Ebook: Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium
- Tags: Environmental Management, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Terrestrial Pollution, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
- Series: Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries 12
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (8HUES) was held on 12–14 June 2006 in Nicosia, Cyprus. 8HUES was hosted in Cyprus by the Cyprus Institute. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS). The following facts provide a background for 8HUES: • 150 abstracts for posters and papers were accepted • 80 delegates (24 female) attended the symposium • 23 countries were represented, including all continents • 71 oral presentations at the symposium • 20 poster presentations • 50 written manuscripts for these proceedings HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s. The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution. These challenges particularly - cluded urban photochemical smog, with an emphasis on ozone formation and particle release. The first symposium was titled “Highway Pollution” and had a clear aim to make a difference. The proceedings were published in an interdisciplinary journal.
Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and the rapid urbanization we are seeing is expected to continue in the next decades.
The growth of urban areas around the world presents many challenges and needs to be supported by the development of adequate and sustainable infrastructures.
This work offers comprehensive coverage of critical issues on the highway and urban environment which are key to understanding sustainability in the world's expanding urban areas.
It offers a highly relevant round-up of the proceeding of the Highway and Urban Environment Symposium held in Nicosia, Cyprus, last year.
The Symposium, which has been held annually for the last 20 years, is a forum for recent research on all aspects of the highway and urban environment and focuses especially on the management and environmental impact of transportation.
The Proceedings describe recent research on vehicle emissions, air quality, urban runoff quality and treatment, contaminated areas, traffic management and sustainable transport strategies.
This book is ideal for all those working in related fields, from research engineers to urban plan