Contain all the articles from this issueICEEM /01 PLENARY CONFERENCETen years of Environmental Engineering and Management education and research at the Technical University of IasiMatei Macoveanu, Carmen Teodosiu ICEEM/01  - Environmental Engineering SectionRemoval of nitrogen oxides from Diesel exhaust: Laboratory studies for development of an SCR-catalyst-system using solid urea as reducing agentWerner Weisweiler High temperature desulphurization of hydrogen sulphide containing ...
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Contain all the articles from this issueICEEM /02 PLENARY SESSION:"Environmental Engineering and Management in the Context of Sustainable Development"Design for sustainability (D4S): towards advanced product conceptsHan Brezet, Sacha SilvesterICEEM/02 - ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SECTION"Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies"Complex approach to the problem of persistent organic pollutants degradation in water environmentVictor Covaliov, Olga Covaliova, Angela Cincilei, Gilles Mailhot, Pasca...
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AbstractIn Serbia, the more recent sustainable development policy faces a number of serious problems, which are emphasized by the slow pace at which post-socialist r,eforms have been performed. Environmental aspects of transition reforms have hardly been tackled so far, the copper complex in the area of Bor (Eastern Serbia) being a notable example of such a delay. In effect, the practice of a more rigorous and systematic ex ante evaluation of possible future development scenarios is at its very ...
Autori: Miodrag Vujosevic,
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AbstractIntegrated water resources management requires planning and management activities, as well as adequate information and communication within a structure that groups different stakeholders (industry, agriculture and other types of water users, civil society representatives, university and research institutions, water authorities and waterworks companies), being thus characterized by a high level of complexity, and requiring the involvement of numerous decision-makers operating at different...
Autori: , , Luminita Lupu
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Abstract Protection of plants from diseases, pests and weeds plays a decisive role in agricultural development, as an essential part in planning and policy of numerous countries. Since the plant protection products are mainly chemicals and may be not only poisonous for humans and fauna, but they may also pollute water bodies, ground water and soil with hazardous pollutants, their use have to be environmentally friendly and sustainable. The paper discuss some aspects of benefits and risks con...
Autori: Manuela Olga Pogăcean, Maria Gavrilescu
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Abstract Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) represents one of the most important instruments for implementation of the sustainable development strategy in planning. The paper presents methodological framework and method used for SEA impact evaluation of the Waste Management Regional plan for Kolubara region in Serbia. The methodological approach and method are based on planer’s approach that has results in practice. The method is found after the multicriterion evaluation of the plan s...
Autori: Bosko Josimovic, Tijana Crnčević
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Abstract Despite their success, the so-called Italian Industrial Districts (IIDs) have to face the crisis caused by the phenomenon of globalization. The paper presents the interventions carried out in two industrial districts, tannery district of Arzignano and artistic glass district of Murano, in order to help the public administrations to improve the environmental situation. Introducing strategic and social considerations in environmental initiatives and implementing ?radical? environmenta...
Autori: Flaviano D'Amico, Giulio D'Amico, Ion Tanase, Marian Mihai Buleandra, Mihaela Buleandra
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? SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE HARDENING PROCESSES IN NORMAL CLIMATIC AND THERMAL TREATMENT CONDITIONS ? THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION ? AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREA ? MENU PLANNING STRATEGY BASED ON ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ? EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF NIGERIAN COMPOSTED WASTES USING LABORATORY EXTRACTION TEST ? IN SITU RADIOFREQUENCY FIELD LEVEL ASSESSMENT IN TWO URBAN AREAS IN ROMANIA: OPEN QUESTIONS TO ELECTROMAGNETIC POLLUTION ? INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR WARNING ON HI...
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? COMPACT MICROPULSE BACKSCATTER LIDAR: AIRBORNE AND GROUND-BASED APPLICATIONS ? STUDIES OF THE IMPACT OF AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES ON CLIMATE CHANGE PROCESSES ? A STUDY OF THE AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTIES AT TWO AERONET STATIONS FROM ROMANIA ? COMPLEMENTARY ATMOSPHERIC URBAN POLLUTION STUDIES IN THE NORTH-EAST REGION OF ROMANIA, IASI COUNTY ? ?NGSTR?M TURBIDITY IN THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE TROPOSPHERE ? LIDAR MONITORING OF ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION AND NATURAL PHENOMENA ...
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Many regions are facing formidable freshwater management challenges. In this research, the Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) was used to simulate water demand and supply under planting structure adjustment scenario in Laohahe River Basin (LRB), China. The effects of planting structure adjustment on alleviating the water resources vulnerability were simulated by defining scenario for changes in crops sown area inputs to WEAP model. The results show that compared with the Reference, plan...
Autori: Lu Hao, Lingling Huang, Wenbin Wang, Huiyuan Zhanghttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25699

