Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Transport and environmental regulation – common attitudes and social change....Pages 3-13
Environmental impact assessment of urban mobility plan: a methodology including socio-economic consequences....Pages 15-26
Assessment model of territorial articulation in rural areas. Application to four Spanish “comarcas”.....Pages 27-37
Model of territorial distribution of CO 2 emissions reduction target in the transport sector....Pages 39-49
Impact of land use and transport policies on carbon emissions in London and Wider South East Region of UK....Pages 51-60
Carbon sequestration in shrinking cities – potential or a drop in the ocean?....Pages 61-70
Urban sprawl, food security and sustainability of Yogyakarta City, Indonesia....Pages 71-81
The local food system as a strategy for the rural-urban fringe planning – a pathway towards sustainable city regions....Pages 83-95
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A case study of chemical weather forecasting in the area of Vienna, Austria....Pages 99-107
Micrometeorological effects on urban sound propagation: A numerical and experimental study....Pages 109-119
Performance evaluation of air quality dispersion models in Delhi, India....Pages 121-130
Characterization of atmospheric deposition in a small suburban catchment....Pages 131-140
Atmospheric elements deposition and evaluation of the anthropogenic part; the AAEF concept....Pages 141-152
Sulfur dioxide and sulfate in particulate matter scavenging processes modeling in different localities of metropolitan region of São Paulo with different cloud heights....Pages 153-160
Shop opening hours and population exposure to NO 2 assessed with an activity-based transportation model....Pages 161-170
Lung deposited dose of UFP and PM for cyclists and car passengers in Belgium....Pages 171-180
Emissive behaviour of two-wheeler vehicle category. Methodologies and results.....Pages 181-190
Mobility of trace metals in urban atmospheric particulate matter from Beijing, China....Pages 191-200
Health risk from air pollutants, an epidemic in Western Java Indonesia....Pages 201-210
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Emission control strategies for short-chain chloroparaffins in two semi-hypothetical case cities....Pages 213-223
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Identification of water bodies sensitive to pollution from road runoff. A new methodology based on the practices of Slovenia and Portugal....Pages 225-235
Modeling nutrient and pollutant removal in three wet detention ponds....Pages 237-248
Analysis of flow characteristics in a compound channel: comparison between experimental data and 1D numerical simulations....Pages 249-262
Comparison of the pollutant potential of two Portuguese highways located in different climatic regions....Pages 263-273
Road runoff characteristics on costal zones – Exploratory Data Analysis based on a pilot case study....Pages 275-284
Characterization of road runoff: A case study on the A3 Portuguese Highway....Pages 285-295
The impact of highway runoff on the chemical status of small urban streams....Pages 297-306
Changes of toxic metals bioavailability in urban creeks as a potential environmental hazard....Pages 307-316
Possible sampling simplification of macroinvertebrates for urban drainage purposes....Pages 317-327
Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fauna from wet detention ponds for stormwater runoff....Pages 329-338
Behavior of dissolved trace metals by discharging wastewater effluents into receiving water....Pages 339-349
Speciation of trace metals in organic matter of contaminated urban sediments....Pages 351-361
An urban watershed regeneration project: The Costa/Couros river case study....Pages 363-372
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The Astysphere, a geoscientific concept for the urban impact on nature....Pages 375-382
Traffic related metal distribution profiles and their impact on urban soils....Pages 383-392
Assessment of total petrol and polycylic aromatic hydrocarbon mobility in soils using leaching tests....Pages 393-402
Soil-plant relations in an urban environment polluted with heavy metals....Pages 403-412
Risk assessment of contaminants leaching to groundwater in an infrastructure project....Pages 413-423
Sewage sludge treatment focused on useful compounds recovery....Pages 425-438
Environmental emission impact from transport during soil remediation....Pages 439-448