The Danube River Delta

This unique book presents for the first time the current status of the Danube River Delta, the challenges facing it, and proposed strategies to solve it. One of the biggest challenges is the human effects on the Danube Delta Environment and its lakes that work as sinks for natural and anthropogenic environmental changes, the water management and water flow variability and under climatic conditions including the extreme temperature and precipitation events based on RCMs output and the impact of sedimentation processes on the evolution of the Danube Delta. The book also contains the impact of wind and solar energy on the Delta. The book also presents the integrated approach for sustainable development of the Delta including the structural dynamics of the local economy, the role of tourism activities, integrated waste management in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, demographic dynamics in the Delta, and the population health state. Also, a unique chapter on the opportunities of content exploitation as Language Learning Experiences is applied to Danube Delta.

The book will be of great scientific interest to help the graduate students, researchers, stakeholder professional engineers, policy planners, policymakers of three countries to implement their sustainable development plan.

Auteur

Prof. Dr. Abdelazim Negm is Professor of Hydraulics (and Water Resources) at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt, since 2004. He got his Ph.D. in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU), and his M.Sc. from Ain shams University in the year 1990. He was the vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering of ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011 and was the head of the Environmental Engineering Dept. at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt, from October 2013 to March 2016. He participated in several international projects since 2006 until now. He published more than 400 papers in national and international journals and conferences and contributed in more than 50 chapters. Some of his papers were awarded prizes of the best papers. He is the editor of 12 volumes at Springer Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Series (HEC Series) from 2017 to 2019 and 15 volumes in other series. He is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences and a member of the organizing committee of others and participated in more than 90 conferences as well. He delivered several keynote talks at international conferences. He is a reviewer of more than 40 international scientific journals that indexed in Scopus and WoS. He was Editor-in-Chief of EIJEST during the period of 2017-2020, Editor of the EMJEI, which is published by Springer, and Editor of Scientific African Journal, which is published by Elsevier. Also, he is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of the famous Springer Series titled "Handbook of Environmental Chemistry since 2019 and the head of the permanent scientific committee on Water Resources (committee no. 115), the supreme council of Egyptian Universities, Egypt. He is listed in the most famous and prestigious directories in the world including the American Biographical Institute (ABI), Inc, USA, "Marquis Who's Who in the World," 27th Ed., 2010, USA, until now and in IBC's 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, since 2011 until the present. He was nominated to various awards by both ABI and IBC during the period of 2011-2012.

Dr. Daniel Constantin Diaconu is currently Assistant Professor of Hydrology at the Faculty of Geography in the University of Bucharest, Romania. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography in Bucharest (1997) and from the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (2001) and in 2005 obtained a doctorate from the Romanian Academy. Since 2017 he coordinates doctorates in the field of hydrology, working at the Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania. He has a close collaboration with the application field, working as a hydrology expert within the National Society of Mineral Waters, Buzau Ialomita Water Administration or within the Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests.

He is a member of both the Center for Integrated Analysis and Territorial Management (CAIMT) and Brilliant Solutions Engineering & Consulting (BRiS) research centers as well as collaborating with several international researchers. He has 37 publications indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, 29 books at national publishing houses, participation in 5 chapters and a book as a co-author at international publishing houses. He is in his first collaboration as a co-editor of an international volume, benefiting from the experience and coordination of Prof. Dr. Abdelazim Negm.

Contenu

Part 1 : DRD Environmental Change.-Chapter 1 - The Danube Delta Environment Changes Generated by Human Activities (Laura Tiron Dutu, Nicolae Panin, Florin Dutu*, Adrian Popa, Gabriel Iordache, Iulian Pojar, Irina Catianis)

Chapter 2 - Danube Delta Lakes as Sinks for Natural and Anthropogenic Environmental Changes (Irina Catianis ,Adriana Maria Constatinescu, Dan Vasiliu, Albert Scrieciu Adrian Stanica)

Chapter 3 - Assessment of Climate Conditions and Changes Detected over the Historical Period (1961-2013) (Adina-Eliza CROITORU, Csaba Horvath, Titus-Cristian Man)

Par 2: Water and Waste Management Chapter 4 - Water Management on the Territory of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Petru-Dragos Morar, Dana Rus, Abdelazim Negm)

Chapter 5 - Integrated Waste Management in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Petru-Dragö Morar)

Part 3: Societal Dimensions: Demographics, Health and Education

Chapter 6 - Specificity of the Demographic Dynamics in the Danube Delta (Cristian Constantin Draghici *, Alexandra Grecu Cosmin Olteanu Alexandru Paru , Gruia Andreea Karina, Gabriel Dascalu)

Chapter 7 - Infrastructure evolution and spatial dimension of the population health state from the Danube Delta (Marian Marin, Iulia Nedelcu, Donatella Carboni , Anca Bratu , Secil Omer , Alexandra Grecu,)

Chapter 8 - The Danube Delta: Opportunities of Content Exploitation as Language Learning Experiences (Dana Rus)

Part 4 : Integrated Sustainable Development

Chapter 9 - The Societal Benefits as Results of Managing the Danube Delta Landscape and Changing the Stakeholders' Behaviours (Camelia Ionescu, Corina Gheorghiu, and Tanvi Walawalkar)

Chapter 10 - Climate Suitability for Sustainable Economic Growth Through Tourism in the Danube Delta (Adina-Eliza Croitoru, Adina-Viorica Rus, Titus-Cristian Man, Victor Malairau, Alexandru Matei) Chapter 11 - The Structural Dynamics of the Local Economy in the Danube Delta (Daniel Peptenatu, Andreea Karina Gruia, Alexandra Grecu, Camelia Teodorescu, Marian Marin, Raluca Dinescu, Catalin Razvan Dobrea , Razvan Mihail Papuc, Cosmin Olteanu)

Chapter 12 - The Role of Tourism Activities in the Integrated Economic Development of the Danube Delta (Radu-Daniel Pintilii*, Andreea Karina Gruia, Alexandra Grecu, Oana Cre u, Donatella Carboni) Chapter 13 - Danube Delta Integrated Sustainable Development Strategy (Daniel Constantin Diaconu, Mihnea Cristian Popa, Daniel Peptenatu, Abdelazim Negm)