The beneficial effect of urban plants in improving air quality is often mentioned in literature but is seldom quantified and valuated. Quantification and valuation of the benefits provided by urban plants allow direct comparison between plant species and help make more informed urban planning decisions. Based on fieldwork study and data processing, carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration, oxygen (O2) generation, transpiration cooling, sulfur dioxide (SO2) removal and dust interception are quantified ...
Autori: Qijiao Xie, Zhixiang Zhou, Fang Chenhttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25710

Abstract:In this paper, photo-catalytic process for treatment of phenolic wastewater by TiO2 nano powder immobilized on concrete surfacein a recirculation hydraulic flow was investigated. The process affected by different operational conditions that the optimum onescould be obtained from variables interchange. Taguchi method as a proper method for design of experiments and optimizationwas used to find optimum conditions. Selected five parameters at four levels were consists of initial phenol con...
Autori: Bita Ayati, Hossein Ganjidoust, Mohammad Delnavaz, Sohrab Sanjabi
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AbstractAdaptive implementation is important for implementing projects that are complex and dynamic. The two cases chosen in thisarticle are longer - term, integrated and multi - purpose projects where adaptive implementation is part of a modern approach towater management. This article provides the results of an analysis of two stream restoration cases, one in Canada and the other inthe Netherlands. The cases are used to identify strategies for implementation of projects that attempt to improve...
Autori: Cheryl de Boer
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AbstractWorldwide efforts are made to conserve biodiversity, to avoid degradation of ecosystems and not least to restore ecologicalstreams. Ecological restoration is a field which assume multidisciplinary and multisectoral involvements. In the last yearsecological restoration has emerged as an important component of ecosystem management and environmental protection. Manyprojects were planned and implemented to maintain and improve the ecological integrity of streams, by restoring naturalecosyste...
Autori: Cristina Ghinea, Maria Gavrilescu
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AbstractThe geodetic, photogrammetric and topographic works necessary for the introduction of cadastre were performed in the city ofIasi in a series of various coordinate systems depending of the cartographic projections used in different periods of time. In a firstphase (1951-1973) the creation and the organization of topographical plans relied on the coordinate system of the LocalStereographic Projection - Iasi with the central point at Golia and the Gauss - Krüger Conformal Transverse Cylindr...
Autori: Adrian Popia, Ersilia Oniga, Valeriu Moca
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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the opportunity of GIS technique implementation for the research of agricultural landsquality. Taking into account that the factors which determine the quality of agricultural lands have a spatial distribution, weconsidered that the complex activities (especially on large surfaces) can be better done within the framework of an informationsystem. Compared to other methods applied for assessing the productive potential of agricultural lands, the GIS ...
Autori: Florian Statescu, Gabriela Biali
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AbstractAtmospheric emission inventories are useful tools to support informed decision making in air quality management. In theframework of Apulia Region emission inventory, a tool for the industrial atmospheric emission management called TerritorialEmissions Cadastre (CET) was developed. CET is a Web-based system able to store all data related to the industrial plants and toperform spatial queries; its components are used for synchronizing, exporting and querying the underlined database. CET al...
Autori: Eleonora Andriani
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AbstractWith the development of transportation systems, the associated traffic noise problem has drawn more and more attention in HongKong. Under the Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines, a standard of 70 dB(A), measured as LA10 (1 hour), has been setfor road traffic noise. The Calculation of Road Traffic Noise (CRTN) method has been adopted in Hong Kong to estimate suchnoise. This study first examined and evaluated the accuracy of this method in predicting traffic noise at different floo...
Autori: Cheuk Ming Mak
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Abstract In order to link the question of renewable energy to regional development and territorial cohesion, the article aims to present and evaluate recent initiatives taking place in the North-West Development Region of Romania, with emphasis on emerging renewable energy clusters. Moreover, we will present a case-study on geothermal energy cluster in Northern Transylvania. The state-of-art analysis is a result of a previous FP7 project, while the action plan has been derived from...
Autori: József Benedek
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AbstractWith the rapid development of the city, people feel increasingly great pressure. Community Parks are playing more significantroles in people’s daily life. Community Parks with the theme of leisure and recreation provide communication platforms forresidents and have enriched their outdoor activities. The parks not only ease people’s life and work pressure, but also improvecommunication among neighbours. An excellent Community Park not only needs to satisfy residents’ utility requirements,...
Autori: Wenting Wu
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AbstractThe transport of hazardous substances is an essential economic activity because it represents a quite relevant percentage of thetotal goods transportation. The risk associated to such an activity is fundamentally related to the possibility of an accidenttriggering that may cause negative environmental and public health consequences. A recent example is the Viareggio accident(2009), which involved the blast of tank wagons containing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and caused more than thirt...
Autori: Vincenzo Torretta
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AbstractThe recrudescence and diversification of natural and anthropic hazards over the past decades are mainly attributed to an increasein the vulnerability of human communities. Understanding this vulnerability, as central predictive variable within the riskequation, proves to be a highly useful tool in land planning, namely in the development of various strategies. The current paperaims at proposing and integrating certain indicators into the methodology used in the evaluation of exposure to ...
