KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: REDUCING RESPONSE OF CARBON TRACE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GUAYAQUIL


Abstract:

The University of Guayaquil is the Ecuador's largest institution of higher education (IES for its acronym in Spanish), with an enrollment that has exceeded seventy thousand students, about three thousand teachers working on it and at least two thousand administrative and service staff. In correspondence with such numbers and as required by the activity of an institution of its kind, any decision made by the University of Guayaquil will result in a greater environmental impact than any other university in the country. The main objective of the research is to determine the carbon trace produced by one of the faculties, which exceeds 37 tons of carbon dioxide (t CO2) per year. The data were obtained from the number of printing, photocopying and documents generated per year. Such production is only a part of the generated by the university. The analysis of the data obtained requires the search and use of knowledge …

Año de publicación:

2017

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    Tipo de documento:

    Other

    Estado:

    Acceso abierto

    Áreas de conocimiento:

    • Desarrollo sostenible
    • Ciencia ambiental

    Áreas temáticas:

    • Funcionamiento de bibliotecas y archivos
    • Economía de la tierra y la energía
    • Dirección general