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Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Interpreting the Development of Urban Construction Land in China -- Understanding Land Developments in a Globalizing World: Theoretical Alternatives -- Making Sense of China’s Urban Construction Land Development: Towards Dual-track Political Ecology -- Methodological Issues -- The Changing Geography of China’s Urban Construction Land -- Changing Institutions for The Development of Urban Construction Land -- Formal Development of China’s Urban Construction Land -- Informal Development of China’s Urban Construction Land. Urban Construction Land Development in Beijing -- Urban Construction Land Development in Shenzhen -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: The reform of Cohesion Policy in the 2014-2020 programming period and the regional smart specialization strategy -- Regions and Macro-regions in European Territorial Cooperation: present and 2021+ -- The urban question with the EU integration project. A continuous project of experimentation -- Innovation in EU “urban policy” during the 2014-2020 programming period: conceptions, experiences and perspectives -- Conclusions. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Metals in urban stormwater environments -- Chapter 2: Research design -- Chapter 3: Metal transformation and stormwater quality -- Chapter 4: Risk evaluation based on the metal transformation and bioavailability -- Chapter 5: Practical implications and recommendation for future research -- Appendices -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Urban Water and Sanitation (W+S) - Separating fiction from reality -- Chapter 1. Introduction to urban W+S in the developing world -- Chapter 2. Considerations for general W+S issues -- Chapter 3. Beyond the usual debate -- PART 2: Design and validation of the sector development model -- Chapter 4. An effective orientation and approach for development -- Chapter 5. What sector reforms in four countries teach us? -- Chapter 6. Reasons for the different reform outcomes in the four countries -- Part 3: At least full buckets and clear pits on the way forward -- Chapter 7. Ending the ‘urban W+S divide’ by serving the poor -- Chapter 8. Conclusions: The quintessence of W+S sector reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 9. Recommendations: Guidance to master the coming wave of challenges.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2. The Los Angeles Olympics 1932 -- 3 The Los Angeles Olympics 1984 -- 4 The Los Angeles Olympics 2028 -- 5 Similarities and differences between the three LA Olympics -- 6 Conclusionf: Legacies of the 2028 Olympics -- Index -- Acronyms. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Environment, Perception and Design of the Built -- Chapter 1. An introduction (Mainak Ghosh) -- Part II. Environment and the Built: Earth as an Inspiration -- Chapter 2. A Place-making between Mountain and River: A General View on Dwelling culture and Architecture of the Indigenous Vernacular Villages in Indonesia (Indah Widiastuti) -- Chapter 3. Reflection on Rhetorics, Appropriate Building Materials and Domestic Utilities Towards Reduction of Housing Costs in Tanzania (Moses Felician Moses) -- Chapter 4. Sustainable Planning Interventions for Urban Crisis in respect to Outdoor Thermal Comfort-Case study of Kolkata (Debashish Das) -- Chapter 5. Traditional Houses of Cunda Island in Anatolia (Ayten Erdem) -- Part III. Perception and the Built: Eyes of the Mind -- Chapter 6. Regionalising Contemporary Architecture in West Sumatra (Feni Kurniati) -- Chapter 7. Hyderabad: A city with glorious past and flying future (Madhu Vottery) -- Chapter 8. Recife Fascinations (Rachael Carter) -- Chapter 9. Living in Alleys: A Story of Urban Kampong (Achmad Syaiful) -- Part IV: Design and the Built: Man the Place Maker -- Chapter 10. The ‘smart’ as a project for the city (V. Geropanta) -- Chapter 11. Urban Transformations of Residential Settlements in Colonial Towns: Case Study of Little Europe (Ruchira Das) -- Chapter 12. Evaluating and Comparing The Effectiveness of Subnational Policies Concerning Hurricane Evacuation Zones in Built Environment: Applicability of the State of Florida Model (Haris Alibasic) -- Chapter 13. Transformation of Commercial Centres and Urban Development Process in Global South (Sanghamitra Sarkar) -- Part V: Future of the Built -- Chapter 14. Future of the Built: A Holistic View, (Mainak Ghosh).

Description / Table of Contents: An Overview of Modern Irrigation system in Egypt -- Irrigation: Water Resources, Types and Common Problems in Egypt -- Need for Irrigation System Evaluation -- Evolution of irrigation system, tools and Technologies -- Smart Sensing System for Precision Irrigation -- Development of Recent Information on Irrigation Technology and Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Fuzzy Multiple Linear Regression -- Water Quality Index (WQI) -- Data Collection and Study Sites -- Water Quality Index Using Fuzzy Regression.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Bioremediation Approaches for Treatment of Pulp and Paper Industry Wastewater: Recent Advances and Challenges -- Chapter 2. Microbial remediation of Heavy Metals -- Chapter 3. Dyes: Effect on the Environment and Biosphere and Their Remediation Constraints -- Chapter 4. Microbial Bioremediation and Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons, Heavy Metals, and Radioactive Wastes in Solids and Wastewaters -- Chapter 5. Advancement of Omics: Prospects for Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils -- Chapter 6. Microbial Biotransformation of Hexavalent Chromium [Cr(VI)] in Tannery Wastewater -- Chapter 7. Bioremediation: A Low-Cost and Clean-Green Technology for Environmental Management -- Chapter 8. Microbial Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products from Wastewater -- Chapter 9. Extremophiles: A Powerful Choice for Bioremediation of Toxic Oxyanions -- Chapter 10. Conventional and Nonconventional Biodegradation Technologies for Agro-Industrial Liquid Waste Management -- Chapter 11. White Rot Fungi: Nature’s Scavenger -- Chapter 12. Nanobioremediation: An Emerging Approach for a Cleaner Environment -- Chapter 13. Bioelectrochemical System for Bioremediation and Energy Generation -- Chapter 14. Ligninolysis: Roles of Microbes and Their Extracellular Enzymes -- Chapter 15. Biosorption of Heavy Metals by Cyanobacteria: Potential of Live and Dead Cells in Bioremediation -- Chapter 16. Bioremediation of pharmaceuticals in water and wastewater -- Chapter 17. Bioremediation Of Saline Soil by Cyanobacteria -- Chapter 18. Advancement in Treatment Technologies of Biopharmaceutical Industrial Effluents.-Chapter 19. Marine Bacteria: A Storehouse of Novel Compounds for Biodegradation -- Chapter 20. Energy-Efficient Anaerobic Ammonia Removal: From Laboratory to Full-Scale Application -- Chapter 21. Microbial Degradation of Natural and Synthetic Rubbers.-.

Description / Table of Contents: Why the rise in urban housing vacancies oc-curred and matters in Japan -- Mapping the problems of housing vacancies in Japan -- Changes in essential facilities of housing estates in an aging society: the failure of city planning in Japan -- Geodemographic characteristics of vacant houses in the resale condominium market in the Kansai metropolitan area -- The decline in price of suburban secondhand hosuing in Hiroshima city -- Distribution of vacant homes in Tama city in the Tokyo metropolitan area: estimation using GIS and small area statistics -- Urban abandonment and housing vacancies in Japanese local cities: a case of Kyo-machiya, traditional wooden town houses -- A problem of vacant housing in local cities: Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture case study -- Revitalizing old houses “Kominka” by private real estate agencies -- Local responses to a rise in housing vacancies in the Nagoya suburbs. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Overview of atmospheric reactive nitrogen in China from a global perspective -- Part I Reactive nitrogen emission and deposition in China -- Chapter 2 Anthropogenic emissions of SO2, NOx and NH3 emissions in China -- Chapter 3 Monitoring nitrogen deposition in China -- Chapter 4 Modelling nitrogen deposition in China -- Chapter 5 Reactive nitrogen budgets in China -- Part II Contribution of atmospheric reactive nitrogen to China’s air pollution -- Chapter 6 Contribution of atmospheric reactive nitrogen to haze pollution in China -- Chapter 7 Contribution of reactive nitrogen to ozone pollution in China -- Chapter 8 Contribution of atmospheric nitrogen to acid deposition in China -- Part III Impacts of nitrogen deposition on China’s ecosystems Chapter 9 Impacts of nitrogen deposition on forest ecosystems in China -- Chapter 10 Impact of nitrogen deposition on China’s grassland ecosystems -- Chapter 11 Impact of nitrogen deposition on China’s desert ecosystems -- Chapter 12 Impact of nitrogen deposition on China’s lake ecosystems: Taking Lake Dianchi as an example -- Part IV Reactive N Regulation Chapter 13 Nitrogen regulation in China’s agricultural systems -- Chapter 14 National regulation of SO2 and NOX emissions in China.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Preface -- 2. Acknowledgment -- 3. Part I: Water Availability 1 Overview of the water condition in México -- 4. 2 Hydrological watersheads in Mexico. Division and legal definition -- 5. 3 The Groundwater condition in Mexico -- 6. 4 Runoff simulation under future climate change and uncertainty -- 7. 5 Hydraulic fracking of not conventional reservoirs in Mexico: The issue of water and waste control -- 8. Part II. Water Quality 6 Pollution in wastewater used for irrigation in the Mezquital Valley, México: case study -- 9. 7 Mining industry in Mexico: Recycling of flotation effluents to the process using anaerobic sulfate-reducing consortia in UASB reactors for the elimination dissolved metals -- 10. 8 Water body trophic state determinations. Case study Tecocomulco lagoon, Hidalgo, Mexico -- 11. 9 Water quality management for a sustainable supply. The diagnosis of the State of San Luis Potosi, Mexico -- 12. 10 The wetland of Cajititlán Lake severely deteriorated and in danger of dying out -- 13. 11 Water quality of the Nexapa River: a diagnosis -- 14. 12 Impacts on the groundwater quality that supplies the Puebla City by the effect of aquifer intensive exploitation -- 15. Part III: Water Allocation 13 Water resources allocation with supply and demand uncertainties -- 16. 14 An overview of aquaculture activity in Hidalgo state -- 17. 15 Drinking Water Services Situation by the Region in the State of Nuevo León, Mexico -- 18. 16 Population and tourism dynamics, its effects on the future demand for water. Case study from Los Cabos, Baja California Sur -- 19/ Part IV: Water Governance 17 Water governance in 16 Mexican National Parks -- 20. 18 Conflict in border condition: the dispute over the use of water in the Mexicali valley -- 21. 19 The institutional challenges of the municipalities of Zacatecas in the wastewater treatment -- 22. Part V: Water Management 20 The institutional challenges of the municipalities of Zacatecas in the wastewater treatment -- 23. 21 Improving environmental services of Candelaria River basin by restoring ecological connectivity -- 24. 22 Transdisciplinary approach to assessing socio-hydrological resilience in urban metropolitan environments: a Mexican perspective -- 25. 23 The 80% paradigm: An appointment with the sewage in Cuernavaca.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Framing the Discourse of Urban Green-provision and Constructions of Nation: Western Policies and Singapore’s Debate -- Design and Planning of Singapore’s Public Open Space, Parks and Gardens in the Early Colonial Times -- The British Colonial Planning Model provides an Integrated System of Public Open Spaces: the 1958 Master Plan -- Parks for the Community: the Modernist City State Planning Model -- Design of Parks and Public Open Space in the Post-Modern: from Creation of Character and Visual Identity to Theme – Gardens -- Heritage Parks. Re-purposing and Thematizing Colonial Gardens: Construction of History and Nation in City Parks -- Singapore’s Green Infrastructure Concept and Biophilic Urbanism -- The ‘Singapore Playground’: System of Themed Public Parks Conceived as Green Infrastructure. Building Environmental, Social and Cultural Sustainability through Nature-Reconstruction, Community Participation and Identity-Making -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Modern Dreams. Modern Illusions – Ideas on Cooperativism -- Progress Through Architecture. Two Modernisms? -- How Does the Space Perform? -- Sensitive Urban Planning or Critical Spatial Practice? -- An Old or New Urban Issue? -- Workshop? Settlement House? Laboratory? -- Models of Urban Cultures -- ‘Total Pedagogisation’? -- State of Emergency and Everyday Life in Żoliborz.

