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CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.
Cırcular Economy And Lıfe Cycle Assessment For Wıne Sector
(Corresponding) Matarazzo A., Villari E., Spadaro G., Vazzano A., Zerbo A.
Topic:
Life cycle analysis (lca)
Wine production contributes to a variety of environmental loads, mainly due to the use of fertilizers and pesticides in the vineyard and to the production of glass bottles. Sicily, in particular, holds the record for the major production of wine in the South of Italy, favored by pedoclimatic...Read more
Keywords:
Environmental sustainability, LCA, Risk reduction, Green economy, Wine sector
Bioelectronics and Green Electronics for a clean Environment
(Corresponding) Ravariu C., Topor A., Mihaiescu D., Manea E.
Topic:
Electric and electronic waste
Some directions of environmental tasks for Romania in collaboration with foreign partners for next decade are: (i) electric and electronic wastes recycling using sustainable future networks suppliers-materials conversion-production, in a chain of countries; (ii) strategies at group of countries...Read more
Keywords:
Environmental biosensors; Green organic semiconductors; Planet care
Developing a framework for local climate change adaptation plan (LCCAP): The case of Mandra-Attiki, Greece
(Corresponding) LEKA A., CHARCHOUSI D., Papadopoulou M.
Topic:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation
The present work deals with the development of a preliminary climate change (CC) adaptation action plan at local level. The area of interest area is the greater area of Mandra Municipality, Attica, Greece; a suburban area that in November of 2017 had experienced a major flood incident with human...Read more
Keywords:
City resilience, natural and man-made environmental variables, policy implementation, adaptive capacity
Canada’s New Substances Notification Regulations
Under the New Substances Program, Health Canada (HC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) administer the New Substances Notification Regulations (Chemicals and Polymers) and New Substances Notification Regulations (Organisms) (NSNR) of...Read more
Keywords:
new substances, environmental risk assessment, human health risk assessment, risk management measures, New Substances Notification Regulations
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE USE OF URINE BASED FERTILIZERS: A COMPERATIVE SURVEY WITH FARMERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS
OZKAN E., (Corresponding) AKDAG Y., BELER-BAYKAL B.
Topic:
New solutions for a better and sustainable agriculture
Source separated human urine, a highly concentrated solution of nutrients, may be recycled directly or indirectly for further use as fertilizer. While environmental engineers (EnvE) recommend and set the fundamentals of this practice for valorizing a wastewater stream, farmers are the immediate...Read more
Keywords:
source separated human urine, fertilizer, nutrient recovery/recycling, acceptance of farmers and environmental engineers as occupational groups, Ecological Sanitation (ECOSAN)
Development of a tool for calculating ship air emissions
(Corresponding) Ventikos N., Kalogeropoulos I., Louzis K., (Corresponding) Stamatopoulou E.
Topic:
Environmental impact of maritime transport
This paper describes the development of a ship air emissions calculator, which will be part of the ECOMARPOL platform of the Intelligent Research Infrastructure for Shipping, Supply Chain, Transport and Logistics (EN.I.R.I.S.S.T.). The tool developed with the Python programming language and is...Read more
Keywords:
Ship air emissions; Bottom-up method; Emissions calculator; Sensitivity analysis; Environmental impact of shipping
Dual Discounting for the Environmental Decision-Making
(Corresponding) Maselli G., Nesticò A.
Topic:
Environmental data analysis and modelling
Nowadays, making sustainable decisions is one of the main priorities of government policies. Therefore, it is increasingly urgent to define investment decision support tools that ensure a long-term balance between environmental integrity, intergenerational equality, and economic efficiency. This...Read more
Keywords:
Environmental Decision-Making, Economic evaluation of Projects, Social Discounting.
A topographical approach to survey environmental adaptation assessment on a mountain trail as a pathway to local prosperity
Moutsopoulos D., (Corresponding) Stergiadou A., Psilovikos T.
Topic:
Spatial environmental planning
Mountainous trails represent unique ways into the wild nature. No matter the difficulties or the hours of reaching the end point of a mountain trail; the joy of hiking to desirable and adventurous places makes the hikers the happiest persons. The need of a topographical approach to survey...Read more
Rapidly growing cities and critical environmental issues: An evaluation model to support policy-making
(Corresponding) Nesticò A., Somma P., Maselli G., Naddeo V.
Topic:
Spatial environmental planning
The use of multi-criteria analysis methods as a decision support tool plays a crucial role in defining spatial policies oriented towards environmental quality enhancement, social and cultural development, and economic feasibility. In order to support sustainable city governance processes, purpose...Read more
The research present a novel dynamic and embedded multi criteria methodology for the environmental monitoring and control of large-scale civil engineering works subjected to environmental impact assessment procedure. The principal phases are discussed and highlighted, along with the identification...Read more
Keywords:
environmental monitoring, port, mitigation actions, civil works, real-time data
