LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF MUNICIPAL WATER RESOURCES USE

Semantic Resources for Managing Legislative Information

XML tagging offers the possibility of embedding semantic information in legislative documents, namely, information about the normative content of the legal text [1, 4, 7, 24, 41, 44, 49]. The embedded semantic information can have different levels of depth and can have different articulated structure [3, 7]. At a first level, it only consists of keywords that are added to the text to facilitate...

Health Challenges of Human Resources in Municipal Solid Waste Management

In most classic texts, solid waste management is considered to be consisting of some certain functional elements, including generation, storage, segregation, recycling, transportation and disposal. However implying, this feature does not directly incorporate or emphasize human resources that are supposed to be the center of any sustainable development. It might be due to the noticeable fact o...

Legislative regulation of surrogacy and reproductive technology.

Land Use, Climate, and Water Resources-Global Stages of Interaction.

Land use and climate change can accelerate the depletion of freshwater resources that support humans and ecosystem services on a global scale. Here, we briefly review studies from around the world, and highlight those in this special issue. We identify stages that characterize increasing interaction between land use and climate change. During the first stage, hydrologic modifications and the bu...

Efficient Use of Water Resources in the Steel Industry

In the steel sector water management aims at improving the sustainability of the production cycle, resulting in resource efficiency benefits and in reduced water demand and costs. To be reused, water needs to be cooled and desalinized to avoid salt concentration in water circulation systems. The presented work includes two case studies carried out in an integrated steelmaking plant, respectivel...