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Rezultatele pentru corporate social responsiRezultate gasite: 278
Alternative energy sources in transition countries. The case of bioenergy in Ukraine
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 1 AbstractDuring the transition to a market economy, many countries with a planned economy in Central and Eastern Europe face similar challenges when the established socio-economic systems and infrastructures deemed inefficient in a market economy. Also new issues are being raised by the trends of globalization and the vision of sustainable development. In the energy sector the challenges raised by the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation mechanisms are especially interesting, because they are in... Autori: Andrius Plepys, Giulia Gervasoni, Jean-Philippe Boutin, Kes McCormick, Kristin Seyboth, Luis Mundaca, Marko Ratton, Patrick Lamers, Robert Hlep ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25104
Ecological Economics And Transport Systems
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 1 AbstractEcological economics is an emerging field that offers significant room for creativity and innovation at the conceptual level on how to operationalize sustainability. It integrates economics with ecology and many elements from both the natural and social sciences to provide an integrated perspective on environment-economy interactions. A major policy dilemma that ecological economics addresses is how policy-makers can influence markets, so that they receive the 'right' signals from the na... Autori: Kes McCormick ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25106
Solid waste management systems assessment: the municipality's point-of-view
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe objective of the paper is to present sustainability indicators for municipal solid waste management (MSWM). Sustainability implies environmental, economic and social acceptance. The complexity of the system-in-focus requires the employment of a systems (or cybernetic) approach: Acceptance implies clear objectives, from a specific point of view (here, the viewpoint of the municipal administration is taken), over a time horizon covering at least two generations, a life-cycle considerat... Autori: Demetrios Panagiotakopoulos, Konstantinia Tsilemou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25112
Leptospirosis:clinical and environmental aspects of the IaÂ?i county
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 2 During 2005 and 2006, in the Infectious Diseases Hospital in IaÂ?i, there were admitted 26 patients suffering by Leptospirosis. The clinical investigations followed the tests of inflammation, the renal and hepatic proofs, the cefalo-rahidian liquid’s aspect, the ELISA Leptospirosis serum tests etc. The Leptospirosis etiology shown that on 50% of the patients, the affection was owed to L.ichterohemoragiae. The average cost of the treatment for a patient was evaluated as around 1000 Euro. The pa... Autori: Carmen Dorobăţ, Doina Carmen Manciuc, Mihai Nicu, Mihnea Hurmuzache ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25120
Emerging academic responsibilities and opportunities for promoting regional sustainability
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractAcademics have had numerous responsibilities during the centuries. However, now with global climate changes and the attendant, looming crises, it is increasingly crucial that administrators, faculty members, graduate, undergraduate students, staff members and alumni work together with governmental, non-governmental and industrial members in envisioning societies that are truly sustainable. The visions must then be effectively and efficiently implemented in numerous locations throughout t... Autori: Donald Huisingh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25149
Corporate management tools to address sustainability Challenges. A reflection on the progress and difficulties experienced during the last decade
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 A number of corporate management tools have been developed during the last decades. This has given the impression that industry is in the lead for developing a more environmentally sound and sustainability-adopted future as concerns the production and the products they are working responsible from. This paper includes a short review of some key tools, including cleaner production assessments, life cycle assessments, environmental management systems, environmental management accounting and variou... Autori: Thomas Lindhqvist ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25148
Environmental problems of copper complex in Bor area
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe paper discusses some environmental problems caused by the presence of the copper mining and processing complex in the Bor area (Eastern Serbia). The Bor area is a serious hot spot in Serbia. Unsupervised operation of the mining company RTB Bor, without any protective measures, has led to extreme pollution of the Bor River, the Danube and underground waters, soil pollution with heavy metals, air-pollution with sulfur-dioxide etc. Recommendations are suggested as follows: a sustainable... Autori: Slavka Zeković ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25137
Solid waste in romania: management, treatment and pollution prevention practices
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe paper analyzes some aspects of waste management in Romania and, in particular, in Iasi County, in view of the European perspective. Urban and rural waste management is considered and collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials is discussed relative to the National Waste Management Strategy and the National Plan for Waste Management, as well as European and national legislative framework.It was showed that land disposal will continue to be a disposal op... Autori: Ana-Maria Schiopu, Ion Apostol, Maria Gavrilescu, Monica Hodoreanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25203
Keynote Lectures Energy from municipal solid waste: large-scale incineration or small-scale pyrolysis?
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractMunicipal solid waste (MSW) management is an important and challenging issue for sustainable development. It is also one of themost controversial problems and a subject of an ongoing debate between different interested parties. A particularly controversial issue is MSW incineration (with or without energy recovery) which has in many countries become a socially unacceptable option for dealing with solid waste. On the other hand, the increasing amounts of waste each year demand immediate a... Autori: Adisa Azapagic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25147
Challenges for integrated water resources management in Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 This study presents an overview of the current activities and results undertaken within the CEEX SIWMANET project dealing with an assessment of the actual challenges for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) implementation in Romania,seen especially in relation with the R&D system and the need to develop especially the cooperation, training and participatory processes that are required for actual implementation in which the universities may play an important role in terms of catalyst ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25150
Organic food in Denmark - from grass root initiative to market niche: potentials and barriers for further sustainable transition
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractThe mechanisms in the shaping of organic food in Denmark since the 1970'ies are analysed as a contribution to the discussion of strategies for a more sustainable production and consumption of food. The background is the major achievements in Denmark within organic food since the 1970'ies, but also the recent years' reduction in the land converted to organic farming. The analyses are based on experiences from projects, analyses and literature and draw on innovation theory and theory... Autori: Michael Sogaard Jorgensen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25153
Municipal pricing of water considering that water is both an economic and a social good - a pricing reform with implications for Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 AbstractOne of the basic principles in the European policy to cope with the growing challenge of water scarcity is that water demand management should be considered before opting for additional water infrastructure. The implication of this is that water must be treated as an economic good, which means that the "user's pays' principle"has to be implemented. At the same time there is much political consensus that the water price has to be "equitable". Water can be subsidized without violating the ... Autori: Lars Hansson ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25155
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 1 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 1 › Nr. 1 Contain all the articles from this issue Risk assessment and management - tools for sustainable developmentMaria GavrilescuSustainable alternatives for petrochemical wastewater managementCarmen Teodosiu, Lidy E. Fratila-ApachiteiThe role and the place of oxidant reagents in wastewater treatmentIoan RoscaEnvironmental Psychology, a new direction in the psychological fieldCarmen Catalina IoanChanging concepts of high performance to socially sustainable organizationCostache Rusu, Nerida DavisU... Autori: Abdelnaser Omran ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25166
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 1 Nr. 4
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 1 › Nr. 4 Contain all the articles from this issue:ICEEM/01 -- Environmental Management Section Corporate environmental competence: A concept for characterising and assessing the environmental practice in companies and product chainsMichael S?¸gaard J?¸rgensen, Marianne Forman Life cycle assessment of some alternatives for the supply of thermal energy in the municipality of Iasi (Romania).Nicolae Peiu Management options for the industrial and municipal wastes in the city of Iasi Carmen Teod... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25169
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 6 Nr. 5
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 5 Include urmatoarele articole:â€? Keynote Lectures Energy from municipal solid waste: large-scale incineration or small-scale pyrolysis?â€? Electrical properties of SnO2-Pt/Al2O3 in reduction atmosphereâ€? Corporate management tools to address sustainability Challenges. A reflection on the progress and difficulties experienced during the last decadeâ€? Emerging academic responsibilities and opportunities for promoting regional sustainabilityâ€? Challenges for integrated water resources management... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25200
Obtaining and characterization of romanian zeolite supporting silver ions
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 6 › Nr. 6 AbstractThe aim of this work was to obtain Ag - doped zeolite as antibacterial material using natural and sodium form of zeolite from Mirsid Romania with the dimensions ranged between 0.8-1.2 mm. The comparative structural characterization of natural and Ag - doped zeolite were performed using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), and Infrared Spectroscopy (IR). In addition, the ion exchange total ... Autori: Aurel Iovi, Corina Orha, Cornelia Ratiu, Florica Manea, Georgeta Burtica ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25220
Environmental sustainability based on fuzzy models
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 1 AbstractEnvironmental pollution has become much more of a problem in recent years than it has been in the past. Pollution caused by garbage disposal, toxic substances sloping from different sources has attracted a great deal of attention and can be a great inconvenient for the environment and for the people. In the face of growing social expectations encompassing both standards of living and environmental concerns, the idea of sustainable development has become popular among governments, industr... Autori: , Marius Paslaru, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25232
Sustainable development and environmental assessment in the Bor basin
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 4 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, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25282
Effect of methanogenic inhibitors, inocula type, and temperature on biohydrogen production from food components
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 5 AbstractDark fermentation hydrogen production from a mixture of food components using two different methods of methanogenic inhibition (autoclaving and BES) and three different temperatures (37, 60, and 70 Â?C) was examined in batch assays for two different mixed anaerobic cultures - one suspended sludge (S) obtained from an anaerobic digester and one granular sludge (G) obtained from a brewery wastewater treatment plant. In general, BES-inhibition of sludge was more robust when compared against... Autori: Angela A. Abreu, Anthony S. Danko, Francisco Pinheiro, Maria Madalena Alves ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25308
Biomass - A source of chemicals and energy for sustainable development
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 7 › Nr. 5 AbstractNowadays, energetic utilization of biomass, biotechnology attracts a big attention not only from the environmental point of view but also have a social, political and economical impact. According to the Directive 2003/30/EC of the European Parliament and the European Council the emission of greenhouse gases can be reduced by 49% using bioethanol produced by a manufacturing process based on corn, instead of crude oil based fuels. Moreover in Hungary from 1st of July 2007 only gasoline wit... Autori: , , Gyula Marton, , Jenő Hancsók, Tatiana Yuzhakova ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25312
Survey on the dynamic of urban air pollution in the municipality of Craiova, Dolj county
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 1 AbstractUrban air pollution is responsible for the highest burden of environmentally related diseases in Europe. Air pollutants with strongly indicated respiratory health effects are particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. The retrospective ecological survey has taken into account the urban air pollution with sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ammonia (NH3) and particulate matter (PM10). The analyzed data show that after applying the European regulations regarding the ... Autori: Catalin Adrian Petrisor, Dorin Petrişor, Lucreţiu Radu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25348
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8 Nr. 3
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 3 â€? Bioremediation of contaminated air using a bioscrubberâ€? Quality risk evaluation of the groundwater resources on the moldavian areaâ€? Electrochemical characterization of some dental materials in accelerated environmental testingâ€? Preliminary study of simple and Fenton oxidation with hydrogen peroxide applied on final effluents from a zootechnical farmâ€? The environmental impact assessment caused by the dykes failureâ€? Revaluation of beer industry byproducts – medical implicationsâ€? ... Autori: http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25372
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 8 Nr. 6
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 â€? Physiological changes in seedling germination and growth plant under chemical stress conditionsâ€? Studies on sorption and transport processes of cadmium in soilsâ€? Assessment of the anthropogenic impact on water systems by fluorescence spectroscopyâ€? Research on the effects of soil improvement by fertilization on the quality of winter wheatâ€? Halotherapy: From ethnoscience to scientific explanationsâ€? Study regarding the sorption of erythrosine from aqueous solution onto soilâ€? Hydroxy... Autori: ISSN: 1582 - 9596 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25375
Exploratory investigation of bioprocesses sustainability improvement by multicriteriamultilevel optimization
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 3 Abstract
Up to the present days, the bioprocesses were designed and operated with the aim at achieving some economic, environmental, and social criteria. Sustainability based optimization has to be the next step towards the improvement of the economical, environmental and social parameters of bioprocesses. In this work, sustainability will be treated as an optimization task where the objective function(s) is/are either a performance index or a set of performance indices, subject to economic, ... Autori: Alexandru Woinaroschy, Dana Irina Ofiteru, Vasile Lavric ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25418
Sustainable development research perspectives in EU documents as seen by researchers from �Gheorghe Asachi?? Technical University of Iasi: A case study
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 3 Abstract
Knowledge-based society, sustainable development, and digital technology as concepts of the contemporary times that stem from the responsibility towards the future of mankind, are the results of intense scientific research. As a consequence of its commitment of turning Europe into the world's most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy, and aware of the role played by research in the development the human society, the EU has defined at Lisbon in 2000 the framework of action ... Autori: Carmen Cătălina Ioan, Maria Ileana Carcea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25421
Involvement of legal responsibility for severe acts of pollution and noncompliance
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 3 Abstract
According to several factors, the infringement of environmental regulations can be considered a simple contravention or a crime. The present approach aims to discuss the conditions for involving criminal responsibility according to the nature of environmental crimes. Our considerations related to serious noncompliance that harms the environment focus on pollution crimes and legal infringements, in relation to the personal characteristics of criminal law responsibility.
... Autori: Ionel Bostan, Aurel Burciu, Petru P. Condrea, Gheorghe Durac ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25425
Land degradation and desertification risk in Dobrogea region
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
It's well known the degradation of many Romanian (including Dobrogea) soils, both in hill and in plain environments, due to the increasing anthropic pressure on natural resources. Soil erosion and organic matter loss are recognized as the main processes responsible of such degradation and of the rising risk of desertification, to which land use changes and politics for agriculture not suitable for land specificities often contribute. The knowledge of land use impact on soil quality i... Autori: Marioara Nicolaescu, Naliana Lupascu, ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25453
Noise pollution and health impact in urban Arges area
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Economical development in the Arges district, in the recent years, presents some aspects regarding the compliance with noise environmental regulations. The noise and its impact on human health is one of the most important objectives of the health assurance policy. In this paper a comparative study of urban noise in the principal cities of the Arges district is performed. The data monitoring of noise polution were carried out by using of specific standard methods with a Sonometer Delt... Autori: Ion Iosub, Silvia Iosub, Victor Grigorie, Aurelia Meghea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25463
Enhanced heavy metal adsorption on dye-modified fly ash
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The use of fly ash (FA) in wastewater treatment received a lot of attention for the immobilization of heavy metal cations, mainly Cd2+, Pb2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Cu2+. For an up-scalable wastewater treatment process, the substrate must have good adsorption efficiency and relatively constant behaviour. Modifying the fly ash surface can be a solution for reaching both goals. The use of FA for heavy metals removal, from wastewaters resulted in the dye finishing industry, faces a supplementary p... Autori: Maria Visa, Anca Duta ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25471
The impact of regional development on the environment
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Various specialists draw attention on the conflict between the industrial civilization and the environment and mention two aspects:
1. The tendency of depletion of natural energy resources, raw materials and food, or consumption of renewable into a rhythm superior to their capacity of regeneration
2. Physical damage and pollution of the environment: water, air and land.
It can be said that a sustainable society is the one that shapes its economic and social system so that natural ... Autori: Dan Duran, Irina Duran, Ciprian Costescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25485
Research on eco-business training requirements
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The motivation of this paper derives from the lack of integrated research and structures for managerial training and consultancy regarding the environment responsibility for eco-business. Also, the research underline the need of training and consultancy for eco-business in industrial small and medium size enterprises (SME) from the West part of Romania. The main aspects that were investigated were: the most needed items regarding the training programs, details about the consulting it... Autori: Anca Draghici, Monica Izvercianu, Mihaela Vartolomei, Vasile Duran ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25487
Agricultural soil mapping
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The recent results of technical development of low cost GPS systems, geographic information systems, equipment and sensors which are needed to identify the state of the crops and soils have shown a growing awareness in agriculture and related sciences. The actual demand for modern crop management is dominated by the economic pressure and by the social request to increase the transparency of environmental impact of agricultural land.
Currently, worldwide there are the public policy a... Autori: Vergil Marian Muraru, Cornelia Muraru-Ionel, Ion Pirna, Ion Tenu, Petru Cardei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25504
The analysis of alternative investments for sustainable agriculture
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The rationality of allotting the resources for investments in sustainable agriculture needs the selection of alternative projects depending on numerous factors. The decision analysis process allows the identification of one variant with the highest utility that corresponds to the exigencies of economic, social and environmental impact efficiency. The integrated approach of the objectives specific for sustainable development actually leads to the selection of the investment portfolio ... Autori: Camelia Burja ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25512
Economic and environmental sustainability of project effects
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Economic viability depends upon the sustainability of project effects. The economic analysis of projects should include an analysis of the financial sustainability of project agencies, and the environmental sustainability of outputs and inputs. Practical experience of project effects has drawn attention to the way in which financial and environmental effects impinge on benefit sustainability. Postevaluation experience also shows that, unless such factors are taken into account, econo... Autori: Luminita Horhota ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25519
European frame for sustainable agriculture in romania: policies and strategies
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The idea of sustainable farming relies on raising its yield along with a safe and constant gain with minimum environmental impact and by ensuring the population’s food security. Sustainable agriculture is a large concept that encompasses the complexity of this production system, the biological stability of farming plants and varieties, the conservation and protection of natural resources, but also the implementing and generalization of high-output modern technologies. Sustainable a... Autori: Brindusa Robu, Carmen Cătălina Ioan, Edinel Robu, Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25520
Economical and social assessments approach on paper recycling
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Analysis (SLCA) are available methodologies for the economic and social assessment of a product or process along its life cycle. Different approaches regarding LCC and SLCA have recently emerged and several hypotheses are currently on testing and discussing. This paper shows existing LCC and a SLCA approaches as well as the methodology applied in the particular case of a paper recycling process. This study gathers part of the Europ... Autori: Beatriz Ferreira Pozo, Antonio Dobon Lopez, Carlos Lopez Lopez, Maria Calero Pastor ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25529
Studies regarding the potential of biodiesel production in the north-east development region of Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
It is well known that the conventional fuels are responsible for environmental pollution. On the other hand, the unconventional sources for energy and biofuels are more environmentally friendly with a lower pollution degree than the conventional ones. Following the European Union Directive 2003/30/EC regarding the use of biodiesel in mixture with conventional diesel and its gradual replacement, Romania has either to produce its own percentage of biodiesel for the mixture or to import... Autori: Teodor Robu, Alexandru Dragos Robu, Aurel Chiran, Elena Gindu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25540
Environmentally friendly industrial technologies: Case studies
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Nowadays the global climate change is one of the most significant questions from environmental, social, political and economic point of views. Global warming caused by green house gases emitted into the air is a result of the human activities (Energy Revolution, 2005-2007).
