Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Management in 2009"

TL;DR: From a comprehensive literature review, it was found that some LCAs, in addition to having wide availability, have fast kinetics and appreciable adsorption capacities too.

TL;DR: A review of recent developments of LCA methods, focusing on some areas where there has been an intense methodological development during the last years, and some of the emerging issues.

TL;DR: Through successive rounds of learning and problem solving, learning networks can incorporate new knowledge to deal with problems at increasingly larger scales, with the result that maturing co- management arrangements become adaptive co-management in time.

TL;DR: This paper asks how and why stakeholder analysis should be conducted for participatory natural resource management research, and proposes new tools and combinations of methods that can more effectively identify and categorise stakeholders and help understand their inter-relationships.

TL;DR: This review gives an overview of the present state of knowledge of pharmaceuticals in the environment presenting typical results and lines of discussion and addresses important and typical topics to stimulate discussion.

TL;DR: This paper provides an overview of the ecological status of agricultural systems across the European Union in the light of recent policy changes, and builds on the previous review of 2001 devoted to the impacts of agricultural intensification in Western Europe.

TL;DR: This review article is aimed at providing precise information on efforts made by various researchers in the field of fluoride removal for drinking water by broadly divided in two sections dealing with membrane and adsorption techniques.

TL;DR: The technical feasibility of the use of activated carbon, synthetic resins, and various low-cost natural adsorbents for the removal of phenol and its derivatives from contaminated water has been reviewed and it should be noted that the adsorption capacities of the adsorbent vary significantly depending on the characteristics of the individual adsorbENT, the extent of chemical modifications, and the concentrations of solutes.

TL;DR: A review of the various decentralized approaches to wastewater treatment and management and a discussion as to their applicability in developing countries, primarily in rural areas, and challenges faced is emphasized.

TL;DR: Comparison of the results with several criteria reported in the literature for risk assessment in soils polluted by heavy metals showed the need to treat the mine tailings dumped in the mine area.

TL;DR: This work reviews the different environmental impacts associated with PG storage and disposal and describes the methods described in the literature to minimise the negative effects of this waste.

TL;DR: Improving water resource management is a long-term task requiring a holistic approach with constant effort and should be the government's top priority to address the water scarcity issue.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework of the overall ECF process is linked to coagulant generation, pollutant aggregation, and pollutant removal by flotation and settling when it has been applied efficiently to various water and wastewater treatment processes.

TL;DR: The inputs of trace elements to agricultural soils via atmospheric deposition, livestock manures, fertilizers and agrochemicals, sewage irrigation and sewage sludge in China were analyzed and an annual inventory of trace element inputs was developed.

TL;DR: In the past 160 years, woody plants have been increasing in density, cover and biomass in grassland communities as discussed by the authors and this is not a new phenomenon, but has been going on continually as the climate of the Planet has changed.

TL;DR: It is argued that more attention should be given to land use and land functions and linkages between these, and new methods to map and quantify land function dynamics will enhance the ability to understand and model land system change and adequately inform policies and planning.

TL;DR: The paper concludes by presenting the main lines of an integrative, transitional framework for the study of MFA, which analyses multifunctional agriculture against the background of wider societal change processes towards sustainability and identifies a number of key elements and research challenges for this.

TL;DR: This work considered economic factors, calculated criteria weights using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and built a hierarchy model for solving the solid waste landfill site-selection problem in Beijing, China and provides essential support for decision-makers in the assessment of waste management problems in Beijing and other rapidly developing cities in developing countries.

TL;DR: The nature and context of marine spatial planner, the international legal and policy framework, and the increasing need for marine spatial planning in Europe are discussed.

TL;DR: The model can be considered a good predictor of human-caused fire risk, aiding spatial decisions related to prevention planning in Spanish municipalities.

TL;DR: The findings support that early investment timing and intensity in environmental issues impact on the adoption of a proactive environmental management, which in turn helps to improve environmental performance and show that a firm's resources and competitive advantage act as mediator variables for a positive relationship between environmental protection and financial performance.

TL;DR: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis process that combines Geographical Information System analysis with the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process is developed, and this process is used to determine the optimum site for a new hospital in the Tehran urban area.

TL;DR: Adsorption of IC on RHA was favorably influenced by an increase in the temperature of the operation, and the positive values of the change in entropy and heat of adsorption and the negative value of change in Gibbs free energy indicate feasible and spontaneous adsorbent dose on to RHA.

TL;DR: Within the discharge limits that all of the technologies can reach, the economic analysis shows that the operating cost of Fenton oxidation is lower than either CDEO or ozonation, although CD\EO can compete satisfactorily with the Fenton process in the treatment of several kinds of wastes.

TL;DR: Sediments of the Tisza serve as a repository for heavy metal accumulation from adjacent urban and industrial areas and is slightly to moderately severely polluted with Cu, Zn, and Pb, and minorly polluted with Cr.

TL;DR: An overview of the various bioleaching studies carried out in different modes of operation and the various important aspects such as pathogen destruction, odor reduction and metal recovery from acidic leachate also have been discussed.

TL;DR: It is argued that trust plays a role in household water consumption, since people will not save water if they feel others are not minimizing their water use (inter-personal trust) and if they do not trust the water authority (institutional trust).

TL;DR: The results suggest that the selected indicators are more important drivers of preference than demographic factors, and the two demographic factors which were shown to contribute most to the formation of preference were gender and having a landscape related profession.

TL;DR: This paper draws upon data from two recent SIA projects: the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in Southern Africa, and the Manwan Dam, located on the upper Mekong River in southwestern China to examine the social impacts of large dam projects through time and across various geographical scales.

TL;DR: A multiple purpose wetland inventory is being developed and promoted through partnerships and specific analyses at different scales in response to past uncertainties and gaps in inventory coverage as discussed by the authors, where specific attention is directed towards the usefulness of Earth observation in providing information that can be used to more effectively manage wetlands.