Sustainable Development and Environmental Management: Experiences and Case Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Integrated Environmental Policy in the European Union....Pages 3-15
The Role of Legal Principles for Environmental Management....Pages 17-31
Valuation of Sustainable Development Policies: Social Multi-criteria Evaluation....Pages 33-46
The Groundwater Challenge....Pages 49-64
Water Services and Water Policy in Italy....Pages 65-80
Water Quality Control....Pages 83-97
New Approaches to Wastewater Treatment Plants in Italy....Pages 99-111
Integrated Policy Approach to Water Supply Management: A Venetian Project....Pages 113-122
Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas....Pages 125-139
Sustainable Mobility: Mitigation of Traffic Originated Pollution....Pages 141-156
Integrated Waste Management. Technologies and Environmental Control....Pages 159-170
Economic Analysis of Waste Management Systems in Europe....Pages 171-186
Hospital Waste Management....Pages 187-192
Solar Energy....Pages 195-206
Geothermal Energy....Pages 207-219
Renewable Energy from Biomass: Solid Biofuels and Bioenergy Technologies....Pages 221-235
Wind Energy....Pages 237-248
Power Electronics in Distributed Power....Pages 249-261
Energy Optimization of a Building-plant System....Pages 265-278
The Sino-Italian Environment & Energy Building (SIEEB): A Model for a New Generation of Sustainable Buildings....Pages 279-284
New Policy Schemes to Promote End-use Energy Efficiency in the European Union....Pages 287-300
Subsidies and Market Mechanisms in Energy Policy....Pages 301-315
CDM – A Policy to Foster Sustainable Development?....Pages 317-331
Industrial Ecology in a Developing Context....Pages 335-349
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): Integration and Synergy with EMAS Management Systems on the Territory....Pages 351-361
General Aspects of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD)....Pages 365-380
A New Perspective for the Future: Environmental Protection and Sustainability in Urban Planning....Pages 381-396
Brownfields Remediation and Reuse: An Opportunity for Urban Sustainable Development....Pages 397-411
Ecological Agriculture: Human and Social Context....Pages 415-429
Sustainable Agriculture in the Frame of Sustainable Development: Cooperation between China and Italy....Pages 431-449
Economics and Policy of Biodiversity Loss....Pages 451-466
Forestry and Rural Development: Global Trends and Applications to the Sino-Italian Context....Pages 467-481
Back Matter....Pages 483-487