The majority of the industrial processes has significant impact to human life and deteriorates the natural environment. In this paper different technologies (three industrial technologies) will be dealt with spec... Autori: Zsofia Kovacs, Orsolya Kakucs, Janos Lako, , Tamas Fulop, Tatiana Yuzhakova, , Endre Domokos ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25545
A social inquiry assessment of new water and wastewater disinfection devices
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
This paper aims at developing a study concerning a prototype production opportunity and its use for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as polluters and consumers, as well as for household consumers.
The technical impact can be assessed through introduction of a new and low polluting technology which does not change the taste and smell of water, does not need chemical additives and uses a series of small and easy maintainable equipments with low costs. The method called �documenta... Autori: Daniela Suteu, Irina Volf, Luminita Lupu, , Carmen Ioan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25555
Strategic environmental assessment for plans, programs, policies in Romania: multi-criterial method
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 8 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The purpose of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is to ensure that environmental considerations inform and are integrated into strategic decision-making in support of environmentally sound and sustainable development. In particular, the SEA process assists authorities responsible for plans and programs, as well as decision-makers. The main benefits of SEA consist in: providing high level of environmental protection, improvement of the quality of plan, program or policy making,... Autori: Brindusa Robu, Matei Macoveanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25558
Analysis of factors determining the behaviour of chromium in some romanian soils
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 1 Abstract
Chromium (Cr) is one of the most common metal contaminants in soil because of its use in ore refining, production of steel and alloys, metal plating, tanneries, wood preservation, and pigmentation. In soil environment, the most stable oxidation states of chromium are Cr (III) and Cr (VI). While Cr (III) is considered an essential trace element for the functioning of living organisms, Cr (VI) is toxic and carcinogenic to humans via inhalation for long exposures, since it is easily sol... Autori: Dumitru Bulgariu, Laura Bulgariu, Maria Gavrilescu, Raluca Maria Hlihor, Vasile Lucian Pavel ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25590
Industrial district revitalization through sustainable development policies
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 2 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25603
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 9 Nr. 6
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 9 › Nr. 6 ? RESEARCH ON NaCl SALINE AEROSOLS I. NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SOURCES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
? DECISION SUPPORT MODELS FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ? AN OVERVIEW
? POLICY AND STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
? APPLICATION
OF SHALLOW POND SYSTEM USING WATER HYACINTH FOR DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
TREATMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF HIGH TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS (TDS) AND HEAVY
METAL SALTS
? TRENDS OF THE COMMUNITARIAN COHESION POLICIES AND ADVERTISING FOR EC... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25658
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, Vol. 10 Nr. 1
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 1 ? 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
... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25665
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT FOR CARBON EMISSION OF PLATE GLASS INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 6 Carbon issue is becoming more important all over the world. Plate glass is a typical kind of building materials and the life cycle carbon emission of plate glass is a big contributor, resulting from the energy consumption in the stages of its life cycle which includes four aspects: raw materials acquirement, materials transportation, production and embodied consumption of energy carriers. Based on the relevant data calculation from China’s condition, the life cycle carbon emission of plate gla... Autori: Meng Liu, Wenlong Li, Qunying Cheng, Yueer He, Xinyun Caohttp://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25672
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MINING INDUSTRY APPLIED FOR GORJ COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 8 Abstract:The national legal framework harmonization, including in areas concerning environmental protection, with the Europeanstandards in the field, is a goal of paramount importance with regard to Romania's accession to the EU structures. From thisperspective, all the organizations, agencies and individuals operating in this field must be acquainted with the European Union'sprograms of environmental action.In this context, the paper aims to provide an overview of the relevant trends and develo... Autori: Constanţa Enea, Constantin Enea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25742
ANALYSIS OF FLOOR AND CEILING HEATING WITH INTERMITTENT OPERATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 9 Abstract:One of the most complex aspects of water accounting is the assessment of point and diffuse source pollution. At present, thebuilding sector in European countries is responsible for 40% of the total energy consumption. To reduce the European Uniondependency on energy import, the strategy undertaken in Lisbon is to reduce as much as possible the energy consumption ofbuildings and to increase the share of renewable energy sources. As an average, house heating represents about 75% from the ... Autori: Ferenc Kalmár, Tünde Kalmár ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25750
HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT - COMPLEXITY AND RISKS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 9 Abstract:Hydropower exploitation has become a multifaceted task due to continuously increasing interest in all parts of the world but alsodue to inhomogeneity of framework conditions in the social, the political, the regulatory and the economic view. The final successof a plant is not only ensured by a good technical concept or design but additionally by a suitably model of financing, by selectingthe most reliable partners, by evaluating the environmental restrictions or the political stability ... Autori: Bernhard Pelikan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25761
WASTE CHARACTERIZATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT PERCEPTION IN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN MEXICO: A CASE STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 11 Abstract:The insufficient waste collection service and scarcity of studies about municipal solid waste (MSW) generation in rural communities from developing countries has negatively influenced how MSW is managed by residents and authorities. This has brought about pollution and affected the quality of life of the residents from those communities. This study aims to determine the quantity and type of household waste generated, as well as to know the perception of the community on MSW management i... Autori: Carolina Armijo, Paul Taboada-González, Quetzalli Aguilar-Virgen, Sara Ojeda-Benítez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25810
ECO-EFFICIENCY: EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE. EVIDENCES FROM DOW JONES SUSTAINABILITY EUROPE INDEX
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 In recent years, a new line of research, named eco-efficiency theory has become an issue of considerable interest. The most important works in relation with this topic focus on the fact that enterprises can maximize their economic benefits and minimize the impact on the environment at the same time. Therefore, the recommendation is to choose the so called strategy win-win, which allows for getting a double economic environmental benefit by means of a good management of productive resources, the ... Autori: Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Jose Mondejar-Jimenez, María-Leticia Meseguer-Santamaría, Patricia Milanés-Montero ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25816
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF TOURISM IN SPAIN'S REGIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Measuring progress of the tourism destinations in the area of sustainability has now become one of the major challenges facing policymakers action. Sustainability is a dynamic concept. In fact, in reality, it really can be measured is not â€?sustainabilityâ€?, but â€?progress towards sustainabilityâ€?, bearing in mind that this is not an ideal target linked to a fixed state of harmony, but a continuous process of adjustment and reorientation of tourism development to achieve the balance between ... Autori: Juan-Ignacio Pulido-Fernández, Marcelino Sánchez-Rivero, Yaiza López-Sánchez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25821
CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE AND LEGITIMACY THEORY: AN EUROPE PERSPECTIVE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Given the scenario of conflicting evidence found in previous literature with respect to the best Theory to explain the relationship between Environmental Disclosure and Environmental Performance, in this study we have tested Legitimacy Theory by using a time series structure for DJS Europe Index and controlling for the kind of industry. We have used Panel Data Methodology to eliminate the individual heterogeneity and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) to control for problems of endogeneity by u... Autori: Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Patricia Milanés-Montero ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25825
A STATISTICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Environment and sustainability are key issues for the policy maker. A policy should be first designed and realistically inserted in its proper context (regional, national, European) in order to be correctly assessed. After that, suitable models need to be chosen consistently with the policy context and with the evaluation purpose, to make easier the policy maker task. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to propose a Statistical Information System (SIS) approach in order to correctly write... Autori: Giorgio Garau, Giovanni Mandras, Lucia Schirru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25827
IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A SENSOR TO MONITOR THE DYNAMICS OF THE HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SOIL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Soil hydraulic characteristics are variable, being influenced by climate changes. Research conducted until now in this area has been based on field soil sampling; their laboratory analysis using experimental techniques; and the use of models and programs for data processing and interpretation. The present research is based on the idea of incorporating smart sensors on site, each one having its own network address, accessible for any location. They can be programmed to send an alarm signal when t... Autori: Constantin Victor Stătescu, Dorin Cotiusca Zauca, Florian Stătescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25831
SUSTAINABILITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 Abstract:The concept of sustainable development has become an important objective for policy makers, since the key principle ofsustainable development understands the interdependence between economy, environment and society concerns.The objective of this study is to analyze the supports for sustainable environmental remediation, considering sustainabilityindicators and sustainable remediation practices, based on both methods that are known for a long time as well as emergentprocesses and technol... Autori: Isabela Maria Simion, Maria Emiliana Fortuna, Maria Gavrilescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25837
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Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 â€? SUSTAINABILITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION
� EVALUATING THE CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE HYDROLOGICAL FLOW REGIME OF THE MOLDAVIAN AREAS
� ENSURING ECONOMICAL AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: STATE FISCAL CONTROL - A WAY TO PREVENT AND REDUCE TAX AVOIDANCE
� COMBINED OXIDATION AND ULTRAFILTRATION PROCESSES FOR THE REMOVAL OF PRIORITY ORGANIC POLLUTANTS FROM WASTEWATERS
� THE FREE LEVEL UNIFORM POST-DARCY FILTRATION THROUGH A SPHERE-MADE HOMOGENOUS MEDIUM
� HSLA ST... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25838
ECO-EFFICIENCY: EFFECTS ON ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE. EVIDENCES FROM DOW JONES SUSTAINABILITY EUROPE INDEX
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 10 › Nr. 12 In recent years, a new line of research, named eco-efficiency theory has become an issue of considerable interest. The most important works in relation with this topic focus on the fact that enterprises can maximize their economic benefits and minimize the impact on the environment at the same time. Therefore, the recommendation is to choose the so called strategy win-win, which allows for getting a double economic environmental benefit by means of a good management of productive resources, the ... Autori: Esteban Pérez-Calderón, Jose Mondejar-Jimenez, María-Leticia Meseguer-Santamaría, Patricia Milanés-Montero ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25845
EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT CONTROL STRATEGIES OF THE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT BASED ON A MODIFIED ACTIVATED SLUDGE MODEL NO. 3
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 1 The first part of this work presents the development and implementation in the Benchmark Simulation Model No 1 (BSM1) of a modified Activated Sludge Model No 3 (ASM3). The enhanced ASM3 presented in this study has three modifications compared to the original ASM3. The first modification is the representation of the simultaneous heterotrophic biomass growth on the primary substrate and on the internal storage products. Second, nitrification is modeled as a two-step process with nitrite as an inte... Autori: George Simion Ostace, Paul Şerban Agachi, Vasile Mircea Cristea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25865
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN IASI CITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 According to the Romanian Law no. 265/2006, which adopted the Governmental Decision no. 195/2005 on environmental protection, environmental agencies are responsible for air quality monitoring in Romania. Since Romania is now an EU Member State, such a plan is a must to enhance life quality, in order to meet the objectives of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. Having regarded to this Strategy and the Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997, this paper provides the results from a study of am... Autori: Corina AnaMaria Ioan, Florin Luca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25895
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE – PART OF MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 The approached subject presents some features of a methodology for original research, considering the environmental performance as a component of the organizations management performance quantification, by considering the environmental management approach as an integrated environmental informational and decisional concept. The current trend in the assessment of performance management is the integration of the environmental management in the organizations management in a conscious and regulated w... Autori: Mihaela Luminita Lupu, Nicolae Trofin, Orest Trofin ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25897
MODELING THE IMPACT OF ROAD TRAFFIC ON AIR POLLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT CASE STUDY: A NEW OVERPASS IN THE CITY OF CRAIOVA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 Since the last century, as a consequence of advanced industrialization, the remarkable growth of population, and its mobility have turned the field of transport into the main factor responsible for air pollution attributable to mobile sources of pollution. The continuous accumulation of various pollutants in the environment determines severe consequences on humans, animals and plants, buildings, works of art and landscape. Road transport represents, through its characteristic features – high f... Autori: Gabriela Mitran, Ion Tabacu, Sorin Ilie, Viorel Nicolae ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25898
ASSESSMENT OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN NORTH OF MOLDOVA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 11 › Nr. 2 Tourism is one of the essential components of population services and a major influence factor for economic and social development. The tourism industry is characterized by a great structural complexity, in multiple forms of this service.This industry can also have an impact on the natural resources and environment in the various tourist destinations, on everyday life of these locations and also on the individuals from those areas, whether rural or urban. Nowadays, tourism faces different challe... Autori: , Elena Elisabeta Pomeanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25903
ASSESSMENT OF WATER ENVIRONMENTAL CARRYING CAPACITY IN XI’AN, CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 7 AbstractA comprehensive evaluation methodology for water environmental carrying capacity (WECC) has been proposed. It is based ona new definition of WECC and reasonable evaluation models compared with vector norm method for water resources supply,environmental assimilative capacity, and society supporting capacity. Evaluation index of WECC is determined for Xi’an city,depending on characteristics of the water environment in Xi’an and selection principles of WECC evaluation index. Three-layerstru... Autori: Jun Zhang, Qi Zhou, Ya-qian Zhao, Yani Geng ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25960
SOLVING WATER RESOURCES ALLOCATION PROBLEMS USING HEURISTIC-BASED METHODS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 7 AbstractDue to rapid growth in both population and economic development in China, water demand is increasing dramatically andChina is facing more and more severe water scarcity problems. Thus competitions for water (between uses, users and regions) areincreasing which make water use efficiency an important issue in China, together with the uneven spatial and temporaldistribution of water, all of which drive the Chinese government and water planners to find the optimal water resource allocationpl... Autori: Adrian T. McDonald, Linda See, Martin Clarke, Yanan Jiang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25961
EDITORIAL A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PROGRESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT IN THE FRAME OF KNOWLEDGE-BASED SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 8 “The Exploratory Workshop „Progress inEnvironmental Engineering, Biotechnology andManagement in The Frame of Knowledge-BasedSustainable Economy” took place in the contextwhen worldwide research shows that the currentindustrial system supports a population that useresources and generates waste, consuming the Earth'ssupply, but who’s biocapacity is far outweighed bythe increased demand of products for a developmentsystem that often works on unsustainable bases.Today’s challenge is the integration ... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=25969
EDITORIAL - A SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ECOIMPULS 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, October 25-26, Timisoara, Romania
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 The first edition of the International Conference„ECOIMPULS 2012- Environmental Research andTechnology” plans to open a conference seriesdedicated exclusively environmental issues. Thescientific topics are devoted to the on-going research onenvironmental topics regarding: „Environment – apolitical, economic and social responsibility”,„Water in a changing world”, „ZERO – waste cities”and „ Energy – beyond the conventional”.This scientific event aims to bring togetherprofessionals, academics, scie... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26015
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIA: CURRENT AND FUTURE ISSUES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractWaste management includes all activities of collection, transport, treatment, recovery and disposal of waste, includingsupervising of such operations. The framework law that regulates waste management activities in Romania is Law no. 27/2007,approving Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2006, amending and supplementing Government Emergency Ordinance no.78/2000 on waste regime. This legislation sets the responsibilities for waste management from generation to disposal, thepriorities in ... Autori: Constantin Mircea Orlescu, Ioana Alina Costescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26020
SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SUCEAVA COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractMaking tourism more sustainable, means not only to control and manage the negative environmental impacts of this sector.Tourism is unique in the sense that it can provide both economic and social benefits for local communities and it can alsostrengthen the awareness and support for environmental conservation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework formore sustainable tourism development policies, but also a set of instruments to implement these policies. We used in this stud... Autori: Carmen Teodosiu, Elena Elisabeta Pomeanu, Eric Boutin, Simona-Andreea Ene Popa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26031
TECHNICAL, ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VACUUM SEWAGE SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractIn this paper we analyzed some characteristics of vacuum sewer systems from technical, economical, environmental and socialperspectives. The vacuum sewer systems transport wastewater with lower pressure (p<pat), and are compared to conventionalsewer systems with free level (p = bed) - gravity and under pressure systems (p>pat) - gravity or pumping systems. Vacuumsewer systems are recommended for rural communities and residential neighbourhoods surrounding urban areas, developed ons... Autori: Corina Panfil, Ion Mirel, Izabella Szigyarto, Monica Isacu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26035
HUMAN HEALTH RELATED TO IODINE ENVIRONMENTAL OCCURRENCE AND ITS DEFICIENCY IN WATER AND FOOD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractIodine is essential for the synthesis of thyroid hormones which are extremely important in the process of growth and developmentof human body. The effects of iodine deficiency implies thyroid enlargement (goiter) and others disturbances so called iodinedeficiency disorders (IDD). The iodine deficiency is an ancient but still existing problem with medical and environmentalconnotation. Soil and water from various regions worldwide are iodine deficient. This problem is aggravated by defores... Autori: Carmen Vulpoi, Cristina Cristea, Cristina Preda, Letitia Leustean, Maria Christina Ungureanu, Maria Gavrilescu, Voichita Mogos ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26038
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIA: ISSUES, EXPECTATIONS AND ACTUAL INVOLVEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 5 AbstractWater and its sustainable use is closely connected to developments in other fields, such as industry, agriculture and services,energy, nature conservation and health. The pressures imposed by the higher water demands, quality of discharges and climatechange raise new water challenges which can be overcome only by coordinated efforts of multiple stakeholders throughcooperation and participatory processes.This study presents how public participation – within the context of integrated water... Autori: Carmen Teodosiu, George Bârjoveanu, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26039
DEVELOPMENT OF LABOUR MARKET AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT IN RURAL AREAS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 4 AbstractIncreasing the labor force employment and participation rates is sustained by capitalization of human opportunities existent inrural areas. This entails a flexible and inclusive labour market and a decreasing rate of exclusion for some rural groups.This paper highlights the need of facilitating the access to the labour market by achievement of professional skills needed in nonagriculturalsectors from rural areas for the vulnerable groups as well as the entrepreneurial groups. The analysi... Autori: Carmen Olguta Brezuleanu, , ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26059