Autori: Adrian Grozavu
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AbstractWaste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is increasing day by day more than the amount of municipal wastes in thedeveloping world. According to researches of Ministry of Environment and Urbanism in Turkey, to meet growing waste demandin all regions, 850 collection points for the district municipalities and 15 large collection centres are needed. From this point ofview, in this study, the site selection of the plants used for planning and recycling of electrical and electronic equ...
Autori: Müfide Banar
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AbstractLithuania is planning to construct a new nuclear power plant nearby the closed one. The possible radioactive pollution can be one of the main problems in its surroundings. Results of investigations of the gamma radiation equivalent dose rate (EDR) at new nuclear power plant sites are presented. Main factors influencing the level of the EDR are identified and evaluated, and geological structure of alternative sites is discussed. The gamma spectrometry data showed that the dominant influen...
Autori: Raselė Girgždienė, Vigilija Cidzikienė
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AbstractInvestigating and exploring new methods of coal-mining environment has become a new project to resolve the safety of mineproduction. The virtual reality technology provides new ways and ideas for the safety of mine production, and the intelligence ofthe virtual environment is enhanced as the multi-agent is applied. Based on multi-agent technology and the investigation of themodeling approach of the virtual environment of the complex coal mine, a three-layer architecture model and the for...
Autori: Chaoli Tang, Chunling Wang, Liguo Qu, Liuyi Ling
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AbstractWoodland covers about one third of Italy. No longer just a source of products for fuels and buildings, forests also have aprotective function against natural disasters like landslides and they also serve as recreational areas for people.Our primary goal was to define an overall method for assessing the possible uses of woodland areas to help those preparing forestplanning instruments for evaluating the productive, protective and recreational functions of the woodlands. We quantified, usi...
Autori: Alessandro Toccolini, Giulio Senes, Natalia Fumagalli, Paolo Ferrario
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AbstractThe protected natural areas are becoming increasingly popular vacation destinations with both international and domestictravellers. Protected area may be an area of land and/or sea dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity,and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other means. It might have many differentpurposes. This means that biodiversity protection, though a critically important function is far from being the only purpos...
Autori: Lidija Petrić
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AbstractThe failure of process equipment due to the impact of natural hazards, the so-called Natech events, have generated severalindustrial accidents, such as Fukushima, Japan - 2011, Ichihara, Japan - 2011, Tupras, Turkey - 1999, Northridge, US - 1994 etc.,causing the release of large quantities of hazardous materials in the environment. Earthquakes occupy a leading position in thelist of natural hazards with Natech potential, causing serious damage and the loss of containment in process equip...
Autori: Augusta Diana Gheorghiu
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AbstractDesigning for flood risk is an important reference for hydroelectric project planning and design. In this paper, advancedchecking-point method (JC method), which is usually used to calculate structure reliability is introduced and used to analyze thedownstream design for flood risk, considering upper reservoirs’ influence; besides, the design for flood hydrograph is deducedfrom the typical flood hydrograph. So, JC method not only can consider the influence of upper reservoirs, but also c...
Autori: Lingzhi Huang
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AbstractSocial and economic development can cause land cover changes that significantly affect ecosystem services and functions. Thisstudy investigated the temporal variation in ecosystem service values in response to land cover changes caused mainly by humanactivities in Harbin City, one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in northeast China. The aim was to provide guidance forregional sustainable development. An evaluation method for ecosystem service values based on land cover change wa...
Autori: Zi Tang
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AbstractEnvironmental and territorial compatibility of industrial activities can be evaluated by considering several criteria, usuallyformalized in the contest of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); the pipelines sector, however, is not as wellstandardized as others. In this paper, a new methodology to evaluate territorial compatibility of proposed pipelines is presented.This approach can be useful to assess proper development compatibility of oil and gas pipeline networks, and it could ...
Autori: Vincenzo Torretta
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Abstract There is broad consensus that adaptation to climate change is necessary and urgent. Numerous documents and guidelines are available that provide advice on how to incorporate climate hazards and risks into spatial policies on the global, European and national scale. The experiences of less developed countries have shown that, rather than simply cascading uniform procedures, methods and techniques of adaptation down from higher to lower levels of governance, a realistic approach calls...
Autori: Nada Lazarevic Bajec
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Abstract It is widely accepted that public support is vital to the success of most recycling programmes. The actions of householders are paramount to the success of any sustainable waste management policies whether local, regional or national. This paper presents a study of householders’ attitudes to recycling of solid wastes in Malaysia, which supports the idea that careful planning and design are critical for the success of a new recycling programme. A postal questionnaire survey was...
Autori: Abdelnaser Omran
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Abstract As natural landscapes are increasingly replaced by impervious surface materials associated with urbanization, urban areas tend to experience higher surface temperatures when compared to rural areas, which is known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. In this study the impact of urbanization on land surface temperature (LST) and the UHI effect were examined based on two Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imageries of 1987 and 2007. Results show that Wuhan experienced rapid urban expansio...
