Ecosystems and Sustainable Development

VOLUME 1 Keynote address The recent development toward a consistent ecosystem theory Section 1: Ecosystems modelling Complexification of the past global changes data; Modelling recovery rules of soil microbial assemblages using matrix methods; Mapping the spaticl extent of environmental health: an approach using stream turbidity; Estimation of the environmental effects of excess nitrogen caused by intensive agriculture in East Asia based on global nitrogen balance; Modeling vehicle emissions; Ecological networks, a challenge for territorial planning - the case of Region Abruzzo. Italy; A 3-D coupled physical-biological model and its application to the 1996 spring plankton bloom in Prince William Sound, Alaska; A coupled hydrodynamic and ecological model to manage water quality in Ria Formosa coastal lagoon; The North Carolina State University coastal and estuary storm surge and flood prediction system; The use of taxonomic diversity indices in the assessment of perturbed community recovery Section 2: Conservation and management of endangered areas Nitrogen availability and plant cover: the importance of nitrogen pools; Conserving European mountain habitats: what can their past tell us about their future?; Threatened landscapes- the presence of the past in today's planning; Aquaculture impacts on the water quality and plankton community in a mangrove ecosystem in Brazil; Trophic interactions between fish and other compartment communities in a tropical estuary in Brazil as indicator of environmental quality Section 3: Environmental management Tools for sustainable business management; Environment and urban growth: a Brazilian case study; The use of checklists to support spatial planning in the municipality of Graz; Factor assessment of the environmental impact for Tainan Technology Industrial Park in Taiwan; Development and application of ecosystem health indicators in the North American Great Lakes Basin; Eye-safe diode lidar for tree heights profiling and estimation of forest biomass Section 4: Environmental and ecological policies Environmental taxation and distributional consequences; Promoting a framework to improve EIA data collection and monitoring compliance; Adverse health impacts of the environment: implications for environmental management; On the environmental pollution and energy waste due to urban lighting Section 5: Sustainability indicators and certification Sustainability indicators for environmental certification of Siena province (Italy); The use of indicators in the processes of territorial planning; A fuzzy inference system modeling the interactions among environmental stressors in the ecosystem of Lake Koronia, Greece; The environmental product declaration EPD with a particular application to a solar thermal collector; Industrial sustainability index Section 6: Sustainability studies in the Province of Siena Extending the environmental wisdom beyond the local scenario: eco-dynamic analysis and the learning community; How to measure the sustainability of an area? The SPIn-Eco project and the sustainability of the Province of Siena; Exergy and extended exergy accounting of the Province of Siena; The emergy analysis of the Province of Siena in the SPIn-Eco project; The evaluation of the Ecological Footprint of the Province of Siena (Italy); Effects of tourism on net social benefits; defining optimal scale in the Merse watershed, Italy Section 7: Sustainable chemistry and waste management Evaluation of the external costs referable to the emissions of a cement factory; Toward a non-polluting electromagnetic Industrial Chemistry; Pore-scale modeling of multiphase flow and transport in water-wet porous media; Kinetic study of naphthalene biodegradation in aerobic slurry phase reactor; Treatment of black liquor derived from non-woody feedstocks Section 8: Remote sensing Assessing environmental sustainability: remote sensing and GIS as tools for water resources evaluation; A possible contribution of remote sensing data to control area based rural development measures; The wetlands of Lake Victoria, new approaches for understanding their regional and global importance Section 9: Sustainable development issues Combining urban development and wildlife overpasses together in one multifunctional and multilevel building across highways. Innovative nature landscape: the city; concepts in highly urbanised areas; Spatial relations in animal urban ecology. Applying ecological principles to a fascinating How to select the most adequate sustainable development index in order to avoid contradictions?; Sustainable planning instruments through indicator-based controlling tools; Sustaining risk-informed decision making (RIDM) measures; Use of global natural services and health of local ecosystems: the two complementary dimensions of environmental sustainability; Sustainability in a green and pleasant land; A pilot program to encourage construction of affordable and sustainable housing in New Jersey; Towards a sustainable development strategy for Buyukkonuk (Komi Kebir) village, Northern Cyprus; Societal integration and sustainable transportation: testing an adaptive approach; The catalytic role of the science community: making sustainability work; The analysis of the environmental sustainability of the economic sectors of the Piedmont Ecosystems and Sustainable Development IVcompetition to coexistence: a model for sustaining human and non-human animal populations; Using the challenges of diversity for collective