The Global NEST Journal is an open access journal that publishes original research articles, short papers and critical reviews on all aspects of Environmental Science and Technology. These comprise, but are not limited to, Pollution Control Technology, Global Environmental Change, Air Quality, Water Quality, Water and Waste Water Treatment, Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Substances and Risk...Read full aims and scope
Environmental Management Approaches and Water Resources in the stessed region of Thriassion, Greece
General
The present attempt has a two prong-emphasis. On the one hand it demarcates the physical, structural, social and economic parameters and the eliciting environmental problems in Thriassion Plain, the main industrial area of metropolitan Athens, Greece. On the other hand it attempts to delineate a...
Sustainable water resources management through the use of GIS technology
General
The increasing water demand, the prolonged drought periods and the human influence in natural resources that put in danger the quantity and quality of water resources, highlight the importance for rational management and exploitation of water resources in terms of sustainable development of an area...
A management framework for the efficient use of surface water resources in Sithonia Peninsula (Greece)
General
The Peninsula of Sithonia is one of many typical regions in Greece in which overexploitation of local aquifers has led to several serious problems related to quantity and quality degradation of groundwater reserves. In this paper, a management plan is presented that aims at the utilization of the so...
Assessing Alternative Water Resources Management Scenarios in Islands of the Aegean Archipelago, Greece
General
This effort discusses and evaluates alternative water management options to alleviate water stress and meet water needs in insular entities of the Aegean Archipelago, within the framework set by the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and of the Water Framework Directive 2000...
Is the integrated water resources management implemented in Jiu river waters in the context of sustainable development? The modelling of the evolution of the concentration of heavy metals
Water and Wastewater Treatment
Once the human technology develops, the study of its influence over the environment, the soil, the water, the flora and the fauna is becoming increasingly important. In communism, due to the lack of integrated management of water resources, the quality of the waters in Romania has constantly...
Water resources management in the watershed of Volvi Lake
General
The decrease of available water resources, the water quality degradation as well as the rapid increase of population combined with the growth of human activities, impose today the development of a science that concerns the Management of Water Resources. Lake Volvi faces a lot of problems, the most...
GFIS (Geographic Forecasting Information System): A Case Study in Water Resources Management
General
The current study presents the development of a Forecasting Information System for geographic data (cross-sectional time-series for different geographic regions). GFIS, Geographic Forecasting Information System, was developed with MS Visual Basic (User Interface), ArcView (GIS) and MS Access (DBMS)...
Comprehensive water management scenarios for strategic planning
General
The assessment of the applicability and suitability of potential measures and instruments is crucial in the strategic planning of water resources management. This paper presents a methodology founded on scenario analysis for assessing potentially applicable water management options in a regional...
Water Resourses in Greece : Present and Future
General
The European Water Framework Directive 2000/60 has established a new legislation for sustainable management of water resources and protection of their relevant eco-systems. The primary objective of the Directive which is the achievement of acceptable water quality through the implementation of...
Scenario-based strategy development for integrated water management
General
This paper presents a step-by-step methodological approach for the development and evaluation of strategies for water deficient regions. The primary focus of the approach followed was the mitigation of water stress, while applying the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management and the EU...
Environmental policies and natural resource management in Southeast Asia - Contemporary Issues
General
Recently, environmental issues have become a priority in the agenda of ASEAN countries due to the serious impacts of environmental degradation. Similar to other countries, ASEAN countries have their own strengths and weaknesses in environmental protection, which depend on their policies and law...
Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Water Resources Management
General
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) plays an important role in the framework of the efforts aiming at the formulation of a complete water resources management. In our paper this issue is examined in an integrated way. The following issues are particularly examined : the notion of the EIA in...
Area-differentiated modeling of water balance in Pinios Basin, central Greece
Water Resources Management
GROWA is a modular grid based empirical hydrological model that is being used to address practical water resources management related issues. It has been successfully applied in typical hydrological and hydrogeological setups of northern European basins ranging typically between meso-scale river...
Hydrodiplomacy in practice: transboundary water management in northern Greece
General
The political dimension of water becomes highly important not only because of its scarcity, but also as a result of its sharing across national boundaries. Approximately 40% of the global population lives in tranboundary water basins, emphasizing the need for cooperation and harmonization of...
Impact of urbanization on climate change and geographical analysis of physical land use land cover variation using RS-GIS.
Hydrology and water resources
This study focuses on the impact of climate change on rainfall-runoff pattern, and to assess the surface runoff and groundwater recharge potential from the intensified rainfall for the effective management of surface and groundwater resources in Tirunelveli city. The rainfall contribution is...
OPTIMIZED AQUIFER MANAGEMENT, USING LINEAR PROGRAMMING.AN APPLICATION TO THE AGIA VARVARA AQUIFER, DRAMA, GREECE
General
The present research analyzes the behavior of Agia Varvara aquifer in Drama, Greece. A comprehensive and complete simulation-management combination model is applied, capable of calculating the water mass balance of the aquifer and defining the optimal management solution. In order to simulate the...