Autori: Qijiao Xie
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Abstract Transparent and participatory decision making in solving complex forest management problems are fostered by numerous forest policies. Thus, all relevant stakeholders should be involved in the process of evaluating forest road options from the early stages of planning. However, participatory tools are not yet used as a matter of course in the Romanian forest sector. This study aimed to stress the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in decision making in the forest sec...
Autori: Adrian Enache
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Abstract This paper reports the activity, promoted by the Italian agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development (ENEA), in the framework of the project for the development and implementation of the first Italian Platform for Industrial Symbiosis implemented in Sicily (2011-2015). The goals of the project were: to provide a methodology and an instrument for industrial symbiosis implementation at regional scale, to implement a IS Platform as a support to SMEs to ind...
Autori: Laura Cutaia
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Abstract To make sustainability transitions happen, it is crucial not only to have strategic planning processes committed by the top management, but also to encourage community engagement, approaching and promoting a bottom-up process. In the specific case of a University Campus, that means the involvement of the students not only as consumers, but with a leading role in the sustainability process. DICAM department of University of Bologna has recently started the implementation of some prac...
Autori: Sara Rizzo
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Abstract The wide spread traffic congestion witnessed in urban transportation network, especially during rush hours, aggravates vehicle exhaust emissions. Previous studies reveal that congestion not only slows down the traffic flow but also significantly increases emissions. This highlights the need of accounting for congestion-related emissions in transportation planning. In this paper, congestion-related emission is incorporated into a transit bus scheduling problem by a nonlinear programm...
Autori: Yan Chen
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Abstract Drying wood requires a significant amount of energy. This includes both thermal energy, necessary to heat-up wood, evaporate the water inside it and cover the insulation and vent losses, as well as electric energy consumed to force air circulation through the stacks. When wood is frozen, both energy consumptions increase; on one hand because frozen water requires a supplementary heat for transformation into liquid and then into gaseous state, and on the other hand, because of the lo...
Autori: Maria Bernadett Szmutku
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Abstract The traditional industrial parks (TIPs) in China has been rapidly developed in the past 30 years, which have contributed to stable and continuing GDP growth, but also caused severe pollution. In order to solve the conflict between local economic development, environmental pollution and resource shortage, the TIPs in China should be transformed to eco-industrial parks (EIPs). However, the eco-transformation of China's TIPs is still at an exploratory stage. So, the paper studies e...
Autori: Jiang Wang
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Abstract The Waste Management activity (WM) is an urban action becoming more and more important in the municipal economy. In many cities, this activity is linked to significant revenues from the selective waste collection services. Because the current economic situation requires an increasing efficiency and profitability in order to succeed in cutting the operational costs, and as an important part of revenue comes from this selective waste collection activity, the effectiveness must be impr...
Autori: Gabriel Murariu
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Abstract Waste management in Romania, in particular in Cluj-Napoca city, needs major improvements. By analyzing the results and implementation of waste composition studies which have been performed in different countries, it can be easily noticed that they can play a very important role in the planning stage of waste management, but also in the monitoring and evaluation of the process. Moreover, waste composition studies are an integrated part of waste management planning in developed countr...
Autori: Ioana Nicoleta Pop
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Abstract The paper presents a study on the hazards associated with solid ammonium nitrate (AN) storage and handling, in particular the hazard of explosion. Due to its flammable and explosive characteristics, AN is largely used as an explosive material in the mining industry. Some specific problems encountered in the risk estimation are related to the determination of the explosive power of the AN, which depends on several characteristics. The simulation results of AN explosion using differen...
Autori: Zoltán Török
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Abstract Water is one of the most important resources for sustainable development and human life. To meet future water needs, water resources and drinking water watersheds (DWWs) should be placed under protection using efficient methods. The spatial planning and spatial data has an important role in sustainable DWW management. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is extensively used for spatial data production effectively based on spatial planning. The use of large-extended data, the analy...
Autori: Recep Nisanci
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This work establishes a mapping procedure to determine the risk of susceptibility to hillside movements (landslides) that can be applied to any territory by means of algebraic mapping of the passive or determining factors that influence risk. On the one hand, derivative morphometric mappings obtained from a Digital Terrain Model that notably influence the genesis of active processes have been generated; these mappings include gradient mapping, aspect mapping and type of curvature mapping. On ...
Autori: Antonio Miguel Martínez-Grańa
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To explore the main sources and pathways of heavy metals entering fruits and the corresponding countermeasures, a field survey was conducted in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province, China. The results showed that heavy metals in fruits came mainly from the use of foliar fertilizers, ripening agents, fungicides, pesticides, and other sprayed materials during the flowering and ripening stages. Therefore, a government program should be established to improve monitoring of agricultural products ente...
