient than the Fixed Chimney kilns (FCK), since in the ZZK, the swirling motion is created by turbulence.…”

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Artisan Brick Kilns: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends

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A large part of the global brick manufacturing industry has evolved based on knowledge transmitted from generation to generation without developing a consistent scientific approach. The purpose of this article is to contribute to this approach by discussing the state-of-the-art and future trends of the design and construction of artisan brick kilns (ABK). The methodology proposed for this study is based on a systematic literature review whereby main question is: What research exists on brick kilns? Based on the results of this review, it is recommended that appropriate emerging technologies that should be incorporated to ABKs for either medium or small enterprises should be: mechanical fans, envelope thermal insulation, organic waste of uniform size as fuel, automatic control of process variables and computer simulations of phenomenological processes. This should be accompanied by technical training for the brick-makers and greater access to financing funds. The technologies reviewed throughout the paper will allow for a more thermally efficient design of kilns, which will emit less hazardous greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants.

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Technology mandate for greening brick industry in Bangladesh: a policy evaluation

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Environmental crimes and green criminology in Bangladesh

Environmental crimes and green criminology in Bangladesh

Sustainable High-Tech Brick Production with Energy-Oriented Consumption: An Integrated Possibilistic Approach Based on Criteria Interdependencies

Artisan Brick Kilns: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends

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