Urban population and urbanisation are increasing rapidly, mainly in developing countries,
usually at the expense of green and blue areas. This trend will decrease the ecosystems' …

Landfills remain widely used for waste disposal, despite their negative impact on human
health and environment. Adverse impact is mainly due to gas and leachate emissions …

Properly managed urban household waste landfills play a crucial role in achieving
sustainable development and ecological civilization. This paper proposes an innovative …

How climate change and human activities drive the evolution of the regional environment
and where the quality of ecosystems improve or decline over time have become widespread …

Phytocaps are soil-plant systems that are installed on top of landfills after closure to achieve
hydraulic containment of wastes and rehabilitation of the landform. They provide greater …

Post-closure care of landfills is intended to reduce adverse impacts on the surrounding
environment, and an important component of this process is capping. Landfills represent …

Over the past two decades, many systems have been developed to support the development
process of brownfield sites, but, existing systems often do not fully understand the complexity …

We are endowed with a great repository of natural capital (biotic and abiotic) in our
ecosystem. Keeping in view the significance of our natural heritage (natural capital) and its …