Author/Dr Nikos Tzortzakis (M) is Assistant Professor at the Dep. of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science. He obtained his BSc in Horticulture, School of Geotehnic Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), completed his Specialized Post-University Diploma (DSPU) and MSc in the field of ”Horticulture Quality Management” at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh- CIHEAM), and he was awarded his Ph D degree in the field of ”Postharvest Physiology and Biochemistry of Horticultural Crops” (University of Newcastle upon Tyne-UK) in 2006. He worked as a post-doc Researcher at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete and at the Institute of Olive Tree and Subtropical Plants-NAGREF and he is lecturing at Universities since 2007. His main scientific interests include issues in soil and plant nutrition, composting, hydroponics, exploitation of plant wastes and treated waste water in field crops and greenhouse as well as postharvest preservation of fruit/vegetables. To date, he has been author of 45 papers (the majority of the as a senior author) in referred journals, 2 review paper and 2 book chapters, and more than 86 presentations in conferences. He holds an International Patent No PCT/GB2004/003102, reviewed more than 200 articles in 32 journals, and acting as member of organizing and/or scientific committees for several international/national conferences. Dr Tzortzakis is a MC Member for Cyprus in COST Action FA1106 and EUVRIN. He is involved in several supervision and co-supervision of Ph D, MSc and BSc student thesis. He coordinates/involved in several research projects (HYDROFLIES, ESSOFRESH, SALTAROMA and VITISMART). He is served at editorial board for Postharvest-Technology Journal and for the Frontier of Plant Science as well as Associate Editor at Advances in Medicinal Plant Research Journal and at the Food Research Journal. More info of N. Tzortzakis group is available on line in his Institutional website (https://www.cut.ac.cy/hydro-aromatic-plants/people). Solid waste has grown into a relatively difficult problem to solve for those responsible for its management; these responsibilities include the collection, transport, treatment, and disposal of solid wastes, particularly wastes generated in medium and large urban centers. This problem is even more intense in economically developing countries, where the financial, human, and other critical resources are scarce in general. In the last decade, there has been a great interest and awareness regarding the environmentally safe management of waste worldwide, centralized in legislative, administrative, standardization, and research activities in this field. Therefore, it is essential to develop short- and long-term waste management strategies (often named the 3Rs) and their consequent implementation in compliance with the formulated priorities for waste: (1) Reduce, (2) Recycle, (3) Reuse and (4) environmentally safe disposal.Several contradictions and lack of agreement still exist, even regarding the major basic definitions, e.g., which material should be treated as "waste" and which as a "beneficial raw material", which wastes are "hazardous" and which are "non-hazardous", etc. Quite often, different approaches – and as a consequence, waste management/disposals – are adopted for the same situation/materials. Environmental risk assessment procedures and mode of actions are varied greatly not only within national levels, but also at regional levels within the same country by different groups of scientists and/or policy makers. The general idea of the book has arisen from the mutual experience of many specialists in numerous disciplines from different countries involved in the problem of environmental assessment, economic and monitoring approaches, and control approaches for chemicals generated from solid waste disposal. Solid waste worldwide issues nowadays reflect the complexity and unbalanced development of our world at the beginning of the 21st century. This book covers a broad group of wastes, from biowaste to hazardous waste. The contributors to the book are recognized experts in the diverse fields associated with the issues of waste management and the reuse-recycle of materials, and are from different parts of the world. Authors present their experience and approaches considering both international and national/local specifics. The book is addressed to the wide range of end-users, decision-makers and professionals involved in environmental and agricultural issues: administration, designers, manufacturers, policy makers, farmers, researchers, academics and university students, and is focused on waste properties, environmental behavior and management in an environmentally safe way. It was not the intention of the editor/authors to exhaust the subject, which is intensely broad, but to give a general idea with updating trends in the field of solid waste management concerning disposal, monitoring, assessment and remedial options, which are demonstrated also in case studies.The authors hope that this book – to some extent – will contribute to the trials and efforts for the proper, environmentally safe practices of solid waste disposal, and will provide state-of-the-art information and discussion, monitoring strategies, advanced approaches and methods, techniques and equipment for environmentally safe disposal and remediation of solid wastes.Target Audience:The book is addressed to the wide range of end-users, decision-makers and professionals involved in environmental and agricultural issues: administration, designers, manufacturers, policy makers, farmers, researchers, academics and university students and is focused on waste properties, environmental behavior and management in an environmentally safe way.
Ebook lainnya dari penulis yang sama / Editor
31,825 Ebooks dalam kategori ini
