Urban Ecology, Water Quality and Climate Change

Preface<div><br/></div><div>I Urbanization and Ecological Sustainability</div><div>1. Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Problems and Perspectives</div><div>2. Construction in Nature vs. Nature of Construction</div><div>3. The Use of Vegetation and the Expression of Urban Memory in Jean Nouvel's Recent Architecture</div><div>4. Soil Leaching Behavior of Different Urban Landscapes</div><div>5. Environmental Sustainability: Stabilized Mud Blocks as an Alternative to Burnt Brick</div><div>6. A Study of Urbanization and Ecosystem Services of Guwahati City from an Ecological (Forest Ecosystem) Footprint Perspective</div><div>7. User Preferences and Traffic Impact Evaluation of the Bus Rapid Transit System for a Medium Sized City</div><div>8. Green Road Approach in Indian Road Construction for Sustainable Development</div><div>9. Site Specific Impact Assessment of Coal Mine Fire on the Road Network in Jharia Town, Using the Electrical Resistivity Imaging Technique</div><div><br/></div><div>II Climate Change Issues in the Urban Sector</div><div>10. Climate Change Consideration in Planning and Development of Semi Urban Areas</div><div>11. Effect of Climate Change over Kashmir Valley</div><div>12. Assessment of the Urban Heat Island Effect in Guwahati: A Remote Sensing Based Study</div><div>13. Climate Change and Its Effect on Hydrology and Threat to Biodiversity: A Study on Manas River (Upper Part) and the Manas National Park, Assam, India</div><div>14. Increasing Extreme Temperature Events in Guwahati City During 1971 - 2010</div><div>15. Trends in Sunshine Duration in the Humid Climate of Northeast India: A Case Study</div><div><br/></div><div>III Water Quality Concerns in the Urban Environment</div><div>16. Factors Affecting the Quality of Roof-Harvested Rainwater</div><div>17. Effect of Effluents from Cachar Papermill, Panchgram, BarakValley and Assam on Water Quality Around Dumping Sites</div><div>18. Heavy Metal Pollution in Adyar Waters: Analysis and Bioremediation</div>19. Assessment of Water Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Gharaso River of Northern Iran<div>20. Stability Analysis of River Banks Using Ground Penetrating Radar</div><div><br/></div><div>IV Urban Waste: Concerns and Remediation</div><div>21. Elimination of Chromium (VI) from Waste Water Using Various Bio Sorbents</div><div>22. Biodegradation Kinetics of Toluene, Ethylbenzene and Xyleneina Mixture of VOCs</div><div>23. Aerobic Degradation of Complex Organic Compounds and Cyanides in Coke Oven Waste Water in the Presence of Glucose</div><div>24. Benzene Biodegradation by Aerococus sp. Isolated from Petroleum Oil Sludge</div><div>25. Simultaneous Removal of High Nitrate and Phosphate from Synthetic Waste Water by Prolonged Anaerobic Cycle in a Batch Reactor</div><div>26. Effects of Heavy Metals on the Environment by Utilization of Urban Waste Compost for Land Application</div><div>27. Amine Grafted Meso Porous Silica Materials for CO2 Capture under Flue Gas Conditions28. Lignocellulosic Biomass as a Sustainable Source for Bioethanol Production</div><div><br/></div><div>V Ground Water Contamination</div><div>29. Saline Water Intrusion in the Coastal Aquifers of the Periyar River Basin, Central Kerala, India</div><div>30. A Geo-Environmental Study on Groundwater Recharge Zones and Groundwater Management in the Guwahatie Municipal Area</div><div>31. Scope and Challenges of Sustainable Drinking Water Management in Assam</div><div>32. Series Removal of Heavy Metal and Aromatic Compound from Contaminated Groundwater, Using Zerovalentiron (ZVI)</div><div>33. Spatial Decision Support Systems for Groundwater Quality Management Using Geomatics</div>