Description / Table of Contents: The Concerns for Global Sustainability of Freshwater Ecosystems -- Freshwater Pollution: Effects on Aquatic Life and Human Health -- Freshwater contamination: sources and hazards to aquatic biota -- Correlation Between Pollution Trends of Freshwater Bodies and Bacterial Disease of Fish Fauna -- Impact of Pollution on Quality of Freshwater Ecosystems -- Heavy metal intrusion and accumulation in aquatic ecosystems -- Impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystem and its sustainable management -- Role of biotools in restoration of freshwater ecosystems Bioremediation -- A Sustainable and Emerging Tool for Restoration of Polluted Aquatic Ecosystems -- Biosorption as Environmentally Friendly Technique for Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater -- Biotechnological interventions as an aquatic clean up tool -- Analysis of hydrology, sediment retention, biogenic-calcification and -scavenging as self-remediative lacustrine functions -- Remediation of pesticides through microbial and phytoremediation techniques -- Trends in Phyto-management of Aquatic Ecosystems and Evaluation of Factors Affecting Removal of Inorganic Pollutants from Water Bodies -- Urban Pond Ecosystems: Preservation and Management Through Phytoremediation -- Aquatic Pollution Stress and Role of Biofilms as Environment Cleanup Technology -- Wonders of Nanotechnology for Remediation of Polluted Aquatic Environs.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Concepts -- Chapter 1. The Green City: general concept -- Chapter 2. The nature concept - of what the green consist of -- Chapter 3. The benefit concept - How people can benefit from urban nature -- Part 2: Challenges and Practices -- Chapter 4. Urban Parks -- Chapter 5. Urban Gardening -- Chapter 6. Urban Agriculture -- Chapter 7. Urban Forests -- Chapter 8. Urban waters and wetlands -- Chapter 9. Urban Protected Areas -- Chapter 10. Urban Biodiversity -- Chapter 11. Multi-functional urban green spaces -- Chapter 12. Conflicting nature in cities. .

Description / Table of Contents: High-rise urban form -- Urban form and urban climates -- Urban high-rise microclimate -- Urban heat island intensity in residential quarters -- Pedestrian wind environment in residential quarters -- Solar radiation in high-rise urban environment -- Cooling effects of urban greenery at three scales -- Developing a thermal atlas for commercial-business.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I Reductive Technologies -- Geochemical Principles of Reductive Remediation Processes -- Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron Particles for Water Treatment: from Basic Principles to Field-Scale Applications -- Other Chemical Reductive Methods -- Combination of Electrokinetics and nZVI Remediation -- Field Study I: In Situ Chemical Reduction Using Nanoscale Zero-valent Iron Materials to Degrade Chlorinated Hydrocarbons -- Field Study II: Pilot Application of nZVI/DC-combined Methods at Aargau Site -- Part II Oxidative Technologies -- Introduction to Oxidative Technologies for Water Treatment -- Ferrates as Powerful Oxidants in Water Treatment Technologies -- Radical Reactions and Their Application for Water Treatment -- Photo-oxidation Technologies for Advanced Water Treatment -- The Use of Nanomaterials in Electro-Fenton and Photoelectro-Fenton Processes -- Field Study III: Evidence Gained from Site Studies for the Performance of Ferrate(VI) in Water and Wastewater Treatment -- Field Study IV: Arsenic Removal from Groundwater by Ferrate with the Concurrent Disinfecting Effect—Semi-pilot on-site Application -- Field Study V: Combined Oxidation Technology using Ferrates (FeIV–VI) and Hydrogen Peroxide for Rapid and Effective Remediation of Contaminated Water—Comprehensive Practically Focused Study -- Part III Biotechnologies for Water Treatment -- Biotechnologies for Water Treatment -- Enzyme-Based Nanomaterials in Bioremediation -- Bioelectrochemical Processes for the Treatment of Oil-Contaminated Water and Sediments -- Field Study VI: The Effect of Loading Strategies on Removal Efficiencies of a Hybrid Constructed Wetland Treating mixed Domestic and Agro-Industrial Wastewaters -- Field Study VII: Field Study of Three Different Injectable Oxygen Sources to Enhance Mono-Aromatic Solvents in situ Biodegradation -- Field Study VIII: Nano-bioremediation: nZVI for Inorganic and Organic Contamination -- Part IV Biotechnologies for Soil Treatment -- Biotechnologies for Soil Treatment -- Mycoremediation of Contaminated Soils -- Composting Practices for the Remediation of Matrices Contaminated by Recalcitrant Organic Pollutants -- Modern Bioremediation Approaches: Use of Biosurfactants, Emulsifiers, Enzymes, Biopesticides, GMOs -- Field Study IX: Pilot-Scale Composting of PAH-Contaminated Materials—Two Different Approaches -- Field Study X: Oil Waste Processing Using Combination of Physical Pretreatment and Bioremediation -- Part V Ecotoxicology of Both Environmental Pollutants and Nanomaterials Used for Remediation -- Ecotoxicology of Environmental Pollutants -- Ecotoxicity of Nanomaterials Used for Remediation -- VI Future Prospects -- Future Prospects for Treating Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Water and Soils/Sediments -- Part VII Technical Chapters -- Tool I: Characterization of nZVI Mobility in 1D and Cascade Columns by Ferromagnetic Susceptibility Sensor -- Tool II: Membrane Interface Probe -- Tool III: Fracturing for Enhanced Delivery of In situ Remediation Substances in Contaminated Sediments -- Tool IV: Monitoring of nZVI Migration and Fate in the Groundwater Conditions -- Tool V: Microbiological Methods for Monitoring nZVI Performance in Groundwater Conditions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Characterization of fresh market wastewater and solid wastes -- 2. Fresh market wastes Management Practices and Their Impact on Human Health -- 3. Treatment Technologies of fresh market wastewater -- 4. Generation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Microalgae Biomass of fresh Market Wastewater Phycoremediation -- 5. Application of Natural Coagulants for fresh market wastewater Treatment -- 6. Anaerobic Digestion of fresh solid wastes -- 7. Electricity production from fresh solid wastes using microbial fuel cells -- 8. Remediation of xenobiotics in fresh market wastewater using nanotechnoogy -- 9. Biofilter Aquaponic system for nutrients removal from fresh market wastewater -- 10. Reduction of poultry slaughterhouse wastewater pollutants using sequencing batch reactors (SBR) enhanced by composite fibre for safe disposal.

