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The increased exploitation of renewable energy sources is central to any move towards sustainable development. However, casting renewable energy thus carries with it an inherent commitment to other basic tenets of sustainability, openness, democraticisations, etc. Due to increasing fossil fuel prices, the research in renewable energy technologies (RETs) utilisation has picked up a considerable momentum in the world. The present day energy arises has therefore resulted in the search for alternative energy resources in order to cope with the drastically changing energy picture of the world. The environmental sustainability of the current global energy systems is under serious question. A major transition away from fossil fuels to one based on energy efficiency and renewable energy is required. Alternatively energy sources can potentially help fulfill the acute energy demand and sustain economic growth in many regions of the world. The mitigation strategy of the country should be based primarily ongoing governmental programmes, which have originally been launched for other purposes, but may contribute to a relevant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (energy-saving and afforestation programmes). Throughout the study several issues relating to renewable energies, environment and sustainable development are examined from both current and future perspectives. The exploitation of the energetic potential (solar and wind) for the production of electricity proves to be an adequate solution in isolated regions where the extension of the grid network would be a financial constraint.

Section 1. Introduction to preventive waste management -- section 2. Engineering and science fundamentals -- section 3. Engineering principles -- section 4. Pollution prevention principles -- section 5. Industrial applications -- section 6. Domestic and institutional applications -- section 7. Case studies -- section 8. Pollution prevention resources.

Doğa turizmi içinde önemli bir yer tutan rafting turizmi, ülkemizde de rağbet gören bir etkinliktir. Köprüçay Rafting Merkezi, Antalya Köprülü Kanyon Milli Parkı içinde yer alıp ülkemizin en önemli doğa turizm destinasyon alanlarından biridir. Alana yoğun talep ve kullanım nedeniyle başta doğal ve kültürel kaynak değerleri tahrip olmakla birlikte, çevresel, sosyal, ekonomik, politik, mekânsal ve yönetsel boyutta çeşitli sorunlar da yaşanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada mevcut sorunların tespiti ve bütüncül çözüm önerilerin getirilmesi hedeflenmiştir. Bu çalışmada ilgili paydaşlara (n=600) yapılan anket çalışmaları ile kavramsal algı, talepler ve eğilimler belirlenmiştir. GZFT analizi ile içsel ve dışsal faktörler ve öncelikler tespit edilmiştir. Elde edilen verilerlealana özgü bütüncül ve sürdürülebilir stratejik eylem programları ile somut çözümler öngörülmüştür. Ayrıca alana özgü mekânsal gelişim plan konsepti önerilmiştir. Elde edilen tüm çıktılar yöneticilere, uygulayıcılara ve ilgili paydaşlara kılavuz görevi üstlenebilecektir. ; The rafting tourism which is extreme desired in our country is an an important activity in the nature tourism activities. Köprüçay Rafting Center is one of the most important eco-tourism destination in the area of our country took place in Antalya Köprülü Canyon National Park. Due to extreme demand and uses in Köprüçay Rafting Center, there are variety problems about environmental, social, economic, political, the spatial, administrative dimensions. Aim of this study identify existing problems and suggest integrated solutions. In this study, the conceptual perceptions, demands and trends of the relevant stakeholders (n = 600) were determined by questionnaire. Internal and external factors and priorities are determined by SWOT analysis. According to the data obtained, the holistic and sustainable strategic action programs and solutions were suggested for this area. In addition, spatial development concept plan for areas has been proposed. All obtained outputs will be guide for managers, practitioners and all stakeholders.

This paper describes some of the challenges of sustainability, and shows how they are manifested in coastal environments. It reviews the problems facing Venice and its lagoon, as a particularly interesting and complex example, and describes the technological, environmental, and scientific actions taken to address the problems of sustainability. Specifically, the actions and interdisciplinary research supporting management of the Venice lagoon environment are discussed, with a particular focus on the sediment. Conclusions are drawn regarding the integration of science, technology, and the environment, including the interactions of industry, the international scientific community, and governments.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how industrial ecology can facilitate the achievement of sustainable development through its incorporation into an engineering curriculum.Design/methodology/approachA model has been developed for assessing sustainability learning outcomes due to the incorporation of the concept of industrial ecology into undergraduate and postgraduate engineering programs. This model assesses how the Engineering Faculty at Curtin University has included a core engineering unit (Engineering for Sustainable Development) and four postgraduate units (Cleaner Production Tools, Eco‐efficiency, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Technology) in its undergraduate and postgraduate engineering program, to enable modern engineering education to reflect the benefits of industrial ecology in the implementation of sustainable engineering solutions and decision‐making processes. Using this model, this paper demonstrates how the syllabus, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary assignment tasks, lectures and tutorials have been developed since 2006 in order to develop the concept of industrial ecology in undergraduate and postgraduate engineering education. The paper has also analysed the different teaching methods that have been applied since 2006 to generate increased student satisfaction in these new and challenging subjects.FindingsThe university environment can temper the potential outcomes from increasing the sustainability content in engineering education, given the general lack of student maturity in understanding the value of sustainability objectives together with course limitations on sustainability content and the arduous and lengthy processes involved in changing course curricula.Research limitations/implicationsSince the Engineering for Sustainable Development unit has been introduced only recently, it was beyond the scope of the research to interview graduate engineers who completed this unit to investigate how they have applied the concept of industrial ecology to achieve sustainability outcomes in their workplaces.Originality/valueThis research is distinct in that it investigated the implications of the incorporation of industrial ecology into the engineering curriculum.

