Management of natural resources, sustainable development and ecological hazards

Section 1: The re-encounter Holistic sustainability: local culture and global business--a unique opportunity; Beyond predictability; Sustainable global civilization Section 2: Political and social issues Autonomy and heteronomy: the need for decentralization in a centralizing world; Towards a Sustainable World; Laboratories of democracy: the collision of federal and local global warming policy in the United States; Economic development and colonias in Texas; Policies and their enforcement in the process towards sustainability; Environmental communication strategies: when is what appropriate?; E-waste transboundary movement violating environmental justice; Time series analysis of the ISEW at the local (regional) level: method and intent; Sustainability and urban regeneration: the community and the city; Legal and health aspects of sanitary waste management in Italy Section 3: Planning and development Public action and social capital in rural areas; The needs of sustainability: the problem of data availability for calculating indicators; A study to designate a National Land Sustainable Plan in Japan: focus on land recycling; Application of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) to Natural Parks and reserves; Using the full potential: regional planning based on local potentials and exergy; Environmental management in the Port of Koper and neighboring urban settlements; Sustainable resources management in the context of agro-environmental EU policies: novel paradigms in Thessaly, Greece; Intelligent flexible disassembly and recycling of used products to support sustainability and total quality management in modern manufacturing industry; Carrying capacity assessment in tourism: the case of the Dodecanese archipelago; Strategy guidelines for the Croatian petroleum industry based on geopolitical risk assessment; About how 'was' 'becomes': emergence of a sustainable spatial-energy system Section 4: Ecology A sensitivity analysis of the European Union coastal zone based on environmental and socio-economic sustainability indicators; Promoting solar thermal design: the Mechanical Engineering building at the University of New Mexico; Sensoristic approach to biological damage and risk assessment; Design for human and planetary health: a transdisciplinary approach to sustainability; Technology and sustainability for the development of the Caldenal; Coral reefs: threats and future focusing in over-fishing, aquaculture, and educational programs; Maximizing storage rates and capacity of carbon dioxide sequestration in saline reservoirs; Effects of a thinning regime on stand growth in plantation forests using an architectural stand growth model Section 5: Design and sustainability (organised by W. P. de Wilde) Adaptable versus lightweight design of transitory dwellings; 4-dimensional design: a design strategy for efficient shelter and sustainable housing after conflict-based and natural disasters; Climate Adaptive Skins: towards the new energy-efficient facade; Extant Design: designing things as they are; The role of beauty for sustainability: a discussion on responsible consumption, aesthetics attitudes and product design; Structure evolution of spider silk liquid crystalline precursor material Section 6: Safety Risk management of hazardous material transportation; Architecture for humanity: sharing the experience of MERCY Malaysia Core House Project in Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Erosion of forestry land: causes and rehabilitation; Dual system for management of natural and anthropogenic emergencies and its training Section 7: Water resources The water crisis in southern Portugal: how did we get there and how should we solve it; Water resources management under drought conditions; Growing vulnerability of the arid zones to drought and its impacts; Monitoring land use and land cover changes in Turkmenistan using remote sensing; Trace metals in molluscs from the Beagle Channel (Argentina): a preliminary study; Toxic and interactive toxic effects of agrochemical substances and copper on Vibrio fischeri; Kaunas hydropower system management; Particle-tracking method applied to transport problems in water bodies; Experimental study of an artificial groundwater recharging process; Parametric identification of a karst aquifer; Separation of salt and sweet waters in an area of former mines; Influence of wind on floating debris distribution in the Balearic Islands Section 7.1: Management of complex systems under extreme conditions (organised by L. Fagherrazzi) The management of a multi-purpose reservoir; A daily hydrological system management model that takes meteorological forecast errors into account Section 8: Air A forecast model to predict the next day's maximum hourly SO2 in the site of Priolo (Siracusa); Sources of atmospheric pollutants in the North West province of South Africa: a case of the Rustenburg municipality; Air quality in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; Overview of ultrafine particles and human health; Global climate change, air pollution, and women's health; Visibility and air pollution; The new millennium Ethics of housing technology; Impact of greenhouse gas stabilization initiatives on the Croatian petroleum industry; Prediction of road traffic noise attenuation due to distance, ground absorption and gradient Section 9: Soil Arsenic pollution in the southwest of Tuscany: monitoring of Cornia catchment basin; Soil contamination and land subsidence raise concern in the Venice watershed, Italy; Elemental composition of PM10 and PM2.5 in ambient air downwind of agricultural operations in California's San Joaquin Valley; Assessment of slopes endangered by groundwater; Radioactive contaminated soil removal from the sites of the former Azgir nuclear test site; Accidental mercury spill in the Andes: forensic neuropsychological evaluation six years later; Predicting the intensity of wind-blown removal of dust and sand in the Turkmenistan desert Section 10: Energy Sustainability concern of housing: emergy storage and flow assessment; Energy and the environment; Renewable resources of energy in northern Baja California, Mexico; Waste to energy as a contribution to ravage elimination; Expansion of the Brazilian refining industry and its local requirements: critical factors for siting a new refinery in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil; Utilization of coal and waste for ecological fuel production; Injection technology for sustainable environmental protection in the petroleum industry; Desulphurization of flue gases using waste of a water treatment plant; The use of the Mock-up-Cz physical model in the design of engineered barriers