Overview
- The volume will be an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of critical issues of the urban and highway environment, which is a key to understanding sustainability in the world's expanding urban areas
- The symposium is rather unique because of its broad scope and competition is therefore limited. Other works tend to be more specific and cover just pollution or just pollution and logistics
Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 17)
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About this book
The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution". The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog, ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989 where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through measurements of PM10 emerged. The focus on air quality issues was also strengthened. In parallel, the symposium started to receive an increasing number of scientific contributions from the area of urban run off, indeed to the extent that the title of the symposium was changed to "Highway and Urban Pollution". Since then the importance of science in support of policy became increasingly important as a key aspect of the symposium. 9HUES was held at TRANSyT- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain to provide a professional and scientific forum on global examples of the science required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the highway and urban environment.
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Table of contents (42 papers)
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Sustainable mobility and management
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Air Pollution
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Highway and Urban Environment
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment symposium
Editors: Sébastien Rauch, G.M. Morrison, Andrés Monzón
Series Title: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3043-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3042-9Published: 09 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3095-3Published: 01 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3043-6Published: 02 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1571-4780
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1699
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 416
Number of Illustrations: 154 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Terrestrial Pollution, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Management