SOME EFFECTS OF ECO-CEMENT STABILIZATION OF EXPANSIVE SOILS ON CRITICAL STATE PARAMETERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of expansive soil treatment with Eco-Cement (EC) stabilizer, as beingcomposed of an alternative binder that partly substitutes the Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). The extended use of EC in soilstabilization will carry several significant environmental benefits. Firstly the by-product resulted from the production of iron in ablast furnace will be reused, that otherwise will be stored on the ground in deposits representing an importa... Autori: Anghel Stanciu, Irina Lungu, Mircea Aniculăesi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26069
ASSESSMENT OF FIRM REPUTATION CAPITAL AND SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 4 AbstractThe concept of firm reputation is tightly connected to the concept of corporate social responsibility and implicitly to that ofsustainable development. Reputation is the achieved result of the company out of factors such as economic viability, socialinvolvement and ecological health. The strength of a firm`s reputation is the ability to empower with core competences and usethem efficiently for both creating economic value and meeting the legal interests of the stakeholders. The main assu... Autori: Manoela Popescu, Roxana Arabela Dumitraşcu, Vadim Dumitraşcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26071
SECOND GENERATION BIOFUELS AND BIOMASS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 Mother Earth Investments AG, is actively working onthe development 2nd generation bioenergy feedstocks.In this book, Mr. Jansen generously shares hisknowledge in the field, in particular, regarding thechallenges and opportunities in development ofbiomass-derived fuels. This essential guide toinvesting in bioenergy commodities details secondgeneration biofuels from a scientific, technical andeconomic perspective, and discusses their globalenvironmental, political and financial impact.The book is ... Autori: Roland A. Jansen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26100
THE ROLE OF GREEN CHEMISTRY IN BIOMASS PROCESSING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 3 The book edited by Haibo Xie and NicholasGathergood focuses on one of the most importantscientific issues of the 21 century which is thereplacing fossil fuel with sustainable alternatives suchas biomass. Fossil fuels are conventional rawmaterials for many industrial sectors includingchemical and energy production. Usage of fossil fuelis limited by their availability, price and carbonfootprint. Biomass is a renewable resource globallyavailable, cheaper and carbon sequestering. Step bystep shiftin... Autori: Adrian Catalin Puitel ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26101
ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY OF THE VENICE LAGOON WATERS USING THE E-QUALITY SOFTWARE TOOL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
According to the Water Frameword Directive the classification of water bodies environmental quality and the achievement of
“good status” by 2015 are requested for all the European aquatic environment, including transitional waters such as coastal
lagoons. Although progresses have been done and many results have been achieved, several aspects of the WFD implementation
can be further improved and current limitations are more evident for some categories of water bodies such a... Autori: Andrea Critto ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26103
COMBINED OPTOELECTRONIC METHODS USED IN THE MONITORING OF SO2 EMISSIONS AND IMISSIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
This study focuses on the local scale behavior of SO2 emissions resulting from lignite-combustion thermal power plants. The
investigations aimed at monitoring the SO2 emissions and imissions over a two week period in September 2010. One of the
largest power plants from Eastern Europe was chosen for monitoring using different optoelectronic techniques. Rovinari power
plant (44o54’45”N – 23o09’44”E) is one of the largest electricity suppliers of Romania, having 4 groups of 3... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26113
SIMULATIONS FOR INCLUDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL TAX IN MOTOR LIABILITY INSURANCE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
Nowadays, all over the world, the car transport sector is one of the main factors responsible for the Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
The current systems of emission taxation do not take into consideration the distance travelled by cars; therefore, they are not fully
compliant with the “polluter pays” principle. In addition to the produced inequality, these systems do not encourage the reduction
of the distances travelled annually (with possible favorable effects on pollution an... Autori: Cristian-Mihai Dragos ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26120
REMEDIATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE PRODUCED ON A SITE BY CONTAMINATION WITH PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. CASE STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 2
Abstract
Environmental degradation is today one of the great problems of mankind. Not only the need to exploit, but also the necessity to
protect and preserve the natural environment have led to the adoption of specific rules for the prevention and remediation of
environmental damages, according to EU standards.
Taking into account that any human intervention on the natural and anthropogenic environment can lead to ecological risk
diversification, occurrence of accidental pollut... Autori: Aurica Grec ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26130
ESSENTIAL TOOLS TO MITIGATE VRANCEA STRONG EARTHQUAKES EFFECTS ON MOLDAVIAN URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 1
Abstract
In a world of uncertainty, the only constant is change and rapid change produces a multitude of diverse facts. Risk is an integral
part of life. While no country in the world is entirely safe, the lack of capacity to limit the impact of hazards remains a major
burden for all countries and while the world has witnessed an exponential increase in human and material losses due to natural
disasters, there is a need to reverse trends in vulnerability to earthquakes. Available d... Autori: Gheorghe Mărmureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26140
RISK ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 9 AbstractAny hydraulic engineering construction project is a complex open system with large investment, long construction period,complex internal structure and numerous participants, subject to restrictions of time, resource, environment and other conditions.In this paper, the analytic hierarchy process principle and method were used to establish three-layer structure system ofagricultural hydraulic engineering construction, while risks of some agricultural hydraulic engineering construction were... Autori: Shi-Bao Lu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26159
RISK ASSESSMENT AND CLASSIFICATION FOR DETENTION BASINS BASED ON PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION - SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (PSO-SVR) IN HUAIHE RIVER BASIN, CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 9 AbstractWith global climate change, flood disasters occur frequently and detention basins are facing greater flooding risk. The flood riskassessment of detention basins becomes an important content for the management of detention basins.In this study, the index system of flood risk assessment of detention basins in Huaihe River Basin is established according to thenatural and social properties of detention basins flood disasters. The flood risk assessment methods are proposed based on support ve... Autori: Junfei Chen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26172
CAN ECO-INNOVATIVE ORIENTATION BE EXPLAINED? AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND UNCOVERED PATTERNS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractEco-innovation, understood as innovation clearly focused toward sustainable development, is a key element in the articulation ofboth public policies and actions at the corporate level as it is a determining differentiating aspect. The objective of this work is toanalyze which variables determine that companies go one step further and consider the improvement of the environment as anobjective when developing innovative activities. We analyzed 7682 Spanish companies using data from the Spa... Autori: Ángel Peiró-Signes ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26187
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS OF TOURISTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractThis paper focuses on the relationship between individual factors of environmental attitudes and behavior intentions of touristsvisiting a World Heritage City. We adopt a model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior with three environmental attitudinalfactors (Responsibility, Knowledge and Values) and research data was collected through tourist surveys in Cuenca (Spain).Estimation results show that there is a positive relationship between dimensions of environmental attitudes and behavi... Autori: Ainhoa Rodríguez-Oromendía ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26188
FORECASTING THE INFLUX OF VISITORS TO STATE PROTECTED WILDERNESS AREAS IN CHILE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractThis study estimates the number of visitors to State Protected Wilderness Areas (SPWAs) in Chile by origin (national andforeign), using annual data from 1986 to 2011. Two linear regression models were used: one to estimate the number of Chileanvisitors and the other for foreign visitors. The model to predict Chilean visitors in 2013-2014 incorporates the GDP per capita inChile, the annual trend in the conditions of international economic crises, while the model to predict the number of f... Autori: Jaime Pérez-Kallens ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26189
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE TOURISTIC AREA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CUSTOMER TRUST
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractToday's society experiences a growing interest in social problems. This leads to the need for companies to assess their impact onthe environment, in its social, environmental and economic dimensions. As a result, organizations are incorporating socialpractices that are used as variables of marketing to attract and retain customers. In this context, the purpose of the present study is twofold; namely to analyze the organizational culture change of the hotels directors because of the requi... Autori: Isabel María Rosa Díaz ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26190
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MEASURES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON HOTEL ROOM PRICING IN ANDALUSIA (SOUTHERN SPAIN)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact on rooms pricing of environmental management practices in the hotels ofAndalusia (Southern Spain). Empirical evidence is obtained using a database that was created as part of the project Quality,Productivity and Competitiveness in the Hospitality Industry for Andalusia (PO7/SEJ-02889). From this database, we use asample statistically representative of hotels in the region and applied a hedonic pricing model. The main reason for using thi... Autori: Alejandro García-Pozo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26192
DRIVERS OF ECO-INNOVATION IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr.10 AbstractEco-innovation is defined as any form of innovation aiming at significant and demonstrable progress towards the goal ofsustainable development, through reducing impacts on the environment or achieving a more efficient and responsible use ofnatural resources, including energy. The chemical industry is usually considered one of the most polluting industries. Ensuringsafe production, transport and handling of its products, with care for the environment and in full accordance with regulation... Autori: Ángela González-Moreno ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26196
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF MANUFACTURING SMES: EVIDENCE FROM LESVOS, GREECE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 12 › Nr. 11 AbstractThe current literature on SMEs presents a range of factors that influence their decisions regarding the adoption of environmentalmanagement practices. In particular, some common factors are the pressure from stakeholders, the awareness of environmentalissues, the level of local authorities’ support, the benefits arising from the adoption of such practices and the role ofenvironmental regulations. This paper examines some of these factors through a case study research methodology on two G... Autori: Ioannis E. Nikolaou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26213
AN APPROACH ON ATTACHED GROWTH PROCESS FOR DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 1 AbstractThe applications of biofilm treatment technologies for domestic wastewater are being increased in many parts of the world. Theaim of the study is to assess a compacted aerobic attached growth fix-film unit (termed Bio-cache) for treatment of small volumedomestic wastewater. The system consists of the miniature plastic packing matrix, which provides a large surface area of 300m2/m3, so as to maintain the high rate growth of viable organisms responsible for organic degradation. The study o... Autori: Alireza Valipour ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26266
SURVEY ON INTEGRATED MODELLING APPLIED IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 4 AbstractIn the context of the complexity of the environmental system, this paper addresses the problem of environmental modeling,considering the global aspects of sustainability as well as the linkage between environmental and economic issues. The survey onintegrated modeling highlights that the complexity of the environmental problems should be approached on the basis of multidisciplinarycooperation and studies. Furthermore, the European environmental standards and products quality standards im... Autori: Ion Viorel Matei, Laura Ungureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26356
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS, TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: EMPIRICAL STUDY BASED ON CHINESE PROVINCIAL PANEL DATA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractEnvironmental regulation and its impact on corporate performance have attracted both the Government’s and the academia’sgrowing focus. The “Porter Hypothesis” theory shows that environmental regulation would exert direct impact on corporateperformance, while technology progress would compensate for it indirectly. In this paper, we completely and specificallyexamines those two effects by setting the three models and creating the interaction variable in the third one. The panel data from20... Autori: Chengming Huang, Hong Li, Wei Liu, Xianqi Zhang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26358
HOW TO ACHIEVE A LOW-CARBON ECONOMY IN CHINA: FROM INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDES TO ACTUAL CONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 5 AbstractBased on an analysis of the attitude formation process, a theoretical model of the realization of low-carbon (LC) consumptionwas constructed. An empirical study of China was then carried out to identify the reasons for differences between attitudes andactual behavior to investigate ways of realizing an LC economy. The results indicate that environmental cognition has a positiveinfluence on social consciousness consumption behavior and a negative influence on individual consciousness cons... Autori: Dandan Zhu, Hong Chen, Jia Wei, Qun Fen, Wenjing Niu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26369
PREVENTING RISK OF NOISE EXPOSURE IN WORKING ENVIRONMENT USING NOISE MAPPING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractIn the developed countries, excessive exposure to noise represents at least half of the reasons for which workers lose hearing.Noise inducing hearing loss is among the most common causes of occupational illness. In this paper, the noise is considered themost expensive risk factor in terms of the occupational diseases costs. Noise maps are treated essentially as a tool for both urbanor industrial noise monitoring and control. The maps we analyzed enable the real-time monitoring of the cur... Autori: Silviu Nicolae Platon ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26392
DESIGN OF A MEASUREMENT MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE: APPLICATION TO THE FOOD SECTOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractIn light of recent environmental crises, companies are rethinking their relations with key stakeholders who live in theenvironments in which they operate. To meet the expectations of groups concerned about the environment, companies must adopta responsible attitude for their surroundings to maintain sustainable development. Environmental monitoring is not always easy,given the many environmental consequences generated by business activities. This study proposes an innovative measurementm... Autori: Carlos Atienza-Sahuquillo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26411
APPLICATION OF SPECIFIC MODELS AND SOFTWARE FOR IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISKS IN THE ROMANIAN HEALTHCARE SECTOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 6 AbstractThis paper describes the application of a specific model and software designated as EVASAN to identify, assess and prevent theoccupational health and safety risks in the Romanian health care sector, developed in the POSDRU/81/3.2/S/48872 projectCOMPEFSAN by the "Alexandru Darabont" National Research and Development Institute on Occupational Safety Bucharest,in partnership with the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, the Romanian Institute on Economical -Social R... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26419
RISK MANAGEMENT FOR AMMONIA TANK FAILURE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThe rapid technical and economic development in the last few years has brought significant advantages to the human society, butit has also generated very serious threats, such as: pollution, technological accidents, and some other forms of environmentaldegradation. Human actions, either intentional or accidental, imposed by the economic and social development, have had, insome cases, a major impact on the environment, turning into potential hazards and causing environmental damage.This p... Autori: Daniel-Cătălin Felegeanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26426
SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC MONITORING AND WARNING IN CASE OF ECOLOGICAL RISK FOR SURFACE WATERS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractThe dynamic monitoring system continuously performs the monitoring of physicochemical quality indicators of water quality ininvestigated areas. In case of ecological risk due to accidental pollution situations, the system alarms in real time the decisionfactors for the diminution of the environmental impacts and other negative effects. The distributed networks of the system arecomposed of floatable structures of Buoys Monitoring (BM) type, autonomous and adaptable to the environmental co... Autori: Constantin Vîlcu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26445
INTEGRATING ADAPTIVE LEARNING INTO ADAPTIVE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 7 AbstractAdaptive water resources management recognizes the centrality of learning to its effective implementation. However, theliterature on learning in Adaptive Management (AM) is disjointed and lacks rigorous treatment. The purpose of this paper is toclarify how learning associated with AM is distinctive and to explain the importance of successfully integrating it into policydesign. Because adaptive learning holds a unique position within the adaptive management and assessment process, it shou... Autori: Wietske Medema ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26450
REMOVAL OF HEXAVALENT AND TOTAL CHROMIUM FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS BY PLUM (P. domestica L.) TREE BARK
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe main purpose of the present work was to evaluate the potential of plum (P. domestica L.) tree bark (PDB) to remove Cr(VI)and total chromium from aqueous solutions in batch systems. Experimental data showed that the Cr(VI) and total chromiumremoval capacity was dependent on operating variables such as PDB particle size, PDB pretreatment, solution pH, initial Cr(VI)concentration, and contact time. The mechanism of Cr(VI) removal by PDB implies two simultaneous processes: 1) the reducti... Autori: Perla Vianey Lopez-Nuńez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26464
CONVENTIONAL vs. VACUUM SEWERAGE SYSTEM IN RURAL AREAS - AN ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe aim of this study is to investigate new perspectives with respect to the greening of the wastewater collection, subsequentlyassessing the value of the vacuum over the conventional wastewater collecting system in rural areas. The research was framedfrom the perspective of policy makers to aid in making decisions about benefits on long term horizon in implementing ecoinnovativeinfrastructure technologies. The study postulates the hypothesis that the vacuum sewerage system is technologi... Autori: Iulia Carmen Ciobotici Terryn ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26456
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS: A CHALLENGE FOR ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractIntegration in the European Union has faced Romania with new challenges and objectives out of which sustainable developmentin rural areas is a priority. A diverse and efficient rural economy is needed, capable of generating resources that will increase thequality of life and observe environmental protection. The analysis presented in the paper brings into evidence economic, socialand environmental characteristics from the Romanian rural areas, compared to EU-27 and a series of developed ... Autori: Camelia Burja ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26457
TECHNICAL SOLUTION TO REDUCE SOIL EROSION PRODUCED BY TAZLAU RIVER IN TARATA PERIMETER, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe paper analyses the hydrologic parameters of the Tarata perimeter with alluvial soils, in order to estimate the values of theTazlau River behaviour, in case of flooding. Tazlau River flow rate has an annual average value of 4.9 mł/s, with a torrentialcharacter when the level of precipitation is increasing. The analysis of this perimeter is of interest today as a result of the existingexcessive erosion. We identified a possible solution to reduce soil erosion through the exploitation o... Autori: Stelian Cartacuzencu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26469
NEW APPROACHES IN THE DESIGN OF PLASTIC PRODUCTS FOR EASY RECYCLING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractThe researches were initiated in the context emphasized by the competition having the idea of profit at its base, and sustainabledevelopment, which imposes limitations through different regulations and standards which would involve supplementary costs.The research highlights the main trends in plastic product design in conditions of sustainable development of society. Plasticshave an important role in the configuration of the new products just in the phase of conception. Having in mind t... Autori: Petrica Corabieru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26472
WATER FOOTPRINT ASSESSMENT OF THE ETHYL ALCOHOL PRODUCTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractWater is essential for development and its use for the industrial and agricultural sector has grown to exceed natural supplies inmany parts of the world. Businesses have became more aware of the water-related risks of their products, facilities and/or supplychain and started to consider the water accounting tools useful for identifying the “hotspots” related to water use and its socialand environmental impacts, improving operational efficiency and communication with stakeholders.The main... Autori: Simona-Andreea Ene Popa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26482
FAULT AND EVENT-TREE TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-SAFETY SYSTEMS – PART I: INTEGRATED RISK-EVALUATION SCHEME
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 8 AbstractFault-Trees (FT) and Event-Trees (ET) are well recognized techniques worldwide, which have been used by reliability experts infailure analysis of complex technical systems. In risk assessment (RA) of Occupational Health-Safety Systems (OHSS), thesituation is absolutely different, since their application is not quite expanded and has not been extensively incorporated in themain risk assessment methodologies of OHSSs, despite their significance. In this article, we review and classify FT/E... Autori: Panagiotis Marhavilas ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26483
TOTAL AND DISSOLVED METALS OCCURRENCE IN MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 9 AbstractConcentrations of seven heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn) in the discharged effluents of four wastewater treatmentplants located on the Romanian Black Seacoast, evaluated as average values for four seasons, during 2010-2011 are presented.Total and dissolved metals occurrence was investigated from seasonal samples, to assess the bioavailability of the heavy metalsin the discharged effluents. The analytical measurements were performed by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAA... Autori: Elisabeta Chirilă ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26498
