Environmental Management Magazines & Journals
-
Showcase
International Journal of Environment and Pollution (IJEP)
The international Journal of Environment and Pollution is a refereed journal providing an international forum for the field of environment and pollution. One of three key journals (along with The International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management and and The International Journal of Global Environmental Issues) which together offer complete coverage of key environmental issues, it ...
-
Showcase
International Journal of Higher Education and Sustainability (IJHES)
IJHES proposes and fosters discussion on the evolution of higher education for sustainability, with emphasis on the three interconnected pillars, the environmental, the economic and the social, along with emerging dimensions of culture and politics. The incorporation of sustainability in higher education is critical in producing human resources, in terms of the essential skills, understanding and ...
-
Premium
Translating Wastewater Surveillance Data
Faced with the need for non-invasive and scalable tools to supplement individual clinical testing and contact tracing efforts, public health officials and wastewater experts have begun turning to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which is also known as wastewater surveillance. This practice can monitor substances of concern in communities by detecting and quantifying their concentrations in ...
-
Premium
Who Pays for PFAS Contamination?
Many parts of the U.S. have recently seen increased testing and regulation of groundwater contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or similar chemicals. For example, several northeastern states, including New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, have recently enacted regulations limiting PFOA or PFAS ...
-
Premium
A 2020 Perspective on the Evolution of Stormwater Management
2020 is a good year to examine stormwater management progress in the United States over the past few decades. CDM Smith Vice President Virginia Roach offers her perspective on the goals set in the 1990s, rising popularity of green infrastructure, impacts of climate change, lessons learned, and resulting new stormwater management approaches. ...
-
Premium
Unprecedented Times Call for Smart Measures
Even before this virus, municipalities were operating with a shortage of water resource recovery facility operators - largely due to retirements occurring in an aging workforce, leaving many municipalities in need of immediate replacements and succession plans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 8.2% of existing water operators will need to be replaced annually between 2016 and 2026. ...
-
Premium
Flattening the (Diurnal) Curve
Most sewer flows are characterized by repeatable diurnal patterns that vary across weekdays, weekends, and holidays. Differences in land use also are apparent, and distractions and disruptions of daily life often can be observed. The coronavirus pandemic has touched all of us in some way. Normal is simply not normal anymore. Instead, our usual routines at home, work, and school have been replaced ...
-
-
-
Premium
Enabling sustainable reuse with real-time optimization
Digital optimization solutions are improving water treatment facility performance in real-time, supporting industries and municipalities in reducing their environmental footprint and carbon emissions and enhancing operational cost ...
-
Premium
Recognizing stormwater management achievements
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) Stormwater Institute celebrates five years of the National Municipal Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Awards, which recognizes communities for high-performing stormwater management efforts. The authors discuss the achievements of award-winning communities, including the 2019 overall winners Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee and the City of ...
-
Premium
Making a strong business case for green infrastructure
A comprehensive analysis of the proposed Mirabeau Water Garden project in New Orleans, Louisiana, US found significant financial, social, and environmental benefits thatprovide a strong business case for investing in the flood reduction project. ...
-
Premium
Best practice approach delivers integrated solutions for complex water problems
Understanding the complex relationships among a number of interconnected water systems–piped networks, treatment facilities, highway runoff, and wetlands–calls for a best practice methodology that can help deliver an integrated solution to address multiple problems for multiple stakeholders. The author explains an approach used effectively in the United ...
-
Premium
Barriers to LID
Low impact development has increased in familiarity and implementation as an alternative practice for stormwater management in the past decade, according to a recent survey conducted by the Colorado Stormwater Center in the US. The author discusses its findings. ...
-
Premium
Maori value of water shapes 21st century solutions
Incorporating traditional values of New Zealand’s indigenous Te Māori in the water and wastewater infrastructure planning and operations helps deliver 21st century solutions. Garry Macdonald and Kristina Hermens of Beca Ltd. illustrate through two case studies how lessons can be learned from past generations. ...
-
Premium
Adapting to sea level rise
Research conducted at three water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) in Japan reveal the types of flooding caused by sea level rise and practical measures to protect coastal infrastructure. Authors Anh Cao and Takashi Mino of the University of Tokyo and Miguel Esteban of Waseda University in Japan explain. ...
-
Premium
AEGEA’s sewer network expansion restores Araruama Lagoon
The Brazilian water and sanitation utility Prolagos used Bentley's SewerGEMS modeling software to help develop an optimized master plan for five municipalities that is expected to increase sewer coverage to 90 percent at 58-percent lower cost. ...
-
Premium
Low-level pumping station keeps water flowing
American Rivers – a nonprofit group whose mission is to protect wild rivers and restore damaged rivers – issued a dire report about the lower Colorado River in 2017. The conservation group claimed the lower Colorado River as one of the most-endangered rivers in the United States ...
-
-
Premium
Promising future for SUDs
In the UK, the water sector’s Design and Construction Guidance is setting new standards for SuDS and clarifying what is expected of developers if their drainage systems are to be adopted by water and sewerage companies. Mandated by the Water Services Regulation Authority (OFWAT), the guidance was developed by Water UK, an organization that represents all major water and wastewater ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you