Autori: Bin Fang
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Nautical tourism is a phenomenon that in the last three decades has recorded one of the highest development rates known in the European and Croatian economies. Economic forecasters for tourism development agree that nautical tourism is in its early stages of development and that increasing results are to be expected. From a scientific perspective, however, nautical tourism development is still not sufficiently represented in the science of tourism. In Croatia, nautical tourism is seen as a ne...
Autori: Mirjana Kovačić
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An environmental axis consists of elements, and the way they behave reflects the conditions in which they work. Romania, for example, is a country located at the crossroads of the most important environmental axes of the continent, namely the West-East axis: Western Europe - the ex-Soviet space; the North-West - South-East axis: Central Europe - Asia Minor and the Middle East; the axis of the seas: the Caspian Sea - the Black Sea - the Mediterranean; the axis of rivers and canals: Rhine - Mai...
Autori: Călin-Cornel Pop
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Starting from the destructive nature of the preventive and/or rescue archaeological researches, the archaeological investigations is imposed by the steps of building, alteration, extension or repair on the works affecting the soil surface in the archaeological heritage areas, regardless of the land’s region and ownership. Considering that geographical information systems (GIS) - that are part of a broader class of information systems and are mainly characterized by data processing depen...
Autori: Ionut Maican
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Based on the new cadastral measurements that are going to be performed at the level of both territorial-administrative units and cadastral sectors, respectively, on real estates and/or parcels, the technical data of the unitary cadastral system and land register will be obtained. When referring to the cadastral territories where surface and subsurface drainage works have been performed, it is absolutely necessary to correlate the technical data resulted from the cadastral measurements with th...
Autori: Valeriu Moca
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In the context of sustainable development and the impact of human activity on the environment, the Faculty of Geodesy – Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest has developed an accredited new curricula at the Master’s degree level. As basis of the curriculum design and content subjects were considered fundamental notions needed by surveyor specialists to work successfully in interdisciplinary teams to and identify and solve environmental problems. The presentation of t...
Autori: Dumitru Onose
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Sustainable development of rural areas involving rural communities is a complex and timeless research theme, as it is based on two fundamental parties, which are in close interdependence: the headspring of sustainable resources generating development, and the rural residents representing both the consumer and the active factors of the development. In this context, this paper proposes an approach addressing the strategic options for the development and diversification of the rural economy, bas...
Autori: Romulus Iagăru
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A test for quantifying the contribution of colour and scale to the visual impact of buildings in the rural setting was developed and validated by means of a public opinion survey. The method was based on some psychological aspects of visual perception and on a simple image treatment performed by a well known and easily available computer program. Results were provided as numerical values, enabling the quantification of the impact for the two individual elements studied and for their potential in...
Autori: María Jesús Montero-Parejo
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Oceanic islands face very serious environmental issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and proliferation of invasive alien species. The delimitation of the IES shall consider the many inter-relationships between all biophysical and cultural variables, contributing therefore to a better understanding of the socio-ecological system. The Island Ecological Structure (IES) includes the key natural resources, biophysical functions and ecological processes wit...
Autori: Artur Gil
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In this study, an interval-parameter queuing model (IPQM) for planning a municipal solid waste (MSW) management system with cost-effective objective is developed through introducing the queuing model with limited capacity into an interval-parameter linear programming (ILP) framework. IPQM can examine the effects of limited queue capacity on waste-flow allocation pattern and system cost under uncertainty. Random vehicles have to wait in queue due to limited capacities for disposing MSW, leadin...
Autori: Yongping Li
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The roots of this study are generated by the problems of plastic waste accumulations: insufficiency of storage spaces, storage costs and outgoings of plastic waste recycling, recovery, decomposition or reprocessing. The paper develops and details a modular prototype, for multifunctional territorial use, offering non-polluting and aesthetic possibility of plastic waste storage. The progress in the related fighting pollution areas have been approached, such as waste management through ecologica...
Autori: Doina Mira Dascălu
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Sustainable use of metallic mineral resources of Serbia, being a part of natural resources, represents the basis for the planning, functioning, development and growth of numerous sectors of the economy as well as the basis for assessing the positions and perspectives for further socio-economic development of the country. Following a two-decade long period of socio-economic regression and economic and financial decline in Serbia, as well as problems in the functioning of institutions and strat...
Autori: Radule Tošović
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The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is both a technical and administrative procedure with (mandatory) extensive application throughout Europe, holding a primary role in sustainable territorial development. Objectives of the SEA process are to: provide a high level of protection for the environment, and promote sustainability of development by contributing to the integration of appropriate environmental considerations in the adoption and implementation of specific plans and programs. In ...
Autori: Vincenzo Torretta
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27231

