Environment and Sustainable Development

Proceedings of the 2025 10th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-9236-36-7
Verlag: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 609 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Environmental Science and Engineering

This book is a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2025 10th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD), held in Fukuoka, Japan, November 8–10, 2025. The conference fosters communication among scholars and researchers in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving environment and sustainable development-related techniques. The book covers highly diverse topics, including climate changes, carbon capture and storage, atmospheric physics, physical oceanography, water quality and treatment, reclaimed waters, ground water remediation, soil decontamination, waste minimization, recycling and reuse, and air pollution and control, among others. The book is a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working in the field of environmental science and engineering.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ujikawa, Keiji

Ishiwatari, Mikio

van Hullebusch, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

GIS-Based Hydrological Modelling and Hybrid Watershed Management Strategies for the West Kupang Watershed, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.- Coprostanol Adsorption in Soil Column Experiments Implications for Groundwater Contamination.- Dissolved Oxygen Influences on Sludge Settleability: Mediating Role of the Volatile-to-Total Suspended Solids Ratio.- The Precipitation Variability in the US Semiarid Southwest Region Implications for Low-Impact Development Strategies.- Evaluation of Trophic State and Validation of Threshold Amount of Nutrients in Small-Scale Reservoir.- Physicochemical Assessment of Sumlog River in Davao Oriental, Philippines: Implications for Tropical Riverine Ecosystem Water Quality.- Innovation in Solar Distillation Spherical Prototype with Fresnel Lens and Internal Recirculator for Water Purification.- Improving Mangrove Height and Above-ground Biomass Estimates in Small Island Developing States Using multi-Sensor Satellite Data Case Study of Mauritius.- A Coral Reef Resilience Index for Adaptive Management in West Sumatera Integrating Composite Indexing and Grey Relational Analysis.- Coral Reef Health and Associated Faunal Diversity in Selected Municipalities in Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.

Über Autor(innen)

Keiji Ujikawa is a full professor in the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan. He specializes in environmental economics, environmental policy studies, environmental valuation, and economic statistics. Professor Ujikawa's research interests include indicators, decision-making, and impact assessment of sustainable development. He is also interested in economic, social, and environmental effects of renewable energy (energy conservation) expansion. In 2002, he received his doctor of philosophy in economics from the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher in the Business School at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He published several books and a large number of academic articles, and he served as the representative of research projects. In addition, he has trained many master's and Ph.D. students from abroad. He is an editorial committee member of the Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS). 

Mikio Ishiwatari is a senior advisor on disaster management and water resources management at the Japan International Cooperation Agency and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He has been engaged in projects and research work on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and water issues. He led the formulation of the Japanese assistance policies of climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management. At the World Bank, he worked as a senior disaster risk management specialist and published . He worked in various positions at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan, for 17 years. He formulated and supervised national projects on flood risk management and highways in Iwami District as the director of the Hamada River and Road Office.

Eric D. van Hullebusch holds a Ph.D. in aquatic chemistry and microbiology, and he is a full professor in the biogeochemistry of engineered ecosystems at the Université de Paris and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Paris, France). His main research interests include environmental technologies and biogeochemistry with special focus on 1) study of metals and metalloids biogeochemistry in engineered ecosystems, 2) biohydrometallurgy of secondary resource streams, and 3) soil bioremediation. Within these research areas, he has published more than 250 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is a co-author of more than 25 book chapters.