Sustainable Development

Authoritative and Leading Edge Content for Environmental Management

Sime Curkovic

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9789535106821
• eBook ISBN: 9789535153092
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Warming & Climate Change
• Index: Biological Sciences

In recent years the topic of environmental management has become very common. In sustainable development conditions, central and local governments much more often notice the need of acting in ways that diminish negative impact on environment. Environmental management may take place on many different levels - starting from global level, e.g. climate changes, through national and regional level (environmental policy) and ending on micro level. This publication shows many examples of environmental management. The diversity of presented aspects within environmental management and approaching the subject from the perspective of various countries contributes greatly to the development of environmental management field of research.

Table of contents

• Sustainable Development - Authoritative and Leading Edge Content for Environmental Management
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Oil Exploration and Climate Change: A Case Study of Heat Radiation from Gas Flaring in the Niger Delta Area of Nigeria
• Chapter 2 Oil Pollution and International Marine Environmental Law
• Chapter 3 Use of Remote Sensing in Wildfire Management
• Chapter 4 GIS for Environmental Problem Solving
• Chapter 5 Environmental Management in Businesses: Does It Make Money? An Accounting Perspective
• Chapter 6 A Bottom Up Approach to Modeling Habitat Connectivity Dynamics Through Networks Analysis
• Chapter 7 Electronic Waste Management in Ghana – Issues and Practices
• Chapter 8 Remote Sensing Based Crop Coefficients for Water Management in Agriculture
• Chapter 9 Certification and Integration of Environment with Quality and Safety – A Path to Sustained Success
• Chapter 10 Uncovering the Relation Between Environmental Damage and the Rate of Rainfall Received Through a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Study on Potable Water Production in Malaysia
• Chapter 11 Integrated Water Management Around a Large Chemical Platform
• Chapter 12 Knowledge-Based Development in Small Communities – Efficient Management Based on Local Expertize
• Chapter 13 Industrial Clusters and Environmental Management
• Chapter 14 Overview of Past and Ongoing Experiences Dealing with the Environmental Management at Cluster Level
• Chapter 15 Beach Erosion Management with the Application of Soft Countermeasure in Taiwan
• Chapter 16 The Economic and Financial Feasibility of a Biodigester: A Sound Alternative for Reducing the Environmental Impact of Swine Production
• Chapter 17 Overview of Environmental Management by Drill Cutting Re-Injection Through Hydraulic Fracturing in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
• Chapter 18 A Geologic and Geomorphologic Analysis of the Zacatecas and Guadalupe Quadrangles in Order to Define Hazardous Zones Associated with the Erosion Processes
• Chapter 19 Evaluation of Soil Quality Parameters Development in Terms of Sustainable Land Use
• Chapter 20 The Compost of Olive Mill Pomace: From a Waste to a Resource – Environmental Benefits of Its Application in Olive Oil Groves
• Chapter 21 Social-Ecological Resilience and Maize Farming in Chiapas, Mexico
• Chapter 22 Methodology for the Regional Landfill Site Selection
• Chapter 23 Land Degradation, Community Perceptions and Environmental Management Implications in the Drylands of Central Tanzania
• Chapter 24 Developing a South-European Eco-Quarter Design and Assessment Tool Based on the Concept of Territorial Capital