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Hybrid Biofilm-Activated Sludge process for Simultaneous Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus
More and more evidence show that nitrogen and phosphorus in discharged municipal wastewater are the main reasons for the entrophication of water bodies, and biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater are the most important technologies for controlling entrophication. But the traditional biological nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) removal processes are complica...
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Study on the social-economic progress, construction pattern, management system and policy of sustainable urban
The coupling relationship among social-economic development, urban construction and expansion, and the environment should be considered to pursue sustainable urban. This project will investigate Chinese urbanization progress and define the concepts, meanings, objectives and principles of sustainable urbanization, by comparing sustainable urban in other urban of the world. In...
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Study on the carrying capacity of natural environment and resources for sustainable urban growth and its countermeasures
China has made the most rapid urbanization in the world in the past decades. Serious problems and big challenges in terms of resources shortage and environment pollution have been induced by the rapid urbanization in current China, which has restricted the sustainability of urban development in some degree. Although many case studies have investigated the related issue from ...
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Stress Effects of the Coastal Spatial Use and Landscape Pattern Changes on Eco-environment in Xiamen
Taking Xiamen coastal area as an example, the project tries to find out the driving factors and constraints of socioeconomic and natural factors on coastal spatial use as well as landscape pattern changes during rapid urbanization process, through combining the socioeconomic analysis methods and 3S. On the other hand, the eco-environmental stress effects of coastal spatial u...
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Environmental epidemiological investigation and risk assessment in the course of urbanization.
Recent years have witnessed important advances in the analysis of spatially referenced health data with the progress of GIS and spatial analysis technique. In order to make clear the underlying cause of the increasing disease in modern city, GIS and spatial analysis technique will be used to explore the spatial cluster of human disease and to identify the related environment...
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Ecological and Health Risk Assessment of Typical Toxic Pollutants in Urban Environment
Typical toxic pollutants will be determined through investigation of different environmental media such as water, sediment and biota in Xiamen area, especially for heavy metals and persistent organic Endocrine Disruption Chemicals (EDCs). Fish (Vertebrate), Shrimp (Anthropod) or Mollusk with important ecological effect will be chosen as indicator or target organisms for in-s...
