Tools, Techniques, and Technologies for Pollution Prevention, Control, and Resource Recovery

Population growth, urbanization, and climate change are posing serious threat to a sustainable future of human societies. Population growth and urbanization demand large amounts of natural resources to be mined and processed to create products that are essential for various infrastructures that are the backbones of day-to-day life. This leads to numerous new industries to be developed. While all the above activities make the standard of living as well as the life expectancy to increase significantly, this is accompanied with significant adverse effects such as decrease in natural resources, contamination of air, water, and soil, some of which eventually contribute to climate change. Transforming current cities to future cities, their adaptability to the increase in population growth, new designs which will manage solid and liquid waste to energy in decentralized systems are some of the many challenges tackled by researchers all over the world to mitigate the adverse effects caused by human activities and to contribute to a sustainable future. 

Eldon R. Rene1 & Li Shu2 & Piet N. L. Lens 1 & Jega V. Jegatheesan3
1 UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Westvest 7, 2611 AX Delft, The Netherlands
2 LJS Environment, 2 Parkville Avenue, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
3 School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia

Received: 10 January 2018 
Accepted: 16 January 2018 
Published online: 6 February 2018

Taxonomy

• Water Pollution
• Pollution
• Water Pollution Control
• Pollution