FAULT AND EVENT-TREE TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-SAFETY SYSTEMS – PART II: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 9 AbstractFault-Trees (FT) and Event-Trees (ET) are useful analytic tools for the assessment of reliability and safety of complex technicalsystems, and occupational health-safety systems (OHSS), as well. In this work we broaden and expand our previous studyregarding the features of FT/ET methods. To clarify this further, in the present article we statistically analyzed the results of aliterature survey, concentrated on FT/ET techniques applied in risk assessment (RA) of OHSSs, in order to (i) depi... Autori: Panagiotis Marhavilas ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26518
ARE COMPANIES ENVIRONMENTAL SCORES AFFECTED BY DIVERSITY OF POLICIES AND WOMEN’S PRESENCE? AN OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThis paper examines the impact of diversity policies and women’s participation in the workplace on the environmental scores ofcompanies. Using data from 3895 firms present in the ASSET4 database during 2006–2010, we report on the impact of diversitypolicies, women’s presence, and the major market location of companies on their environmental scores. The results show thatenvironmental scores increase with the presence of diversity policies and the location of the company outside Asia. Furt... Autori: María-del-Val Segarra-Ońa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26554
INCREASING ROLE OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES IN THE MAINTENANCE OF SETTLEMENTS IN EASTERN HUNGARY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 11 AbstractThe most important issues of the new millennium are the adaption of renewable energies; and the establishment and operation ofsocial and technical systems that have little impact on the environment. People must undertake to solve this problem during theestablishment of the everyday life of the settlements. In the course of this study, the authors surveyed the documents related tothe energy strategy of the local municipalities of the Northern Great Plain region. This document analysis was... Autori: Balázs Kulcsár ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26544
SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDING METHODS IN THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAIN REGION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 11 AbstractThe aim of the study is to reveal the energy-efficient technologies, related knowledge and information sources of the populationin the Hungarian Northern Great Plain Region and to gain a understanding of their attitude towards the implementation of thesetechnologies. The survey included questions about the alternative building technologies as well as the cost burden limits ofconsidering their application. Special attention was given to getting information about the energy characteristics... Autori: János Pénzes ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26547
IMPACTS OF LAND COVER CHANGE AND SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26556
DISTRIBUTION OF ADDED PHOSPHORUS IN SEDIMENT UNDER INTERMITTENT RESUSPENSION CONDITIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThe incorporation of phosphorus (P) into sediments and the changes in its bioavailability under intermittent P input and sedimentresuspension conditions were investigated via laboratory experiments. The sediments were disturbed daily for 10 min and thenallowed to settle for 1430 min after each disturbance to simulate the intermittent sediment resuspension conditions. The removalof soluble reactive P from the overlying water under sediment resuspension was greater than that under static c... Autori: Li Dapeng ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26567
THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY IN ECO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM THE EUROBAROMETER SURVEY ON ATTITUDES OF EUROPEAN ENTREPRENEURS TOWARDS ECO-INNOVATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThere is an increasing social and political awareness of the importance of sustainable innovations. Strategic partnerships betweenpolicy makers, businesses, researchers and citizens are keys to developing, implementing and applying eco-innovation, essentialfor the transition to a competitive green economy. Within this innovation ecosystem, universities can play a central role increating viable alternative models that are driven by environmental sustainability.Based on evidence from the f... Autori: Francisco José Sáez-Martínez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26571
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: AN INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractThe hotel industry constitutes a major sector of the wider tourism industry and, in common with other industries, hospitalityoperations inevitably entail environmental impacts. Requirements for corporate financial reporting are commonplace, but publicdisclosure of the environmental effects of organizations’ economic actions - referred to as environmental reporting – whilegenerally only a voluntary commitment offers a potentially valuable contribution towards assessing the industry’s glob... Autori: Patricia Milanés-Montero ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26572
TECHNOLOGICAL POSTURE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: EFFECTS ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 10 AbstractInterest in the relationship between innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown considerably in the last fewyears. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between a company’s technological posture and CSR, as one of themain determinants of technological innovation performance. From knowledge-based and stakeholders’ theories a structuralequations model of relationships was established and statistically tested through Smart PLS on a sample of Spanish firms ... Autori: María I. González-Ramos ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26576
ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF PÁTZCUARO REGION, MEXICO
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 12 Abstract
Patzcuaro Lake, placed in the lacustrine zone of Michoacán (central México), has four municipalities around its shoreline, and is
an important tourist attraction in the region. Because the area is predominantly rural it lacks many efficient public services,
amount them adequate management of solid wastes that is reflected in the insufficient collection services and lack of landfills in
the area. The object of this research was to determine the local environmental perce... Autori: Otoniel Buenrostro ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26604
IMPACT AND RISK OF INSTITUTIONALIZED ENVIRONMENTS ON THE PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIV-POSITIVE YOUTH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 13 › Nr. 12 Abstract
The purpose of the research is to highlight the impact of two aspects defining personal identity: the HIV/AIDS status and family
background, on the individual self esteem of young people having grown up in a family or an orphanage environment.
We evaluated 93 young people from families and placement centers, both HIV-positive and HIV-negative, for a period of 12
months, from January to December 2013. We used the Self Esteem Inventory to evaluate their overall self esteem, as well as... Autori: Carmen Manciuc ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26607
PLANNED AND AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS: BELGRADE WATERFRONT ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 1 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26612
RESEARCH AND TRENDS IN PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 1 Abstract
During the creation of a product, the majority of the enterprises still apply a linear approach. This approach has been imposed by
the organization way of the company and by the informational flow between the different departments.
In the present time different models of integrated engineering oppose to the sequential organization. These models permit the
simultaneity of the activities deploying or at least their partial overlap. The activities overlap can be imagined eliminating fi... Autori: Petrică Corăbieru ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26633
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF UV SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE HERBICIDE MOLINATE WITH AND WITHOUT ALGINATE MICROPARTICLES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 2 Abstract
Molinate (S-ethyl-azepane-1-carbothioate) is a thiocarbamate herbicide used in rice cultivation for the control of grass weeds.
Environmental contamination with molinate is of major concern due to the adverse effects described both for humans and
animals.
Molinate hydrolase, a novel amidohydrolase previously characterized, is responsible for the initial breakdown of molinate,
cleaving the thioester bond of molinate, releasing ethanethiol and azepane-1-carboxylate (ACA). Biotechnolo... Autori: Ana M. Paiva ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26642
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE MAIN POLLUTION SOURCES FROM THE ROMANIAN BLACK SEA COAST
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 2 Abstract
The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a compulsory evaluation instrument for environmental management and decision
making processes and applies to different phases of activities (plans, programmes, projects and /or existing production or
services), because it measures the natural and anthropogenic activities effects upon the environment. These impacts may affect
the cultural richness, biodiversity, social-economic conditions and human health as well as the ecosystem equilibri... Autori: Brindusa Robu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26645
CHALLENGES AND OPORTUNITIES IN GREEN PLASTICS: AN ASSESSMENT USING THE ELECTRE DECISION-AID METHOD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 3 Abstract
Bioplastics are biobased materials, usually easy biodegradable, derived from renewable resources. Evolution of bioplastics
production is related to: bio starch and starch mixtures (74.5%); bioplastic products from fermentation (13%), bioplastic from
petrochemicals materials (12.5%). They are seen as a viable solution to avoid some environmental impacts caused by the use of
fossil-based conventional plastics. In this context, the general objectives of this study entail the analysis a... Autori: Elena-Diana Comaniţă ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26688
REMOVAL OF Pb(II) AND Cu(II) FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS BY Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: INFRARED AND THERMAL ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
The removal efficiency of algal biomass Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Pb and Cu metal ions was evaluated in single and binary
metal systems. Biosorption experiments were performed in solutions containing 0.2 g L-1 of algal biomass at 30oC and pH 6.
Initial metal ion concentrations ranged from 10-7 M to 10-6 M. Thermal analysis of the biosorbent indicated that algal cells are
composed of groups containing C, H, N, and S. The presence of ionisable functional groups responsible for bio... Autori: Roula Flouty ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26709
HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT OF MARKETING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE PROCESS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
One of the changes in marketing refers to the redirection of focus from profit to sustainable development. Sustainability
marketing can influence sustainable development. The key contribution of the paper is the presentation of holistic approach to
sustainable development and sustainability marketing through three dimensions: goals, actors and capital. Holistic management
of sustainability marketing in the process of sustainable development is focused on economic, environmental and ... Autori: Beba Rakic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26711
RISK FACTORS IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: THE ROLE OF GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, IMMUNE AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 4 Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders that affect an individual’s ability
to communicate and socialize, often associated with repetitive movements or behaviors. Frequently patients associate intellectual
disability or digestive problems. Autism is more common in males and affects 1 in 88 children in USA. The mechanism that
leads to ASD is very complex, involving genetic, epigenetic, immune and environmental factors that could... Autori: Cristina Rusu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26712
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – A REVIEW
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
The Organizations of the 21st century had evidenced that Management Systems and Standards have become a key aspect for their
sustainable development and a prerequisite for their existence. In this recent decade, the Systems for Quality (ISO 9001:2008),
Environment (ISO 14001:2004), Occupational Health and Safety (OHSAS 18001:2007), Corporate Social Responsibility (SA
8000:2008 and ISO 26000:2010) and Risk Management (ISO 31000:2009) form the core pillars of the Organization,
supple... Autori: Gopalakrishnan Muthu Samy ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26720
SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF PASSIVE POLLUTION BY ASBESTOS IN DARABANI TOWN, BOTOŞANI COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 5 Abstract
Social perception is a tool widely used in the environment research, due to the emphasis put on the one hand on the human
component, as an important factor in the development of society, and on the other hand on the man-environment interaction of
the past decades. The aim of the present study is to assess the population concern about the environment, and particularly about
the use of asbestos (a material partly forbidden in Romania since 2007), for construction purposes. The case st... Autori: Elena Matei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26734
GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT AND GLOBAL HEALTH. CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The link between the spread of diseases and the geographical environment has been made by scientists since a long time. Every
element has an entire spectrum of possible effects on a community. One of the main reasons of studying the environment is the
understanding of the way the environment conditions influence the human health and the identification of the modalities through
which the negative effects of some external factors on this universal good of the society can be reduced. T... Autori: Călin-Cornel Pop ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26760
EXTREME RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY (ERAM) IN AVIATION SYSTEMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The research is focused on the relationship between aviation systems and extreme terrorist events, the impacts of such events, and
the solutions to manage the associated risks on medium and long term. The development of predictive models for extremeasymmetric
events in aviation (EAEA) still represents an emerging direction of interdisciplinary research because not all
mechanisms and interactions are understood. The testing of models is difficult due to lack of data and interpretatio... Autori: Catalin Cioaca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26762
STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTIONS REGARDING EVALUATION CRITERIA OF FOREST ROAD OPTIONS IN ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26763
ANALYSIS OF THE ROMANIAN PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 6 Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyse Romanian situation regarding packaging waste generated and to find out how the targets
imposed after integration were accomplished, based on data collected and published by Eurostat, as well by other publications.
The municipal solid waste collection practice in Romania is based on mixed collection (approximately 96% of waste generated),
without or with minor sorting at source. Waste recovery is applied to small percentages and only for certain ca... Autori: Carmen Luiza Costuleanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26764
RECOVERY OF SEWAGE SLUDGE ON AGRICULTURAL LAND IN LOMBARDY: CURRENT ISSUES AND REGULATORY SCENARIOS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
Issues concerning the treatment and the recovery/disposal of sludge derived from the municipal WWTPs (Wastewater Treatment
Plants) are gaining importance both in Italy and abroad. In Lombardy Region this aspect is particularly relevant due to both the
amount of sludge produced and its remarkable reuse in agricultural soils. This paper discusses different strategies for land
application of sludge in order to provide technical and regulatory guidance at regional level. The work is bas... Autori: Maria Cristina Collivignarelli ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26769
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
Sustainability issues have driven academic researchers towards the definition of methodological tools to assess the impacts
derived from products and services and to make them more ecologically friendly, economically profitable and socially suitable,
and whose results have to be clear and understandable to a broad public. In the evaluation of complex socio-environmental
systems, like agricultural ones, uncertainty often arises and the quality of decision processes can be a high conc... Autori: Anna Irene De Luca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26779
WHY MANUFACTURERS OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT (EEE) CREATE PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY ORGANIZATIONS (PROS) TO COMPLY WITH THE WEEE DIRECTIVE? THE CASE OF ERP ITALIA SRL WITH FOCUS ON COSTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
This paper investigates the role of collective organizations created by producers to comply with the WEEE Directive. There are
limited case studies on these producer responsibility organizations (PROs) despite the crucial role that they play in Extended
Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. An important aspect in order to evaluate the efficiency of these compliance schemes is
the analysis of their internal costs including transaction costs. First of all, this research provides an u... Autori: Marinella Favot ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26781
DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTRICRITERIA INDICATOR OF VIRTUOSITY IN WASTE MANAGEMENT ADDRESSED TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
As the percentage of segregated waste, taken as individual indicator, is insufficient to measure the virtuosity of a Municipality
waste management, a multicriteria indicator has been developed to broaden the horizon of the analysis of waste management
performance. The aim of this study is to experiment a new and easy–to-use methodology for the evaluation of Municipalities
virtuosity in waste management, built from Public Administrators to verify the responsiveness between thei... Autori: Alessandra Bonoli ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26786
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DRINKING WATER TREATMENT IN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing the drinking water issue in the Mediterranean region, highlighting the principal problems and the
appropriate technologies applicable in the different countries. The countries of this area are characterized by a huge variety from
social, cultural, economic and environmental point of view. In particular, water distribution is inhomogeneous between the North,
East, and South; even the type of water sources and the related quantity and quality problems diff... Autori: Sabrina Sorlini ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26793
PHYSICAL-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NEW GREEN BUILDING MATERIALS BASED ON GLASS WASTE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 7 Abstract
Recently several innovative suggestions on how industrial wastes can be utilised in new products have been presented in
literature, e.g. as filler or additives in concrete, incorporated in ceramic materials to produce glass-ceramics and pavement
construction. In this work, metallurgical materials from secondary aluminium scrap processing and glass waste derived from
treatments of packaging and fluorescent lamps were considered for fabrication of new ceramic materials using powder te... Autori: Rosa Taurino ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26794
DEVELOPING URBAN LOW-CARBON TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN DEVELOPED CITIES OF CHINA: THE EXAMPLE OF JINAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 Abstract
Economy depends heavily on transport. Since the overwhelming motor vehicles burn fossil fuels at present, transport system
keeps producing CO2, which will speed up the climate change if fossil fuels are consumed excessively. Thus, Jinan, the economic
center of China’s second developed province, aims to formulate a low-carbon transport system in future. This paper analyzes the
causal relationship in transport system and discusses its CO2 emission situation according to the time... Autori: Qiang Han ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26802
INTEGRATION OF CONGESTION-RELATED EMISSIONS IN A TRANSIT BUS SCHEDULING PROBLEM DURING RUSH HOURS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26806
SYSTEM DYNAMICS FOR URBAN TRAFFIC JAM MANAGEMENT IN BEIJING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 8 Abstract
The supply and demand contradiction of urban transport in China is increasingly prominent. And the urban traffic jam becomes
more and more serious. It affects the normal urban residents, causes aggravating environmental pollution, and influences the normal
operation of the urban logistics seriously. It becomes the restrictive factors of urban economic and social development. Accordingly,
the paper analyzes the current situation of traffic jams, the reasons, and summarized existing c... Autori: Haoxiong Yang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26809
CITIZEN OBSERVATORIES AS FACILITATORS OF CHANGE IN WATER GOVERNANCE? EXPERIENCES FROM THREE EUROPEAN CASES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 9 Abstract
In citizen observatories, the observations, insights and involvement of 'ordinary' citizens - alongside those of scientists and
professionals - can be included in earth observation, environmental conservation as well as decision making. Facilitated by
information and communication technologies (ICTs), such ICT-enabled citizen observatories have the potential to generate
fundamental changes to existing governance structures. Based on an action research approach in three Europ... Autori: Uta Wehn ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26831
DATA SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN SMART CITIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 9 Abstract
Urban environments present unique opportunities for developing new system architectures and applications aligned with the
“Internet of things” paradigm. The data sources are still largely provided by physical sensors and technical devices, albeit a
significant role is already played (e.g. in environmental monitoring networks) by virtual or soft sensors provided by simulation
models, while a growing role is being played by human data generated thru participatory platforms... Autori: Francesco Archetti ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26833
SOCIAL COST OF FOSSIL-BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATION PLANTS IN IRAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 10 Abstract
Energy costs not included in consumer utility invoices include human health problems triggered by air pollution from burning
fossil fuels, and environmental degradation caused by global warming, acid rain, and water pollution. Such costs, peripheral to
energy pricing, are called externalities because electricity producers and users do not pay for them directly. Society as a whole
must pay. This pricing system masks the true costs of fossil-based electricity generation plants, result... Autori: Hasan Karimzadegan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26862
MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY THROUGH ORGANIC AGRICULTURE. CONTRIBUTION OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
The general goal of the research was to integrate organic food consumer behavior into the topic of the management of
environmental security. The detailed objectives were to determine Romanian consumers’ beliefs about organic food and its role
for environmental security, to identify consumers’ judgement of environmental problems, to establish the influence that
demographic and social variables have on consumers’ beliefs and to emphasize the relationship between thes... Autori: Dacinia Crina Petrescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26886
SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF ROAD TRAFFIC INJURIES IN ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 11 Abstract
Romania has recorded a dramatic number of road traffic accidents in the last five years. The latest European documents and
statistics indicate that the country has the highest number of traffic fatalities across the Member States of the European Union.