Description / Table of Contents: Demography -- Incentives -- Urban Design -- Education -- Collaborative Governance.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Functional Urban Areas - Theoretical Background -- Population Growth in Functional Urban Areas -- Regional Variation of Age Composition of Functional Urban Areas -- Ageing Processes in Functional Urban Areas -- Changes in Fertility and Mortality in Functional Urban Areas -- Changes in Migrations in Functional Urban Areas -- Spatial Typology of Functional Urban Areas (Based on Demographic Measurements) -- Summary.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Haredi Jews in the UK -- Chapter 3. Measurement of the Jewish population in the UK -- Chapter 4. The Litvish world -- Chapter 5. The Hasidic world -- Chapter 6. Summary and conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Spatial Symbolism and Politics -- The Politicization of Berlin’s Urban Landscape, 1945 – 1989 -- Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Consensus -- The Cultural Landscape of the Berliner Republic: Undoing the Socialist Past -- Putting It All Together: Spatial Symbolism, Cultural Memory, Nation-Building, and Berlin’s Urban Development after 1989 -- Conclusion: Current Outlook, Recent Developments and Wider Relevance.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history -- Chapter 2. Milena Vukmirovic -- Chapter 3. The rise and fall of New Belgrade with current developments in retrospect -- Chapter 4. Belgrade’s Waterfront revitalization -- Chapter 5. Reimaging Belgrade: the case of Savamala district -- Chapter 6. Public Art in Belgrade -- Chapter 7. Pedestrian-friendly Belgrade -- Chapter 8. Belgrade’s development visions and aims.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Data sources and methodology -- Population dynamics in top seven cities of India -- Land use/cover change in top seven cities of India -- Environmental challenges in seven cities: Interlinkages -- Summary and conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Urban, Spas And Maritime Vilegiatura -- Chapter 2. The Metropolises Grow Towards The Sea, Northeast Of Brazil -- Chapter 3. Coastal Metropolitization And Tourist Real Estate -- Chapter 4. The Social And Urbanistic Effects Of Tourism Developments In Fortaleza, Brazil -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Resilience Of Large Water Management Infrastructure -- Chapter 2. Survey Of Water Managers For 21st Century Challenges -- Chapter 3. Current Approaches For Resilience Assessment -- Chapter 4. Application Of Numerical Atmospheric Models -- Chapter 5. Infrastructure-Relevant Storms Of The Last Century -- Chapter 6. Sensitivity Of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) -- Chapter 7. A Recommended Paradigm Shift In The Approach To Risks To Large Water Infrastructure In The Coming Decades -- Chapter 8. Safety Design of Water Infrastructures In A Modern Era.

Description / Table of Contents: Quantification of Airborne Particulate And Associated Toxic Heavy Metals in Urban Indoor Environment and Allied Health Effects -- In-Situ Measurements of Aerosols from the High-Altitude Location in the Central Himalayas -- Significant Annual Variation in Atmospheric Pollutants during Fireworks Festival, ‘Diwali’ in Capital City of India -- Organic Air Pollutants: Measurement, Properties & Control -- Emissions of Particle-Bound Metals from On-Road Vehicle Emission: An Assessment of Potential Health Risk -- Chemical Composition Analysis of Airborne Coarse Particles and Their Source Apportionment at Kanpur -- Analysis of the Aerosols Environment in an Urban Context and Their Impact On Regional Meteorology -- Calipso Retrieval of Smoke Aerosols Over Upper Indo-Gangetic Plain -- Spatio-Temporal Study of Optical and Microphysical Properties of Atmospheric Brown Clouds Over the Indo-Gangetic Plains -- Spatial Variation of Airborne Allergenic Fungal Spores in the Ambient Pm2.5 — A Study in Rajkot City, Western Part of India -- Bioaerosol Health Effects from Moleculer to Global Scales -- Measurement, Analysis and Remediation of Biological Pollutants in Water -- Fundamentals of Measurement, Analysis, and Treatment of Selenium in Water -- Bioleaching of Selected Metals from E-Waste using Pure and Mixed Cultures of Aspergillus Species -- Recent Advances In Micro-Extraction Based Analytical Approaches For Pesticides Analysis In Environmental Samples -- Degradation and Removal of Anticonvulsant Drugs Through Microorganisms: A Review -- Remediation Approaches for Hexavalent Chromium -- Mercury and Its Remediation -- Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter: A Prospective Measure to Assess Pm Toxicity -- Monitoring and Processing of Data for Effective Wasteload Allocation Modeling: Indian Perspective -- Methane Emission from Municipal Solid Waste Landfills – Estimation and Control -- Low-Cost Adsorptive Removal Techniques for Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products -- Measurement, Analysis, and Remediation of Bisphenol-A from Environmental Matrices -- Removal of Chromium Ions from Aqueous Solution using Eco-Friendly Based Adsorbents.

Description / Table of Contents: (Introduction) Making Sense of the Urban Agendas: Studies in the Production and Use of the Urban in Agenda Discourses -- Part I: The Urban Agenda for the European Union: Spatiality, Knowledge, Powers -- Understanding the Emergence of the Spanish Urban Agenda: Towards a New Multi-level Policy Scenario? -- Urban Policies in Portugal -- Gender Impact in the Agenda 2030 -- Part II: Scottish City Regional Deals: A New Type of Multi-level Partnership? -- The Politics of Making Regions - Competitiveness and the Re-presentation of Territoriality in Europe. The Case of the International Øresund Region -- Metropolitan Areas in Italy, Between National Agenda and Local Agendas -- Part III: The Urban Question in German Policy Making -- Metropolitan Development and Governance: the Cases of England and France -- Metropolitanizing a Nordic state? City-regionalist Imaginary and State Territorial Restructuring in Finland -- Part IV: Urban Agenda at the Regional Scale: the Case of Andalusia -- The Implementation of Madrid 2030 Agenda -- Urban Agenda and Metropolitan Governance: the Case of Milan -- Conclusion. Advancing Urban Agenda Research.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Management of Surface Water Resources In Romania -- The Vulnerability of Water Resources From Eastern Romania to Anthropic Impact and Climate Changes -- Romanian Danube River Floodplain Functionality Assessment -- Romanian Upper Tisa Watershed, Between Water Resources and Hydrological Hazards -- Causes and Effects of Water Pollution in Romania -- Assessment of Some Diurnal Streamwater Profiles in Western and Northern Romania in Relation to Meteorological Data -- Water Resources Management in Razim-Sinoie Lakes Ecosystems -- Particularities of Drain Liquid in the Small Wetland of Braila Natural Park, Romania -- Water Supply Challenges and Achievements in Constanta County -- Drinking Water Supply Systems - Evolution towards Efficiency -- Water Resources Management in Siret Catchment -- Particular Hydrological Manifestations on the Lower Danube in the Current Climate -- Hydrological Impacts of Climate Changes in Romania and Adaptation Strategies -- Implementation of EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE) in Romania - European Qualitative Requirements -- Drought and Insolvency: Case study of the Producer-Buyer Conflict (Romania, the period between the year 2011-2012) -- Conclusions and Recomendations. .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Nanotechnology in wastewater and the capacity of nanotechnology for sustainability (Oluranti Agboola) -- 2. Therapeutic use of inorganic nanomaterials in malignant diseases (Andreea-Roxana Lupu) -- 3. Modification of Oligomers and Reinforced Polymeric Composites by Carbon Nanotubes and Ultrasonic (Aleksandr Evhenovych Kolosov) -- 4. Understanding interactions of nanomaterials with soil: Issues and Challenges ahead (Arun Kumar) -- 5. Nanotechnology for Water Treatment (Rashid Ahmad) -- 6. Overview of Nanomaterial-Assisted Technologies for Denitrification Processes (Samad Sabbaghi) -- 7. Nanoencapsulation of Food Carotenoids (Lohith Kumar DH) -- 8. Nanomaterials in Agricultural Research: An Overview (Devendra K Payasi) -- 9. Understanding effect of the interaction of nanoparticles with roots on the uptake in plants (Arun Kumar) -- 10. Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Gas Sensor Applications (Marwa Farouk Elkady).

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: PERSPECTIVES ON THE CITY. Chapter1.Smart Equity (Somwrita Sarkar) -- Chapter2. The Convenient City(Rob Roggema) -- Chapter3. Conceptualization of Smart City: A Methodological Framework for Smart Infrastructure, Smart Solutions and Smart Governance (Aurobindo Ogra) -- Part 2:SMART URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE. Chapter4. Development challenges for Big Data Command and Control Centres for Smart Cities in India (Sarbeswar Praharaj) -- Chapter5. Understanding consumer demand for new transport technologies and services, and implications for the future of mobility (Akshay Vij) -- Chapter6. Smart Interactive Cities: The Use of Computational Tools and Technologies [CTTs] as a Systemic Approach to Reduce Water and Energy Consumption in Urban Areas (Al Saeed Mahmoud and Fadli Fodil) -- Part 3: URBAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING. chapter7. Centenarian Transhumanism Aging in Place (Jennifer Loy) -- Chapter8. Grey smart societies: Supporting the social inclusion of older adults by smart spatial design (Nienke Moor and Masi Mohammadi) -- Chapter9. Real-time interactive multimodal systems for physiological and emotional wellbeing(Nimish Biloria and Dimitra Dritsa) -- Part 4: URBAN LIVING LABS -- Chapter10. Design Labs for Data Driven Multivalence(Mathias Funk) -- Chapter11. The role of living labs in developing smart cities in Indonesia(Hendra Sandhi Firmansyah) -- Part 5: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES -- Chapter12. Algae Building: Is This the New Smart Sustainable Technology?( Sara J Wilkinson, Peter J Ralph and Nimish Biloria) -- Chapter13. The qualitative image: urban analytics, hybridity and digital representation(Linda Mathews) -- Part 6: SOCIO-SPATIAL ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter14. Multimodal Accommodations for the Nomadic International citizen [MANIC}(Kas Oosterhuis) -- Chapter15. Understanding the relationship between smart cities and entrepreneurial ecosystems: the case of Sydney(Cetindamar, D., Lammers, T. and Sick, N.) -- Chapter16. Urban Wellbeing in the Contemporary City(Nimish Biloria, Prasuna Reddy, Yuti Ariani and Dhrumil Mehta) -- Part7: CONCLUSIONS.

