Volume 3
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Setting priorities for wildfires suppression policy in Greece, using a relation between yearly burned areas and recovery time
General
In the Mediterranean region, fire is a natural factor, which contributes in the shaping of landscape and the preservation of a high degree of biodiversity. However, often repeated burning has negative impacts on the forested landscapes. When the processes of natural or artificial regeneration are...
Using GAC to Control THMs in drinking water, an experimental study at the Athens Water Works and an economic evaluation of the method
General
An experimental study has been carried out in an attempt to verify the efficiency of GAC (granular activated carbon) in removing THMs (trihalomethanes), and in particular CHCl3, CHCl2Br, CHClBr2 and CHBr3 from drinking water. The experiments have been conducted at a pilot scale filtering plant that...
Determination of Heavy Metals in Wet Deposition of Athens
General
The concentrations of ten industrial metals (Pb, Cd, Ni, As, Cr, Zn, Fe, Cu, Al and Mn) in 20 samples of rainwater collected at the station of Athens University Campus (AUC) during the cold period 1/10/97 - 31/3/98 were determined. In general, low concentrations were observed. The Spearman...
Water demand and supply analysis using a spatial decision support system
General
A prototype Spatial Decision Support System for the evaluation of water demand and supply management schemes is presented. The water basin is topologically mapped to a network of spatial objects representing the physical entities and their connections. Several GIS functions, which include data input...
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
General
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
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...
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...