The aim of the paper is twofold. First, the authors aim to analyze the spatial characteristics of traffic accidents for the period
2010-2014: spatial distribution of accidents at county level, number of vehicles involved, socio-spatia... Autori: Silviu Marian Ciobanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26893
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPANY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF ROMANIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 12 Abstract
The relation between the level of implementation of environmental practices and corporate financial performance (CFP) becomes
important, especially when environmental policies, with corresponding standards and regulations, are adopted by the company on
a voluntary basis and when companies’ economic activities affect stakeholders. In our research, we relate environmental
practices with CFP by designing a way of measuring a particular environmental rating for which we didn't... Autori: Dalina Dumitrescu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26920
VULNERABILITY OF GROUNDWATER UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND COVER: A NEW SPATIAL ASSESSMENT METHOD APPLIED ON BELIŞ DISTRICT (WESTERN CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 14 › Nr. 12 Abstract
A new assessment method of groundwater vulnerability was done using multilayer data analysis through GIS Spatial Analyst Tools.
The method presented here refers at Beliș district territory and describes two tasks: (1) groundwater vulnerability determination
from Water Surplus, Ecosystem Services, Aquifers map, and Infiltration map; (2) the future vulnerability assessment for 2050,
considering four scenarios of land cover and climate data changes. First results, carried out by p... Autori: Mărgărit-Mircea Nistor ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26921
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE CHARACTERISTICS AND MANAGEMENT IN SINOP, TURKEY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 1 This paper presents municipal solid waste (MSW) responsibility and management structure in Sinop, Turkey together with the
current situation of collection, recycling, transport and disposal of MSW. In order to examine the MSW management, a longterm
study was conducted between 1994 and 2010. In this study, physical composition of MSW was determined. Proximate
analysis (moisture content, density and calorific value) and ultimate analysis (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and ash)
of ... Autori: Nurdan Gamze Turan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26925
INFLUENCE OF SOUND FREQUENCY ON HUMAN BODY STABILITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 Kistler Force Plate (FP) (model 9286AA) with the corresponding software Bioware (2812A1-3, Version: 3.2.6.104), along with
other equipment: an audio system Hercules 5.1 70, a sound generator Agilent 33220 A and a sound meter Spark 706 were used
for the research described in the present paper. The audio system was used to generate sounds at different frequencies; the sound
generator verified the audio system and the sound meter were used to achieve a sound pressure level. The software contains... Autori: Ionel Şerban ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26959
DECONTAMINATION OF DIESEL-POLLUTED SOIL THROUGH FLOTATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 This paper studies, in lab scale, the possibility of removing a rich-in-pollutant soil fraction using flotation, with the clean fraction
been restored to its natural condition. The tests were carried out in a conventional flotation cell with mechanical agitation.
Artificially polluted soil was used throughout this study by mixing soil with diesel fuel. The effect of the following flotation
factors was studied: pulp pH, collector type and quantity, conditioning and flotation time, initial soil... Autori: Nickolaos Georgiou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26960
SURVEY ON THE BUYERS’ ECO-RESPONSIBILITY AND THE URBAN WHITE POLLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 2 White pollution is a form of environmental pollution which has taken unprecedented dimensions in many cities of Europe over
the last two decades. It is estimated that by 2020, European Union citizens will reduce the consumption of plastic shopping bags
by 80% in ways that will be identified and implemented by each member state. Starting from these two main dimensions,
necessity and opportunity, we have conducted a survey on the eco-responsible behavior of consumers in Bucharest. The main
aim... Autori: Armenia Androniceanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=26972
DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES OF RICE YIELD TO CLIMATE CHANGE BETWEEN RECLAMATION AND GENERAL AGRICULTURAL AREAS IN THE HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE OF CHINA FROM 1951 TO 2011
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 4 Rice is one of the main staple foods in China and plays an extremely important role in ensuring the country’s food security.
Therefore, the impacts of climate change on rice yields have garnered considerable attention. In this study, meteorological and
rice yield records during 1951-2011 from the Reclamation area (RA) and general agricultural area (GAA) in the Heilongjiang
province of Northeast China were used to assess the impacts of climate change on rice yield trends using multiple r... Autori: Yang Zhou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27019
EVALUATION OF POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON PERFORMANCE FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT CONTAINING ORGANIC (C6H6 AND C6H5-CH3) AND INORGANIC (Pb+2 AND Zn+2) POLLUTANTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 5 The removal of toxic heavy metal ions such as lead and zinc from industrial and mining wastewaters has been widely studied
because their existence in surface and underground water is responsible for several types of health problems caused to animals
and human beings. Also, there are some organic compounds, which must be prevented from reaching in drinking water from
various sources of pollution. For these reasons in this paper the experiments were conducted to study the ability of activated
... Autori: Cristina Ileana Covaliu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27027
PROFILING ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY TOURISTS IN ROMANIAN MOUNTAIN DESTINATIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 5 The main purpose of this research is to outline a profile of the environmentally friendly tourist in a Romanian mountain
destination. Using quantitative research the paper investigates tourists’ environmental awareness, their eco-friendly intentions
and their demographic and travel characteristics. The analysis is based on 331 observations collected in the most important
Romanian mountain resort, namely Poiana Brasov. The research findings have allowed us to create a profile of the
env... Autori: Adina Nicoleta Candrea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27042
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF SIBIU DEPRESSION - BASIC OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 6 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27059
CHANGE DETECTION IN THE CLUJ FOREST DISTRICT USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS APPLICATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 6 This paper focuses on the testing and comparison of the sensitivity of vegetation indices to determine the changes occurred in
forest areas of the Cluj Forest District during the post-socialist period, between 1986 and 2009. Concurrently, the paper pursues
to assess the way in which the socio-economic and social changes have caused alterations of the forest areas. These have been
significantly affected by the changes occurred over the past decades, as well as by the increase of the anthropiza... Autori: Paula Furtună ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27061
CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ENVIRONMENT BY USING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) CAMPAIGNS IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 6 Corporate Social Responsibility activities bring organizations closer to the community they operate in, up to the level of making
them a citizen of that community. Currently, companies invest in CSR all around the world, the phenomena being of great
importance in any businesses activity. Most of the Romanian studies on the subject are performed at management level, targeting
the perspective it has on the concept, the investment value they put into social activities and the general developing ... Autori: Ionel Bostan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27066
AN ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROACTIVITY AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 The economic literature provides ample evidence that tourism makes intensive use of land both as a product and as a production
factor. However, what is now known as mass tourism was developed in a setting in which respect for the environment among
businesses and consumers was conspicuous by its absence. This situation has recently changed as consumers increasingly
demand sustainable tourism products and require companies to respect specific environmental commitments. How companies
manage thi... Autori: José Luis Sánchez-Ollero ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27068
WORLD HERITAGE CITIES DECLARATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPEAN CITIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 There is a great deal of research focusing primarily on the analysis of cities’ sustainable development, in which the role of culture
plays an important role. Accordingly, a range of research disciplines consider the influence of culture on sustainable
development. The relationship between culture and sustainable development is analysed from two perspectives: the development
of the cultural sector and the presence of cultural dimension in different public policies. One of the elements t... Autori: Juan Antonio Mondéjar-Jiménez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27069
EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FRAME OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN HOTEL ESTABLISHMENTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 This paper seeks to empirically examine the relationship between Environmental Activities (EA) included as part of Corporate
Responsibility (CR), and corporate image, loyalty, and trust in the hotel sector. It also examines the impact of image on trust, and
the impact of trust on loyalty. Data were collected from a sample of 134 customers of four four-star international hotels. The data
were processed with PLS-Graph software, using structural equations to test the hypotheses. The findings rev... Autori: Beatriz Palacios Florencio ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27070
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSION IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CONSUMER PERCEPTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is implemented unevenly in the Spanish tourism industry. The country’s hotel
infrastructure is not an exception. Many researchers have focused on finding out to what extent the implementation of CSR is
ideal from a hotel management perspective and what its effects and consequences are. To a lesser extent, this work has analyzed
how and how much consumers rate socially responsible actions, particularly those associated with the environment, society a... Autori: José Mondéjar Jiménez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27077
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY AMONG SMEs IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY: PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 7 There is an increasing social and political awareness of the importance of the development of an environmental responsibility
orientation among firms. However, despite a growing interest of environmental management research in Hospitality Industry in
the last decade, there are still relevant topics that have not received sufficient attention yet. Research tends to focus on large
companies almost neglecting Small and Medium-sized enterprises. Based on evidence from “The Eurobarometer 381... Autori: Ángela González-Moreno ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27078
PLASTIC WASTE STORAGE AS MULTIFUNCTIONAL „GREEN” MODULES FOR TERRITORIAL USE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 8 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27112
CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ODOR ACTIVE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS EMITTED FROM PERFUMES BY GC/MS-O
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 9 The selection of proper compounds to include in perfumes’ formulation is of particular interest for the perfume industry.
Essential oils and perfumes are subject to quality control as well as to chemical characterization; therefore, GC/MS-O
methodology can be considered a useful tool for research purposes and/or for improving industrial manufacturing processes. In
this study, GC/MS-O methodology was applied to a commercial brand perfume and a natural-derived one, both characterized by
... Autori: Antonella Amenduni ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27125
ANALYSIS OF TOTAL EMISSIONS REDUCTION OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY POLLUTANTS IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 10 During the Twelfth Five-Year period (2011-2015), agricultural sources have been incorporated in the total emission reduction
policy for the first time in China. The discharge from livestock and poultry industry has become a focus for increased research.
Based on the present situation of total emission reduction from livestock and poultry industry, this paper analyzes the pollution
reduction problems such as data, measures and regulations, and provides the suggestions such as “reliable d... Autori: Yueying Wu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27148
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR DECISION MAKING AND STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 10 Today, different tools are associated with environmental protection context, which ca include, among others: environmental
programmes, objectives and targets, training, incentive schemes, audit frequency, site inspections, administration and community
relations. The assessment of different aspects of environmental quality and protection, in a qualitative or quantitative manner is
based on various indicators, addressing the three components of sustainability: economic, social, environmental.
... Autori: Mihnea Costoiu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27163
CONVERGENCE OF HUMAN POPULATIONS IN CHINA: IMPACT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 11 Convergence, that is the concentration of human populations into small areas, has been common throughout history. However, convergence has now reached historically unprecedented levels. Historically, convergence has tended to increase the long-term risk to humanity caused by many factors, including the associated environmental damage. Large cities appear to be at greater risk of unforeseen disasters, and may even collapse when some maximum sustainable size is exceeded. Based on a review of publi... Autori: Xin Wang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27173
PRO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF THE LAW OF ENTROPY ON ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 11 The discovery of entropy in thermodynamics has set fundamental premises for the study and analysis of the relationship between
the entropy law and economic processes, as one of the main objectives of such endeavours was to separate the qualitative aspects
from the realm of economics. The law we have chosen to focus on in the present paper states that, in the universe or in isolated
structures, entropy increases constantly and irreversibly, thus causing a continuous and unidirectional degradat... Autori: Ionel Bostan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27179
IMPLEMENTING AGRITOURISM MARKETING STRATEGY AS TOOLS FOR THE EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL TOURISM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 12 Any modern enterprise, with focus on marketing and management success have to be based on market principles, pursuing the main objectives, of increasing production and services in terms of sustainable development. In this context, rural tourism and agritourism, with a high rate in rural areas, is a major factor, with direct consequences on local development and meeting the consumption needs of tourists. There are several advantages of the agritourism which had been described previously such as: ... Autori: Elena Leonte ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27206
ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICALLY STRUCTURED STRATEGIC PORTFOLIOS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 12 The need to develop models for analyzing socio-ecologically structured strategic portfolios derives from concerns regarding the sustainable development manifested in the current economy. Such models are useful for underlying the strategy of the organizations oriented towards achieving their objectives and the requirements of sustainable development.