Description / Table of Contents: - Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Their Potential in Environmental Management: Constraints, Prospects and Challenges -- Advances in Bioremediation of Toxic Heavy Metals and Radionuclides in Contaminated Soil and Aquatic Systems. - Phycoremediation: Algae as Eco-Friendly Tools for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewaters -- Phytoremediation: An Emerging Green Technology for Environmental Decontamination, Prospects for Future Research and Challenges -- Emerging and Ecofriendly Technologies for Removal of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants from Industrial Wastewaters -- Constructed Wetlands: A Clean-Green Technology for Degradation and Detoxification of Industrial Wastewaters -- Nano-Bioremediation: An Innovative Remediation Technology for Treatment and Management of Contaminated Sites -- Electro-Bioremediation: An Advanced Remediation Technology for Treatment and Management of Contaminated Soil -- Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC): An Innovative Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Power Generation -- Functional Diversity of Plant Endophytes and their Role in Assisted Phytoremediation -- Toxic Metals in Industrial Wastewaters and Phytoremediation Using Aquatic Macrophytes for Environmental Pollution Control: An Eco-Remedial Approach -- Microalgae: An Ecofriendly Tools for the Treatment of Wastewaters for Environmental Safety -- Phycoremediation: An Integrated and Eco-Friendly Approach for Wastewater Treatment and Value-Added Product Potential -- Pulp Paper Mill Wastewater: Eco-Toxicological Effects and Bioremediation Approaches for Environmental Safety. - Cadmium as Environmental Pollutant: Eco-Toxicological Effects, Health Hazards and Bioremediation Approaches for Its Detoxification from Contaminated Sites. - Cyanobacteria: The Eco-friendly Tools for the Treatment of Industrial Wastewaters. - Plant-Microbe Interactions for Bioremediation and Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants and Agro-Ecosystem Development -- Molecular Technologies for Assessment of Bioremediation and Characterization of Microbial Communities at Contaminated Sites. - Biochar: A Sustainable Tool in Soil Pollutants Bioremediation -- Bioremediation of Melanoidins Containing Distillery Waste for Environmental Safety -- Progresses in Bioremediation Technologies for Industrial Waste Treatment and Management: Challenges and Future Prospects.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Divided Tokyo: Housing policy, the ideology of homeownership, and the growing contrast between the city center and the suburbs -- The rise of the condominium lifestyle in Japanese cities -- Homeownership by single women in central Tokyo -- New condominium town in the Tokyo Bay area: making “home” an antithesis to rootlessness in suburbia -- Shrinking suburbs in Tokyo -- The generative processes of vacant housing in the shrinking suburbs: The case of Ushiku in Tokyo’s 50-60-km Commuter Belt -- Policy response and civic engagement to address urban shrinkage -- Conclusions. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. HYDRO peaking in nordic rivers/ hydropeaking combined analysis of climate change and energy market -- 2. Annual Variability of Per Capita Renewable Water Resources: Long Term Water Planning Using SWAT Model in the Athi Catchment, Kenya -- 3. Monte Carlo simulation and fuzzy modelling of river water quality for multiple reaches using QUAL2Kw -- 4. Design of Stable Channel Using HEC-RAS: A Case Study of Tapi River, Surat City -- 5. Nutrient fluxes from agriculture: reducing environmental impact through optimum application -- 6. Air Quality Monitoring with Special Reference to Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter in an Industrial Area -- 7. The water-energy nexus prespective of hydropower in the context of climate Change -- 8. Biological methodologies for treatment of textile wastewater -- 9. Role of microbes in Environmental Biotechnology and its role in the environment -- 10. Environmental Hazards of Limestone Mining and Review of Adaptive Practices for Environment Management Planning -- 11. Water Optimisation in Thermal Power Plants -- 12. Geoengineering Structures of Crabs and Their Role in Nutrient Cycling in Mangrove Ecosystem of Mahanadi Delta of Odisha, India -- 13. Design Considerations of Sustainable Pervious Concrete Block Pavement -- 14. Analysis of Historical Records of Climate Change and the Calamitous Events in Kasmir Valley -- 15. Possible Remediation of Perils of Water Eminence and Extent -- 16. Optimization methodologies in complex water supply systems for energy saving and a correct management under uncertainty -- 17. Application of a low-cost technology to treat domestic sewage and to improve fertility of a barren lateritic soil -- 18. Parametric evaluation of water quality characteristics varying downstream from Shimla to Solan in Himachal Pradesh region, India -- 19. Partial replacement of fine aggregates with defluoridation sludge in cement mortars manufacturing: A critical review -- 20. Genetically Modified Crops and its impact on Environment -- 21. Degradation of Gemfibrozil (lipid regulating drug) by using Advanced Oxidation and Biological Processes: A Review -- 22. Source Apportionment of particulate matter - A Critical Review for Indian Scenario -- 23. A review on Ionic liquids as novel adsorbents for SO2 removal -- 24. Garden-Landscape Practices in Mughal Kashmir: Design, Planning and Management -- 25. Long Term Performance Evaluation of Permeable Reactive Barrier for Groundwater Remediation using Visual MODFLOW -- 26. Use of Electrical Resistivity Tomography for Detection and Delineation of Groundwater Contamination near a Non-engineered Solid Waste Landfill -- 27. Saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers: A case of environmental management -- 28. Assessment of groundwater quality around Coal mining regions of Korba district, Chhattisgarh, Central India -- 29. Numerical errors associated with groundwater models and improving the reliability of models in environmental management issues -- 30. Staus of Groundwater Salinity in North West Region of India.-31. Irrigation Water Management under Changing Climate -- 32. Particle Swarm Optimization for identification of unknown groundwater pollution source -- 33. Fluoride Contamination and Abatement Measures: A Geoenvironmental Perspective -- 34. Interaction between Groundwater and surface water and its effect on groundwater quality -- 35. Assessment of an Intrinsic and a Specific vulnerability to identify Groundwater vulnerable zones of Nagpur city, India -- 36. Sustainable water management solutions -- Conclusions .

Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Urbanism: Advancing Compact Cities and Eco-cities through Data-Driven Smart Solutions and Approaches -- The Compact City Paradigm and its Centrality in Sustainable Urbanism: Ideals, Paradoxes, Strategies, and Data–driven Solutions -- Practical Advances in Compact City Planning and Development: The Cases of Gothenburg and Helsingborg, Sweden -- The Eco–City Paradigm and its Centrality in Sustainable Urbanism: Ideals, Models, Strategies, Limitations, and Data–Driven Smart Approaches -- Practical Advances in Eco–City Planning and Development: The Leading Examples and Cases of Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden -- The Data–Driven Smart City Paradigm and its Usefulness to Sustainable Urbanism: Technologies, Systems, and Sciences for Urban Intelligence Functioning -- Data–Driven Sustainable Urbanism and Data–Intensive Urban Sustainability Science: Novel Approaches to Urban Complexity -- The IoT and Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Cities: Enabling Technologies, Infrastructures, and Applications.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Microbial ecological function in migration of radionuclides in groundwater -- 2 Microbial diversity and possible activity in nitrate- and radionuclide-contaminated groundwater -- 3 Function of microbes on chemical species transformation of radionuclides -- 4 Direct detection of denitrifying bacteria in groundwater by GeneFISH -- 5 Difference in the solid-water distributions of radiocesium in rivers in Fukushima and Chernobyl -- 6 Function of colloidal and nanoparticles in sorption of radionuclides -- 7 Application of electron microscopy to understanding colloid-facilitated transport of radionuclides at the Mayak Production Association facility, near Lake Karachai, Russia -- 8 Numerical analysis of migration of nitrate ions in the groundwater system of Lake Karachai Area, Southern Ural, Russia -- 9 Commentary on the function of micro- to nano-scale particles in radionuclide migration through groundwater.

Description / Table of Contents: Co-production, Participatory Planning and Resilient Cities to Climate Change -- Participatory Transport Planning: the Experience of Eight Euro-pean Metropolitan Regions -- Participatory Planning in a Post-socialist Ur-ban Context: Experience From Five Cities in Central and Eastern Europe -- Governance and Management Systems in Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Biosphere Reserves -- Promises and Limits of Participatory Urban Greens Development: Experience from Maribor, Budapest, and Krakow.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Technocene,- 2. Sharing as cultural revolution -- 3. Sharing as cultural pre-existence -- 4. Co-housing -- 5. Co-housing cases -- 6. Hopes.

Description / Table of Contents: Changing spaces in historical places -- Clarksdale, Mississippi: Downtown regeneration, cultural heritage, tourism and blues music -- Beer as cultural lubricant: Brewing Tsingtao, regenerating Qingdao -- Sporting heritage and touristic transformation: Pacaembu stadium and the football museum in São Paulo, Brazil -- Old town Tallinn: Medieval built heritage amid transformation.

Description / Table of Contents: Religion and Urban Planning -- Religious Matrimony and Urban Sprawl -- The dichotomy between the living and the dead -- Theology and Governance -- On Faith and Big Data.-Conclusion. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Assessment of Water Resources in Poland -- Surface Water Eutrophication in Poland: Assessment and Prevention -- Hydrogeological Conditions and Management of Groundwater Resources in Poland -- Water Resources in Lithuania -- Assessment of Water Resources Pollution in Lithuania -- Water Supply and Demand in Lithuania -- Wastewater Management in Lithuania -- Urban Rainwater Drainage in Lithuania -- Wastewater Sludge Management in Latvia -- Analysis of Factors Controlling Pathogen Destruction in Municipal Sludge During Handling -- Phosphors Fluxes in the Baltic Sea Region – a Meta Data Analysis -- Regulatory Scenarios to Counteract High Phosphors Inputs into the Baltic Sea -- Water Resources of the Russian Rivers of the Baltic Sea Basin and their Possible Changes under Global Warming -- Schemes of Complex Use and Protection of Water Objects in the Russian Part of the Baltic Sea Basin as a Basis for Water Resources Management -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Storm Water Management in Urban Areas -- The Green Roofs and Facades as a Tools of Climate Cooling in the Urban Environment -- Infiltration of Rainwater in Urban Areas -- Stream water Quality Modelling Techniques -- Water Quality in Czech Republic -- Xenobiotics in Urban Water Cycle -- Grey water reuse in Urban Areas -- The Necessary Documents for the Design Documentation for Water Supply and Sewerage Systems in Czech Republic -- Biological audits in the System of Water Treatment Control -- Monitoring Changes of Water Content in Soil Pores of Earth Dams -- Monitoring of Levees for Flood Protection Purposes -- Assessment of Flood Damages, Flood Risks and Flood Mitigation Measures -- Flood Protection -- Economy and management of water supply -- Management of drinking water resources in the region of South Moravia -- Small Hydropower Plants -- History and Present of the Laboratory of Water Management Research in Brno -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Conceptualising Metropolitan Regions: How Institutions, Policies, Spatial Imaginaries and Planning are Influencing Metropolitan Development -- Part I: Institutions and Contemporary Institutional Shifts -- Metropolitan Revolution or Metropolitan Evolution? The (Dis)continuities in Metropolitan Institutional Reforms -- The Multiple Agencies of Metropolitan Institutions: Is There Convergence? -- What is at Stake for Metropolitan Regions and Their Governance Institutions? -- Part II: Policies and Ideas -- Learning from Elsewhere? A Critical Account on the Mobilisation of Metropolitan Policies -- From Here to There: Mapping the Metropolitan Politics of Policy Mobilities.

