4th International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development
20 - 22 June, 2018
Naples, Italy
Introduction
The 4th International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development follows the success of three previous meetings held in the New Forest, UK, (home of the Wessex Institute of Technology) in 2012; Ancona, Italy in 2014; and Valencia, Spain in 2016.
The meeting will provide an international forum to discuss the most serious problems affecting sustainable development. The Conference will consider the impact of economic constraints on the environment, taking into account the social aspects as well as the over-use of natural resources. Uncontrolled development can also result in damage to the environment in terms of the release of toxic substances and hazardous waste.
The meeting will examine issues related to whether some forms of development are compatible with environmental protection, particularly in cases of possible serious contamination and toxicity.
The conference will address problems of great importance discussing more constructive and progressive approaches to ensure sustainability. A major motivation for the meeting is to learn from past failure, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while attempting to prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems.
Fundamental to these concepts is the analysis of the inherent risk and the development of appropriate strategies.
All published papers from previous meetings are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary) where they are freely available to the international community
Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Environmental Impact 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.
- Environmental policies and planning
- Environmental assessments
- Development issues
- Sustainable cities
- Economic impact
- Natural resources management
- Energy and the environment
- Food production systems and policies
- Ecosystems health
- Soil contamination
- Remediation
- Decommissioning of hazardous plants
- Brownfields rehabilitation
- Water resources management
- Air and water pollution
- Toxicity studies
- Pollution and public health
- Environmental health risk
- Community participation
- Legislation and regulations
Find out more on the conference webpage.
