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Mediterranean Countries: Main Environmental Issues & Concerns

The Mediterranean has been subject to moving human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean are dealing both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment.
 
The special issue aims to collect research that are running in the entire Mediterranean Region as the countries around Med they face similar issues such as geological and water scarcity, climate changes, soil erosions, waste management, coastal corrosions, etc. It is very important to find out with this special issue how the European Mediterranean Countries will be affected from the non-European (and vice-versa) considering the circular economy strategy, the European Green deal, waste management, the energy nexus etc.    
 
This special issue will collect papers that were presented in CEMEPE2021 conference as well as from other Mediterranean Regions (even they didn't participated in the conference) and highlighted within an important and relevant issues. The special issue that will remain open until April 2022.
 


Highlights:
 
The Special Issue aims at presenting high-quality research studies on the Mediterranean region (from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea and their direct neighbors) and to cover the following topics (but not limited to):


  • The impact of European Green Deal
  • Circular Economy Strategy
  • Sustainable Development Goals 
  • Research on Wastewaters
  • Recent research related with pharmaceutical in water and waste waters
  • Energy recovery from waste, energy storage, energy efficiency 
  • Waste prevention, waste minimization, zero waste, Food waste etc
  • Life cycle analysis, Life cost analysis, Life social analysis 
  • Waste valorization, pyrolysis, gasification
  • Olive oil mile waste
  • Hazardous waste treatment
  • Chemical Oxidation, Advanced Chemical Oxidation, Electrochemical Oxidation
  • The impact of Covid-19 on environmental dimensions  
  • Water scarcity
  • Costal Erosion
  • Geological Scarcity
  • Costal Environment
  • Overview of available advanced technologies to increase the efficiency and productivity of the water industry.
  • Improvement of water use efficiency 
  • Enhancement of water quality to develop more freshwater using recently developed low-cost techniques.
  • Groundwater sustainability and automated monitoring techniques.
  • Improvement of Water Resources management and development of new best practices strategies 
  • Social activities, social attitude and social behavior as well as ethics on the environment 
  • Soil Science, Soil pollution 



Deadlines and key dates:

Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 May 2022

Notification of Acceptance: less than 90 days after submission date 

Publishing Date of the issue: 30 September  2022 (*)
(*) Each accepted paper will be published online and indexed in the Web of Science shortly after the acceptance date without waiting for building the full special issue.

The submission link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/emje/default1.aspx


Submission and Evaluation:
 
Interested authors can submit on or before the deadline. All papers will be evaluated carefully through a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published immediately and indexed in the Web of Science without waiting for building the full special issue.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting manuscripts are available on the journal’s “Submission Guidelines” page. In particular, authors should carefully read the section “Instructions for Authors / Before Online Submission” on this link (this opens in a new tab).
 
 

Lead Guest Editor:

Antonis A. Zorpas (antonis.zorpas@ouc.ac.cy (this opens in a new tab),  antoniszorpas@yahoo.com (this opens in a new tab))
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability
Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Research Interest:  strategic planning development in the framework of waste management; circular and bio-economy; waste valorization; waste to energy; European green deal; biosolids treatment and management; hazardous waste treatment; end of waste criteria; waste minimization; zero waste approach; waste prevention; social behavior; household and solid waste management; advanced oxidation process; life cycle analysis and environmental risk analysis; SDGs; green entrepreneurship


Guest Editors:

Irene Voukkali (voukkei@yahoo.gr (this opens in a new tab))
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability
Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Research Interest:  city metabolism, climate resilient cities, food waste, agri waste, environmental management systems, circular economy



Iliana Papamichael (iliana.papamichael@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab))
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability
Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Research Interest: environmental performance approaches, monitoring tools, unified waste metrics, gamification approach, key performed indicators, chemical engineering  



 

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