Environmental
Engineering and Management
Edited by Michael Theophanides & Theophile Theophanides
ISBN: 978-960-6672-58-3, 526 pages
First published in 2009 by ATINER
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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List of Contributors
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Global
Climate Change and Hope for the Future Michael Theophanides and Theophile Theophanides |
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Part 1:
Carbon Footprints, Energy and CO2 Emissions |
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Housing
Energy Consumption, Social Behaviour and
Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Holistic Model Karla Alcantar-Sanchez, Keith Tovey and Andrew Lovett |
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3. |
Degradation
of the Carboxylic Dimethyl Phthalate Ester by Sphingomonas Yanoikuyae DOS01 Isolated from Deep-Ocean Sediment
of Ji-Dong Gu and Yu Ping Wang |
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4. |
Decomposing
Change in Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the
Japanese Economy Shinichiro Okushima and Makoto
Tamura |
37 |
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Comparison of Fuel
Consumption and Emissions of an Urban Bus fuelled with Diesel and Biodiesel Muammer Ozkan, Orkun Ozener, Berk Ozoguz and Levent Yuksek |
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Modelling
the Effects on Fuel Costs when Farmers Produce their Own Biodiesel Fuel Muammer Ozkan, Berk Ozoguz and Orkun Ozener |
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Combustion
Characteristics of Biodiesel derived Vegetable Oils Yo-ping Greg Wu and Ya-fen Lin |
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Electricity
Generation Emissions Cost of Sevgihan Yildiz Bircan and Zehra Yumurtaci |
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Investigation of Air Pollutant Short Circuit in High-Rise Naturally
Ventilated Residential Buildings Chun-Ho Liu |
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An
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Solar Collector Gulay Zorer Gedik, Ahmet Koyun and Tamer Yilmaz |
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Evaluation of
Mercury Dispersion from Chlor-alkali Industries in Spain Jose Maria Esbri, Leticia Baselga and Pablo Higueras |
121 |
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Electricity Consumption in the
Greek Hotel Sector: The Influence of Occupancy Ratios
on Carbon Footprints Eva
Maleviti, Yacob Mulugetta and
Walter Wehrmeyer |
129 |
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Environment Research in
Mediterranean Countries: A Bibliometric Analysis,
2002-2006 Ali Uzun |
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Part 2:
Environmental Policy and Management |
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Soil Enzyme Activities and Heavy Metal Concentrations in Soil Amended with Sewage Sludge George F. Antonious, Eric T. Turley and John C. Snyder |
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Integration of Agriculture and Environment
Policies: A Case Study of Emine Olhan and Yener Ataseven |
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Ferulic Acid to Vanillin Bioconversion of
Corn Cob Hydrolyzate by Escherichia
Coli JM109/pBB1 Beatriz
Rivas Torres, Paolo Torre, Patrizia Perego, Jose Manuel Dominguez, and Attilio
Converti |
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Dam
Removal in the Identifying
Barriers to River Restoration Jo Beth Mullens |
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A Zoning Prescriptive Tool based on a Quantitative
Method
Marta Vidal, Adriana Verdiell and María |
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Greening the Government: U.S Green Acquisition
Policies
Irene
M. Xiarchos |
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Relationship between Gunter Haese and Miroslaw Zukowski |
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Ecological Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals
and Personal Care Products in Surface Waters Kelli Bergh, Albert van Roodselaar and Francis C.P. Law |
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Glutaraldehyde
Crosslinked Protein Waste for the Removal of Color from Wastewaters Nishter Nishad Fathima, Rathinam
Aravindhan, Jonnalagadda Raghava Rao and Balachandran Unni
Nair |
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Part 3:
Climate Change |
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Drought and Climate Change on the Marcos Algara-Siller and
Carlos-Contreras Servín |
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The A Case Study of Collaborative Community
Policing James L. Huckabay |
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Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Arsenic
Concentration from Obuasi Goldmines for Environmental Management, Bernard Kumi-Boateng and Alfred A. Duker |
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Communication Channels on Dengue Fever in the
Pacific Marie-Jose Schmidt-Ehrmann |
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Evaluating the Rainfall and Runoff in Northeastern Region of Brazil
using the Shannon‘s Entropy Theory Vicente de Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Pedro Vieira de Azevedo, Adelgicio Farias Belo Filho, Joao Hugo Baracuy da Cunha Campos and Rafaela Silveira Rodrigues Almeida |
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Photosynthetic Characteristics of Desert Plant Hedysarum Scoparium and its indicating Significances on Environment Pei-xi Su, Qiao-di Yan and Song Gao |
357 |
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Part 4:
Bioconversion, Microbial Enzymatic Metabolism and Biodiversity |
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Improved drying Performance using Exhaust Heat Rajka Budin and Alka Mihelic-Bogdanic |
371 |
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Sizing of a PV/H2 Hybrid System to
Supply Peak Loads on an Isolated Electrical Grid? A Case Study in Corsica
Island (France) Christophe Darras, Marc Muselli and Philippe Poggi |
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Alkaline
Hydrolysis of Ferulic Acid and P-coumaric Acid from the Solid Residue
obtained after Prehydrolysis of prunings of Vine Shoots: Effect of Extractant
and pH Belen Max, Ana Maria Torrado, Ana Belen
Moldes, Attilio Converti and Jose Manuel Dominguez |
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Carbon
Microtubes in Blast Furnace Coke Stanislav S. Gornostayev and Jouko J. Härkki |
407 |
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Art
and Environmental Reform Jo Anna Isaak |
413 |
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34. |
Classification
of Some Malaysian Rivers with Special Emphasis on Aquatic Ecological Approach Chee Woon Wang |
423 |
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Use of Saline
Waters in Sodic Soil with Sulfur and Acidithiobacillus Carolina Etienne de Rosália e Silva Santos,
Ana Dolores S. Freitas and Newton Pereira Stamford |
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Effects of PK
Biofertilizer in a Sodic Soil amended with Sulfur with Acidithiobacillus and Gypsum Grown with Cowpea Newton Pereira Stamford, Mateus Rosas
Ribeiro, Karina Patrícia
Vieira da Cunha , Sebastião da Silva Júnior and Carolina Etienne de Rosália e
Silva Santos |
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Trends
in Bacterial Activity Manufactured Soils Maria V.
Kalevitch |
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Biotechnological Process for
Ethanol Conversion from Mesquite (Prosopis Juliflora) Tânia Lúcia Montenegro Stamford, Celiane Gomes Maia da Silva and Newton Pereira
Stamford |
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Nitro-Compounds Contribution on
the Mutagenicity Properties of Pm2.5 Urban Pollution in the Deborah Traversi, Raffaella Degan,
Roberto De Marco, Giorgio Gilli, Cristina Pignata, Simona Villani and Roberto Bono |
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Bioremediation of
Waters polluted by BPA by Means of the Process of Thermodialysis in
Bioreactors employing Immobilized Laccase or Tyrosinase Damiano Gustavo Mita, Nadia Diano, Valentina Grano, Marianna Portaccio,
Sergio Rossi, Umberto Bencivenga, Carla Nicolucci, Mariangela Bianco, Luigi Mita, Paolo Canciglia, Svetla Georgieva and Tzonka
Godjevargova |
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