Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Sustainable Development Policies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Integrated Environmental Policy in the European Union

      • Ignazio Musu

      Pages 3-15

   3. The Role of Legal Principles for Environmental Management

      • Massimiliano Montini

      Pages 17-31

   4. Valuation of Sustainable Development Policies: Social Multi-criteria Evaluation

      • Giuseppe Munda

      Pages 33-46

3. Water Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Water Resource Management And Policy

      1. The Groundwater Challenge

         • Giovanni Maria Zuppi

         Pages 49-64

      2. Water Services and Water Policy in Italy

         • Gilberto Muraro

         Pages 65-80

   3. Water Quality Control

      1. Water Quality Control

         • Andrea Barbanti

         Pages 83-97

      2. New Approaches to Wastewater Treatment Plants in Italy

         • Franco Cecchi, Paolo Battistoni, Paolo Pavan

         Pages 99-111

      3. Integrated Policy Approach to Water Supply Management: A Venetian Project

         • Paolo Gardin, Adriano Marchini

         Pages 113-122

4. Air Quality Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas

      • Ivo Allegrini, Francesca Costabile

      Pages 125-139

   3. Sustainable Mobility: Mitigation of Traffic Originated Pollution

      • Marino Mazzon

      Pages 141-156

5. Waste Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Integrated Waste Management. Technologies and Environmental Control

      • Luciano Morselli, Ivano Vassura, Fabrizio Passarini

      Pages 159-170

   3. Economic Analysis of Waste Management Systems in Europe

      • Antonio Massarutto

      Pages 171-186

   4. Hospital Waste Management

      • Ivo Pavan, Elena Herrero Hernandez, Enrico Pira

      Pages 187-192

6. Energy Efficiency And Renewables

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Renewable Resources

      1. Solar Energy

         • Roberto Barile

         Pages 195-206

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities. In particular, they expressed the need and will to develop policy and mana- ment tools that could lead to a strategy of sustainable growth from an economic, social and environmental point of view. The Programme turned out to be a success (it involved, up to June 2007, more than 2000 trainees from almost all the Provinces of China) precisely because the forces that answered those needs are extremely diverse as to include the academia, national and local governments, public institutions, private companies and international agencies. Following this feature, the book’s contributors have been selected among more than 300 professors, researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs involved in the Training activities, thus offering different approaches to the key questions of environmental management.

• Biodiversity
• Biofuels
• Energy efficiency
• Environmental Management
• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development Policies
• Wastewater treatment
• Water policy
• Water resource management
• bioenergy
• biofuel
• development
• ecology
• environmental protection

• Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, Italy

  Corrado Clini

• Venice International University, Venice, Italy

  Ignazio Musu

• Agroinnova - University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  Maria Lodovica Gullino

Policies and ethics