Description / Table of Contents: Water Resource in Slovenia -- Management of Artificial Groundwater Recharge in Slovenia -- Water Resources Management in North Macedonia -- Water Resources of Serbia and its Utilization -- Water Resources Management in Croatia -- An overview of Environmental Aspects of Water Resources in Croatia -- Water Management in the Agricultural Sector in Greece -- Water Resource Management in Bulgaria -- River Systems under the Anthropogenic and Climate Change Impacts: Bulgarian Case -- Development of Hydropower in Balkan Region -- Water Resources of Romania – Spatial and Temporal Variability -- Drought and Insolvency: Case study of the Producer-Buyer Conflict (Romania, the period between the year 2011-2012) -- Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve - Long Term Assessment of Water Quality -- Water quality and pollution status of the main rivers in the Republic of Macedonia -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Materials in electrochemical detection of water pollutants -- Chapter 2: Materials in bio-sensing of water pollutants -- Chapter 3: Computational design of Nucleic acid-based Bioreceptor for Contaminants of Emerging Concern -- Chapter 4: Immunochromatographic Strip Based Sensor for the Detection of Water Pollutants -- Chapter 5: Emerging techniques and materials for water pollutants detection -- Chapter 6: Nanofiber based sensors for Water Pollution Monitoring -- Chapter 7: Introduction: Role of Materials in Sensors for Water Pollutants Monitoring -- Chapter 8: Water Pollutants: Origin and status.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Green technologies for the treatment of pharmaceutical contaminants in wastewaters -- Chapter 2. Constructed Wetlands: an emerging green technology for treatment of industrial wastewaters -- Chapter 3. Application of nanoparticles in environmental cleanup: production, potential risks and solutions -- Chapter 4. Efficiency of algae for heavy metal removal, bioenergy production and carbon sequestration -- Chapter 5. Advances in plant-microbe based remediation approaches for environmental cleanup -- Chapter 6. Bioprocessing of cane molasses to produce ethanol and its derived products from South Indian Distillery -- Chapter 7. Biological and non-biological approaches for treatment of Cr(VI) in tannery effluent -- Chapter 8. Photocatalysis as a clean technology for the degradation of petrochemical pollutants -- Chapter 9. Sustainable management of toxic industrial effluent of coal based power plants -- Chapter 10. Removal of organic pollutants from contaminated water bodies by using aquatic macrophytes coupling with bioenergy production and carbon sequestration -- Chapter 11. Biopolymers and their application in wastewater treatment -- Chapter 12. Recovery of rare earths, precious metals and bioreduction of toxic metals from wastewater using algae -- Chapter 13. Green synthesized nanoparticle mediated wastewater treatment -- Chapter 14. Microbial communities in a constructed wetland microcosms and their role in treatment of domestic wastewater -- Chapter 15. Agricultural Waste: It’s Impact on Environment and Management Approaches.-.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Using Foucault’s Toolbox: Heterotopia as a New Tool for Assessing Built Heritage -- Heterotopia as Materialised Utopia. Utopias and their Architectural Embodiment. The ‘Heritage Utopia’ -- Heterotopia of Function vs. the Heterotopia of Form. The Heterotopic Principles, their Interpretation and the Built Heritage. The Heritage Perspective -- Heritage as Heterotopia and the Heterotopic Profile as an Analysis Tool.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: Groundwater arsenic contamination and availability of safe water for drinking in Middle Ganga Plain in India -- Chapter2: Geomorphic controls on spatial arsenic distribution in aquifers of the Brahmaputra River floodplains -- Chapter3: Reductive dissolution of Fe-oxyhydroxides a potential mechanism for arsenic release into groundwater in the alluvial plain of river Brahmaputra -- Chapter4: Sources of arsenic exposure in well-nourished children -- Chapter5: Environmental arsenic exposure and human health risk -- Chapter6: Sustainable arsenic mitigation: problems and prospects in India -- Chapter7: Arsenic Contamination of Soil in Relation to Water in Northeastern South Africa -- Chapter8: Arsenic contamination of India’s groundwater: a review and critical analysis -- Chapter9: Biosorption of Arsenic: An Emerging Eco-technology of Arsenic Detoxification in Drinking Water -- Chapter10: Assessing and mapping human health risks due to arsenic and socioeconomic correlates for proactive arsenic mitigation -- Chapter11: Arsenic-contaminated drinking water and the associated health effects in the Shahpur block of Bihar: a case study from five villages -- Chapter12: Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mitigation in Pakistan: a case of Indus river basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Water scarcity leads to food insecurity -- Chapter 2: Deficit irrigation and water conservation -- Chapter 3: Egypt faces water deficiency, and food insufficiency -- Chapter 4: Field crops and deficit irrigation in Egypt -- Chapter 5: Vegetable crops and deficit irrigation in Egypt -- Chapter 6: Wheat insufficiency and deficit irrigation -- Chapter 7: Climate change assessment in Egypt: A review -- Chapter 8: Climate change and wheat self-sufficiency.

