Salvatore Mellino

Parthenope University of Naples | Università Parthenope · Department of Science and Technology

Modern intensive agriculture worldwide is generating increasing environmental pressure, which prevents its sustainable development. A number of agricultural sustainability assessment approaches and methodological frameworks have been developed by research worldwide to assess the environmental costs and impacts of resources used in agricultural prod...

Smart mobility is day by day becoming one of the crucial issues to address in order to reduce environmental impacts such as global warming, acidification, photochemical smog, among others. The growing concerns about urban air quality are the driving force for cleaner and more efficient transport systems. Several new transport technologies are being...

The world is facing a water quality crisis resulting from continuous population growth, urbanization, land use change, industrialization, unsustainable water use practices and wastewater management strategies, among others. In this context, wastewater treatment (WWT) facilities are of vital significance for urban systems. Wastewater management clea...

A half-a-century historical series (1962–2008) of energy and resource consumption in the city of Rome (Italy) is investigated in order to ascertain the links between resource use and complexity change. Environmental, material, and energy inputs evaluated as actual energy and mass flows, are converted into impact indicators (local and cumulative abi...

The worldwide trend of conversion of forested and wild areas into agricultural and urbanised land under the pressure of increasing population affects the environment in many ways: increases pollution, decreases biodiversity and degrades ecosystems in such a way that they are no longer able to provide their services to humans and other species (e.g....

In the pursuit of more sustainable wastewater treatment (WWT) processes , life cycle assessment (LCA) can be used as a valuable tool to evaluate the environmental impacts associated to WWT plants. In this study LCA is applied to compare the environmental performance of three scenarios for sludge disposal in a WWT plant located in southern Italy. Th...

Natural systems make their natural capital and ecosystem services available to human economy. A careful analysis of the interplay between natural and human-made capital is needed to prevent natural capital being overexploited for present economic benefits, affecting lifestyles and wellbeing of future generations. In this study, the emergy synthesis...

The estimation of the operational carbon footprint of a wastewater treatment plant for municipal and industrial wastewater, activated sludge system with nutrient removal and filtration; was carried out on the basis of data relating to one year . In different parts of the world legislators and public opinion are increasing their focus on greenhouse...

Production activities are always accompanied by energy consumption and waste generation; the basic environmental issue in industrial and developing countries worldwide still is how to best identify and manage waste streams while at same time recovering their energy content. In this paper, starting from the evidence that the conventional disposal of...

This work investigates landscape metabolism (resource use change, ecosystem services, fragmentation) and urbanization processes over-time (1990-2006) in Campania Region and designs GIS based maps of impervious surfaces, in order to provide a way to assess the environmental worth and quality of lands. More than 5,000 ha of newly urbanized areas appe...

The extraction, supply and use of fossil energy carriers and chemicals is a day-by-day increasingly critical issue, linked as it is to severe damages to environment and human health, not to talk of the shrinking availability of fossil fuels worldwide. Therefore, research on suitable alternatives to the extensive use of fossil-based fuels and chemic...

Natural resources are not uniformly distributed over the landscape and, as a consequence, different areas support different social and economic development challenges. In this context, geo-referred information plays a paramount role in the dynamics of economies and their interaction with the environment. Synergic use of geographic information syste...

Modern societies and economies are highly dependent on fossil energy for their survival. Unfortunately fossil energy resources and minerals are non-renewable and represent finite stocks. Consequently, societies and economies (production, trade and consumption modes) should be reorganized according to the awareness of less resource availability in t...

Agricultural systems are a crucial interface between human societies and nature, in that they “amplify” the human-controlled investments by concentrating natural energies of sun, rain, and nutrients and make them converge to food production. Even if gross economic value, la- bor and energy expenditures associated to agriculture are unlikely to ever...

This paper evaluates the resource use and environmental performance of the Italian agricultural sector across levels, from local (selected olive, lemon and grape farms), through regional (Campania region) up to the national scale (whole Italy). An assessment over time (from 1985 to 2010) was performed in order to investigate how the demand for envi...

The “Postgraduate European Sustainable Development Symposia” represented, in the first two editions, an opportunity for young researchers, from a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds and interested in Sustainable Development, to share their knowledge and discuss about hot points related to new technologies, the impact of human activities on t...

Un corretto ed adeguato processo di pianificazione è uno step fondamentale verso lo sviluppo sostenibile a livello locale. In particolare, gli aspetti ambientali stanno assumendo un ruolo sempre più centrale nei processi di pianificazione. Le risorse naturali non sono distribuite uniformemente nello spazio ma sono più o meno concentrate ed accessib...

A biorefinery is an integrated pattern of farming and conversion activities capable to provide bioenergy and biomaterials as alternative to fossil-based refineries, increasing jobs and income in rural areas. Considering the need to avoid competition with food production in arable land, non-food cropping on marginal land is being explored worldwide...

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