Sustainability through Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Risk Assessment
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 27272
Special Issue Editors
Interests: waste management; environmental metallurgy; environmental monitoring and risk assessment; life cycle analysis; soil and groundwater decontamination; geochemical/thermodynamic modelling; environmental economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, environmental monitoring, modelling and risk assessment are established as valuable tools to identify the sources, define the extent of adverse effects and risks to ecosystems as well as support the national policy system and decision making on issues related to soil, air and water resources contamination, quality, management and conservation. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes papers highlighting innovative or improved environmental monitoring approaches, models and risk assessment tools that either are applied or are currently under research and development to advancing the field of sustainable assessment across different land uses i.e. urban, industrial and agricultural. Special attention is given (but not limited to) on the assessment of anthropogenic impact on soil, air ground- and surface water quality including also societal and economic impacts, assessment of associated risks due to solid waste management practices, evaluation of the long-term effectiveness of eco-friendly practices and conservation programmes adopted for the protection of soil, air and water quality at national, regional or local scale, linking risk assessment to policy making and implementation as well as all other issues that bridge the topics of environmental monitoring, modelling, risk assessment and sustainability. Case studies, conceptual frameworks, as well as application of integrated modelling approaches, including multi-criteria decision analysis, life cycle analysis, hydro(geo)logical, geochemical and GIS modelling are also welcome.
Dr. Georgios Bartzas
Prof. Kostas A. Komnitsas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental monitoring and modelling
- soil and groundwater risk assessment
- integrated environmental risk assessment
- multi-criteria decision analysis
- life cycle analysis
- hydro(geo)logical and geochemical modelling
- GIS environment
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