Description / Table of Contents: Systematic Literature Review -- Life Cycle Inventory Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Processes -- Refined Assessment Methodology for Wastewater Treatment Alternatives -- A Specific focus on Weighing Element of Indicators -- Diverse Scenario Analysis -- Sustainability Solutions for Energy and Carbon Issues in Wastewater Treatment -- Prospects for the Future. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Standardization of the microcosm N-system -- Chapter 3. Maintenance of microcosm N-system -- Chapter 4. Preparation of The microcosm N-system -- Chapter 5. Procedure for using THE microcosm N-system. Chapter 6. Estimation using microcosm N-system -- Chapter 7. Example assessment of the microcosm n-system -- Chapter 8. Coefficient of assessment FOR THE microcosm n-system -- Chapter 9. Application to whole effluent toxicity (WET) test -- Chapter 10. A Scaled-up model ecosystem verification Of THE microcosm n-system -- Chapter 11. A Subsystem microcosm verification OF THE microcosm n-system -- Chapter 12. Further perspectives. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Threats and conservation strategies for overlooked organisms: the case of epiphytic lichens -- Chapter 2: Biodiversity and Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Plants -- Chapter 3: Tree ferns and giant ferns in India: Significance and Conservation -- Chapter 4: Status of medicinal plants in context of Arunachal Pradesh, India -- Chapter 5: Nutrient Enrichment in Lake Ecosystem and its Effects on Algae and Macrophytes -- Chapter 6: Land-use change as a disturbance regime -- Chapter 7: Floristic diversity, distribution and conservation status in the vicinity of coal mines of Kachchh district in Gujarat, India -- Chapter 8: Sodic Soil: Management and reclamation Strategies -- Chapter 9: Microbe based inoculants: role in next green revolution -- Chapter 10: Environmental Significance of Lichens and Biodeterioration -- Chapter 11: Soil reclamation of saline and sodic soil through phytoremediation -- Chapter 12: Soil pollution by Fluoride in India: Distribution, Chemistry and analytical methods -- Chapter 13: Multielement analysis using ED-XRF and ICP-MS from Couroupita guianensis for sustainable agriculture by soil reclamation -- Chapter 14: Waste Management: A Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 15: Recycling of agriculture waste into efficient adsorbent -- Chapter 16: Environmental hazards and management of e-waste -- Chapter 17: Green House Gas Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste Management Practice -- Chapter 18: Introduction to fast fashion: Environmental Concerns and Sustainability Measurements.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Rivers In Czech Republic -- Role of the Water in the Landscape -- Small Water Reservoirs, Ponds and Wetlands Restoration at the Abandoned Pond Areas -- Small Bodies of Water which Have Disappeared from the Czech Landscape and the Possibility of Restoring them -- Protection of Water Resources -- Groudwater Flow Problems and Their Modelling -- Hydrodynamical Modelling in Channel – Case study -- Modelling of Outflow – Case study -- Hydrological Reclamations Iin the Anthropogenically Affected Landscape of Northern Bohemia -- Modelling of the Water-Retention Capacity of the Landscape -- Floodplain Forests - Key Forest Ecosystems for Maintaining and Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Alluvial Landscape -- Agrotechnology as Key Factor of Effective Use of Water on Arable Land -- Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Watercourses and Water Areas -- Water Resources Management Planning -- Technical and Economic Evaluation of River Navigation -- Water Balance and Phase of Hydrocycle Dynamics -- Water in the Landscape from Limnological and Engineering Point of View -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Solid wastes management in Jordan -- Solid wastes management in Tunisia -- Renewable energy is an essential step in the pursuit of a clean environment -- Solid waste management in Lebanon: Realities, constraints and prospects -- Waste management in Morocco -- Low Cost-Thermal disposal of solid waste with sludge in one unit: Multi combustion of soil waste with polluted sludge by fuel BraM in stationary bed combustion (SWSF) DN 400 -- Reducing methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills by mechanical biological treatment (MBT) (Case Study Wady Alhaddeh plant In Tartous, Syria) -- Sludge disposal/Management -- Solid waste management in Yemen -- Future challenges for the solid waste management sector in Palestine -- Waste management in latakia City under war situation -- Waste to energy from a regional perspective -- Concentrated Solar Power plant using linear Fresnel mirrors, concrete storage and Organic Ranking Cycle genset -- Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production using Duckweed -- Conclusions and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and its problems -- Chapter 3. Why GOD? The benefits of Greenspace-Oriented Development 1 -- Chapter 4. A manual for implementing Greenspace-Oriented Development -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: 1.Introduction -- 2.Water resources in Europe -- 3.Demand for water in the building -- 4.Alternative water sources -- 5.Research on the effectiveness of systems with alternative water sources for buildings located in selected European countries -- 6.Research on the financial effectiveness of alternative water supply systems in European countries -- 7.The impact of rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling systems on sewage systems and the environment -- 8.Public perceptions of water shortages, conservation behaviors and possibilities of using alternatives water sources in buildings in European countries -- 9.Summary and final conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Precipitation in Mexico -- 2 Groundwater in Mexico -- 3 Geohydrology in Mexico -- 4 Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Mexico -- 5 Data Models for River Basin Management in Mexico -- 6 Domestic and Industrial Water Use and Consumption in Mexico -- 7 Development of Hydraulic Infrastructure in Mexico -- 8 Wastewater Treatment in Mexico -- 9 Climate Change and Water Resources in Mexico -- 10 Water Security and Sustainability in Mexico -- 11 Expected Impacts on Agriculture due to Climate Change in Northern Mexico -- 12 Dams Operation Policy in Mexico during Hurricanes Season -- 13 Hydrologic and Hydraulic Works of the Aztec Civilization -- 14 Analysis of the Spatial Dependence of Rainfall Fields in the Southeast of Mexico, Using Directional Variograms -- 15 Possible Scenarios of Global Warming Impacts on the Evaporation in Mexico -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The promise of security -- Chapter 2. Responding to disasters -- Chapter 3. The Region of Umbria as case study -- Chapter 4. Planning for resilience -- Reference.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - The Legal, Institutional and Policy Regime for the Control of Water Pollution in India -- Chapter 3 - Status of Water Quality in India and Compliance with Pollution Control Norms -- Chapter 4 - Effectiveness of Wastewater Collection and Treatment Systems -- Chapter 5 - Health Impacts of Water Pollution and Contamination -- Chapter 6 - Reuse of Treated Wastewater: Present Scenario -- Chapter 7 - Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Costs -- Chapter 8 - Case Studies on Performance of Wastewater Treatment Systems -- Chapter 9 - Environmental Sustainability and Economic Viability -- Chapter 10 - Growth of Treatment Plants and Reuse of Treated Wastewater -- Chapter 11 - Market for Treated Wastewater in India -- Chapter 12 - Conclusions and Areas for Future Research. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Shifting urban dynamics: An overview -- From megacity to megacity region: Is an Asian paradigm emerging?- Asian MCR: Urban-Rural interface and multidimensionality of the spread region -- Scale and where the three prongs meet -- The national capital region, Delhi, India: An empirical exploration -- Concluding thoughts.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge and animal by-product -- Chapter 2. Application of Synthesized Nano-cellulose Material for Removal of Malachite Green from Waste Water -- Chapter 3. Status of Sewage Treatment in Bihar and needs for Improvement -- Chapter 4. Effluent Water Treatment: A Potential Way Out towards Conservation of Fresh Water in India -- Chapter 5. Development of an Effective and Efficient Integrated Charcoal Filter Constructed Wetland System for Wastewater Treatment -- Chapter 6. A Consolidated Stratagem towards Defenestration of Coke Oven Wastewater Using Various Advanced Techniques - An Analogous Study -- Chapter 7. Studies on Lead removal from Simulated Waste Water in Packed Bed Bioreactor Using Attached Growth Technique -- Chapter 8. Sustainable Growth and Survival of Litopenaeus Vannamei through Waste Water Recycling -- Chapter 9. Reuse of Washing Machine Effluent using Constructed Wetland: The Circular Economy of Sanitation -- Chapter 10. Removal of Methyelene Blue Dye by using Lemon Leaf Powder as a Adsorbent -- Chapter 11. Development of a Low-Cost Column Type Filter Based on Agricultural Waste for Removal of Fluoride from Water -- Chapter 12. Oxidative Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue in Waste Water -- Chapter 13. Bio remediation of Textile Azo Dyes by Marine Streptomyces -- Chapter 14. Use of Sewage to Restore Manmade Waterbodies – Nutrient and Energy Flow Regulation Approaches to Enabling Sustainability -- Chapter 15. Two Stage Passive High Throughput Sustainable Sewage Treatment Process: Lab Study and Future Scope.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Integrated Water Resources Management: Theoretical concepts, basis, responsibilities, and challenges of IWRM -- 2.Integrated Water Resources Management in Brazil -- 3.The necessity of IWRM: the case of San Francisco River water conflicts -- 4. Water Resources Management in California -- 5. International Comparative Analysis of Regulations for Water Markets and Water Banks -- 6. Managing water differently: Integrated Water Resources Management as a framework for adaptation to climate change in Mexico -- 7. The Transboundary Paso del Norte Region Stakeholders’ preferences allowing water resource adaptation -- 8. Water governance and adaptation to drought in Guanacaste, Costa Rica -- 9. Integrated Water Resources Management in Iran -- 10. Water Resources Management in South Korea -- 11. Transboundary Groundwater Management and Regulation: Treaty Practices in Africa.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1 Ontology of Urban Place -- Chapter 2 Urbanism, Residency, and Society -- Chapter 3 Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis -- Chapter 4 Urban Planning and Development -- Chapter 5 Urban Design and Urbanism -- Chapter 6 Environmentally Friendly Urbanism -- Chapter 7 Urbanism and the Global Age -- PART II EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION -- Chapter 8 Everyday Life of Urbanism in the West Malay World -- Chapter 9 Urbanism, Society, and Culture in the Malay Peninsular World: Bandar Malacca -- Chapter 10 Urbanism and Planning System in Malaysia -- Chapter 11 Urban Intentionality and Global Urbanism: Toronto as a case study -- Postscript -- References.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Water Sources and Water Uses — Now and In The Future -- 3. The Existing Oslo Arrangements -- 4. Designing a New Water Future for Israelis and Palestinians.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Rocinha favela and past slum upgrading programmes in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil; shortcomings of past experiences and limitations of fragmented transformation actions -- 2. The Integrated Modification Methodology (how it works + past examples of its application to formal contexts + comparison with other methodologies/tools used for similar purposes) -- 3. Analysis of the existing situation (IMM Diagnostic phase) -- 4. Urban metabolism and identification of intervention areas (IMM Assumption phase) -- 5. Projects: energy -- 6. Projects: ecosystem -- services -- 7. Projects: waste -- 8. Projects: wastewater treatment -- 9. Projects: food -- 10. Projects: mobility -- 11. Analysis of system-wide improvements (IMM Retrofit phase) -- 12. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Seoul -- Manila -- Jakarta -- Shanghai -- Ho Chi Minh City -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Inorganic Nanomaterials for Enhanced Therapeutic Safety -- Chapter 2 Nanoparticles application for cancer diagnosis -- Chapter 3 Insights into nanotools for dental interventions -- Chapter 4 Nanopharmaceuticals: Synthesis, Characterization and Challenges -- Chapter 5 Electrospun Nanofibers as Carriers in Dermal Drug Delivery -- Chapter 6. Enzyme responsive and enzyme immobilized nanoplatforms for therapeutic delivery: an overview of research innovations and biomedical applications -- Chapter 7 Systemic Nanotoxicity and its Assessment in Animal Models -- Chapter 8 Dendrimers as drug carriers for cancer therapy -- Chapter 9 Nanoparticle design to improve transport across the intestinal barrier -- Chapter 10 Recent Progress in Nano-theranostic medicine.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Abstract -- Zusammenfassung -- 1) Introduction: The European Metropolis in the Making? -- 2) The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies -- 3) Theorising Europeanisation as Policy Learning and Reframing -- 4) Understanding Metropolitan Policies from a Comparative-Interpretive Perspective -- 5) Europeanising Metropolitan Regions: The European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies in Lyon and Stuttgart -- 6) The European Dimension of French and German Metropolitan Policies -- 7) Metropolitan Policies of the European Union -- 8) Comparing the European Dimension of Metropolitan Policies from an Interpretive Perspective -- 9) Concluding Reflections on Europeanising Metropolitan Policies -- Appendices -- Appendix A) Examples of Interview Guidelines and Questionnaires -- Appendix B) List of Interview Partners -- Appendix C) Overview of Selected Documents from the European Union Context -- Appendix D) Example Coding Tree -- References.

