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October 24-25, 2016 | Valencia, Spain
International Conference on
Environmental Health & Safety
Volume 4, Issue 5 (Suppl) Occup Med Health
ISSN:2329-6879 OMHA, an open access journal Environmental Health 2016
October 24-25, 2016
ENVIRONMENTALAND ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY INADVERSE CONDITIONS
Carla Idely Palencia-Aguilara
aAgregados de la Sabana Ltd, Colombia
Very few examples of operating projects that integrate social, economic, environmental, technical and ecological aspects
in developing economies, with multiple adverse conditions: climate change, political issues, low income, skepticism, wrong
conceived governmental regulations for mining operations, and so on, could be found. This work includes determination of optimal
land use by multi-criteria analysis with three main variables: geostatistics, evapotranspiration and groundwater characteristics. It
also uses indicators such as NDVI to proof how the mining interventions had improved the characteristics of the zone, how risk
assessment and risk management are key components for environmental sustainability and how innovative techniques in dehydration
could add value to agriculture, silviculture and cattle raising products from rehabilitated zones to assure economic sustainability.
The use of remote sensing, meteorological stations, piezometers, sunphotometers, geoelectric analysis among others; provide the
information for modelling the actual situation and predict future needs. Temporality aspects from MODIS and ASTER images are
also included not only for agriculture applications but also for water resource management and water quality assurance. Organic
Agriculture applications have been tested with different products such as Goldenberry and Quinoa, both with international demand.
Zeodratation is used to dehydrate the products by means of pressure changes and zeolites that behave as adsorbant and as molecular
sieve selectors of water versus nutrient content. Thousands of experiments in the past 8 years have been taking place in order to
define the best quality and most efficient curve per tested product. The results show healthier products with concentrated vitamin
and antioxidant contents.
Biography
Carla Idely Palencia-Aguilar is an Industrial Engineer from Javeriana University in Colombia with Masters degrees in: Manufacturing Engineering at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, MBA at Clark University, Master in Finance at Boston College in the USA, Master in Environmental Engineering at Ecole des Mines d'Ales
in France; with specializations in Management at Harvard Ext University in the USA, Environmental Architecture at Lund University in Sweden, Limnology, Water
Quality and Bioindicators from the Austrian Academy of Science, and Groundwater modeling from ITC, the Netherlands. She was also Professor at Los Andes
University and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Colombia, as well as Consultant for various companies and Speaker in Conferences and Exhibitions around the
world.
Carla Idely Palencia-Aguilar, Occup Med Health Aff 2016, 4:5 (Suppl)