The model that we propose is based on an algorithm of strategic portfolio classification focused on the organization’s potential of sustainab... Autori: Oliver Constantin Pricop ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27209
ADSORPTIVE REMOVAL OF Cu (II) IONS BY DATE PITS: KINETIC AND EQUILIBRIUM STUDIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 15 › Nr. 12 Date pits were used as a low-cost adsorbent to study the effective removal of copper (II) ions in an aqueous solution on the basis of adsorption kinetics and isotherm equations. Before and after the adsorption process, the date pits were characterized by electron scanning microscope (ESM) as well as Infrared spectroscopy (IR). The effects of the pH, zero point of charge, the adsorbent mass, and the adsorbent particle size on the adsorption of copper (II) were also studied. Equilibrium data were ... Autori: Tarek E. Khalil ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27212
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA) OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN CLUJ COUNTY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 1 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology that can be used to evaluate the environmental performance of municipal solid waste management systems (MSWMS). Despite of Waste Directive provisions, this methodology is insufficiently applied as a decision-support method able to identify the best option for the waste management in Romania. In this paper we applied LCA methodology to study of the municipal waste management system of Cluj County, supported by GaBi software. The aim of this study is to... Autori: Gabriela-Emilia Popiţa ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27225
RESEARCH REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF AGRITOURISM ON ROMANIA’S RURAL AREAS BETWEEN 1990 AND 2015
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 1 Based on more than 25 years of research in the field of agritourism, the current work represents a pertinent, realistic and critical analysis of the main factors favourable to the implementation and development of agritourism and rural tourism in Romania. Firstly, we examined the main natural and anthropic tourist resources which constitute the country’s tourist treasures, and we concluded that Romania has rich, varied and attractive tourist resources that have not been fully exploited and... Autori: Aurel Călina ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27237
THE FORESTS OF ROMANIA IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE AND IN GEOGRAPHY. TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND ACTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 1 The aims of this research are (1) to analyze the topic of forests in Romania as presented in scientific literature and (2) to identify the Romanian Geography teachers’ perceptions of and opinions about (a) the consequences of human actions on the situation of forests in Romania, (b) their own actions that lead to diminishing vulnerability and risks for forest clearances, (c) factors that influenced their attitude and behavior towards forests, and (d) suggestions for actions of forest prote... Autori: Maria Eliza Dulamă ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27238
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN PUSHING FORWARD MANUFACTURING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODE IN DEVELOPING REGIONS: A CASE OF MAINLAND CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 1 The sustainable development (SD) mode is a way by which enterprise behaviors are harmoniously compatible with human health and the environment. The implementation of SD mode amongst manufacturers is better for socially sustainable development. However, the motivation for manufacturers to apply the SD mode is limited in most developing regions. The remedial measures for this problem are studied in this paper. By applying evolutionary game theory mainly as well as empirical analysis, how to promot... Autori: Jian Cao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27241
SUSTAINABILITY AND INTEGRATION BETWEEN MINERAL RESOURCES AND C&DW MANAGEMENT: OVERVIEW OF KEY ISSUES TOWARDS A RESOURCE-EFFICIENT EUROPE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 Sustainability and integration are becoming keywords in many European Union policies, including ones that are directly or indirectly related to mineral resources and waste management. Moreover, life cycle thinking (LCT) is core to many of these policies. The European Commission has issued the Communications “A resource efficient Europe” and “Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe”, the stated goal of which is to reconsider the whole life cycle of resource use so as to mak... Autori: Gian Andrea Blengini ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27267
NON-SYMMETRIC INTERACTION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 2 A large number of indisputable facts prove that the interaction between the environment and human beings cannot result in a “win-win” scenario because of the non-symmetric principle, a new concept dealing with the limits of human knowledge and one-sided approach. The history of environmental research, human egoism and irresponsible development all result in non-symmetry. Non-symmetry can be reduced through a system of environmental management characterized by neutral axiology and a r... Autori: Yuping Jiang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27268
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF AMARA LAKE (S-E ROMANIA)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 3 The Amara Lake is located at the south-eastern part of Romania. It is a shallow lake with an average depth of 3m and average extent of 1.32 km2, having a particular importance for the area in which is situated. This importance derives from its main functions in the ecosystem, namely: source of food, shelter and breeding place for almost 54 bird, balneary tourism attraction and jobs for the residents of Amara who live in the northern part of the lake. Under these conditions, the sustainable devel... Autori: Ofelia Axinte ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27282
ECO-FRIENDLY CORRUGATED BOARD AND SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING MANUFACTURING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 3 The paper is focused on the sustainability of packages manufactured from corrugated board. The arguments proving that corrugated board is an eco-friendly material intended for goods packaging are discussed considering carbon footprint, water footprint, Life Cycle data released as a result of comprehensive analyses elaborated by specialized bodies and scientists. A “cradle-to-cradle” approach is promoted since corrugated board is fully recyclable, it is reusable and easy disposable. M... Autori: Teofil Câmpean ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27290
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PILLAR ASSESSMENT IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 3 The present paper focuses on the environmental pillar of a new and innovative framework for sustainability assessment of VET - Vocational Education and Training - providers. By employing case study methods on a research sample of 6 VET providers in the Mures County, Romania, we have determined the sustainable development challenges that VET providers face. The results are used to elaborate the core subjects of the framework in accordance with existing practices at VET providers. The framework is... Autori: Liviu Moldovan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27294
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: COMPETITIVENESS IN THE CONTEXT OF TEXTILE AND FASHION VALUE CHAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 5 In this paper we address Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a competitive factor in textile and fashion value chain. CSR assumes a large range of activities focused on one or multiple targets, from work conditions to social programs, or environmental impact. The influence of CSR strategies on market performance depend on how truthful consumers will understand and believe to be the values offered by companies. The qualitative research has considered seven case studies from Portuguese textil... Autori: Graça Guedes ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27316
ECOLOGICAL STUDY ON NITROGEN BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE AFTER CONVERSION FROM GRASSLAND TO CROPLAND IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE (ROMANIA)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 Conversion of natural ecological systems has been one of the greatest human impact on terrestrial ecosystems. The expansion of anthroposphere altered virtually all biogeochemical cycles of elements. Nitrogen holds a key place in sustaining life and presents unique traits such as broad chemical speciation and mobility within the environmental compartments. With historically adapted ecosystems to low bioavailable nitrogen, understanding the complexity of the nitrogen disruption is a continuous cha... Autori: Andreea Csolti ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27329
INFLUENCE OF RECENT LAND USE CHANGE ON TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON STOCK IN HUMOR RIVER BASIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 Inventory and monitoring of total organic carbon stock (TOC) it’s an issue of actuality in the context of breaking into the atmosphere an alarming quantity of CO2 result of human activities. Management and sustainable management of forest and agricultural ecosystems can have a positive influence on maintaining optimal stock of carbon sequestered. A case study achieved in the Humor catchment reveals that changing the land’s utility means important modifications in the quantity of the ... Autori: Eugen Rusu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27336
STUDY OF VOCATIONAL INTERESTS OF STUDENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FIELD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 4 This paper substantiates the opportunity of a longitudinal study meant to emphasize the curriculum influence over students in various years of study from the Department of Environmental Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania.
The diagnosis value of the results indicates the compatibility degree between personality profile of the students and that of professionals wo... Autori: Carmen Cătălina Ioan ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27344
ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING BY OIL AND GAS MULTINATIONALS FROM RUSSIA AND ROMANIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 The objective of the paper consists in determining the level of awareness towards sustainability and ecological issues for Russian and Romanian oil and gas multinational companies (MNCs). Thus, we employed a qualitative approach on the issue, both by investigating the information disclosed in sustainability and/or CSR reports from a sample of Russian and Romanian corporations and by keeping trace of the adequacy of their reporting practice with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. Ou... Autori: Codruţa Badaluta Minda ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27352
WORKERS EXPOSURE TO NOISE IN SURFACE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 Discomfort caused by noise is ever-present, having numerous physiological, psychological and social implications. One of the most important discomfort factors for personnel working in the processes of surface coal extraction is represented by noise. This paper examines how noise generated by the process of lignite extraction influences the working capacity of employees.
The covering effect of voice or different sound and verbal signals, during work, leads to tiring efforts of attention, thus de... Autori: Sorin Simion ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27366
TOOLS FOR PREVENTING OCCUPATIONAL RISKS FOR SMEs - A PREREQUISITE FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 6 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
DEVELOPMENT OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM BASED ON STOCHASTIC NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION FOR PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED SITE MANAGEMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 7 In this study, a decision support system based on a stochastic optimization model under modeling uncertainty and parameter certainty (SOMUM-DSS) is developed for petroleum-contaminated sites management. The SOMUM-DSS incorporates scenario analysis, numerical simulation, multivariate analysis, nonlinear optimization within a decision support system. It provides an effective tool for decision makers to select the optimal remediation strategy. The developed SOMUM-DSS is then applied to a petroleum-... Autori: Qi Yang ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27374
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF DRILLING WASTE MANAGEMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 7 Drilling waste management for oil and gas industry involves collection, transportation, processing, recycling, disposal, and monitoring of waste materials in order to reduce their effects on health and environment. In the Exploration and Production industry, environmental concerns have made effective management of drilling waste at well sites a great priority. Effective waste management is thus a key element in a successful drilling project. The industry therefore relies on effective expertise a... Autori: M. Enamul Hossain ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27375
A DECISION MAKING MODEL FOR SELECTING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EMS) PROJECT CONTRACTOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 7 Because of increased environmental consciousness, pollution emissions reduction has been stressed by more and more governments these days, and the environmental management system (EMS) has become one approach for many firms to comply with environmental regulations. However, with rapidly changing technologies along with increasingly complicated environments,
how to select a suitable EMS project has become an important issue that has never been discussed comprehensively. First, tolerating vague a... Autori: Hsing Hung Chen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27391
WATER FOOTPRINT APPLIED TO CONSTRUCTION SECTOR
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 Water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks not only at direct water use of a consumer or producer, but also at
indirect water use; it can be regarded as a comprehensive indicator of freshwater resources appropriation, next to the traditional
and restricted measure of water withdrawal. It could be counted in terms of the sum of direct and indirect water costs in all
processes and input-output analysis to detailed water used in all plant.
In this paper, the application of the... Autori: Agata Matarazzo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27410
CO-DESIGN FOR A CIRCULAR APPROACH IN GREEN TECHNOLOGIES: ADAPTATION OF REUSED BUILDING MATERIAL AS GROWING SUBSTRATE FOR SOILLESS CULTIVATION OF LETTUCE (Lactuca sativa var. capitata)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 Improving the awareness of the responsibility of our actions is the basis of achieving the ambitious aim of waste management
and prevention established by the European Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/CE and the most recent Circular Economy
Package. Circular Economy is connected both to improve manufacturing technologies and also educate people towards
responsible consumption and waste reduction. Due to its educational and institutional role, universities provide a context to
rethink not on... Autori: Sara Rizzo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27414
WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPANIES TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY: WHAT IMPACTS ON PRODUCTION COSTS?
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 Waste production and management is a strategic issue for all countries, because it relates to environmental, social, and economic
conditions. The European Commission pushes EU member states to implement the “hierarchical principle”, which aims to prevent
negative environmental impacts caused by waste. Within this context, the article deals with Italian municipal companies operating
in the field of waste management. The objective is to verify if and how separate waste collection ra... Autori: Francesca Bartolacci ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27416
SHARING ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY. HOW TECHNOLOGY AND COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION INNOVATIONS BOOST CLOSING THE LOOP STRATEGIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 Sharing economy business experiences are rapidly rising worldwide and deeply changing structures and models of customers
purchasing attitudes and needs. Inspired by principles of sustainable consumption, its starting point is the idea that every
underutilized resource is a wasted resource. Beyond the digital services implemented by sharing platform, there are also social and
physical places where communities are experimenting the potential of collaborative and innovative solutions: purchasing... Autori: Paola Sposato ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27417
CIRCULAR ECONOMY STRATEGIES FOR ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT: A FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 8 A worldwide trend is leading the international community to explore the possible paths for the transition from a linear to a circular economic model. Recent studies identified the main enabling factors to facilitate this transition, among which closed loop logistics models and new service-based and function-oriented business models play a significant role. The diffusion of new business models relating to the use of a product rather than its ownership can indeed reduce material consumption and th... Autori: Maria Grazia Gnoni ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27418
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF EXPOSURE TO TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION IN IASI CITY, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 9 Despite the industrial decline, air pollution continues to be a major issue in Romanian cities. As in many other urban areas, in Iasi
city the traffic is one of the main sources of air pollution which has a high environmental impact, also exposing population’s
health to a high risk. The study focuses on the small scale examining the spatial and temporal variability of air pollution in a very
important and frequently circulated crossroad, Podu de Piatra. Using various data from air pollu... Autori: Alexandru Banica ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27443
ENHANCED COAGULATION FOR ALGAE REMOVAL IN A TYPICAL ALGERIA WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 10 This work aims to study the physicochemical and biological parameters of Boukerdene Dam’s water and treated water at
different steps of the treatment processes in Sidi-Amar’s Station (Tipaza, Algeria) with a particular interest to the phytoplankton.
This work is also related to the demonstration of the enhanced coagulation (EC) process as an efficient method in algae and
organic matter (OM) removal from surface water by its application in jar tests. The diversity of the phytoplank... Autori: Djamel Ghernaout ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27459
URBAN FORESTS AND THE NEEDS OF VISITORS: A CASE STUDY OF KOŠUTNJAK PARK FOREST, SERBIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 10 Urban forests contribute to social, aesthetic and economic benefits within cities. In urban forest management, these aspects are often not incorporated, especially in the countries of South East Europe (e.g. Serbia), where the management of urban forests is still dominated by classical forestry aims (i.e. timber production). This paper analyzes the Košutnjak urban forest in Belgrade, with a special emphasis on the needs of its visitors and the importance of its use. We aim to raise awaren... Autori: Jelena Tomićević-Dubljević ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27461
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF URBAN AND RURAL ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS IN AND NEAR BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 10 The temporal variation of the pollutant (PM10) levels over urban and rural sites in and near Bucharest was investigated from March 2014 until September 2015. The comparison between the PM10 mass concentration values at urban site and those from referential urban station of Environmental Protection Agency of Bucharest allowed us to detect certain pollution events. Considering this purpose the optical parameters characterizing the loading of the atmosphere (Aerosol Optical Depth-AOD) and the type ... Autori: Gabriela Manolache ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27467
ANALYSIS OF PARTICULATE MATTERS IN AIR OF PALM OIL MILLS - A STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 11 The particulate matter samples were studied in the surrounding of the different mills in Penang and Kedah State, Malaysia.
Multivariate statistical techniques such as multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), discriminant analysis (DA) and
principal components analysis (PCA) were applied in analyzing the air quality data. MANOVA showed a strong significant
difference between the five palm oil mills. DA identified two functions responsible for discriminating the mills and it showed
that the... Autori: Nik Norulaini Nik Abd. Rahman ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27484
POLLUTION LOAD AND ECOLOGICAL REPLENISHMENT PLAN OF LIJIANG RIVER, CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 11 Lijiang River is the link of Guilin landscape and the golden waterway of Guilin tourism. With the development of social economy, the pollution problem of Lijiang River in recent decades has become more and more serious, which has aroused widespread concern and attention. However, the study on the reduction of river pollution load is seldom found reported until now. In this paper, the pollutant load of Lijiang River is estimated by equal standard pollution load method and the water pollution mode... Autori: Ronghui Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27490
EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL WELLBEING, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 11 This study investigates the dynamic relationship between economic growth, energy consumption, financial development, and CO2 emissions at macro level in the case of 49 countries from Europe and Central Asia over a two-year period. The research focuses exclusively on country-level characteristics and uses a heteroscedasticity-consistent standard error estimator (HC3) to analyze the aforementioned relationship. The proposed econometric models test whether: i) the level of development of financial ... Autori: Marilena Mironiuc ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27494
APPLICATION OF FEAHP METHOD IN NOISE PROTECTION PROJECTS SELECTION: THE CASE OF SERBIAN PUBLIC ROADS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 12 Noise is one of the most significant contemporary environmental pollutants. Sources of noise are numerous, but traffic is
undoubtedly one of the most prominent. In practice, there is a growing interest in traffic noise protection, but the selection of an
adequate solution represents quite a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to suggest an innovative approach to selecting the
optimal road noise protection solutions. The theoretical approach for public roads noise protection has been teste... Autori: Vladimir Lj. Obradovic ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27508
TRIGGERING EVENTS FOR CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP LEADING TO INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 16 › Nr. 12 Renewable energy investments may be threatened by uncertainty regarding current support regulations. Incentives for
investments would need to integrate more aspects regarding the companies that enter the renewable energy market. The current
paper explores the triggering events for corporate entrepreneurship that lead to investments in the renewable energy field. It
presents an empirical analysis based on a qualitative approach, aiming at identifying which types of triggering events influence
... Autori: Adrian Dumitru Tanţău ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27517
PERCEPTION ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AT GOLF COURSES IN SPAIN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 1 A wide variety of environmental management systems (EMSs) exist today that can be implemented at golf courses in Spain, yet
their implementations are not known. The objective of this paper was to conduct an exploratory study to learn about the
perception of the present state of EMS applications at Spanish golf courses. An exhaustive study was conducted using a multiquestion
paper-based survey that was given to the greenkeepers at 428 Spanish golf courses, and the survey achieved a 13.7%
resp... Autori: Francisco J. Del Campo Gomis ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27529
MODEL FOR REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC WASTE (WEEE) FLOWS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 1 The tenacious technological development at latter decades has conditioned the growth of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) amount and generation of their waste. That is a global heterogeneous problem including different stakeholders and various aspects: environmental, economic, social and technological. The regional electrical and electronic waste (WEEE) management systems (MS) are developed in order to solve this problem. The implementation of WEEE recycling and collection targets is not... Autori: Inga Gurauskienė ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27537
APPLICATION OF Sphagnum moss PEAT IN ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION OF OXYANIONS CONTAMINATED AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 4 The potential of Sphagnum moss peat to adsorb oxyanions (As(III), As(V), Sb(III), Sb(V) and Se(VI)) from aqueous solution was studied in batch mode. For arsenic (both species) and selenium, the results were negative: moss peat is not able to retain these oxyanion. For antimony, the hydroxyl and carboxyl groups from the Sphagnum moss peat surface seems to be responsible for Sb uptake. Kinetic studies were conducted for both Sb(III) and Sb(V) and a fast uptake process was observed, equilibrium bei... Autori: Gabriela Ungureanu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27565
BIOGAS PRODUCTION FROM CORN BIOETHANOL WHOLE STILLAGE: EVALUATION OF TWO DIFFERENT INOCULA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 5 According to EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, Lithuania obligates to ensure sustainable growth, gain and maintain good condition of marine environment until 2020. In accordance with the sustainability approach, every potential cost and energy cutting as well as social sustainability measure for wastewater treatment should be explored. Nonetheless, Lithuania wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in the sustainability context have never been evaluated before. A comprehensive set of 30 sustainab... Autori: László Gyenge ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27578
SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION: A CASE STUDY IN LITHUANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 5 According to EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, Lithuania has to ensure sustainable growth, gain and maintain good condition of marine environment until 2020. In accordance with the sustainability approach, every potential cost and energy cutting as well as social sustainability measure for wastewater treatment should be explored. Nonetheless, Lithuania wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in the sustainability context have never been evaluated before. A comprehensive set of 30 sustainable dev... Autori: Jolanta Dvarionienė ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27583
WASTE-TO-WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 5 Social upgradation results more postconsumer glass and plastic waste and continuously demands newer techniques for their management. This research proposes a new waste-to-waste management strategy by using waste glass for polyolefin degradation. For this purpose, waste glass is activated by mechanochemical treatment and resultant material is used for the thermal pyrolysis of polyolefin. Certain improvement in the product quality is achieved by selectivity towards more alkane fraction.
