Chapter
3. Classifying the Indicators
Chapter 4: Psychological Aspects of Sustainability
2. Psychological Aspects of Sustainable Behavior
3. Developing and Enhancing Sustainable Behavior
Chapter 5: Business behind Sustainability
2. Challenge of Business Sustainability
3. Sustainability Practices in Several Companies
4. Sustainability Decision Drivers
5. Sustainability and Performance
Chapter 6: Ancient Sustainability Use of ‘the Palmeral of Elche’ and the Current Unsustainabilty: Reasons for a Sustainable Future
1.1. ‘The Palmeral of Elche’
1.2. Ancient Irrigation System
2. Sustainable Uses of the Palmeral Along Centuries
3. Unsustainability and New Uses of ‘the Palmeral’
3.1. New Perspectives and Traditional Uses
Chapter 7: Africa and Sustainable Development
Africa’s Sustainable Development Challenges
Africa’s Sustainable Development Framework
Intangible Issues Concerning the Green Economy and Green Growth
2. Resource Use and Productivity in Africa:
Some Formalized Evidences
Measuring Sustainability: Material Flow Accounting and Analysis,
and Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production
Material Flow Accounting and Analysis
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production
Fossil Fuels Are the Dominant Material Export and Import of Africa
Africa Is a Net Exporter of Non-Renewable Resources and a Net Importer of Renewable Resources
Energy Use in Africa Is Low and Has Been Increasing Much Less Rapidly Than Material Use
Africa Has Contributed the Least to Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
but is the Region Most Affected by Climate Change
Water Use and Sustainability in African Countries
Chapter 8: Reconciling Sustainable Development with Nature Conservation – The Natura 2000 Paradigm
2. Spatial Planning in Natura 2000
3. Conflicts between Nature Conservation and Development – What Drives These Conflicts?
5. Balancing Economic Development and Nature-Biodiversity Conservation
6. Sustainability: What Are the Future Challenges?
Chapter 9: Natural Vegetation As a Key to Sustainability of Agroecosystems
2. Benefits of Natural Vegetation
Chapter 10: Waste Treatment Sustainability
2. Solid Waste Characteristics and Its Impact on Environment
2.1. Characteristics and Generation of Waste
2.2. Environmental Impact
3. Sustainability in Waste Management
3.2. Recycling and Reuse of Wastes
3.3. Disposal of Waste and Treatment
4. Design Sustainability of Waste Treatment Processes
4.1. Modification to Conventional Landfills
4.2. Advanced Combustion Processes
4.2.1. Pyrolysis and Gasification
5. Sustainability in Resource Recovery from Waste
5.1. Leachate and Landfill Gas
5.2. Energy from Combustion
Chapter 11: Energy and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP)
