Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 16 Issue 1

Impact of urban effluents on intestinal helminth infections in the wastewater discharge zone of the city of El Jadida, Morocco

Fatima‐Zahra Lamghari Moubarrad, Omar Assobhei

This work evaluates the risk of wastewater in transmitting intestinal helminths to a population living near an urban effluent.

An application of a new extreme value distribution to air pollution data

Ahmed Hurairah, Noor Akma Ibrahim, Isa Bin Daud, Kassim Haron

Extreme value model is one of the most important models that are applicable in air pollution data. This paper aims at introducing a new model of extreme value that is more…

An analysis of the environmental threats posed by industry in Kocaeli, turkey

M. Sarper Erdogan, Cavit Yavuz, Cigdem Caglayan, Nilay Etiler, Onur Hamzaoglu

This paper has been produced to enumerate and discuss threats which are caused by industry and may affect health in the province of Kocaeli.

A comparative analysis of the application of sustainability metric tools using Tipperary Town, Ireland, as a case study

David Browne, Bernadette O'Regan, Richard Moles

The paper aims to assess two sustainability metric methodologies, material flow analysis (MFA) and integrated sustainable cities assessment method (ISCAM), as applied practically…

The evaluation of a planning tool through the landscape ecology concepts and methods

Daniel Franco, Anna Bombonato, Ilda Mannino, Pierfrancesco Ghetti, Gabriele Zanetto

Landscape ecology represents an area of theoretical and empirical support of spatial planning, providing parameters such as heterogeneity, connectivity and fragmentation. The aim…

A survey of trends related to the contamination of street dust by heavy metals in Gwagwalada, Nigeria

S.A. Mashi, S.A. Yaro, P.N. Eyong

Contamination of the environment by heavy metals is a phenomenon of global importance today. When present in high concentrations in the environment, heavy metals may enter the…

The consumer's changing role: the case of recycling

Helén Anderson, Maria Huge Brodin

The emerging material flows of recycled goods have effects on roles, responsibilities and positions of a range of industrial actors, but also on the consumer as a part of the…