... Autori: Pooja Singh ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27586
ASSESSMENT OF WATER RELATED ECOLOGICAL SECURITY UNDER CHANGING ENVIRONMENT IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 Over the last few decades intensive human activities and climate changing have stressed ecological systems impeding sustainable development of the social economy in many regions in China. The importance of ecological security has gained greater prominence. Sustaining or restoring natural functions of water ecosystems is also crucial for human welfare. To assess water related ecological security (WES), this paper constructed a framework based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model with indica... Autori: Xiuping Hao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27615
SUSTAINABLE KNOWLEDGE BASED ORGANIZATIONS DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 In the context of globalization, the economic environment started to be more dynamic, complex and uncertain. As a result, some
managers focused on developing sustainable organizations while others became preoccupied with creating knowledge based firms.
But sustainability and knowledge aren’t as different as it seem; knowledge is a resource and sustainability concentrates on the
rational use of resources. As a consequence, this article aims to highlight what a sustainable knowledge based... Autori: Ramona - Diana Leon ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27618
(UN)SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND SOME POLICIES BEHIND: LITHUANIAN CASE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 In the last two decades, countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been undergoing some radical development changes. In the beginning of the 1990s economy as well as social and environmental issues have been affected by the transition to the market economy, globalization, and transition to the sustainability at the same time. As sustainable consumption patterns are one of the main preconditions for sustainability, this study focuses on consumption and some related policies in Lithuania,... Autori: Renata Dagiliūtė ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27619
APPLICATION OF ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) IN EVALUATING MEASURES FOR MITIGATION OF EMISSION IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES NEAR LIGNITE-FIRED POWER PLANT AT MAE MOH, THAILAND
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 6 A coal-fired steam power plant, located near an open pit coal mine in Mae Moh, Lampang, a province in the north of Thailand, has been in operation since 1978, with a generating capacity of 2,400 megawatts, and lignite consumption of 40,000 tons/day. A maximum hourly concentration of SO2 of 3,418 μg/m3 was measured and an emission of 150 tons/hour of SO2 from the power plant was estimated. In order to mitigate the impacts of the emission on human health, crops and livestock, several measures h... Autori: Athikom Bangviwat ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27621
EXPRESS-CAR-HIRE – A NEW CONCEPT FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE HIRING WITHIN AIRPORT TERMINALS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 While trying to reduce the air pollution caused by traditional traffic means like planes and conventional cars, new concepts of car sharing (either conventional or electric) emerged. Although many such concepts are daring and innovative, they're not implemented on a large enough scale; to help reducing air pollution, the acceptance (and hence implementation) of these concepts needs to systematically increase. This paper introduces a design methodology for such a concept - based on competitiv... Autori: Laszlo Bartha ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27632
GREENHOUSE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING AND CONTROL: STATE OF THE ART AND CURRENT TRENDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 2 This paper reviews the recent developments and implementations for greenhouses facilities, focusing on recent progress regarding greenhouse environment monitoring and control with many available application examples. State of the art and current trends concerning the main parts of the greenhouse environment automation are discussed: i) greenhouse climate models, ii) wireless sensor networks, iii) remote monitoring/command and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, iv) image pr... Autori: Eugen Horatiu Gurban ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27644
EVALUATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE BY MEANS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT: CASE STUDY IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN REGION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NORTE DE SANTANDER, COLOMBIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 3 The main objective of this research was to evaluate the environmental impact generated by municipal solid waste during its
collection, transportation, treatment and processing in the south-west region of the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia,
by means of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Three strategies for waste management were considered: the current baseline situation,
wherein 100% solid waste was taken to the landfill; plus, an optimistic and a pessimistic scenario in which solid was... Autori: Oscar Orlando Ortiz-Rodriguez ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27665
CONTRASTIVE SOIL PROPERTIES, MICROBIAL STRUCTURE AND SOIL ENZYMES IN THE RHIZOSPHERE OF Scirpus triqueter AND BULK SOIL IN PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED WETLAND
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 7 Though Scirpus triqueter plays an important role in protecting the ecological functions of Yangtze River estuary wetland which is frequently contaminated by petroleum, knowledge is limited about the mechanisms involved. In this study, comparative analysis of soil properties, microbial community structure and soil enzymes in the rhizosphere of S. triqueter and bulk soil was conducted throughout one year to provide an insight into the phytoremediation mechanism in the field. The total petroleum hy... Autori: Jing Wei ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27697
INFLUENCING FACTORS OF THE ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION OF FARMERS FOR CONTROLLING FERTILIZER-INDUCED WATER POLLUTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 8 This paper aims to identify the influencing factors of the acceptable amount of compensation (AAC) of farmers for controlling fertilizer-induced water pollution, and build a valid ecological compensation mechanism to curb the water impact. To this end, the ecological compensation for farmers is viewed as a good way to reduce fertilizer-induced pollution at drinking water sources, and the opportunity cost is introduced into the discussion of farmers’ AAC. To avoid the gaps of previous studi... Autori: Jie Lin ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27781
IDENTIFICATION OF FOCAL ACTORS IN THE TRANSLATION OF THE RURAL TOURISM ACTOR-NETWORK: A CASE IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 8 The construction of rural tourism actor-network is an innovative transformation process, which integrates natural, economic, social and cultural focal actors of multi-functional agriculture in a rural area. The transformation process is a translation of these actors incorporated into a spatial distribution of landscape, which accelerates rural tourism through innovative integration. This study provides a method to measure and analyze the characteristics of focal actors in the translation process... Autori: Liaoji Zheng ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27761
POLLUTION SOURCES IN WATER OF YOUNG RESERVOIRS - CASE OF ILARION HYDROELECTRIC DAM, GREECE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 Evaluation of spatial/ temporal water quality data at reservoirs has shown differences after the dam construction as well as long-term changes of water chemistry. One of the most recent reservoirs created in Europe is Ilarion Reservoir in Western Macedonia – Greece (2012). In this work, the water physicochemical characteristics of this young reservoir and the spatiotemporal water quality variation of the feeding river and its main tributaries have been studied, and statistically interprete... Autori: Elisavet Amanatidou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27737
CHANGE OF THE GROUNDWATER QUALITY FROM INDUSTRIAL AREA ORADEA, ROMANIA, USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 9 During the years 1965-1985, a veritable industrial platform was developed in the west part of Oradea, Bihor County, Romania. It stretches on an area of 9 sq. km. and is placed in the meadow of Crisul Repede River. Throughout that period, several industrial facilities were built that lately became sources of pollution for the environment. The purpose of the present paper is to study the influence of historical stages of industrialization and restructuring of enterprises in Western Oradea, address... Autori: Tamara Romocea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27747
CODEVELOP RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR BLUE JOBS AND GROWTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - THE BLUEMED INITIATIVE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 10 In the framework of the European Commission Blue Growth Strategy, a joint process among European countries has been put in place since 2014 to promote and implement research and innovation actions to increase the number of jobs in the marine and maritime sectors, commonly named ‘blue’, and pursue a sustainable growth in the Mediterranean area. The process has then been extended to the non-European (non-EU) Mediterranean countries. The natural and cultural uniqueness of the Mediterran... Autori: Margherita Cappelletto ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27786
ECO-INNOVATION IN VALCUCINE FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 10 Recently, more and more companies are implementing good environmental practices. Environmental certifications, besides being valuable management tools for companies, given the opportunity to strengthen their role on the market. An example of such virtuous behavior is the case of Valcucine, an enterprise of the Livenza furniture district in Northern Italy. Valcucine focuses its care in the production of furniture, in particular of kitchen units, characterized by sustainable production, eco-compat... Autori: Veronica Novelli ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27797
INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR INNOVATIVE MONITORING STRATEGIES OF RESERVOIRS AND LAKES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 10 An innovative strategy significantly increasing data density by introducing a flexible, problem-orientated, and cost-effective water quality monitoring approach is presented. Most current monitoring strategies produce water quality data based on fixed stations conducted on fixed dates throughout a defined period of time and, thus, often give a biased and insufficient picture of the water quality. Establishing a refined picture of water quality while not increasing monitoring costs clearly needs ... Autori: Wiebke Warner ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27805
REUSE OF THE RECYCLED NONMETALLIC FRACTION FROM WASTE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS IN PAVEMENT INDUSTRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 The aim of this paper was to investigate the possibility of incorporation non-metal fraction (NMF) in concrete products as a substitute for aggregate on industrial scale, while other studies are mostly based on NMF incorporation in concrete only on laboratory scale.
Mineral filler was supplemented with 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt.% NMF from waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) and its influence on concrete quality was assessed based on compressive and tensile strength conducted on laboratory and indust... Autori: Vitomir Premur ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27857
CONSIDERATIONS ON IMPROVING OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PERFORMANCE IN COMPANIES USING ISO 45001 STANDARD
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 Occupational health and safety (OHS) is one of the most important problem of a company because each manager should consider the workers as the most valuable resource of the enterprise. This issue is all the more important as in the last decades, the types of OHS risks have changed due to technological, social and economic advances, and companies should use new approaches and instruments to control and manage these risks.
The paper focuses on the application of OHS management system as an import... Autori: Doru Costin Darabont ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27856
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF IN SITU REMEDIATION OF LOW PERMEABILITY SOILS BY BIOVENTING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 17 › Nr. 11 The goal of the present work is to evaluate the efficiency of bioventing on low permeability soils stimulated with hydraulic fractures and polluted by a mixture of semi-volatile and non-volatile hydrocarbons. A synthetic non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) composed of 5 hydrocarbons is prepared: 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (TMB), methylcyclohexane (MCE), n-dodecane (n-C12), n-decane (n-C10), n-eicosane (n-C20). The capacity of indigenous bacteria to degrade high NAPL concentrations is evaluated with biov... Autori: Dimitra N. Tzovolou ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27849
BIODEGRADATION BEHAVIOR OF POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) – WOOD COMPOSITES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 A study on the biodegradability of several formulations based on poly[vinyl alcohol] (PVA) and wood flour has been carried out.
Basically, all formulations are based on PVA and wood flour, and the influence of starch, glycerol and/or polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
incorporated in some of them was investigated. Biodegradation was performed by incubation of the composites with a selected
Aspergillus niger strain able to act as an polymer biodegrading agent. The composites biodegradation was evaluated... Autori: Luiza Jecu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27886
MULTI-OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR THE SELECTION OF A SUSTAINABLE GREYWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 Greywater reuse is widely accepted as a suitable response to the increasing demand of fresh water in urban areas. On the other
hand, strict environmental regulations have obligated the development and implementation of membrane separation technologies
for production of municipal potable water, in industrial water supply and in wastewater treatment. Potential energy crisis in the
future has highlighted the importance of using renewable source of energy for membrane separation processes. This r... Autori: Mohammad Ramezanianpour ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27889
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS ON Cu, Ni, Zn AND Fe COMPLEXATION BY HUMIC SUBSTANCES DURING SEWAGE SLUDGE COMPOSTING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 The aim of this study was to determine how temperature conditions (max. 72oC, 81oC and 43.5oC) during sewage sludge composting
affect the distribution of organically bound heavy metals in humic substances (HS). To accomplish this, the content of Cu, Ni, Zn
and Fe was measured in the two main fractions of HS, humic acids (HAs) and the fulvic fraction (FF). In the feedstock, the FF was
mainly responsible for binding all metals except Ni. During composting in the two series with thermophilic con... Autori: Dorota Kulikowska ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27894
OPTIMIZATION OF ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESSES FOR THE REMOVAL OF ACETAMIPRID FROM WASTEWATER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 1 Advanced oxidation process is getting tremendous importance in the treatment techniques for the removal of nonbiodegradable
organics from wastewater due to its ability to completely mineralize the pollutants. It uses different methods to produce hydroxyl
radicals which are responsible for oxidation of pollutants. In this work, studies on Fenton, ultraviolet radiation (UV) and UVhydrogen
peroxide processes for removing acetamiprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide from aqueous solution are carried ... Autori: Puthenkattil Abdukunji Fasnabi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27895
MODELLING HIGH RATE P-REMOVAL IN A TWO-STAGE PILOT SCALE ALUM SLUDGE BASED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SYSTEM
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 2 A system dynamics (SD) process-based simulation model was developed using an object-oriented environment to simulate
phosphorus (P) transformations in a two-stage pilot scale Dewatered Alum Sludge Cake (DASC) based Constructed Wetlands
(CW), which is operated from February 2009 to January 2010 to treat relatively high concentration animal farm wastewater.