1.2. Economic and Environmental Aspects of Sustainability
2.5. Secondary Processing
2.5.2. System of Anoxic and Anaerobic Conditions
2.5.3. Membrane System (MBRs)
2.5.5. Tertiary Treatment – Disinfection
3.1.1. Measures through Modifications in Energy Management
i) Modification of Electric Motors
ii) Performance Improvement Processes through Automation
iii) Improvement of Energetic Efficiency in WWTPs through Energy Analyses
iv) Covering Tanks to Reduce Energy Needs
Integrated System of MFC and MBR
Staged Anaerobic Fluidized Membrane Bioreactor (SAF-MBR) System
Magnetically Induced Membrane Vibration (MMV) System
viii) Tertiary Treatment – Disinfection
3.1.2. Saving Measures through Operational Changes
a) Electrical Load Management
b) General Operation and Maintenance
3.1.3. Saving Measures through Changes in Lighting, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
i) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning
3.1.4. Energy Recovery Opportunities in WWTP
i) Replacing Primary Sedimentation for Energy Recovery
ii) Satellites Systems for Energy Recovery
i) Hydropower Plant to Generate Electricity
ii) Thermal Energy Recovery
i) Pretreatment of Sludge before Digestion
3.1.5. Use of Photovoltaic Systems
Chapter 12: Sustainable Energy Development: Smart Grid – A Vision for the Future
1. Global Final Energy Consumption Demands Urgent Measures
2. What Sustainable Development Means?
3. The Three Pillars of a Sustainable Development
4. Environment-Economy Interactions
5. Environment-Social Interactions
6. Economic-Social Interactions
7. Connect Generations through a Sustainable Development
8. “We Cannot Face the Challenges of the Future with the Tools of the Past”
Chapter 13: Biogas Utilization through Anaerobic Digestion in Greece: Current Status and Future Perspectives
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
2. Use of Waste Material for Biogas Production
3. Feedstock Availability and Agricultural Structures
4. Purification of Biogas for Insertion in the Natural Gas Grid
Chapter 14: Environmental Assessment of Composting in the Context of Sustainable Waste Management
1.1. The State-of-the-Art
2. An Overview of Composting
2.1. Seeking a Definition
2.2. The Process Evolution
3. The Role of Composting in Waste and Resources Management
3.1.1. Reduction of Waste Volume
3.1.2. Reduction of Methane Emissions
3.1.3. Compost Applications
3.2. The Negative Impacts
Chapter 15: Agricultural Wastes: Protecting Soil Quality by Sustainable Disposal and Reuse in Agriculture
1.2. Characteristics, Uses and Problems of Agricultural Wastes
1.2.1. Cereal Crop Wastes
1.2.2. Olive Mill Waste (OMW)
1.2.5. Horticultural Wastes
1.2.6. Pruning Wastes from Fruit Trees and Vineyards
1.2.7. Wastes of Food Industry
2. Landspreading of Wastes
2.2. Evaluation of Waste Suitability for Landspreading
2.3. Monitoring of the Disposal Areas
2.3.1. Identification of Potential and Current Waste Disposal Areas and Recording them in a GIS Database
2.3.2. Characterization of Disposal Areas-Risk Assessment
2.3.3. Evaluation of Risk Level
2.3.4. Defining the Conditions of Landspreading
ANNEX 1: Critical Levels of Some Main Soil Properties
Chapter 16: Sustainable Supply Chains: Social Practices and Organizational Performance
1School of Technology and Management of Lamego/Polytechnic Institute of Viseu and researcher with the Centre for the Study of Education, Technologies and Health at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
2Industrial Engineering and Management Department of the University of Aveiro and a researcher with the Centre for Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy.
3. Analysis and Discussion of the Results
3.1. Internal Social Practices
3.2. External Social Practices
Chapter 17: Sustainable Agriculture in the Pampas Region, Argentina
2. Principles of Sustainable Agricultural Production
3. The Pampas Region, Argentina
4. Environmental impact of sustainable agriculture
4.1. Soil Organic Carbon and Microbial Activity
4.2. Soil Physical Properties
Chapter 18: Tourism Development through Sustainability
1.2. Tourism As an Investment Process
2. Concept of Sustainability
2.1. Aims for the Sustainability of European Tourism
3. Tourism in the Mediterranean
3.1. The Weight of Tourism in SEMC (Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries) Economies
3.2. Kind of Tourism after the Arab Revolutions
3.3. Sustainable Tourism Development in Developing Countries
3.4. Sustainable Tourism Management for Developing Countries
3.5. (Un)sustainable Tourism Models
3.6. Tourist Destination and Municipalities
3.7. The Integration of the Stakeholders As a Key-Element on the Process of Sustainable Tourism Development
3.8. Actions/Measures towards Sustainable Tourism Development
3.9. Review on Standards and Certification Systems for Sustainable Tourism
Chapter 19: Sustainable urban transport
3. The Meaning of Sustainable Transport
5. Targets for a Sustainable and Competitive Urban Transport
6. Implementing Sustainable Urban Transport
Distributed Travel Information
6.3. Intelligent System Management
Comprehensive Bus System Management
Automated Traffic Enforcement
Breaking the Driving Routine
Development of Local Public Transport
6.5. Reducing Air Pollution
6.6. Reducing the Impact on the Environment and Climate Change
6.7 Making Urban Transport Safer
7. Preparing Transport for the Future – The Case of Europe
Chapter 20: Concrete Sustainability
Department of Civil Engineering, Frederick University,
2. Why is “Green” Concrete Important
3. Recycled Aggregates Effectively Reused in Concrete Mixes
4. Supplementary Cementitious Materials and Special Concretes