Description / Table of Contents: Overview of the fundamental connotation and strategic position of China’s urban agglomerations -- The spatial pattern of selecting and developing China’s urban agglomerations -- Dynamic evaluation for the healthy development and potential issues of China’s urban agglomerations -- The basic characteristics of dynamic evolution and spatial differentiation of urban agglomerations in China -- Safeguard measures and suggestions for China’s urban agglomeration construction.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Theories of complexity and urban systems -- Scaling laws: universal solutions for urban planning or contingent products of circumstances? -- Economy versus geography: theories of urbanization and cities development -- Urban theories and international comparisons -- Complex systems modeling for better understanding urbanization theories -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The compelling nature of water pollution as a Common-Pool-Resource problem -- Chapter 2. Theories and theoretical contribution -- Chapter 3. Methods & Cases -- Chapter 4. Empirical analysis I: On cooperation -- Chapter 5. Empirical analysis II: On the emergence of cooperation -- Chapter 6. Empirical analysis III: On the consolidation of cooperation -- Chapter 7. Conclusion I: Theoretical insights on cooperation in CPR settings -- Chapter 8. Conclusion II.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Scientific Committee -- History of ITM -- List of Participants -- Part I: Regional and Intercontinental Modelling -- Part II: Local and Urban Scale Modeling -- Part III: Emission Modeling and Processing -- Part IV: Data Assimilation and Air Quality Forecasting -- Part V: Model Assessment and Verification -- Part VI: Aerosols in the Atmosphere -- Part VII: Modeling Air Pollution in a Changing Climate -- Part VIII: Air Quality Effects on Human Health and Ecology -- Part IX: Special Sessions.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- About the Editors -- 1. Nanotechnology for water and wastewater treatment using graphene semiconductor composite materials (Penny P. Govender) -- 2. Dyes depollution of water using porous TiO2-based photocatalysts (Jean-Luc Blin) -- 3. Application of nanobiosensors in food safety monitoring (Ragh HV) -- 4. Translational approach of modification of functional properties of nano porous membranes for the desalination of water (Velayudhaperumal Chellam Padmanaban) -- 5.Nanotechnology in wheat production and protection (Prem Lal Kashyap) -- 6. New drugs for bad bugs: bioprospection of new nanoparticles and specialized metabolites from Actinobacteria (Analía Álvarez) -- 7. Titanium oxide-based nanomaterials with photocatalytic applications in environmental chemistry (Santiago Gómez-Ruiz) -- 8. Polymer nanocomposites: synthesis and characterization (A L Sharma). 9. Application of nanotechnology in agriculture (Pragati Pramanik) -- 10. Nanomaterial-based sensor for air pollution control (Pradip Kar).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. By-products from Forest Activities as Low-cost Sorbents for Bio-remediation of Effluents and Other Polluted Media -- Chapter 2. Exopolysaccharides: Production and its Application in Industrial Waste Water Treatment -- Chapter 3. Treatment Technologies for Addressing the Removal of Industrial Effluents Affecting the Quality of River Ganges in Eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, India -- Chapter 4. Microbial Treatment for Removing Synthetic Dyes from Industrial Effluents -- Chapter 5. Role of Interspecies Electron Transfer for Boosting Methane Production by Anaerobic Digestion in Syntrophic Methanogenesis -- Chapter 6. Recent Advances in Physico-chemical and Biological Treatment Approached for Distillery Wastewater -- Chapter 7. Integrated Approach for the Treatment of Industrial Effluent by Physio-Chemical and Microbiological Process for Sustainable Environment -- Chapter 8. Treatment Options for Acid Mine Drainage: Remedial Achievements through Microbial Mediated Processes -- Chapter 9. Elaboration and Characterization of Porous Materials from Moroccan Natural Resources: Application to Industrial Wastewater Treatment -- Chapter 10. Organic Contaminants in Industrial Wastewater: Prospects of Waste Management by Integrated Approaches -- Chapter 11. Realistic Approach for Bioremediation of Heterogeneous Recalcitrant Compounds -- Chapter 12. Bioremediation of Lignin Rich Pulp and Paper Industry Effluent -- Chapter 13. Bioremediation of Chromium using a Laboratory Scale Sand Bed Reactor -- Chapter 14. Electrobioremediation of Contaminants: Concepts, Mechanisms, Applications, and Challenges -- Chapter 15. Electrochemical Methods for the Detection of toxic As(III) and As(V) from Natural Water -- Chapter 16. Bio Nano Approaches: Green and Sustainable Treatment Technology for Textile Effluent Challenges -- Chapter 17. Removal of Dyes from Industrial Effluents by Application of Combined Biological and Physio-Chemical Treatment Approaches.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Absorptive removal and recovery of heavy metal ions from aqueous solution/effluents using conventional and non-conventional materials -- 2. Bioremediation of Oil-Spills from Shore Line Environment -- 3. Fabrication of polyaniline supported nanocomposites sensing applications for the detection of environmental pollutants -- 4. Graphene and its composites: Applications in Environmental Remediation -- 5. Nano-composite materials for wastewater decontamination Photocatalytic decontamination of organic pollutants using advanced materials (Recent advancement in waste water decontamination Removal and Recovery of Heavy Metal Ions Using Natural Adsorbents -- 6. Water purification by nanotechnological approach: Challenges and future prospects -- 7. Green nanotechnology involvement in water and wastewater treatment -- 8. Advanced nanomaterial for metal ions removal from aqueous solutions -- 9. Graphene and carbon nanobased nanomaterials application wastewater treatment -- 10. Application of cellulose nanomaterials in water treatment technologies -- 11. Amorphous nanomaterial application in removal and recovery of heavy metals from water -- 12. Nanofiltration for water purification -- 13. Sewage treatment using nanotechnology and disposal of waste nanomaterials -- 14. The recent nano- and biotechnological advances to the removal of toxic contaminants from wastewater streams -- 15. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Contributions of computer-based chemical modeling technologies on the risk assessment and the environmental fate study of (nano)pesticides.-Moss bag biomonitoring of airborne pollutants as an ecosustainable tool for air protection management: urban and agricultural scenario.-Use of Lichens in Biological Monitoring of Air Quality -- Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in atmospheric particulate matter: Sources and Effects -- Vehicular emission generated heavy metal pollution in urban ambient air and its spatial distribution in various environmental components -- Antioxidative Response of Water Macrophytes to changes in the Living Environment During Vegetation Season -- Application of grace satellite data for assessment of groundwater resources in central ganga alluvial plain, northern india -- Restoring Environmental Flows For Managing River Ecosystems: Global Scenario With Special Reference To India -- Water Security Issues In Punjab State, Northwest India -- Industrial wastewater foot printing: a need for water security in Indian context -- Fluoride Contamination and Health Effects : An Indian Scenario -- Role of industries in water scarcity and its adverse effects on environment and human health -- Interbasin Water Transfer and Policies of Water Resourge Management -- Policy Interventions in Achieving Water Security in India -- Energy Resources and Sustainable Development: An Insight Energy Resources -- Alternative fuels for sustainable development -- Microbial remediation of crude oil contaminated sites.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Industrial Wastes Containing Organic and Inorganic Pollutants and Bioremediation Approaches for Environmental Management -- Bioremediation: An Eco-Friendly Sustainable Technology for Environmental Management -- Application of Microbial Enzymes in Degradation and Detoxification of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants -- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Environmental Risks, Toxicological Effects, and Bioremediation for Environmental Safety and Challenges for Future Research -- Industrial Acid Mine Tailing Wastes: Eco-Toxicological and Health Effects and Bioremediation for Sustainable Development -- Bioremediation of Distillery Effluent: Present Status and Future Prospects -- Plastic Waste: Environmental Hazards, Its Biodegradation, and Challenges -- Textile Industry Wastewater: A Major Source of Environment Contamination and Bioremediation Approaches for Its Degradation and Detoxification -- Management of Petroleum Industry Waste through Biosurfactant Producing Bacteria: A Step towards Sustainable Environment -- Environmental Contamination, Toxicity Profile, and Bioremediation Approaches for Detoxification of Pulp Paper Mill Wastewater -- Recent Advances in Phytoremediation of Soil Contaminated by Industrial Waste: A Roadmap to a Safer Environment -- Toxicity of Hexavalent Chromium in Environment, Health Threats and Its Bioremediation and Detoxification from Tannery Wastewater for Environmental Safety -- Arsenic Contamination in Environment, Eco-Toxicological and Health Effects and Bioremediation Strategies for Its Detoxification -- Organophosphate Pesticides: Impact on Environment, Toxicity and their Degradation -- Constructed Wetlands: An Eco-Sustainable Phytotechnology for Degradation and Detoxification of Industrial Wastewaters -- Nano-Bioremediation: A New Age Technology for the Treatment of Dyes in Textile Effluents -- Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles and their Applications in Water and Wastewater Treatment -- Environmental Hazards and Toxicity Profile of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants of Tannery Wastewater and Bioremediation Approaches -- Bioremediation: An Ecofriendly Clean-Up Strategy for Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons from Petroleum Industry Waste.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Urban Health Risk and Disease -- Chapter 2. Geospatial Approaches to Measuring Personal Heat Exposure and Related Health Effects in Urban Settings -- Chapter 3. Geographic variation in Cardiovascular disease mortality: A study of linking risk factors and built environment at a local health unit in Canada -- Chapter 4. Evaluating the effect of domain size of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model on regional PM2.5 simulations -- Part II- Urban Health Service Access -- Chapter 5. Serving a Segregated Metropolitan Area: Disparities in Spatial Access to Primary Care Physicians in Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- Chapter 6. Considerations When Using Individual GPS Data in Food Environment Research: A Scoping Review of ‘Selective (Daily) Mobility Bias’ in GPS Exposure Studies and its Relevance to the Retail Food Environment -- Chapter 7. Dynamic Emergency Medical Service Dispatch: Role of Spatiotemporal Machine Learning -- Part III. Healthy Behavior and Urban Lifestyle -- Chapter 8. Incorporating Online Survey and Social Media Data into a GIS Analysis for Measuring Walkability -- Chapter 9. Leveraging social media to track urban park quality for improved citizen health -- Part IV. Health Policies and Urban Health Management -- Chapter 10. Spatio-temporal Analysis and Data Mining of the 2014-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa -- Chapter 11. Extending Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with Geospatial Software as a Service: Participatory Asset Mapping Infrastructures for Urban Health -- Chapter 12. Improving Urban and Peri-Urban Health Outcomes Through Early Detection and Aid Planning.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Urban Heritage and Cultural Identity -- Public Open Spaces in Bahrain: Connecting Migrants and Urban Heritage in a Transcultural City -- Paradise Extended; Re-examining the Cultural Anchors of the Historic Pleasure Avenues -- Landscape Architecture Significance in Restoration Historical Areas, Old “Muharak” City, Bahrain -- Part II: Governing Urban Heritage -- The Rise of the Facilitation Approach in Tackling Neighbourhood Decline in Tehran.