Water resources and groundwater quality in North Peloponnesus (Greece)
General
Groundwater plays an important role for urban and agricultural water supply in northern part of Peloponnesus. Despite increasing environmental awareness in this area, groundwater is a resource that is being stressed. Groundwater provides about 80% the total quantity of water supply. Distribution of...
Investigation of Zero Waste Management Behavior in Turkey
Solid Waste Management
Population growth, industrialization and technological advances have significantly increased waste production, waste collection, transportation and disposal induced significant costs. Waste could be considered a resource that allows nations to reduce the consumption of primary raw materials, protect...
Integrated management of karstic waters – A case study of the Zlatibor mountain massif, Serbia
Water Resources Management
The Zlatibor mountain massif has significantly changed for the past 20 years due to the development of tourism, which has resulted in an increase in water consumption and environmental threats. This area abounds in considerable surface and groundwater resources, which are not utilised adequately...
Investigating public awareness towards wastewater management in a small community
Water and Wastewater Treatment
A critical element for the successful management of wastewater is the active participation of residents in all stages of treatment in order to ensure public acceptance. The primary purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the specific views and attitudes of the inhabitants of Leros Island...
Adopting a participatory approach to community forests management in rural Nigeria
Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management
The study examined the willingness of rural households to pay for sustainable management of community forests in Southwest Nigeria. The value elicitation format used was the dichotomous choice contingent valuation technique. The multistage random sampling technique was used in selecting 180 rural...
Waste management in urban environments: Insights of the citizens’ views in a densely populated municipality in Greece
Solid Waste Management
Urbanization, industrialization and economic growth have considerable challenged the orientation of waste management policies and practices. Intrinsically, major concerns appear in urban environments, as they receive increased volumes of waste, which in turn pose threats for the environment and...
Municipal solid waste management and landfill site selection in Greece: irrationality versus efficiency
General
Municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal is a major problem of urban environment in the world today. MSW management solutions have to be technologically feasible, legally and socially acceptable and environmentally and financially sustainable. European policy is pushing to a rational...
Water quality: its practical implications to sustainable development in the Pearl River Delta, China
General
This paper reviews the interactions between water supply, surface water quality, environmental management and sustainable development in the Pearl River Delta. As an economic center of the Pearl River Delta, Hong Kong has to import about 80 % of its potable water from Dongjiang. Ironically, the...
The potential for transboundary cooperation towards the conservation of the avifauna in the mountain region Tzena/Kozhuf
General
When it comes to shared natural resources between two countries it is essential to mitigate differences in the management which underpin threats to the conservation of those resources by putting the way forward for coordination of the management of the area as a whole. Shared natural resources are...
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Water and wastewater
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Innovative environmental solutions
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Elimination of malachite green by modified Fenton like process. Application of Box Behnken design
Advanced Oxidation Processes...
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An Automatic Data-Driven Long-term Rainfall Prediction using Humboldt Squid Optimized Convolutional Residual Attentive Gated Circulation Model in India
Climate change mitigation...
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Efficient Biomedical Waste Management: Optimizing Segmentation and Classification with EnU-Net-DNN-BMWC
Solid Waste Management
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Nitrate source analysis of underground drinking water sources in Zhangjiakou main urban area and its health risk assessment
Water Quality
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Groundwater quality assessment for drinking and irrigation purposes in arid to semiarid region of Indus Basin of South Punjab, Pakistan
Water Quality
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Effective removal of Calcium and Magnesium Ions from boiler feed Water using Polyacrylonitrile supported titanium tungstovanadate composite ion exchange nanofiber
Water and Wastewater...
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Optimization of the Freeze Crystallization Process for Recovering of Copper (II) Sulphate from Electroplating Wastewater Using Response Surface Methodology (RSM)
Water and Wastewater...
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Air Pollution and Urban Economic Growth: A Study Based on Dynamic Models
Environmental Management and...
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Review of Remote Sensing, GIS and Soft Computing Tool for Predicting the Land-use and Environment Changes
Innovative environmental solutions
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Integrated Early Flood Prediction using Sentinel-2 Imagery with VANET-MARL-based Deep Neural RNN
Floods, Droughts and...
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Phytochemical characterization and valorization of Quercus ilex (west of Algeria)
General
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Optimizing Object Detection in Bio-Waste Management with Improved Hyperbolic Tangent YOLOv5 and Binarization-Adapted K-Means Algorithm
Biowaste
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Spatial-temporal variations and Attribution analysis of SO2 concentration in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions from 2013 to 2022
Air Quality
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Optimization of Lipid Production from Paddy Straw Using Dilute Acid Pretreatment and Fermentation by Rhodosporidium Toruloides
General
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Natural Self-Purification of Creek Ecosystems: The Role of Foam Formation in Pollutant Absorption and Microbial Decomposition
Water and Wastewater...
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Comparative Sensitivity Analysis of GA, PSO, and PSO-GA Algorithms for Carbon Environment Development and Sustainability
Climate change mitigation...
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