Volume 3
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Concentrations of the selected air pollutants at Bily Kriz, the Czech Republic, for 1994 to 1999
General
Air pollution related problems, such as acidification, air quality and ground-level ozone, are recognized as some of the important problems facing the people of the Czech Republic, whose health is damaged by impacts of air pollutants. Also the impacts of these air pollutants on human health, forests...
Reducing CO2 emissions and deregulating the electricity sector in Europe: A contradictory development?
General
Electricity generation is the single most important sector in which CO2 reductions are achievable, with advanced generation technologies available and the existence of a centralised production structure, if compared to the transport or the industrial sector. It is a market undergoing a radical...
Environmental impacts at coal waste disposal sites-efficiency of desulphurization technologies
General
During beneficiation of coal at the coal mining area of Tula, Russia, huge volumes of coal wastes with considerable residual pyrite content are produced. These wastes that are usually disposed of without specific care in the environment are active sources of coal mine drainage generation which...
Rational approach to the solution of the problem of wastewaters management - The Kastela bay case
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Uncontrolled disposal of urban and industrial wastewaters into the sea led to the fact that in mid eighties the Kastela Bay, near the city of Split, Republic of Croatia, became one of the largest and most widely known pollution hot-spot areas of the Mediterranean region. The pollution of the Bay...
Environmental Management Approaches and Water Resources in the stessed region of Thriassion, Greece
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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...
A management framework for the efficient use of surface water resources in Sithonia Peninsula (Greece)
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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...
Dissolved Oxygen and Nutrients in coastal waters impacted by the Strymon River plume, North Aegean Sea, Greece
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Three hydrographic cruises were conducted during 1997-1999 in north Aegean Sea, in order to study the dissolved oxygen (DO) and nutrient distributions in Strymonikos Gulf impacted by the riverine waters of the Strymon River. The approaches used in this paper include a preliminary estimation of the...
Water chemistry and biology in a shallow lake (Lake Pamvotis - Greece). Present state and perspectives
General
Lake Pamvotis is a shallow lake, located in NW Greece, which during last decades has influenced by a lot of man-made impacts such as sewage discharge, water level fluctuation, e.t.c. Water quality for physicochemical and biological parameters was monitored seasonally in five sampling-stations from...
Electric Field Control of the Polluting Emissions from a Propane Flame
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The present study is performed with the aim to reduce the levels of polluting emissions from fuel combustion that produce acid rains and the greenhouse effect (NOx, CO2). The electric field effects on the processes of heat/mass transfer and propane combustion are studied in order to perform electric...
Malaria situation in Bulgaria and surveillance measures (1991-2000)
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The malaria situation in Bulgaria during the past decade of the century was analysed and the evaluation of the risk of re-emerging of the diseases and factors determining it in the phase of maintanence of malaria eradication was carried out. The epidemiological analysis of malaria cases notified...