Table of Contents

Section 1: Development issues The Ecological Footprint Depth: preliminary consideration for national accounting; Non-profit organisations (NPOs) for sustainable development at community, regional and civil society level; Comparison study on evaluating urban traffic, transport system and services in China and Japan; MERCY Malaysia's experience in recent response and rebuilding of disaster areas; Tools for sustainable development: a comparison of building performance simulation packages; Safe development of coal mine enterprises based on Endogenous Growth Theory; A pre-investment model for a sustainable development; Qualification of offshore facilities prior to application in a new field Section 2: Environmental issues The effects of long-term thermal load on the stability of the lining of a deep underground waste repository; Environmental viability for rural roads in the Amazon region, Brazil; How nautical tourism ports affect the environment Section 3: Changing climates The impact of relative sea level rise on the Northern Adriatic Sea coast, Italy; Wind and wave storms, storm surges and sea level rise along the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea; Adaptation to climate change: does spatial planning help? Swarm planning does!; Bayesian inference for predicting ecological water quality under different climate change scenarios Section 4: Transborder strategies Baltic Sea Action Plan process: co-production of science and policy; Strategic transborder environmental assessment for power generation in the Baja California, Mexico and California, USA border region Section 5: Air quality Adaptive system of forecasting the air quality; Application of artificial neural networks for classification and prediction of air quality classes; Dilution and dispersion of inhalable particulate matter; Biofiltration of methane: effect of temperature and nutrient solution; Contribution to atmospheric benzene concentrations of the petrol stations in a mid sized city Section 6: Energy Global distributed energy systems; Primary energy supply and economic wealth; Concentrating solar power in sustainable tourism; Criteria and methodology for an indicator of energy applied to motorways; Sustainable energy future for Austria; Wind turbines site selection on an isolated island; Energy saving and environmental benefits of metal box vegetal facades Section 7: Aquifer studies Modeling the saltwater intrusion in the lowlying catchment of the southern Venice Lagoon, Italy; Estimating a new approach for describing electrical conductivity parameters in partially saturated sediments Section 8: Selected South African Water Issues An overview of the salinization problem in the Berg river catchment (South Africa); A comparative analysis of the PRMS and J2000 hydrological models applied to the Sandspruit Catchment (Western Cape, South Africa); An assessment of the Atlantis artificial recharge water supply scheme (Western Cape, South Africa); An Excel-based index (PestEX) for environmental mobility of pesticides in relation to water resources; In-situ nitrate removal from groundwater to supply rural communities: experimental work and modelling