Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 – Long-Term Perturbations in the Soils, Waters and Plant Communities of Two Closed Landfills under a Dry-Mediterranean Climate (pp. 1-24)
A. J. Hernández, Mª. J. Gutiérrez-Ginés and J. Pastor (Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, Spain, and others)
Chapter 2 – Surface Geophysical Methods in the Assessment of Environmental Impacts of Landfills: An Overview (pp. 25-52)
Elsa Cristina Ramalho, Manuel João Senos Matias and Rui Miguel Marques Moura (Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Estrada da Portela, Bairro do Zambujal, Amadora, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 3 – Municipal Landfill Leachates: Water Contaminants or Source of Nutrients in Agricultural Soils? (pp. 53-68)
Marco Antonio Nogueira, Cristiane Alcantara dos Santos, Sandra Márcia Cesário Pereira da Silva, Daniel Bini, Luciana Cadioli Panchoni, Vanessa Lázaro Mangieri and Grazielle Favero Valério (Department of Microbiology; Department of Civil Construction. Universidade Estadual de Londrina. C. Postal, Londrina Paraná Brazil, and others)
Chapter 4 – Integrated Technologies Based on the Use of Activated Carbon and Radiation to Remove Contaminants Present in Landfill Leachates (pp. 69-110)
R. Ocampo-Perez, J. Rivera-Utrilla, M. M. Abdel daiem and M. Sánchez-Polo (Centro de Investigación y Estudios de Posgrado, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and others)
Chapter 5 – Phytocapping of Municipal Landfills (pp. 111-146)
Kartik Venkatraman, Nanjappa Ashwath and Ninghu Su (East Gippsland Shire Council, Victoria, Australia, and others)
Chapter 6 – Health and Ecological Risk of Methane and Volatile Organic Compounds Emission from Solid Waste Disposal: A Case Study in Thailand (pp. 147-166)
Sansarith Thianpopirug, Sudarat Kucamau, Wilai Chiemchaisri and Chart Chiemchaisri (Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand)
Chapter 7 – Models for Evaluating Prevention of Waste on a Macroeconomic Level (pp. 167-198)
Predrag Korica and Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn (Croatian Environment Agency, Zagreb, Croatia, and others)
Chapter 8 – From Dumping to Sustainable Landfilling: The Concept of Aerobic Landfills (pp. 199-222)
Gabriela Kalčíková and Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Index