Mitigation and Compensation under EU Nature Conservation Law in the Flemish Region: Beyond the Deadlock for Development Projects?

For years, the predicament of many of the European protected habitats and species in the Flemish Region, as in many other Member States, passed relatively unnoticed.The lack of proper rules and clear implementation rules fuelled the impression amongst project developers and planning authorities that the impacts of project developments on biodiversi

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ACCELERATED WEATHERING TESTS ON PROTEIN FIBERS

Protein-based textiles, such as wool and silk, possess special properties and they are ranked higher on the hierarchical scale than thermostat the cellulosic ones (e.g., cotton, linen, hemp), in terms of quality.Wool is composed of keratin as the main protein component and silk consists of approx.80% fibroin and 20% sericin.The degradation of prote

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