Environmental and Health Impacts of Renewable Energies

Dear Colleagues,

With the awareness that traditional fossil energy resources are limited, depletable and polluting, the idea of exploitation and widespread use of alternative energy generation resources has been implemented. Energy is the driving force of civilization and technical–scientific and economic evolution. With the identification of the current situation related to the limited availability of traditional energy resources, climate change and the negative influence of the energy sector on the environment and human health, a number of principles have been established underpinning sustainable development in this area. Thus, special emphasis is placed on the use of alternative and renewable energy sources, characterized by a positive impact on the environment and human health.

This Special Issue includes but is not limited to the following topics:

• The role of renewable energy resources in environmental protection;
• The role of renewable energy resources in human health protection;
• Clean renewable energy and environmental impact;
• Clean renewable energy and human health impact;
• Climate change and human health in the context of transition to a clean energetics perspective;
• Renewable energy sources, sustainability issues and climate change mitigation;
• Safety, health, and environmental (SHE) issues of the solar energy system;
• Safety, health, and environmental (SHE) issues of the wind turbine system;
• Safety, health, and environmental (SHE) issues of hydrogen fuel cell technologies;
• Safety, health, and environmental (SHE) issues of biomass and waste for energy;
• Safety, health, and environmental (SHE) issues of other systems for generating clean energy;
• Nuclear power—environmental and health impacts;
• Community perceptions of green renewable energies;
• Power generation and public health;
• Structure and environmental impact of energy consumption;
• Environmental costs of renewable energy;
• Environmentalism and public policy;
• Environmental justice.

Prof. Em. Univ. Dr. Eng. Gheorghe Badea
Dr. Eng. Raluca Andreea Felseghi
Dr. Eng. Ioan Aschilean
CSIII Maria Simona Raboaca
Guest Editors

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