Anthropogenic influences on the hydrological network in the lower part of the Kolubara River have been notably intensive since 1959, when huge river regulation works were constructed to open new mining fields for lignite exploitation. From that moment, the Kolubara River flowed through the Pestan's riverbed (its right tributary), and the bank erosion became stronger, resulting in the lateral migration of the river course on one hand and land loss, land use changes, and economic consequenc...
Autori: Slavoljub Dragicevic
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27257

Current research details methodological framework for the land planning of the recreational activities based on ecologic approach. Human impacts on landscapes caused by touristic activities should be in accordance with sustainability level, i.e. without changing natural landscape elements, their function and processes, as well as environmental quality. Region of Štiavnické Bane in Slovakia represents a case study area that is completely under nature and landscape conservation. The ...
Autori: Michal Klaučo
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27264

The paper is focused on a research project aiming to provide conditions for market competitiveness of producers and to guarantee the free movement of Romanian products on the EU. This is done by guaranteeing essential health and safety requirements applicable to work equipment in order to implement policies set out in the strategy EUROPE 2020. This strategy takes into account the priority of: favourable growth of inclusion-promoting an economy with a high rate of employment, ensuring social and ...
Autori: Anca Elena Antonov
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27371

The Rural Development Plan (RDP) represent the most important source of contributions and support for the agro-food sector companies in Italy. The European Community planning tool based on a European Structural and Investment Fund (SIE) allows the agricultural and forestry entrepreneurs to undertake projects and investments for the improvement of their companies. During the 2014-2020 RDP program, the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy), promoted a rewarding mechanism to support those companies car...
Autori: Enrico Gerboni
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27404

A significant part of each risk informed land-use planning methodology, applied in the surroundings of Seveso installations, is the assessment of the vulnerability of all possible potential human and environmental targets. This paper focuses on the enhancement of the transparency of these methodologies, through the application of ELECTRE TRI, which is a well known and structured multi-criteria methodology. A broad set of multiple and conflicting criteria is considered, ranging from population...
Autori: Ioannis D. Mitsopoulos
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27428

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design. The impacts of UHI are even getting worse due to large population density with improper building design especially in dense metropolitan cities. A lot of research has been carried out for UHI phenomenon both in tropical and seasonal climates. There are many factors contributing to the formation of UHI phenomenon that inc...
Autori: Yee Yong Lee
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27438

Nature-based tourism is increasing rapidly in China, forcing policy makers to pay ever-greater attention to the balance between tourism development and natural resource conservation. Taking Jiuzhaigou National Park in Sichuan, one of China’s most famous nature-based tourism sites as an example, this study uses travel cost and contingent valuation methods to estimate the landscape’s “use value” from recreation and users’ willingness to pay for additional measures of ...
Autori: Cheng Cheng
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27499

The Brazilian instruments of environmental policy are mainly geared toward specific uses. They are not usually integrated into an analysis of all land uses. Economic Ecological Zoning is an instrument which can consider multiple land uses. However, in Brazil, this instrument is still not appropriately used to assist with the siting of planning projects. In this context, this paper aims to analyze the ‘usefulness’ of Economic Ecological Zoning for the siting of hydropower plants prior...
Autori: Carolina de Oliveira Jordăo
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27633

