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Environments, Volume 8, Issue 6

2021 June - 13 articles

Cover Story: In this work, the São Pedro da Cova waste pile and the surrounding areas were studied in order to consider the integration of several methodologies, which allowed for the environmental monitoring of several parameters, integrating: temperature monitoring (waste pile); altimetric analysis (waste pile); land use/land cover (waste pile); hydrogeochemical characterization (waste pile and surrounding areas); soil’s characterization (waste pile and surrounding areas). View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,296 Views
33 Pages

The Brown Seaweeds of Scotland, Their Importance and Applications

  • Omar Al-Dulaimi,
  • Mostafa E. Rateb,
  • Andrew S. Hursthouse,
  • Gary Thomson and
  • Mohammed Yaseen

More than 50% of the UK coastline is situated in Scotland under legislative jurisdiction; therefore, there is a great opportunity for regionally focused economic development by the rational use of sustainable marine bio-sources. We review the importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,339 Views
13 Pages

There is growing concern about the environmentally relevant concentrations of new emerging persistent organic pollutants, such as perfluorinated compounds and pharmaceuticals, which are found to bioaccumulate in aquatic organisms at concentrations su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,835 Views
14 Pages

A New Approach to Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services

  • Ikram Mouttaki,
  • Youssef Khomalli,
  • Mohamed Maanan,
  • Ingrida Bagdanavičiūtė,
  • Hassan Rhinane,
  • Alban Kuriqi,
  • Quoc Bao Pham and
  • Mehdi Maanan

According to various sources, Southern Morocco has stood out as an outstanding tourist destination in recent decades, with global appeal. Dakhla City, including Dakhla Bay, classified by the Convention on Wetlands in 2005 as a Wetland of Internationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,261 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable Mobility in Universities: The Case of the University of Foggia (Italy)

  • Giulio Mario Cappelletti,
  • Luca Grilli,
  • Carlo Russo and
  • Domenico Santoro

Among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up the 2030 Agenda and refer to different areas of social, economic and environmental development, goal 11.2 concerns access to safe, cheap, accessible and sustainable transport systems, inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,518 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Forest Management and Sylvicultural Treatments on Abundance of Snags and Tree Cavities in Mountain Mixed Beech Forests

  • Farzam Tavankar,
  • Francesco Latterini,
  • Mehrdad Nikooy,
  • Rachele Venanzi,
  • Ramin Naghdi and
  • Rodolfo Picchio

In this study the influence of forest management on the characteristics of snags and tree cavities in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran was investigated. In particular, the effect of two sylvicultural treatments (shelter wood and single-tree selection) w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,725 Views
12 Pages

Both landfill leachate and sewage sludge are complex mixtures of many potentially toxic substances in unknown and unpredictable amounts and concentrations. Both types of matrices can pose a risk to human health and the functioning of ecosystems if re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,773 Views
11 Pages

Visibility is a perceptible indicator of air pollution, so it is hardly surprising that it has been used to promote the regulation of air pollutants. In Hong Kong, poor visibility associated with air pollution has been linked with changes in tourist...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,225 Views
19 Pages

A Way to Membrane-Based Environmental Remediation for Heavy Metal Removal

  • Catia Algieri,
  • Sudip Chakraborty and
  • Sebastiano Candamano

During the last century, industrialization has grown very fast and as a result heavy metals have contaminated many water sources. Due to their high toxicity, these pollutants are hazardous for humans, fish, and aquatic flora. Traditional techniques f...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,806 Views
12 Pages

Fuzzy set theory has shown potential for reducing uncertainty as a result of data sparsity and also provides advantages for quantifying gradational changes like those of pollutant concentrations through fuzzy clustering based approaches. The ability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,611 Views
12 Pages

Phytotoxicity of Tires Evaluated in Simulated Conditions

  • Markéta Šourková,
  • Dana Adamcová,
  • Jan Winkler and
  • Magdalena Daria Vaverková

Illegal dumps and landfills with disposed of tires are a fact of today, which should not be neglected as they represent a great ecological burden for the environment, affect the surrounding nature and disturb the landscape. This research was focused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,345 Views
26 Pages

An Integrated Multi-Approach to Environmental Monitoring of a Self-Burning Coal Waste Pile: The São Pedro da Cova Mine (Porto, Portugal) Study Case

  • Ana Teodoro,
  • Patrícia Santos,
  • Jorge Espinha Marques,
  • Joana Ribeiro,
  • Catarina Mansilha,
  • Armindo Melo,
  • Lia Duarte,
  • Cátia Rodrigues de Almeida and
  • Deolinda Flores

The São Pedro da Cova waste pile (Porto, Portugal) is composed of coal mining residues that have been self-burning since 2005 and is located close to an inhabited area and social infrastructures, further adding to effects on the environment and human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,328 Views
22 Pages

This paper presents the results of a laboratory-based experimental investigation on the properties of asphalt binder and hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixes modified by locally available crumb rubber, which was used as a partial replacement of asphalt by wei...

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