Environmental Awareness and Management

Edited by Michael Theophanides & Theophile Theophanides

ISBN: 978-960-6672-39-2, 240 Pages, Hardback

First published in 2008 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Preface

i

List of Contributors

iii

1.

Introduction

Michael Theophanides & Theophilos Theophanides

1

Part 1: Environmental Education, Health and Quality of Life

2.

The Power of Environmental Education: Enhancing Environmental Literacy of College Students

Camelia G.-A. Maier

15

3.

Promoting Environmental Interest in Non-Science Major Students

Mark G. Bollone

23

4.

Atmospheric Pollution and Health Effects in some Greek Cities

Michael Theophanides & Joanna Anastassopoulou

29

5.

The Wintertime Air Pollution in Cache Valley, Utah, USA: Causes and Possible Solutions

Esmaiel Malek

37

6.

Rationale for a Concerted Focus on Unused Pharmaceuticals

Ilene S. Ruhoy & Stevan Gressitt

47

7.

The Greening and Blackening of Preferences in Dynamic Models with Pollution by Consumers

Jens Barthel

61

Part 2: Sustainable Treatment of Water and Quality Improvements

8.

The Enrichment for Diesel Fuel-Utilizing Bacteria from Freshwater Lake Sediments

Alexey G. Nikitin, Joshua W. Stickney, Gennadi A. Nikitin & Roderick M. Morgan

85

9.

Potential Estuarine Water Quality Improvement Via Marine Invertebrate Bioremediation

Lisa Draughon, John Scarpa, Patricia Keating & James Hartmann

97

10.

Effect of Solution pH and Kinetics on Removal of Trivalent Chromium by Aniline Formaldehyde Condensate Coated Silica Gel

Potsangbam Albino Kumar, Saswati Chakraborty & Manabendra Ray

113

11.	Structural Changes in Vegetative Aerial Organs from Trifolium Pratense under the Air Pollution Action in Ceahlau National Park (CNP) and its Adjacent Area Irina Neta Gostin	129
12.	Modelling Gas generation from Landfills Chakma Sumedha & Mathur Shashi	137
13.	Sustainable Treatment of Slag from the Iron and Steel Industry in Eastern Europe using Carbon Dioxide Emissions Lucian P. Georgescu, Aurora Antemir, Peter J. Gunning, Colin D. Hills & Paula J. Carey	143
Part 3: Environmenta Strategy and Integrated Management
14.	Integrated Natural Resource Management as a Framework for Multidisciplinary Research in Belize Mary Ann Studer	153
15.	Stakeholders and Environmental Strategy Josefina L. Murillo-Luna, Concepción Garcés-Ayerbe & Pilar Rivera-Torres	165
16.	Exogenous Shocks and Dozy Politicians in Dynamic Models with Pollution by Consumers Jens Barthel	181
17.	Quality of Life as an Indicator of Human Development: An Ecosystem Approach Emine Gonen & Emine Ozmete	197
18.	Probability of Failure, Economics, and Critical Assessment of the European Regulations for Municipal Waste Landfills Evangelos K. Paleologos	211
19.	The Seaweed Tragedy in the Philippines: A Case of how Rural Livelihoods can be Disastrous to the Environment Michael P. Cañares	225