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 Analysis, Emerging pollutants. Relevant topics incorporating the methodologies and state of the art of disciplines such as Environmental Management Policies, Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management, Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Clean Energy and Sustainability are included.
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European procedures to river quality assessment
General
The EU directive (2000/60/EC) known as the Water Framework Directive (WFD), identifies new methodology for monitoring and improving of surface water quality in the territory. This includes controlling land-based pollutants as well as defining the constraints for territorial planning. It is...
An environmental database for the status of freshwater in Greece
General
An environmental database has been created, recording water bodies at a national level and assembling relevant data collected by various public services and institutions in charge of water resources management and research in Greece. Data consists of physico-chemical parameters, geomorphological...
Consumers’ Eco-product Purchase Decision-Making Behavior from the Perspective of Ecological Awareness
CLEANWAS
In this study, an ecological awareness rating scale and an eco-product purchase decision-making rating scale were developed based on literature and interviews with experts. The ecological awareness variables were subdivided into three aspects: ecological knowledge, ecological emotion, and ecological...
Study on the coupled and coordinated development of tourism, urbanization and ecological environment in Shanxi Province
Air pollution and health
This paper selects Shanxi Province as the study area and constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system of tourism, urbanization and ecological environment in Shanxi Province. Measurement methods such as polar deviation standardization, entropy value method and coupling coordination degree are...
Some important ecological aspects of the Directive 2000/60
General
The Water Framework Directive 2000/60 is a characteristic example of modern European environmental policy, based upon advanced environmental principles. Is reflects a gradual convergence between actual European political consensus on environmental matters and positions of the green movements. Most...
A Method for Optimizing the Allocation of Sea Resources Based on Ecological Environment Protection
CLEANWAS
With the increasing demand for marine resources, the marine ecological environment system is gradually destroyed. The traditional allocation of marine resources has been unable to meet the global resource search, resulting in poor distribution uniformity of marine resources and high packet loss rate...
Optimal Allocation Model of Plant Community in Slope Ecological Restoration
CLEANWAS
In order to effectively analyze the optimal allocation mode of plant community in the process of slope ecological restoration, 15 plants were selected and 10 plant community combinations were designed. The experiment lasted for 90 days, and the optimal allocation model of plant community was...
Eco-water diversion project is not a simply measure to improve the ecological environment
Climate change
The Heihe River is the second longest inland river in China, which is one of the most important inland river basins in the northwest area. The effect of drought on ecological environment can be exacerbated by climate change. Eco-water diversion project was implemented since 2000 to solve the...
Watershed management with special emphasis on fresh water wetland: a case study of a flood plain wetland in west Bengal, India
General
The last few decades we have witnessed an enormous rise in awareness of the importance of wetlands. Mathura beel1 has been assumed to take the attention in recent years because of its ecological significance in terms of flood control, water purification, aquatic productivity, and microclimatic...
The Influence of Ecological Environment Protection Mechanism on the Economic Development and Management Mechanism of Rural Enterprises
Environmental management and policy
The purpose is to analyze the economic development and management mechanism of rural enterprises, and explore the role of ecological environment protection mechanism in the economic development of rural enterprises. First, the related theories are analyzed and expounded; then, the participants of...
Ecological Remote Sensing Image Monitoring Method for Vegetation Destruction in Waterfront Greenway Based on Genetic Algorithm
CLEANWAS
Because the traditional remote sensing image monitoring method has the problem of poor ability of capturing vegetation destruction, an ecological remote sensing image method for vegetation destruction in waterfront greenway based on genetic algorithm is proposed. The vegetation index data of...
Recent advances in Ecological Aspect For prediction model based on ECG beat classification using neural network
Environmental management and policy
The ecological aspects such as environmental factors, socio-economic constraints, and demographic parameters are one of the key aspects of examining the health benefits of human subjects and are used as a ready reference in ecosystem modeling. Ecosystems are growing at an extraordinary speed around...
