Ecosystems and Sustainable Development
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference
WIT Press
Published on 28. May 2003
Book
Hardback
1356 pages
978-1-85312-834-9 (ISBN)
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The aim of the Fourth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development was to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into 'ecodynamics', an evolutionary approach emphasising that biodiversity is at the core of sustainability. Together with its companion volume (ISBN: 1-85312-804-X), this book contains almost 120 of the contributions presented at this influential meeting. The aim of the Fourth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development was to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into 'ecodynamics', an evolutionary approach emphasising that biodiversity is at the core of sustainability. Together with its companion volume (ISBN: 1-85312-804-X), this book contains almost 120 of the contributions presented at this influential meeting.Topics covered include: Ecosystems Modelling; Conservation and Management of Endangered Areas; Environmental Management; Sustainability Indicators and Certification; Sustainable Chemistry and Waste Management; Sustainable Development Issues; Biodiversity; Economic Issues; Energy Generation and Conservation; Landscapes; Mathematical and System Modelling; Recovery of Damaged Areas; Soil and Agricultural Issues; Water Resources; Forestation; and Air Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect.
This volume also features Sustainability Studies in the Province of Siena, a special section on the SPIn-Eco Project, an ambitious research program to assess environmental conditions using a wide set of sustainability indicators.
This volume also features Sustainability Studies in the Province of Siena, a special section on the SPIn-Eco Project, an ambitious research program to assess environmental conditions using a wide set of sustainability indicators.
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English
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Southampton
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
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978-1-85312-834-9 (9781853128349)
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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