Environments  

Marc-André Lecours, Emmanuel Eysseric, Viviane Yargeau, Jean Lessard, Gessie M. Brisard and Pedro A. Segura

The study of the fate of emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), especially the identification of transformation products, after water treatment or in the aquatic environment, is a topic of growing interest. In recent years, electrochemistry coupled to mass... see more

Simona Jursová, Dorota Burchart-Korol, Pavlína Pustejovská, Jerzy Korol and Agata Blaut

The paper deals with the computational life cycle assessment (LCA) model of electricity generation in the Czech Republic. The goal of the paper was to determine the environmental assessment of electricity generation. Taking into account the trend of elect... see more

Ludmila Naumova, Nikolay Gorlenko and Irina Kurzina

This paper presents the results of a study of the photocatalytic activity of iron-containing composites based on natural peat and zeolite under external influences: Ultraviolet irradiation (UVI) and UVI + H2O2. It is shown that the optimal method for the ... see more

Adégnandjou Mahouna Roland Fadina and Dominique Barjolle

Climate change is a global phenomenon. Its impact on agricultural activities in developing countries has increased dramatically. Understanding how farmers perceive climate change and how they adapt to it is very important to the implementation of adequate... see more

Andrea Muñoz Ardila, Angela Rebscher and Jochen Hack

Nicaragua is preparing the construction of an interoceanic canal that will be the longest and largest canal on Earth. An environmental and social impact assessment was published in 2014 supporting a general viability of the canal. Nonetheless, several sci... see more

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Martina Zelenáková, Rastislav Fijko, Daniel Constantin Diaconu and Iveta Remenáková

Currently an international topic—not only among the members of the European Union—is the use of renewable energy, such as hydro power. The subject of this paper is the environmental impact assessment of the small hydropower (SHP) plant. The paper identifi... see more

Marek Kovác and Alena Sicáková

Pervious concrete is considered to be an advanced pavement material in terms of the environmental benefits arising from its basic feature—high water-permeability. This paper presents the results of experimental work that is aimed at testing technically im... see more

Martin Pipíška, Martin Valica, Denisa Partelová, Miroslav Horník, Juraj Lesný and Stanislav Hostin

In this work the biosorption of cationic dyes thioflavin T (TT) and methylene blue (MB) from single and binary solutions on dried biomass of freshwater moss Vesicularia dubyana as a function of contact time, pH, and biomass or sorbate concentration has be... see more

Magdalena Penkala, Pawel Ogrodnik and Wioletta Rogula-Kozlowska

Along with house heating and industry, emissions from road traffic (exhaust and tire, brake, car body or road surface abrasions) are one of the primary sources of particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere in urban areas. Though numerous regulations and ve... see more

Sajjad Rostami, Jianxun He and Quazi K. Hassan

Surface waters are prone to the influences from both natural condition and anthropogenic activities. The aim of this paper was to study the impacts of one natural variable, precipitation, and its change posed by a changing climate on water quality of thre... see more

Kazuhiko W. Nakamura, Ryuichi Watanabe, Akio Fujiwara, Kaoru Saito, Hill Hiroki Kobayashi and Kaoru Sezaki

For environmental education about climate change issues, selecting events that are already encountered by people as teaching materials is considered effective. Consideration of changes in leafing dates over time provides a useful tool, in particular when ... see more

Natalia Junakova, Magdalena Balintova, Roman Vodicka and Jozef Junak

Soil erosion, as a significant contributor to nonpoint-source pollution, is ranked top of sediment sources, pollutants attached to sediment, and pollutants in the solution in surface water. This paper is focused on the design of mathematical model intende... see more

Carolina Cantergiani and Montserrat Gómez Delgado

Agent-based models have recently been proposed as potential tools to support urban planning due to their capacity to simulate complex behaviors. The complexity of the urban development process arises from strong interactions between various components dri... see more

Wen-Tien Tsai

The objective of this paper was to offer a preliminary overview of Taiwan’s success in green building material (GBM) efforts through legal systems and promotion measures, which are relevant to the contribution to indoor air quality (IAQ) due to sustainabi... see more

Jordan Hristov

Using a mixed input–output model, this study examines potential changes in sector output and water requirements in Macedonia arising from climate change. By defining three climate change scenarios and exogenously specifying the warming shocks for five key... see more

Okhumode H. Yakubu

Residents of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, and its environs have since the last quarter of 2016 been experiencing adverse environmental impacts of particle (soot) pollution. This “double air pollution burden”—the unresolved prevailing widespread... see more

Luca Cassina, Luca Fredianelli, Irene Menichini, Claudia Chiari and Gaetano Licitra

During a survey related to acoustic and visual perception of users of urban areas, 614 people have been interviewed in Pisa (Italy). The work aims to identify and quantify the effects of parameters influencing the perception of tranquillity in order to un... see more