Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium - libro nuevo

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789048175024
ISBN (ISBN-10): 904817502X
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Año de publicación: 2010
Editorial: Springer
620 Páginas
Peso: 0,923 kg
Idioma: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9789048175024

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Autor del libro: morrison, bastien, von rauch, chalmers
Título del libro: proceedings symposium, highway

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Autor: G.M. Morrison; Sébastien Rauch
Título: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries; Highway and Urban Environment - Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium
Editorial: Springer; Springer Netherland
592 Páginas
Año de publicación: 2010-11-22
Dordrecht; NL
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Idioma: Inglés
213,99 € (DE)
219,99 € (AT)
236,00 CHF (CH)
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XXVI, 592 p.

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Geowissenschaften; Umweltmanagement; Verstehen; Air pollution; Filtration; Stormwater; contaminants; development; ecotoxicity; emissions; environment; pollution; toxicity; air pollution and air quality; terrestrial pollution; water quality and water pollution; Environmental Management; Pollution; Soil Science; Umweltverschmutzung und Gefahren für die Umwelt; Bodenkunde und Bodenmanagement; BB; EA

Vehicle Consumption and Emissions and Traffic Management.- Engineering–economic simulations of sustainable transport policies.- Life cycle environmental benefits of biodiesel production and use in Spain.- Engine management for Flex Fuel plus compressed natural gas vehicles.- Mobility and Environment in Spain.- Influence of gear-changing behaviour on fuel use and vehicular exhaust emissions.- Effect of speed reduction on emissions of heavy duty lorries.- Gender-linked disparity in vehicle exhaust emissions? Results from an activity-based survey.- Floating Automotive Data Collection.- Reducing car trip and pollutant emissions through strategic transport planning in Madrid, Spain.- Evaluation of car control measures based on an Internet-based travel survey system.- Integrating cycling in Bus Rapid Transit system in Accra.- Air Pollution and Air Quality.- Evaluation of hydrogen peroxide in rainwater in downtown São Paulo.- The comparison of pollutant concentrations in liquid falling and deposited precipitation, and throughfall.- Wet deposition at Llandaff station in Cardiff.- Monitoring the atmospheric deposition of particulate-associated urban contaminants, Coventry, UK.- Size, morphological and chemical characterization of aerosols polluting the Beijing atmosphere in January/February 2005.- Air pollution levels in two São Paulo subway stations.- Air quality nearby different typologies of motorways: Intercomparison and correlation.- Assessment of air pollution in the vicinity of major alpine routes.- The relative impact of automobile catalysts and Russian smelters on PGE deposition in Greenland.- Cultural heritage stock at risk from air pollution.- Contaminated Environments and Remediation.- Organic contaminants in urban sediments and vertical leaching in roadditches.- The use of an epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides L.) as bioindicator of heavy metal pollution in São Pauo, Brazil.- On-line matrix separation for the determination of PGEs in sediments by ICP-MS.- Determination of PGE and REE in urban matrices and fingerprinting of traffic emission contamination.- Sorption behaviour of Pt, Pd, and Rh on different soil components: results of an experimental study.- Reactive soil barriers for removal of chromium(VI) from contaminated soil.- Cleaning of highway runoff using a reactive filter treatment plant – a pilot-scale column study.- Heavy metal removal efficiency in a kaolinite–sand media filtration pilot-scale installation.- Storm Water.- Site assessment of road-edge grassed channels for highway drainage.- Evaluation of the runoff water quality from a tunnel wash.- An investigation of urban water and sediment ecotoxicity in relation to metal concentrations.- Establishing a procedure to predict highway runoff quality in Portugal.- A field microcosm method to determine the impact of sediments and soils contaminated by road runoff on indigenous aquatic macroinvertebrates.- Assessment of storm water ecotoxicity using a battery of biotests.- Is catchment imperviousness a good indicator of ecosystem health?.- Storm Water Treatment.- Evolution on pollutant removal efficiency in storm water ponds due to changes in pond morphology.- Characterization of road runoff and innovative treatment technologies.- Development and full-scale implementation of a new treatment scheme for road runoff.- Reactive filters for removal of dissolved metals in highway runoff.- Designing filters for copper removal for the secondary treatment of storm water.- Modelling the oxygen mass balance of wet detention ponds receiving highway runoff.- Monitoringand modelling the performance of a wet pond for treatment of highway runoff in cold climates.- Can we close the long-term mass balance equation for pollutants in highway ponds?.- Environmental Assessment and Effects.- Cardiovascular and respiratory variability related to air pollution and meteorological variables in Oporto, Portugal – preliminary study.- Component analysis on respiratory disease variability at São Paulo.- Management and optimization of environmental information using integrated technology: a case study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.- Using Bayesian inference to manage uncertainty in probabilistic risk assessments in urban environments.- An assessment framework for urban water systems – a new approach combining environmental systems with service supply and consumer perspectives.- Large area noise evaluation.
A comprehensive coverage of critical issues on the highway and urban environment which is a key to understanding sustainability in the world's expanding urban areas Proceedings of a symposium which has been held for 20 years and is well known in its field