learning about sustainability: the Oregon Story; Environmental performance indices, family types and consumption patterns; Developments in the nitrogen surplus and the fossil energy use in Danish agriculture during the 20th century; The environmental sustainability index for Taiwan and other major Asian countries: computation and analysis; How telecommunications companies are facing up to sustainable development; Text-tiles of in-formation: drawing inspiration from the nature of things Section 10: Thermodynamics Thermodynamic approach for territorial planning: different aspects of the sustainable use of resources and land. A case study from the SPIn-Eco project; Assessing sustainability of the Chianti area: the role of agriculture; Integration of biomass in combined cycle plants. A possible solution to obtain both thermodynamic and economic convenience VOLUME 2 Section 11: Biodiversity Contemporary urban ecology: the view from the Antipodes; Use of specific N2 fixing genotypes as crop inoculants: progress made and potential for stressful soil environments Section 12: Brownfields An innovative approach to the characterization of Brownfield properties; The 'erasing' of brownfields in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Section 13: Economic issues Economic aspect of houses' green design as the main key to success in the building market; Economic growth and 'modern way of life' energy needs. Italian case preliminary analysis; Subsidies for the re-design of the industrial location in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region through cooperatives initiatives Section 14: Energy generation and conservation Evaluating feasibility of a sustainable greenhouse heating through renewable energy sources; Environmental pollution analysis of energy production and consumption in the Baltic region; Energy loss of compressed air storage in hard rock Section 15: Landscapes A hypothesis of research for landscapes in a state of transition; Local people as shapers of sustainability of rural landscapes; Quantifying landscape connectivity: key patches and key corridors; Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of maintenance measures for open landscapes; A study on the ecological quality of housing environments: Cypriot settlements; Historical cadastral maps as a tool for identifying key biotopes in the cultural landscape; (Traditional) landscape identity-globalized, abandoned, sustained? Section 16: Mathematical and system modelling Application of the method of response function for the development of the quality of life indices; A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between environmentally friendly modes, weather conditions, and information-telecommunications technology market penetration; Precautionary approach in development of a directed horse clam fishery in British Columbia, Canada Section 17: Natural resources management Organic matter of a soil amended with composted sludges and affected by simulated processes of soil degradation; Managed extinctions in fisheries Section 18: Recovery of damaged areas The succession and diversity of biological assemblages on rehabilitated ash disposal sites associated with power stations in South Africa: working towards a dynamic model; Recultivation of opencast peat pits with Vaccinium culture in Estonia; Environmental restoration by using waste tires: an example of the Nan-Liao Landfill in Taiwan Section 19: Soil and agricultural issues Quantitative evaluation of greenroof systems for sustainable development; Agricultural typologies to describe the evolution of agricultural systems in Andalusia; Food and the environment: towards sustainability indicators for protein production; Sustainable rice cropping and water resources in Asia; Risk, risk information and eventual learning of smallholder farmers in eastern Ethiopia; Nature and human interests in ecosystems: on farmers and species interaction, nutrient recycling and scarcities in agricultural landscapes; Production in wooded hay meadows; Ecological and economic effects of conversion to organic agriculture in Denmark: an interdisciplinary system simulation analysis at local scale; Mineral and organic components in archaeological black earth and yellow latosol in Caxiuana, Amazon, Brazil; Thermal desorption of a PAH-contaminated soil: a case study; Species-rich hay meadow sites in West Norway: conservation and management Section 20: Water resources Investigation of the human impact on regional groundwater systems; New trends in hydrology: The role played by innovative technologies; A dialogue for sustainability: people, place and water; Indigenous technical knowledge for conjunctive use of water resources, Maharashtra, India; Floods and droughts: sustainable prevention and management; Analysis of simple control policies for stormwater management in two connected dams at Mawson Lakes; Modelling and simulation of rainfall data at Mawson Lakes; Section 21: Forestation The value of Danish forest areas; Predicting terminal time and final crop number for a forest plantation stand: Pontryagin's Maximum Principle; Litterfall and nutrient return in tropical rainforest in the Chaillu area (southwest Congo) Section 22: Environmental risk Characterization of sediment from storm water tunnels; The Southeast Asian haze crisis: lesson to be learned Section 23: Air pollution and the greenhouse effect Regional environmental pressure indicators geographical information system; The Greenhouse Gas Inventory of the Province of Siena