The present study aims to examine and model the adverse effects of vehicular emission on urban air quality and consequently on human health. It will facilitate the town planners to quantify the ill effects of vehicle generated air pollutants on human health to enable them to decide due weightage to be given to this attribute at planning level. Allahabad, a metropolitan city of India has been selected as the study area. Monitoring was conducted at various locations in the study area to evaluate t...
Autori: Binay K. Singh
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27638

In this study, we consider a potential Finnish solution to sustainable energy production to satisfy the European Union's forestrelated energy policies related to climate change. Conventional energy production includes a number of fossil fuel, peat, and renewable fuel procurement chains that supply a combined heat and power (CHP) plant during different periods of the year. In Finland, peat is commonly used as fuel by energy plants. However, it is not environmentally friendly because it is ...
Autori: Teijo Sakari Palander
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27672

The aim of this study is to identify the influential factors which affect the planning and construction process in coastal ecological engineering. Through the application of AHP to analyze weight, it applies the data obtained from descriptive statistics as a reference in decision-making. Research methods are by means of expert questionnaire. To understand the same and different points of views from the experts and scholars, then according to different purposes it uses the results of this study i...
Autori: Chi-Shun Hsu
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27732

Monitoring of air emission and pollution control cost is a key to improve air quality management of electricity generation industry. This research comprehensively evaluates abatement cost of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), emission intensity and emission inventory of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter (PM), and carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from Thailand’s fossil fuel power plants. The research applied bottom-up approach with continuously monitored ...
Autori: Wasin Pinprateep
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27740

Many ecotourism destinations unfortunately tend to become unsustainable and even self-destructive due to inappropriate environmental assessments. On the other hand, because of the increasing people’s willingness to tourism and relaxation, it is necessary to select and introduce new regions for tourism. To do this, the application of relevant criteria can be a profitable method. The purpose of this study is to identify nature-based tourism activities and also site selection for them in Sisa...
Autori: Sedigheh Babazadeh Khameneh
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27755

This paper presents a mapping procedure for determining the environmental impact of flooding in spatial planning. This procedure is applied to a section of the Guadalquivir River in the Quemadillas sector of Córdoba, southern Spain, where flood risks are of great importance because of improper riverside planning and the absence of prevention measures. We performed a comprehensive environmental analysis in conjunction with hydrological and hydraulic modelling using GIS techniques, allowing...
Autori: Antonio Miguel Martínez-Grańa
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27837

In this research, a support vector regression and Monte Carlo simulation-based interval two-stage programming (SVRMC-ITSP) method was developed through integrating support vector regression (SVR) and Monte Carlo simulation into a two-stage intervalstochastic programming (TISP) framework. The developed SVRMC-ITSP method can effectively tackle dynamic, interactive and uncertain characteristics of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems. It can also be used to simulate waste generation r...
Autori: Chao Dai
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27905

Sustainable management of transboundary rivers, especially in water-scarce regions is increasingly becoming more challenging due to the collective adverse impact of upstream development and climate change on transboundary scale. Two major tributaries of the Tigris River, the Diyala (Sīrvān) and the Lesser Zab River basins, are shared between Iraq and Iran. They were adopted as representative basins for a large number of transboundary rivers, where short-sighted perspectives are curr...
Autori: Furat Al-Faraj
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27938

The great degree of human development in recent centuries has generated an environmental problem: the spread of human activities through the landscape without sustainable planning. Currently, most natural areas of the planet that are protected for their natural resources have not been impacted by linear infrastructure. The landscape is one of the natural resources that is adversely affected by linear infrastructure. In this short essay, a methodological procedure is described that is easy to ...
Autori: Antonio Miguel Martínez-Grańa
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27990

The paper presents the development of a Flood Index (FI) based on the flood hydrograph characteristics, namely flood magnitude ratio, rising curve gradient and time to peak. These characteristic values are normalized to their respective values corresponding to a 100-year flood. The methodology developed to compute FI is applied to three case studies; Kentucky in USA, Oc-gok in the Republic of Korea and Haor in Bangladesh. The obtained results show advantages of the presented methodology over ...
Autori: Biswa Bhattacharya
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27992

In this paper, several image analysis techniques have been applied aiming to obtain useful information regarding the processing of municipal solid waste polymers. An automated color extraction method has been applied in order to quantize the color distribution in the polymer wastes aiming their resource and time-efficient separation according to their color. Also, by processing different density fractions from the polymer waste the color of the final material has been predicted, as well as th...
Autori: Silvia Patachia
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27994