NICHE EVALUATION AND EVOLUTION PATH SELECTION OF FORESTRY ENTERPRISES IN NORTHEAST STATE-OWNED FOREST REGION
CLEANWAS
On the Basis of Relevant Theory and Literature Research, analyze the development of forestry enterprises in northeast China, and establish the evaluation index system of the ecological situation of forestry enterprises in northeast China. Based on the composite weights of objective and subjective...
Hydrochemical and Ecological Quality Assessment of a Mediterranean River System
General
In order to explore the complex interrelations among the factors and processes that determine a rivers’ hydrochemical and biological quality, statistical techniques were applied to a variety of hydrochemical, petrologic, biological, habitat, hydrological and morphologic data from 16 sites of the...
Temporal and spatial scales of lake processes. Part 2: interaction of physical and ecological scales and application of scaling concepts to greek lakes
General
The temporal and spatial scaling concepts related to basic physical and ecological lake processes and the associated non-dimensional parameters that govern the various flow regimes, developed in lakes and reviewed in Part 1 of our companion paper (Papadimitrakis, 2011), are applied to lakes Pamvotis...
Heavy metals risk assessment in water and bottom sediments of ICOLLs in Northern Poland
CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment
Natural diversity of intermittently closed and open lakes and lagoons (ICOLLs) depends on mutual interactions of several factors: (i) an impact of sea water and land background; (ii) temporary meteorological situation; (iii) hydrological conditions; and (iv) the shape of lake basin. However, some...
Green GDP Measurement of Shenyang City Based on Energy Value Analysis
CLEANWAS
The resource environment loss has been evaluated using energy value and monetary value adopting complex ecological system analysis framework, Odum’s eco-econo mic system energy theory, and energy value analysis. The total amount of green ecological economy of Shenyang city from 2007 to 2016 was...
A review of using deep learning from an ecology perspective to address climate change and air pollution
Environmental management and policy
Artificial intelligence techniques that can shatter pattern recognition accuracy records, has recently attracted a lot of attention. With its flexibility and capacity to handle massive and complicated datasets, deep learning has transformed numerous academic domains, including bioinformatics and...
Secovlje Salina Nature Park, Slovenia – new business model for preservation of wetlands at risk
General
Ecological management plan and its implementation for particular wetland are highly dependent on securing effective management tools, including management according to the management plan. The implementation of such a plan requires adequate resources, both in terms of human and financial support...
A new method of nowcasting wildfires and impacts: a case study for the USA
Environmental management and policy
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the intensity and frequency of wildfires worldwide mainly due to the escalating climate crisis and land-use change. Wildfires result in a decline in air quality and cause damage to property, crops, resources, wildlife, and human lives. Since...
Temporal and spatial scales of lake processes. Part 1: physical and ecological scales, non-dimensional parameters and flow regimes
General
Scaling concepts, related to basic physical transport and mixing processes and other ecological aspects in lakes, are reviewed in an ecohydrodynamic perspective; the length and time scales as well as the non-dimensional parameters governing the various flow regimes and relevant to these processes...
The Ninth International Symposium on Salt and the Ecological Importance of Solar Saltworks
General
The Ninth International Symposium on Salt (www.worldsalt2009.com) organized by China National Salt Industry Corporation, China Salt Association and many other salt organizations of the world was held in the Beijing International Convention Center on the 4-7 September 2009. It is the ninth in a...
Rural Tourism Image Optimization by Big Data Technology in Green Environment
Environmental management and policy
In recent years, the need for the rapid development of rural tourism in China has resulted in a large consumption of ecological resources, which has seriously damaged the ecological balance of travel destinations. Rural tourism in many parts of China is increasingly lacking distinctive local...
Service Value of Wetland Ecosystem in Sanmenxia Reservoir Area
CLEANWAS
The evaluation of wetland ecosystem service lays the foundation to the wetland protection and exploitation. Evaluating the ecological service of all types of wetlands scientifically and reasonably is critical to improving the quality of ecological environment and securing the regional ecological...
Insulation effect evaluation model of green building materials under ecological environment
CLEANWAS
Green building materials are an important material basis for promoting the development of green buildings, and also the foundation of building energy conservation. In view of this, an insulation effect evaluation model of green building materials is constructed. The outer wall temperature index, the...
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