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Résumé: Total Food 2009 is the third in a series of biennial international conferences which focus on the sustainable exploitation of agri-food co-products and related biomass, thereby helping to minimise waste. Themes to be explored will range from the adding of value to co-products through to the recovery of energy from waste streams.

Résumé: Hosted by the University of Brighton, UK, and organised by the KES International research and knowledge transfer organisation, SEB'09 will be a major opportunity for researchers in subjects related to sustainability, renewable energy technology, and applications in the built environment to report on recent research and mix with stakeholders in the field.

Résumé: Urbanization, industrial revolution, and deficient waste disposal practices have left a legacy of polluted sediments in rivers, estuaries, lakes and seas. Pollutants of concern range from trace compounds, such as pharmaceutical substances (emerging contaminants), to high concentration compounds such as petroleum hydrocarbons released during oil spills or heavy metals carried within mine effluents. In all cases, these contaminants will represent a potential risk to aquatic ecosystems and water resources that, in turn, will affect public health or commercial and recreational activities.

The awareness of this threat has introduced, in most countries, stricter regulations that have stopped some inappropriate disposal practices (for example, disposal of contaminated dredged sediments in open sea waters). The coming of the sustainable development (world wide) movement is bringing new concepts and principles. These new concepts and principles are presently driving technological development in the site-restoration engineering practice. Nevertheless, pollution prevention, multiple contaminant and complex site layouts greatly challenge engineers and scientists who are called upon to develop solutions that are technically, economically, and socially sound.

Résumé: The siting of new airports involves taking into consideration a variety of environmental, ecological, social and economic factors which transcend the problem of transportation resources optimisation itself. Regional airports can be a powerful driving force behind the development of an area and conversely can result in major problems if they are wrongly sited. All of the factors make the topic of regional airport studies one of the most exciting areas of transportation research. In spite of this, there is a lack of a suitable forum where researchers and practitioners can meet to discuss their work. With this in mind, the Wessex Institute of Technology has launched this meeting in collaboration with the University of Reggio Calabria.