This paper aims to disclose the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall in time domain or frequency domain. For this purpose, the rainfall data at seven stations in Hebei Plain since the 1960s were subjected to trend analysis by innovative trend analysis (ITA), Mann–Kendall (MK) test and linear regression and periodicity analysis by continuous wavelet transform (CWT). The results show that different rainfall intensities obeyed different trends on spatial and temporal scale. Firstly, on ...
Autori: Dan Huang
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28003

Energy and resource consumption in construction projects is one of major causes to global warming. In order to evaluate the environmental load of construction projects, previous approaches calculated the quantities of construction materials and energy consumption from the use of equipment based on detailed design information after the completion of design. As a result, it is difficult to estimate environmental loads prior to design completion. This study is to develop an estimating model whic...
Autori: Ju-hyun Lee
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28007

There is a great need for an efficient geographic information system (GIS) implementation in interdisciplinary domains for providing useful information for scientific and managerial processes of further improving land-use planning and decision making in horticulture. The main goal of this study was the creation of a digital map and GIS application for the Fruit Research Station in Cluj-Napoca, North-Western Romania. The benefit of this implementation is a fully integrated land information sys...
Autori: Paul Sestraş
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28015

The present study has established a methodology to determine the most environmentally sustainable area for the expansion of a city center using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. This technology permits the graphical information associated with a municipality to be manipulated, integrated, analyzed and represented in a simple way that is cost effective during the early decision making steps, which analyze the various options regarding the urbanistic planning prior to taking final...
Autori: Marco Criado
ISSN: 1843 - 3707
http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28028

In the past years, there has been great interest in developing tools for an effective management including the evaluation of the impact of different policies on decreasing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2) and other transport pollutant-related emissions, especially in the urban areas. This paper represents a first attempt to study a new approach to identify criticalities of pollutant emissions associated with road traffic in urban areas. The tool we propose concerns the development of an emissio...
Autori: Rozalia Melania Boitor
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28070

The study describes the start-up phase of the door-to-door separate collection service of municipal solid waste (MSW) in a large metropolitan area, analysing not only the performance in terms of separately collected waste but also the feedback from citizens on how to improve it. For the scope, the case study of the city of Bari (Southern Italy) was considered. The methodological approach involved primarily the subdivision of the entire municipality into eight homogeneous territorial zones (HTZ) ...
Autori: Sabino De Gisi
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28084

The activities connected with the construction sector are responsible for several environmental impacts, both in the construction sector, and in the many manufacturing sectors involved in the supply chain of materials and products (mining sector, manufacturing sector, waste treatment etc.). The building products have a marked cross-sectorial connotation, according to the ANCE 2016 report, 31 economic sectors out of 36 are suppliers in the construction sector. One of the possibilities to reduce t...
Autori: Marco Migliore
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28090

Waste is one of the main environmental problems of the twenty-first century. The construction industry plays a critical role in this problem. Reducing construction and demolition (C&D) waste to a minimum is crucial considering its negative impacts on nature, human health and economies. Determining designers’ awareness levels about the fact that the majority of waste generated in all life stages of buildings are largely based on design-related decisions and this waste can be reduced in ...
Autori: Burcu SalgÄąn
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28172

This study analysed the recycling of debris derived from the partial and selective demolition of concrete structures of Sant’Elia Stadium in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). This recycling was carried out to obtain coarse recycled aggregates for the production of recycled concrete. The experimental investigations demonstrated the possibility of using these recycled concrete aggregates in structural concrete and in precast concrete element, with unchanged production processes and suitable mechan...
Autori: Luisa Pani
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28307

Italian coastal urban development is a problem which requires measures to contain land consumption and a continuous monitoring action on the phenomenon, especially in those areas where the tendency to consume land is high. Two of the major limitation in achieving full awareness of the phenomenon are the lack of common European policies and land consumption definition issues In this study the aim is to analyse the evolution of land consumption occurred in the Italian coastline on a diachronic ba...
Autori: Nicola Riitano
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28308

The paper analyses the Romanian consumer’s behavior concerning the use of electric scooters for transport. The aim of the study is to investigate Romanian youths’ intentions regarding the use of electric scooters in the development of a sustainable behavior. The present article is based on a quantitative research, coordinated by the authors, conducted among young participants from Romania. A questionnaire was created using a set of items measured on a five-point Likert scale, on the...
Autori: Ana-Maria Ionescu
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http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28338