Special Issue "Environmental Monitoring and Impact Assessment for Sustainable Management"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Anna Podlasek
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Guest Editor
Department of Revitalization and Architecture, Institute of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: groundwater quality; landfills; environmental impact assessment; environmental analysis; environmental pollution; fertilizers; soil analysis; water resources management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last decades, there has been a remarkable growth of interest in environmental issues related to sustainability and the better management of development in harmony with the environment. Environmental monitoring and impact assessment are perceived as important instruments to pursue environmental protection, sustainable development, and ecosystem conservation. These tools are of a substantial importance nowadays as they allow assessing environmental trends, supporting policy implementation, and developing information for scientific reporting.

The Special Issue entitled “Environmental Monitoring and Impact Assessment for Sustainable Management” will focus attention on innovative solutions for environmental monitoring and assessment in which sustainability is prioritized.

For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of high-quality manuscripts with new results or new ideas as well as comprehensive reviews that offer new perspectives. This Special Issue seeks contributions involving innovative approaches or relevant case studies regarding the following topics:

  • Advanced monitoring strategies;
  • Barriers and possibilities for environmental monitoring;
  • Practices for environmental impact assessment;
  • Field monitoring systems;
  • Laboratory tests;
  • Hydrogeological modeling;
  • Management of water resources;
  • Fate and transport of contaminants;
  • Prediction of environmental quality and hazard assessment;
  • Impact of anthropogenic activities on the quality of the environment and possible mitigating solutions;
  • Monitoring of landfills.

This list must not be seen as exclusive, and other topics showing the importance of environmental monitoring and impact assessment are welcome.

Dr. Anna Podlasek
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • monitoring
  • sustainability
  • environmental quality
  • groundwater
  • soil
  • pollution
  • landfill
  • numerical modelling

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Environmental Particulate Matter (PM) Exposure Assessment of Construction Activities Using Low-Cost PM Sensor and Latin Hypercubic Technique
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7797; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147797 - 13 Jul 2021
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Dust generation is generally considered a natural process in construction sites; ergo, workers are exposed to health issues due to fine dust exposure during construction work. The primary activities in the execution of construction work, such as indoor concrete and mortar mixing, are [...] Read more.
Dust generation is generally considered a natural process in construction sites; ergo, workers are exposed to health issues due to fine dust exposure during construction work. The primary activities in the execution of construction work, such as indoor concrete and mortar mixing, are investigated to interrogate and understand the critical high particulate matter concentrations and thus health threats. Two low-cost dust sensors (Sharp GP2Y1014AU0F and Alphasense OPC N2) without implementing control measures to explicitly evaluate, compare and gauge them for these construction activities were utilized. The mean exposures to PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 during both activities were 3522.62, 236.46 and 47.62 µg/m3 and 6762.72, 471.30 and 59.09 µg/m3, respectively. The results show that PM10 and PM2.5 caused during the concrete mixing activity was approximately double compared to the mortar. The Latin Hypercube Sampling method is used to analyze the measurement results and to predict the exposure concentrations. The high dust emission and exposure from mixing activities fail to meet the World Health Organization and Health and Safety Commission standards for environmental exposure. These findings will leverage the integration of low-cost dust sensors with Building Information Modelling (BIM) to formulate a digital twin for automated dust control techniques in the construction site. Full article
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