Sustainable Environmental Protection Technologies

Chapter 1.- The importance of technogenesis and sustainable environmental protection technologies. Chapter 2.- Natural and artificial biogeochemical barriers as natural technologies. Chapter 3.- The sustainable natural materials and their role in waste management and soil contamination stabilizing. Chapter 4.- The sustainable natural materials used for adsorbing contaminants from aqueous medium. Chapter 5.- Biotechnologies as the sustainable environmental protection technologies. Chapter 6.- The major properties of natural materials used in biofiltration systems. Chapter 7.- Operational parameters of biofiltration systems required for efficient operation of components ensuring system's sustainability. Chapter 8.- Natural and inoculated microorganisms as important component for sustainability of biofiltration system. Chapter 9.- The technologies of the sustainable environmental protection in real conditions in the case of biofiltration systems.

Prof. Dr. Habil Pranas Baltr nas is the Chief Researcher of the Research Institute of Environmental Protection at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). He was the founder and formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Protection, as well as the founder and Head of the Department of Environmental Protection from 1993 to 2013. Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the VGTU Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, and is a member of several more environmental engineering and environmental protection boards and associations. He is the author and co-author of 660 publications, including 18 monographs, 3 textbooks, 26 analytical and review methodical works, as well as 345 research papers, including 60 papers published abroad and 100 certificates and patents.

Prof. Dr. Edita Baltr nait is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Protection at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) in Lithuania. She is also the Executive Editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, a member of the VGTU doctoral committee for Environmental Engineering. Since 2007, Edita has been a scientific secretary of the international Journal of Environmental Engineering and Ecological Science, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal published by Romanian Academy of Science, Annals - Series on Chemistry Sciences, a member of EISN-Institute and NJF. On 27 January 2017, Prof. Dr Edita Baltr nait was appointed to the Agricultural and Biological Science Editorial Advisory Group at Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Her research interests include the application of biogeochemical processes to environmental protection technologies, the evaluation of transportation of potentially toxic elements in the ecosphere, and the application of lignocellulosic products in environmental protection engineering. She is the author of 92 papers, 1 textbook and 3 book chapters.