Environmental impact / editors, C.A. Brebbia, T-S. Chon.

CONTENTS

Section 1: Environmental policies and planning

-Financial planning for the decommissioning of nuclear power plant
-A synthetic indicator to evaluate the contribution of clean development mechanism projects forLatin American sustainable development
-Planning documents and sustainable development of a commune in Poland
Etc.

Section 2: Environmental Assessments
-Improving environmental assessment: methodological consideration and practical solutions
-Development of an EIA screening phase for biogas project in Latvia
-SEA systems in the Middle East and North Africa region
Etc.

Section 3: Development Issues
-Sustainable housing development in Nigeria: using low-carbon technology
-Advanced materials and processes enabling sustainable growth in the aeronautic industry
Etc.

Section 4: Cultivating our city
-cultivating our cities
-The analysis of urban travellers' latent preferences to explain their mode choice behaviour
Etc.

Section 5: Economic Analysis
-Organic and conventional date farm efficiency estimation, and its determents at Riyadh Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
-Economic impact of climate change on Nigerian Maize sector: a Ricardian analysis

Section 6: Natural resource management
-Restoration of degraded area using soil tillage system in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
-Towards sustainability: artificial intelligent based approach for soil stabilization using various pozzolans

Section 7: Energy and the environment
-Development of the renewable energy for small urban areas
-Economic, technical and environmental aspects of fuel additives ENVIROX during trials with diesel engines
-Research into the use of a lean burn and a stoichiometric heavy duty engine fuelled with a blend of hydrogen and natural gas

Section 8: Food and the environment
-Food crisis: how to define it spastically
-The impact of excessive irrigation water and fertilizers on environment and ground water quality in arid regions
Etc.

Section 9: Ecosystems health
-Reclamation of ecological functions within a marine ecosystem: redevelopment of the Southeast False Creek lands in Vancouver, Canada
-Monitoring the ecosystem health of the Terminos Lagoon region using heavy metals as environmental indicators
Etc.

Section 10: Brownfield rehabilitation
-Evaluation of rehabilitation alternatives at the abandoned Avoca mining site in Ireland
-Developing guidelines for brown field development in South Africa
-From Brown shore to Green shore: Redevelopment of the southeast False Creek lands in Vancouver, Canada
Etc.

Section 11: Water resource management
-Case study, scenarios and the exploration of human subjectivity for market-based instrument success: in integrated framework
-Leveraging water infrastructure for transformative socio-economic development in south Africa
-Aquatic realms and running water in sustainable tourism
Etc.

Section 2: Soil contamination
-Engineering environmental site investigations in the oilfields of the Western Urals: peculiarities and problems
-Indicators of soil degradation in urban forests: physical and chemical parameters
Etc.

Section13: Air and water pollution
-The application of a new air pollution management program (PROAIR) in Mexicali 2011-2020, Baja California, Mexico
-Integrative air quality management air shed by using multi-gas passive sampling technology in Canada
-Leaching from new generation treated wood: a chemical approach
Etc.

Section 14: Toxicity studies
-Effect of di-n-buty1phthalate on the development of Spodoptera frugiperda
-Lewis acid catalysts: a potential exploitation for Zinc and nickel phytoextraction
Etc.

Section 15: Environmental health risk
-Comparison of indoor and outdoor fungi and particles in poultry units
-Effects of age , sex, and environmental factors using samples of hair from residents Living in the vicinity of the Cho Dien lead/zinc mine (Vietnam)

Section 16: Risk Analysis
- Vulnerability of water source selected emergency water supply in the Czech Republic
-Risk assessment of exposure to volatile organic compounds in the holy city of Makkah

Includes bibliographical references and author index (p.637-639)

"The interdisciplinary conference addressed some of the most serious problems affecting sustainable development, issues that must be considered by development projects in order to provide complete solutions. A major motivation for the meeting was to learn from past failures and avoid repeating similar mistakes while attempting to prevent emerging threats to the environmental and ecological systems by developing more constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability"--Publisher information.