Special issue editorial

Excerpt

There is a growing understanding that environmental challenges which the mankind is facing cannot be solved only by means of technological or societal sciences. A complex approach is needed, an approach that combines the strengths of novel developments in clean technologies and political implementation of the societal demands for sustainable development and clean environment. Considerable efforts are being made both in technical and political fields to pursue this goal and it is important for the scientific community and decision makers to be aware of those efforts. With this aim in mind the organisers of the 14th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction—PRES’11- and the publishers of the Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy are joining their efforts and publishing this Special Issue. …