Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 28 Issue 1

Analysis of the stochastic model of the Markov chain on daily rainfall occurrence in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Álvaro José Back, Luana Pasini Miguel

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the seasonal and spatial variations in the statistical descriptors of the Markov chain model as well as the expected values of the length…

Enhancing the spatial rainfall uniformity of pressurized nozzle simulators

Alexandre Silveira, Jorge M.G.P. Isidoro, Fábio P. de Deus, Simone Siqueira dos Reis, Antônio Marciano da Silva, Flávio A. Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Bretanha Junker Menezes, Rafael de O. Tiezzi

Rainfall simulators are used on experimental hydrology, in areas such as, e.g., urban drainage and soil erosion, with important timesaving when compared to real scale hydrological…

Bacterial resistance in sanitary sewage sludge in different treatment systems

Thiara Reis Lopes, Fernando Periotto, Adelmo Lowe Pletsch

The purpose of this paper is to assess the occurrence and risk of dispersion in the environment of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms from sanitary sewage sludge produced in two…

Hydropower reservoir sediment and water quality assessment

Marcus Vinicius Estigoni, Renato Billia Miranda, Frederico Fabio Mauad

Finer sediment particles (silt and clay) transported by rivers carry the major part of nutrient loads by absorption; thus, sediment settling can remove nutrients from the water…

Livestock grazing, forest protection and law in Greece

Panagiotis Kapotas, Efpraxia Aithra Maria

The purpose of this paper is to present, from a critical point of view, the current legal framework of livestock grazing in public forests in Greece, to present the implementation…

Application of reverse osmosis to petrochemical industry wastewater treatment aimed at water reuse

Carla Denize Venzke, Marco Antônio Siqueira Rodrigues, Alexandre Giacobbo, Luciana Ely Bacher, Iona Souza Lemmertz, Cheila Viegas, Júlia Striving, Shaiane Pozzebon

The purpose of this paper is to apply reverse osmosis (RO) to the treatment of industrial wastewater from a large petrochemical complex in Southern Brazil, in order to verify the…

Decades of public-private partnership in solid waste management: A literature analysis of key lessons drawn from Ghana and India

Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah, Kwame Asamoah, Thomas Agyekum Kyeremeh

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirical studies on public-private partnerships (PPPs) and solid waste management (SWM) in Ghana and India to synthesize the “crucial…

Biogas production with co-digestion of sugarcane straw

Eduardo De Rossi, Cleber Antonio Lindino, Paulo André Cremonez, Kenia Gabriela Dos Santos, Reinaldo Aparecido Bariccatti, Jhonatas Antonelli, Joel Gustavo Teleken

The purpose of this paper is to investigate straw modification by chemical degradation generated by two forms of pretreatment, using citric acid in an autoclave and urea solution…

Spatial analysis of solar radiation using computer vision technique and data assimilation

Yashwant Kashyap, Ankit Bansal, Anil K. Sao

The presence of broken clouds leads to frequent fluctuations in direct normal incident solar irradiation as well as diffuse radiation from the sky. This brings a lot of challenge…

Small and shallow previously unstudied lakes: land-use, overgrowth and eutrophication

Alexandra Rizhinashvili

The purpose of this paper is to compare trophic characteristics of the ecosystems of small and shallow lakes with a different character of land-cover in their catchments (as…