Environment and Sustainable Development

Proceedings of the 2024 9th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-966656-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Environmental Science and Engineering

This book consists of the peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 2024 9th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, which was held in Osaka, Japan, November 9–11, 2024. The conference provided an ideal platform for communication among experts and scholars working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environment and sustainable development related techniques. The book covers highly diverse topics, including environmental pollution monitoring and pollutant treatment, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution monitoring and emission reduction, solid waste management, environmental sustainability, sustainable development, resource management and ecosystem protection. The book serves as a useful reference for researchers and engineers working in the field of environmental science and sustainable development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ujikawa, Keiji

Ishiwatari, Mikio

Hullebusch, Eric van

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Time Series Analysis to Estimate Soil Water Content:  A Case Study in Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan.- 2.Multi-Soil-Layering System Application: Eutrophication Improvement Strategy of Longtan Large Tourist Pond.- 3.Evaluation of Surface Sediments of Mining Silted River-Marine Ecosystems in Banaybanay, Davao Oriental: Initial Step Towards Regenerative Mining.- 4.Robinson Bayou Basin Improvement Study: Wetland Mitigation and Flood Attenuation Design.- 5.Effluent Quality Monitoring System for the Cement Industry.- 31.CFD Simulation for Wind Turbine Installation in an Urban Area.- 32.Climate-Related Hazards as a Factor Affecting the Siting of Solar Power Plants: A Case Study of Flooding in ASEAN.- 33.Application of Centrifuge Combined with Biodiesel Washing Machine with Biochar in Biodiesel Production.- 34.Feasibility Analysis of the Adoption of Smart Bio Dryer Dome Technology in the Agricultural Community of Pacitan, Indonesia.- 35.Performance analysis of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) using dynamic mesh approach: A CFD validation study.- 36.Powering Southeast Asia’s Renewable Energy: A Panel VECM Exploration of Determinants.

Über Autor(innen)

Keiji Ujikawa is a full professor in the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. He specializes in environmental economics, environmental policy studies, environmental valuation, and economic statistics. Professor Ujikawa's research interests include indicators, decision making, and impact assessment of sustainable development. He is also interested in economic, social, and environmental effects of renewable energy (energy conservation) expansion. In 2002, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher in the Business School at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He published several books and a large number of academic articles, and he served as the representative of research projects. In addition, he has trained many Master's and Ph.D. students from abroad.He is an editorial committee member of the Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS). He is also a member of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) and many other academic organizations.

Mikio Ishiwatari is a senior advisor on disaster management and water resources management at the Japan International Cooperation Agency and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He has been engaged in projects and research work on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and water issues. He led the formulation of the Japanese assistance policies of climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management. At the World Bank he worked as a senior disaster risk management specialist and published . He worked in various positions at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan, for 17 years. He formulated and supervised national projects on flood risk management and highways in Iwami District as the director of the Hamada River and Road Office, and he was responsible for research and technology development as a senior deputy director for river technology and information. He also worked as an urban development specialist at the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Ishiwatari was a member of the Committee on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters of the Japan Science Society, and he served as a member of the Advisory Council of Development Assistance in Climate Change Adaptation of the Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan; the Steering Committee of Water and Climate Change of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum; and other committees of government organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in international studies and an M.Sc. in urban engineering from The University of Tokyo.

Eric D. van Hullebusch holds a Ph.D. in aquatic chemistry and microbiology, and he is a full professor in the biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at the Université de Paris and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris, France). His main research interests include environmental technologies and biogeochemistry with special focus on 1) study of metals and metalloids biogeochemistry in engineered ecosystems, 2) biohydrometallurgy of secondary resource streams, and 3) soil bioremediation. Within these research areas, he has published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a co-author of more than 25 book chapters.