Sustainable Development and Environmental Management: Experiences and Case Studies

✍ Scribed by Corrado Clini, Ignazio Musu, Maria Lodovica Gullino (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 470
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the new EU approach to environmental management and its attempt to place it in the perspective of sustainable development. China and other large and fast growing economies are putting increasing pressures on global environment, but they are also looking at the European experience with great interest. To critically present this experience can help those countries avoid the mistakes made by developed countries in dealing with the relation between economic growth and environmental protection, and to improve the institutions and tools for better environmental governance.

The variety of issues covered and the wide approach used in this book make it a useful tool for readers who want to place themselves in this perspective, although starting from different backgrounds and levels of knowledge of environmental and sustainability sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Integrated Environmental Policy in the European Union....Pages 3-15
The Role of Legal Principles for Environmental Management....Pages 17-31
Valuation of Sustainable Development Policies: Social Multi-criteria Evaluation....Pages 33-46
The Groundwater Challenge....Pages 49-64
Water Services and Water Policy in Italy....Pages 65-80
Water Quality Control....Pages 83-97
New Approaches to Wastewater Treatment Plants in Italy....Pages 99-111
Integrated Policy Approach to Water Supply Management: A Venetian Project....Pages 113-122
Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas....Pages 125-139
Sustainable Mobility: Mitigation of Traffic Originated Pollution....Pages 141-156
Integrated Waste Management. Technologies and Environmental Control....Pages 159-170
Economic Analysis of Waste Management Systems in Europe....Pages 171-186
Hospital Waste Management....Pages 187-192
Solar Energy....Pages 195-206
Geothermal Energy....Pages 207-219
Renewable Energy from Biomass: Solid Biofuels and Bioenergy Technologies....Pages 221-235
Wind Energy....Pages 237-248
Power Electronics in Distributed Power....Pages 249-261
Energy Optimization of a Building-plant System....Pages 265-278
The Sino-Italian Environment & Energy Building (SIEEB): A Model for a New Generation of Sustainable Buildings....Pages 279-284
New Policy Schemes to Promote End-use Energy Efficiency in the European Union....Pages 287-300
Subsidies and Market Mechanisms in Energy Policy....Pages 301-315
CDM – A Policy to Foster Sustainable Development?....Pages 317-331
Industrial Ecology in a Developing Context....Pages 335-349
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): Integration and Synergy with EMAS Management Systems on the Territory....Pages 351-361
General Aspects of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)....Pages 365-380
A New Perspective for the Future: Environmental Protection and Sustainability in Urban Planning....Pages 381-396
Brownfields Remediation and Reuse: An Opportunity for Urban Sustainable Development....Pages 397-411
Ecological Agriculture: Human and Social Context....Pages 415-429
Sustainable Agriculture in the Frame of Sustainable Development: Cooperation between China and Italy....Pages 431-449
Economics and Policy of Biodiversity Loss....Pages 451-466
Forestry and Rural Development: Global Trends and Applications to the Sino-Italian Context....Pages 467-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-487

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Environment, general; Agriculture; Economic Policy; R & D/Technology Policy; Environmental Economics