Structural Thinking Experiential Learning Laboratory and Animation (STELLA v9.1.4) conceived on the principles of SD was
used for the deve... Autori: Lordwin Jeyakumar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27907
SEASONAL OCCURRENCE OF HEAT ISLAND PHENOMENON IN THE URBAN BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 2 Latest analysis regarding the climate change phenomenon arises issues related to air quality, human comfort within urban
environments and an increased energy demand attributed to the building sector. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon is
directly responsible for the poor quality of life in cities and for increased energy consumption. Characteristic features pertaining to
a specific urban environment, such as local microclimatic conditions, urban morphology and anthropogenic heat release
... Autori: Adriana Lucia Kadhim-Abid ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27913
THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS IN IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION IN LITHUANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 In recent years companies have become more interested in the implementation of sustainability principles in their business
activities. However, despite the improvements in their practices, an increase in the amount of general consumption often exceeds
the achieved progress. Thus, it is essential to consider that the relation between consumption and production should be evaluated
systematically and technological approaches are not enough to realize the goal of sustainable consumption and produ... Autori: Gintė Jonkutė ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27931
CONSTRUCTION OF A BIOGAS HEAT STORAGE GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM UNDER THE CONTEXT OF WATER POLLUTION RESULTING FROM LIVESTOCK BREEDING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 3 Livestock farming in rural areas in Jilin Province is producing a huge amount of organic pollutants like livestock and poultry
manure, of which, a large portion is directly dumped into the Yitng River, bringing serious harm to the environment. Taking
Soonlng Village as an example, this paper investigates the environmental pollution caused by the livestock husbandry in this village
and builds a biogas heat storage greenhouse ecosystem, which, by using solar energy to heat the biogas digester, ... Autori: Songying Zhao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27943
IMPROVING THE METHOD OF CALCULATING THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT GENERATED BY ROAD TRAFFIC - CASE STUDY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 Sustainable development brings in advance a new set of values that will guide the future model of economic and social progress,
values that focus on human and his current and future needs, on the natural environment - protecting and preserving it, as well as
on mitigating the current deterioration of ecosystems. The present paper aims at improving a calculation method for measuring the
ecological footprint generated by road traffic, through modifying the concept of integrating variables, incr... Autori: ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27948
IMPROVING THE SAFETY LEVEL OF PYROTECHNIC ARTICLES TESTING IN VARIABLE CONDITIONS OF MICROCLIMATE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 4 The related European directives in force stipulate that product testing shall be performed in conditions that reproduce as accurately
as possible the real ones that may be encountered during their operation. These are products whose intended use are specified in the
safety data sheet or within the instructions for use, and whose limits of the micro-climatic parameters that can be encountered
(temperature, humidity, wind - for the outside ones, temperature, humidity, generation of restricted t... Autori: Ilie Ciprian Jitea ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27956
DEGRADATION RATE OF LIMED SEWAGE SLUDGE IN AN AGRICULTURAL SOIL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 5 Little is known about the degradation kinetics of sewage sludge, sanitized with Ca(OH)2, in soil. Thus, this work aimed to monitor
the degradation of limed sludge, under field conditions, when applied on soil surface or incorporated into the soil. The limed sludge
was applied in dystrophic Inceptisol at a dose of 500 kg ha-1 yr-1 of total nitrogen. The mineralization process in the soil was
monitored for 131 days. Samples of organic material were collected for analysis of total and easily oxi... Autori: Isabela Diniz ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=27995
PROSPECT OF A GIS BASED DIGITIZATION AND 3D MODEL FOR A BETTER MANAGEMENT AND LAND USE IN A SPECIFIC MICRO-AREAL FOR CROP TREES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 6 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28015
HYDROCARBON REMOVAL FROM DIESEL-CONTAMINATED SOIL THROUGH REUSED ACTIVATED CARBON ADSORPTION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 Hydrocarbon spillages are an increasing problem in Mexico, which has left large areas of contaminated land that entail negative effects on environmental, economical and social aspects. Such soil contamination demands fast, efficient and cost-competitive remediation technologies. This work explores activated carbon (AC) adsorption as a fast soil treatment to lower hydrocarbon concentrations in a contaminated soil from Puebla, Mexico, reusing an AC residue for such purpose. Both, semi-wasted AC an... Autori: Sandra Arroyo ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28055
ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ECO-EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF A FILLING-STATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 7 Assessment of eco-efficiency for environmental costs is specific in that majority of the costs provide social rather financial benefit,
and only some of the costs could be viewed from both social and financial perspectives. The model for assessment of environmental
costs of a filling-station and the methodology for its application developed, with the methodology verified by analysis of analytical
data of an actual enterprise is presented in this research. Application of the model to filling-s... Autori: Neringa Stončiuvienė ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28029
STUDENT’S ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS: ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION AND RISK TAKEN ABILITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 7 After the recent global financial and economic crises, unemployment, especially among young people have become a particularly
serious problem. Fostering young entrepreneurship represent not only a tool to combat young unemployment and social exclusion
but also a way to encourage innovation and a country’s economic growth. Education and training can contribute in building an
entrepreneurial society and may shape individuals attitudes versus risk-taking. Risk taken ability is an important... Autori: Ana Iolanda Vodă ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28038
A MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM BASED ON HUMAN SOCIAL BEHAVIOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS DISPATCH PROBLEMS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 7 Due to emissions from power station using fossil fuels, the decrease of existing pollution as well as of operational costs should be
taken into consideration, when resolving environmental economic dispatch problems. In this research, we will evidence that
nonlinear constraints of generating units, forbidden regions, and ramp-rate of generating units will reduce operational costs and
environmental pollution, to achieve environmental economic dispatch effectiveness, by employing an improved mul... Autori: Daqing Wu ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28045
PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN PROCESS BY INVOLVING THE USER
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 The concept of the sustainable development which is defined in terms of the triple bottom line (economic, environmental and social) is becoming increasingly important. Until now, however, the social aspects have been under-investigated in comparison to environmental and economic aspects. From the product design point of view there is an emergency for development tools and methodologies that are directly linked with the social pillar of sustainability. The research has as main target to discover ... Autori: Nikolaos Efkolidis ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28052
GROUNDWATER CHARACTERIZATION IN SOUTHWESTERN ROMANIA USING FUZZY HIERARCHICAL CROSS CLUSTERING
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 A simultaneous hierarchical classification of groundwater in the Banat Plain-southwestern Romania and associated characteristics such as As(III), As(V), total As, trace metals (Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn), pH and redox potential using Fuzzy Hierarchical Cross Clustering Algorithm was carried out. In samples containing more than 10 μg/Ltotal As (13.9 – 77.3 μg/L), the As(V) species represented 57±20% and 73±18% in the others. Arsenic speciation pattern was in agr... Autori: Marin Senila ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28059
ENVIRONMENTAL TAX ON DIRECTED TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN A GREEN GROWTH MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 To ensure that green growth are achieved and socially optimal, we develops an endogenous growth model featuring a directed technological innovation, environmental taxation and economic activity. Our model investigates the inner dynamic interactions of green growth. Then, a numerical analysis is presented to trace how the green growth will be achieved by the four parameters: the size of tax distortions, the rate of capital tax, the elasticity of pollution conversion and the cost of carbon abateme... Autori: Yuzhe Zhao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28066
ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY, ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL AND TOTAL PHENOLIC CONTENT OF TRANSGENIC ATCKX1 CENTAURY (Centaurium erythraea Rafn.) PLANTS GROWN IN VITRO
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 9 Common centaury, Centaurium erythraea Rafn., represent the best known and the most investigated medicinal plant species of genus Centaurium. Centaury has been used for centuries in traditional medicine. Secondary metabolites such as bitter secoiridoid glucosides (gentiopicrin, swertiamarin and sweroside), xanthones (eustomin and demethyleustomin), and phenolic acids are the main constituents responsible for the therapeutic properties of centaury. Previous investigation showed that overexpression... Autori: Milana Trifunović-Momčilov ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28068
EARTHWORMS FOR FEED PRODUCTION FROM VEGETABLE WASTE: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 In the European Union, 88 million tons of food is wasted annually, 30% of which comes from the production and processing sectors. Among the different food waste, vegetable ones represent a remarkable share and their management is complicated by the usually high-water content and the difficult storage. In this context, the earthworms are an interesting solution because transform vegetable waste into valuable products: the vermicompost, that can be sold as organic fertilizer, and the earthworms th... Autori: Cecilia Conti ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28073
BIOMASS EXPLOITATION FOR ENERGY SUPPLY AND QUALITY COMPOST PRODUCTION. AN EXEMPLARY CASE OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE NORTH EAST OF ITALY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 The goal 12 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development takes into consideration the responsible consumption and production in the perspective of circular economy. The agri-food sector is more actively involved in these initiatives, because it offers the possibility to exploit waste and by-products, by adopting suitable biotechnologies. Such processes can be carried out either under aerobic conditions, for the production of compost, or anaerobically, for the production of biogas. In this work... Autori: Veronica Novelli ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28078
SMART WATER AND SOIL-SALINITY MANAGEMENT IN AGRO-WETLANDS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 Soil salinization is becoming worldwide one of the most serious land degradation issues. Seawater intrusion in upper aquifers is responsible for the largest proportion of salt-affected agricultural lands in coastal areas. In this study, the impact of different irrigation strategies on the salinity of a maize cultivated field located in the coastal plain of Ravenna, Italy, was simulated with the FAO AquaCrop model. Model calibration was supported by comparison with remote-sensed and field collect... Autori: Marinella Masina ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28088
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND UPCYCLING OF WASTE AND PRE-CONSUMER SCRAPS IN CONSTRUCTION SECTOR. THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES THROUGH A VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 10 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 ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28090
NANOMATERIALS IN CONSTRUCTION AND THEIR POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 11 Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials in the construction industry has grown prominently. Nanomaterials can considerably modify the properties of construction materials and even improve their performance. Despite their merits, considerable research has reported that nanomaterials pose a potential risk to human health. For this reason, it is important to fully comprehend
the effects of nanomaterials on human health and the environment throughout all phases of their life cycle, includ... Autori: Saeed Kamali ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28091
A SYSTEM DYNAMICS-BASED ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF CONSTRUCTION WASTE REDUCTION MANAGEMENT: EFFECTIVE APPLICATION OF PREFABRICATION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 11 Cost effective management of construction and demolition waste (C&DW) has become a serious issue with increased construction activity and modern urban lifestyle which is damaging environment, eating up resources and causing rapid land use changes. These factors have influenced the construction industry significantly and therefore gained the practitioners’ attention in recent past. New strategies of C&DW reduction management are being devised and reported; this research aims at prov... Autori: Ahsen Maqsoom ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28096
EFFECTS OF CHINA’S REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE ADJUSTMENT ON CARBON EMISSION TRANSFER BASED ON GRAVITY MODEL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 11 In China, there exist major differences in both the energy consumption and industrial structure between provinces and cities, leading to carbon emission transfer. Based on inter-provincial trade and industrial transfer, this paper measures the carbon emission transfer of China's sub-sectors and cities in 2007 and 2010 using the inter-provincial input-output model. The results show that, carbon dioxide transfers from economically developed regions and regions with a single industrial structur... Autori: Yawei Qi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28106
EVALUATION OF GREEN LOGISTICS SYSTEM OF SOLID WASTE AT PORTS BASED ON ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 11 This paper attempts to realize the green logistics of solid waste at ports, enabling the harmless treatment, reduction and recycling of such waste through the entire life cycle. For this purpose, the life cycle assessment and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) were applied to evaluate the green logistics of solid waste at ports. Firstly, the solid waste logistics system was examined from the perspective of logistics system. Drawing on life cycle evaluation, the author analyzed how the solid wa... Autori: Xuexin Bao ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28107
STUDYING DEFORESTATION AND CHANGES IN FOREST LAND COVER USING AGENT-BASED MODELLING. CASE STUDY: TONKABON, IRAN
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 18 › Nr. 12 Deforestation and changes in forest cover are subject to the effects of many factors: economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental and their interactions. To assess these factors, one should necessarily know their nature and then model them. Nowadays many models have been introduced to explore deforestation, however most of them are based on past events and do not pay enough attention to socioeconomic factors. Moreover, considering the future is sometimes absent in those models. The ... Autori: Maryam Jadidi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28112
ASSESSMENT OF AVERAGE CONTRIBUTIONS OF POINT AND DIFFUSE POLLUTION SOURCES TO NITRATE CONCENTRATION IN GROUNDWATER BY NONLINEAR REGRESSION
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 1 Different anthropogenic influences and irresponsible actions pollute all the components of the environment and groundwater is no exception. Nitrates, which are one of the most common groundwater contaminants, come from different sources and they are not always easily detectable. The paper presents a study of a groundwater quality at the VaraĹľdin wellfield in the north part of Croatia. The nitrate concentration at this location has been above the maximum allowed concentration for several decades... Autori: Marko Ĺ rajbek ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28140
DEVELOPMENT STATUS AND TREND ANALYSIS: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PILOT ZONES IN CHINA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 1 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted in 2015 attracted wide international attention. China’s State Council issued the Development Plan for China’s Innovation Demonstration Zone for Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2016, which offered a Chinese prescription for global sustainable development. Implementation of the Plan is based
on National Sustainable Development Pilot Zones (NSDPZs). This gives rise to the question of what adjustments a... Autori: Junli Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28142
TURKISH ARCHITECTS’ VIEWS ON CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE REDUCTION IN THE DESIGN STAGE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 3 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 Salgın ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28172
EVALUATION OF MODIFIED FLY ASH BASED NAA-ZEOLITE: EFFECT OF CRYSTALLINITY ON CO2 ADSORPTION CAPACITY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 3 NaA zeolite was successfully synthesised from fly ash through hydrothermal process. The synthesised NaA zeolite was modified with Li+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ through ion exchange at a temperature of 60 °C and contact times of 1 h and 4 h. In this study the crystallinity of the synthesised NaA as well as its modified (LiA, CaA and MgA) was evaluated towards CO2 adsorption capacity using temperature programmed desorption (TPD) process at low temperature (40-150°C) and high temperature (150-700°... Autori: Muvumbu Jean-Luc Mukaba ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28175
ELEMENTAL PROFILE OF NON-COMMERCIAL WINES IN CHANGING TRADITIONAL RURAL REGIONS FROM EASTERN EUROPE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 4 Traditional winemaking for subsistence is at the heart of rural households in traditional cultural landscapes where the bioclimatic conditions allow wine production. As these wines are typically not assessed for their elemental content, their consumers could be exposed to various contaminants. Our goals were the followings: (i) to understand the elemental composition of non-commercial traditional wines from three cultural regions of Eastern Europe (Romania) and (ii) to find the main chemical fac... Autori: Xintia Odett Dembroszky ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28189
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD USING SPATIAL POINT SOURCE ACCUMULATION TECHNIQUE
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 4 In this study, we discuss a risk assessment method for spatial point source accumulation that is suitable for regional comprehensive
prevention and control of environmental risks. The distribution types of spatial risk sources and other related data are collected and
analyzed by adopting Fengtai District, Beijing as an example. On the basis of the spatial analysis algorithm, the environmental risk
of region is comprehensively assessed from the perspective of risk-inducing factors, risk substa... Autori: Tianxin Li ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28194
PHYSICAL STATUS OF TORRENT CONTROL STRUCTURES IN ROMANIA
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 5 Torrential watershed management actions should be integrated and their results designed to last for a long time. In Romania and in other countries, these actions cover the entire area of the watershed (slopes, banks, and riverbeds). They consist of complex sets of structural and non-structural measures and works designed to control runoffs and erosion, protect social-economic objectives and
improve degraded lands. The most vulnerable structures are the hydrotechnical structures, which are place... Autori: Alin-Lucian Mihalache ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28211
WIND TURBINE SELECTION METHOD BY USING ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 5 Wind turbine evaluation is very crucial in the overall effectiveness of a wind project where the stakeholders are challenging for selection among very different wind turbines. Consequently, this study proposes a method which incorporates analytic network process and cost benefit analysis to choose appropriate turbines during development and investment of a wind plant. A case study
is implemented for performance evaluation of various wind turbine types, determining the evaluation priority of fac... Autori: Fikri Barış Uzunlar ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28212
EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON BUFFERING CAPACITY OF CARBONATED AND DECARBONATED KAOLINITE IN COPPER CONTAMINATED SOIL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 6 Even though carbonate fraction of soils significantly influences soil contaminant retention, there are few reports in the literature on the influence of temperature on contaminant retention of carbonated soils. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the effect of temperature on buffering capacity in carbonated and decarbonated kaolinite and on changes in intensity of x-ray diffraction for major peak of kaolinite. To achieve this aim, samples of kaolinite containing 2.5% carbonate and... Autori: Vahid Reza Ouhadi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28231
EFFECT OF THE NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION OF FRUIT WASTES ON METHANE GAS PRODUCTION AND ENERGY POTENTIAL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 7 Nutrients have been considered the main factor affecting microorganisms responsible for methane gas production during anaerobic digestion processes. In this study, the nutritional composition of some fruit wastes; mango (M), watermelon (W), pawpaw (P), their effects on methane gas production, and resulting energy values were assessed. Substrate samples for anaerobic digestion where
prepared into various slurry treatments; M, W, P, WM, PW, MP, MWP and CONTROL. Proximate compositions of the subst... Autori: Ogemdi Chinwendu Anika ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28233
UASB TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTED WETLAND ALTERNATIVE TO SEWAGE TREATMENT OF SMALL COMMUNITIES
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 7 In Brazil, there is a deficit of access in relation to sewage services for a large part of the population, and this fact is the one responsible for the contamination of watercourses. This is because to the lack of investment in infrastructure in the country, since sewage treatment plants require high costs and high area demand for deployment, besides the installation of the collection system, which
directs the wastewater to treatment. This paper describes the behavior of wetlands as a post trea... Autori: Rodrigo de Freitas Bueno ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28241
TURBULENT FLOW CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ERODED REGION OF THE SIDE-WALL BANK
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 8 An experimental inquest was performed to quantify the turbulent flow characteristics near the eroded region of an artificial sidewall bank at three different flow depths, and a comparison study is made between before and after erosion for two Reynolds numbers. Instantaneous flow velocities were taken with an acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) at near bank of the vertical side wall. The mean flows and other turbulence quantities such as Reynolds shear stress, turbulent intensities, and turbulent ... Autori: Krishnendu Barman ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28264
PAY AS YOU THROW - SYSTEMS FOR MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT: ITALIAN EXPERIENCES AND A NEW PROPOSAL
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Pay as You Throw (PAYT) is a usage-pricing model for the disposal of Municipal Solid Waste. The implementation of the PAYT approach requires three main elements: a) measurement of the generated amount of waste; b) a means to identify the waste generator; c) the unit pricing for individual charging based on the amount of waste collected and services provided. The PAYT system splits the overall municipal solid waste tax into one fixed part, no-service dependent and a variable part related to the a... Autori: Gaetano Drosi ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28285
EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL OF POLYETHYLENE MECHANICAL RECYCLING: ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Plastic and circular economy are key words that characterize our present and seek to address the future of the global social economic system. Plastic, on the one hand, is the emblem of modern times, a low cost material with unparalleled functional properties. Circular economy, on the other hand defines an alternative model to traditional economy that focuses on sustainability. In this work, the author presents a case study relating to a virtuous example of circular economy applied to the industr... Autori: Leonardo Mita ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28301
EVALUATION OF REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONTAMINATED MARINE SEDIMENTS THROUGH MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 Remediation of contaminated marine sediments present a difficult challenge for environmental decision-makers. In socially relevant situations, as in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto case study (Southern Italy), the decision-maker needs to explain to the citizens
why some remediation technologies are adopted compared to others. Multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a scientifically sound decision tool for management of contaminated sites, not only to denote effective or technologically and econom... Autori: Claudia Labianca ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28310
WASTE AND STANDARDS AT THE TIME OF THE ANTHROPOCENE. FOR AN URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF THE DALMINE WASTE-TO-ENERGY PLANT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 10 The focus of the research starts from a critical investigation of the environmental situation in Lombardy in the 1990s, linked to waste disposal and the related legislation produced by the Regional Council with the approval of the Regional Law of 1 July 1993, to analyse its evolution through the example of the construction of the waste-to-energy plant1 in Dalmine (Bergamo). The growing local urban socio-economic complexity, combined with the urgent global environmental problems produced by the o... Autori: Roberto Redaelli ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28311
DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROCESS MODEL BASED ON NetCDF AND OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 11 The ocean is an indispensable source of materials and energy for the survival of human beings and social development. It is also an essential factor affecting climate change and ecological balance. In view of the dynamic, three-dimensional (3D), and complex
marine environment, this study proposes the construction and dynamic visualization of a marine spatio-temporal process model based on Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) and optimal interpolation. The proposed model combines the advantages of
... Autori: Xu Shenghua ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28315
ANALYSIS OF CO2 EMISSIONS BETWEEN CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS: LIGHT STEEL FRAME AND CONVENTIONAL MASONRY
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 12 Since the emission of greenhouse gases is an important environment issue, this paper presents an analysis of CO2 emissions between two different building methodologies: conventional masonry and light steel frame. To this end, a 70m² building project used in
Social Brazilian Housing Programs (SBHP) built according to both methods was analyzed. In addition to that, the quantitative materials used were determined, according to the building services (infrastructure, superstructure, closing and... Autori: Silmara Dias Feiber ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28332
Larus relictus HABITAT HIERARCHICAL EVALUATION BASED ON A DATA DRIVEN APPROACH
Environmental Engineering and Management Journal › Vol. 19 › Nr. 12 The application of Species Distribution Models (SDM) in the management of species habitat and environmental impact changes has been widely used by scientists and ecologists globally, however this study proposes a novel analytical technique involving the combination of a statistical ranking algorithm and Remote sensing GIS data (habitat and threat) to analyze the suitability hierarchy of the habitat of a signature water-bird (Larus relictus). The results indicate that about 47.63% of the study re... Autori: Harrison Odion Ikhumhen ISSN: 1843 - 3707 http://www.ecozone.ro/reviste.php?RID=28339 |