Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment

This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies. The author puts forward a comprehensive linear optimization simulation

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Guofeng Zhang

Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment

The Evidence of Beijing 123

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Guofeng Zhang

Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment The Evidence of Beijing

123

Guofeng Zhang Institute of Economic and Trade Shijiazhuang University of Economics Shijiazhuang China

This research was supported by the Key Discipline of Population, Resources and Environmental Economics of Hebei Province, China and Dr. Scientific Research Foundation, Shijiazhuang University of Economics (BQ201504). ISSN 2191-5504 SpringerBriefs in Economics ISBN 978-981-287-947-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-948-6

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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Yoshiro Higano, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, University of Tsukuba, for his careful guidance, encouragement, and patience during my doctoral study. Without his consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to other members of the Advisory Committee, Prof. Zhenya Zhang and Prof. Helmut Yabar who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past 2 years. Sincere thanks for their comments and advice through the whole process of thesis writing. I am also greatly indebted to my lab mates at the Higano Laboratory for their valuable suggestions and comments during the study. Thanks from the bottom of my heart go to Prof. Takeshi Mizunoya and Dr. Feng Xu. I am particularly inde