Description / Table of Contents: Introducing Urban Health and Wellbeing -- Urban environment of Delhi and Mumbai -- Changing Urban Environment in Megacities: Delhi and Mumbai -- Urban micro climates: Delhi and Mumbai -- Urban Health Risk Analysis: Delhi and Mumbai -- Policy initiatives and other mechanisms.

Description / Table of Contents: Approaching bioelectrochemical systems to real facilities within the framework of CO2 valorization and biogas upgrading -- Water Energy Nexus in the Gulf: A Complex Network of Multi-Level Interdependencies -- A risk assessment approach for water-energy systems -- Estimating the declining discount rate for the economic evaluation of projects in the energy and water sectors -- Towards resilience-informed decision making in critical infrastructure networks -- Short-term forecasting of tank water levels serving urban water distribution networks with ARIMA models -- Energy balance in the water cycle in Italy: state of the art and perspectives -- Water Energy Nexus: evalutation of the enviromental impact in the national and international scenarios -- Water scarcity and shale gas prospects in Tunisia – potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on regional water stress -- "Energy performance of Italian urban water systems" -- Analysis of the Economic Net Benefit of Green Infrastructure by Comparing the Water-retentive Block and the Normal Block -- Levering industry and professional qualifications over water efficiency and water-energy nexus in buildings -- WEFSiM: A Model for Water-Energy-Food Nexus Simulation and Optimization -- Assessment of rain harvesting and RES desalination for meeting water needs in an Island in Greece -- Grounding Nexus Governance: de-nexused developments in Nepal -- Maximizing water-food-energy nexus synergies at Basin Scale -- Visualizing CO2 to Account for Emission Obligation in Power Systems -- Selection of key characteristics for crops to deal with climate change through quality function deployment -- Combined electrodialysis and photo-electro-chlorination for energy efficient control of brine water -- Hydrogen production in electro membrane bioreactors -- Use of high-valent metal species produced by the Fenton (-like) reactions in water treatment -- Photocatalytic oxidation of organic compounds by visible light-illuminated g-C3N4-AQ in combination with Fe(III) -- Microalgae-based processes as an energy efficient platform for water reclamation and resource recovery -- "Ozonation in the Framework of Sustainable Future Water Management" -- Pilot study for Spiral wound -pvdf supported UF membranes for brackish water desalination system -- Energy monitoring of a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Salerno, Campania region (Southern Italy) -- Sulfate radicals-based technology as a promising strategy for wastewater management -- Fluoxetine and pirimicarb abatement by ecofriendly electro-Fenton process -- Diversity and performance of sulphate reducing bacteria in acid mine drainage remediation systems -- Sustainable materials for affordable point-of-use water purification -- Self-forming dynamic membrane: a review -- Influence of membrane flux, ultrasonic frequency and recycle ratio in the hybrid process USAMe -- Using Water-Energy nexus as greenhouse gas emissions mitigation tool in wastewater treatment plants -- Corrosion behavior of carbon steel in the presence of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilm in reclaimed water -- Development of Pilot-Scale Photocatalytic Reactor Employing Novel TiO2 Epoxy Grains for Wastewater Treatment -- Evaluation of fungal white-rot strains for assisting in algal harvest in wastewater -- Event scale modelling of experimental green roofs runoff in a Mediterranean environment -- Advanced technologies for satellite monitoring of water resources -- Tannery wastewater treatment after biological pretreatment by using electrochemical oxidation -- Numerical modelling of integrated OMBR-NF hybrid system for simultaneous wastewater reclamation and brine management -- Climate, soil moisture and drainage layer properties impact on green roofs in a Mediterranean environment -- Orthophosphate vs bicarbonate for buffering the acidification in a bromide enhanced ozonation of ammonia nitrogen -- New approach with fluidized bed reactor using low-cost pyrophillite/alumina composite membrane for industrial wastewater treatment -- Impact of seasonality on quorum quenching efficacy and stability for biofouling control in membrane bioreactors -- Surface modification of RO desalination membrane using ZnO nanoparticles of different morphologies to mitigate fouling -- Nutrient removal and biomass production by immobilized Chlorella vulgaris -- Treatment of printed circuit board wastewater containing copper and nickel ions by fluidized-bed homogeneous granulation process -- Investigation of the synthesis and adsorption kinetics of biochar-supported Fe3-xMnxO4 for imidacloprid pesticide removal -- A kinetic study of calcium carbonate granulation through fluidized-bed homogeneous process for removal of calcium-hardness from raw and tap waters -- Destruction of selected pharmaceuticals with peroxydisulfate (Pds): An influence of Pds activation methods -- Non-destructive in-situ fouling monitoring in membrane processes -- Preparation of TiO2/SiO2 ceramic membranes via sol-gel dip coating for the treatment of produced wastewater -- Multicriteria evaluation of novel technologies for organic micropollutants removal in advanced water reclamation schemes for indirect potable reuse -- Environmental or economic considerations in photo-Fenton processes: what choice has the most notable benefits for large scale applications? -- Optimization of energy consumption in activated sludge process using deep learning selective modeling -- Electrochemical sensors for emerging contaminants: diclofenac preconcentration and detection on paper-based electrodes -- Optimization of the wastewater treatment plant: from energy saving to environmental impact mitigation -- Influence of microalgae-bacteria consortium on the pathogens removal (Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli) in domestic wastewater -- Fuzzy-assisted ultrafiltration of wastewater from milk industries -- Performance of Electro-Fenton water treatment technology in decreasing zebrafish embryotoxicity elicited by a mixture of organic contaminants -- "An overview of photocatalytic drinking water treatment" -- Solar Light Initiated Photoinactivation of E.coli: Influence of Natural Organic Matter -- Molecular size distribution profiles of organic matrix in reverse osmosis concentrate under oxidative and non-oxidative conditions -- Solar Photocatalytic Degradation of Humic Acids using Copper Doped TiO2 -- Hyperspectral Monitoring of a Constructed Wetland as a Tertiary Treatment in a Wastewater Treatment Plant for Domestic Sewage -- Applicability of WQI and scientific communication for conservation of River Ganga System in India -- Techno-economic feasibility of membrane bioreactor (MBR) -- Electrochemical wastewater treatment with SnO2-based electrodes: a review -- Statistical analysis of the quality indicators of the Danube River water (in Romania) -- Statistical analysis of the water quality of the major rivers in India -- Methane and hydrogen production from cotton wastes in dark fermentation process under anaerobic and microaerobic conditions -- Microalgae production coupled with simulated black water treatment -- Waterborne diseases in Sebou watershed -- Chances and barriers of wastewater heat recovery from a multidisciplinary perspective -- Mine water in the closure of a coal basin: From waste to potential resources -- Water Pollution by Polyclorinated Biphenyls from the Energy Sector of Armenia -- Semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of orange peel waste: preliminary results -- Nonwoven wet wipes can be hazardous substances in wastewater systems – evidences from a field measurement campaign in Berlin, Germany -- Wastewater to energy: Relating granule size and biogas production of UASB reactors treating municipal wastewater -- CO2 bio-fixation by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using different periodic CO2 dosing strategies -- A suggestion on nutrient removal/recovery from source separated human urine using clinoptilolite combined with anaerobic processing -- Niches for Bioelectrochemical systems in wastewater treatment plants -- Degradation of Gaseous VOCs by Ultrasonication: Effect of Water Recirculation and Ozone Addition -- Optimal Chlorination Station Scheduling in an Operating Water Distribution Network Using GANetXL -- Utilization of microalgae cultivated in municipal wastewater for CO2 fixation from power plant flue gas and lipid production -- Techno-economic Assessment of Combined Heat and Power Units Fueled by Waste Vegetable Oil for Wastewater Treatment Plants: a Real Case Study -- Eco-LCA of Biological Wastewater Treatments Focused on Energy Recovery -- Optimization of nutrient recovery from synthetic swine wastewater using Response Surface Methodology -- Enzymatic pre-treatment of chicken manure for improved biogas yield -- Integration of liquid-liquid membrane contactors and electrodialysis for ammonia recovery from urban wastewaters -- Remediation of water contaminated by Pb(II) using virgin coniferous wood biochar as adsorbent -- A simplified model to simulate a bioaugmented anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass -- Dissolved oxygen perturbations: a new strategy to enhance the removal of organic micropollutants in activated sludge process -- PFOA and PFOS removal processes in activated sludge reactor at laboratory scale -- Selectrodialysis and ion-exchange resins as integration processes for copper and zinc recovery from metallurgical streams containing arsenic -- Microalgae cultivation for pretreatemnt of pharmaceutical wastewater associated with microbial fuel cell and Biomass feed stock production -- Embryotoxicity and molecular alterations of fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in early zebrafish larvae -- Biological Treatment of Municipal Wastewater Using Green Microalgae and Activated Sludge as Combined Culture -- Fouling morphologies on the ion-exchange membranes in reverse electridialysis with effluent from sewage treatment plant -- Co-composting Biosolids and Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste or C.

Description / Table of Contents: Policy transfer as an emerging field of study -- Theoretical approaches to studying policy transfer -- Transport policy transfer in ‘Tiger Cub’ city-regions -- Sustainable urban transport in Southeast Asia: Making it happen.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. A Policy Perspective on Shrinkage -- Chapter3. Rural shrinkage in a Nordic Welfare State -- Chapter4. Policy implications of rural depopulation -- Chapter5. Why do they fail? -- Chapter6. Arguments for a local adaptation policy.