Acronyms. 1. The Paradox of the Rising Demand for Both a Better Environment and More Reliable Services. 2. The Paradox Introduced: Concepts and Cases. 3. Adaptive Management in a High Reliability Context: Hard Problems, Partial Responses. 4. Recasting the Paradox through a Framework of Ecosystem Management Regimes. 5. Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: Partial Responses as an Emerging Management Regime. 6. Ecosystems in Zones of Conflict: The Case for Bandwidth Management. 7. The Paradox Resolved: A Different Case Study and the Argument Summarized. Appendix: Modeling in the CALFED Program. Notes

Construction industry, as one of the main contributor in depletion of natural resources, influences climate change. This paper discusses incremental and evolutionary development of the proposed models for optimization of a life-cycle analysis to explicit strategy for evaluation systems. The main categories are virtually irresistible for introducing uncertainties, uptake composite structure model (CSM) as environmental management systems (EMSs) in a practice science of evaluation small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The model simplified complex systems to reflect nature systems' input, output and outcomes mode influence "framework measures" and give a maximum likelihood estimation of how elements are simulated over the composite structure. The traditional knowledge of modeling is based on physical dynamic and static patterns regarding parameters influence environment. It unified methods to demonstrate how construction systems ecology interrelated from management prospective in procedure reflects the effect of the effects of engineering systems to ecology as ultimately unified technologies in extensive range beyond constructions impact so as, - energy systems. Sustainability broadens socioeconomic parameters to practice science that meets recovery performance, engineering reflects the generic control of protective systems. When the environmental model employed properly, management decision process in governments or corporations could address policy for accomplishment strategic plans precisely. The management and engineering limitation focuses on autocatalytic control as a close cellular system to naturally balance anthropogenic insertions or aggregation structure systems to pound equilibrium as steady stable conditions. Thereby, construction systems ecology incorporates engineering and management scheme, as a midpoint stage between biotic and abiotic components to predict constructions impact. The later outcomes' theory of environmental obligation suggests either a procedures of method or technique that is ...

Describes how first‐year civil engineering students interpreted the content and structure of an ecology course. Students' learning processes were analysed from an intentional perspective, i.e. a perspective that takes into account the students' educational aims and conceptions of the study situation. Interviews were carried out with six civil engineering students who had taken the ecology course. Classroom observations were carried out and the dialogue between the lecturers and the students recorded. Interviews were transcribed and analysed from an intentional perspective, i.e. meaning is ascribed to the students' actions and utterances in terms of intent. Students contextualised the content of the ecology course in different ways – within natural science, cultural, social and political, applied and professional, and existential contexts. Students found the content of the ecology course to be a question of value judgement. Also, among the students there were feelings of accusation on behalf of engineers as professionals. Learning processes among the students were analysed in terms of contextual awareness and contextual inconsistency. Students mainly enhanced their knowledge in the sense that they tended to elaborate concepts solely on an empirical level and learned more facts. Suggests that environmental issues can be seen and dealt with from natural science, social science and philosophical perspectives, and that it is important that these different perspectives are explicitly addressed on a meta‐level. The tendency to enhance the amount of content matter to be taught without considering the meta‐level issues can cause the students problems in their efforts to learn. Suggested that the premises for teaching certain content should be made explicit by the teacher. To know why certain content has been included in the teaching may be of considerable help for the students in formulating relevant learning projects.

Reservoirs for Wastewater Storage and Reuse is a compendium of available information on this emergent technology, from the role that wastewater reservoirs can play within general water resources management and wastewater reuse policy, to the design and operation of the units, including removal efficiencies for different pollutants. Furthermore, a detailed description of the ecological structure and function of the ecosystem of reservoirs is given. This book summarizes more than 20 years of research and development in Israel where more than 200 of these reservoirs are in operation. It includes both theoretical developments and practical experience gained by designers, operators and farmers. Potential geographic areas for the use of these reservoirs are the whole Mediterranean region, the Pacific coasts of both South and North America, the Atlantic coasts of Africa, the Middle East, and other regions suffering water shortage