Dejan Vasovic

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• PhD in technical sciences - environmental protection
• Professor (Associate) at University of Nis

Hybrid threats to critical infrastructure represent a multifaceted challenge that requires a coordinated and comprehensive approach to mitigate. By addressing the vulnerabilities and implementing robust security measures, nations can enhance the resilience of their critical infrastructure against these evolving threats. The work reported here stems...

Critical infrastructure, including energy grids, public utilities, transportation networks, telecommunications systems, financial services, etc., is highly susceptible to hybrid threats due to its interconnected nature and reliance on digital technology. Disruptions to critical infrastructure can have cascading effects on society, economy, environm...

Water, energy, food, and ecosystem (WEFE) components constitute fundamental dimensions contributing to human well-being, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development. Despite the prevalent specialization among WEFE professionals, there is a lack of multidisciplinary approaches in their work, with limited attention given to carbon footprint mana...

Water, energy, food, and ecosystem (WEFE) components constitute fundamental dimensions contributing to human well-being, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development. Despite the prevalent specialization among WEFE professionals, there is a lack of multidisciplinary approaches in their work, with limited attention given to carbon footprint mana...

Successful regional development involves the establishment of a sustainable system between natural resources and economic and social challenges confronting the population of a particular area. There are numerous criteria that define these relationships, which can be expressed quantitatively and qualitatively. For a more reliable analysis concerning...

Modern working conditions continuously impose the need for efficiency and productivity of employees, but not at the expense of their occupational safety and health. One of the legal instruments that can be used to prevent potential injuries at work is the internal remediation mechanism. Until now, this legal institute has been available to employee...

Addressing the need for enhanced urban resilience planning is pressing in response to the escalating impacts of climate change in many regions of the world, particularly in the wider Western Balkans region and Mediterranean areas. Rapid urbanization, and water extremes, coupled with unsustainable land use practices, exacerbate the vulnerability of...

Water, energy, and food (WEF) are essential for human well-being, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. The WEF Nexus approach refers to coordinating, integrating, and cost-effective planning and management of related natural resources between the sectors. Properly addressed exchange and smart synergy achievements can provide more optimal...

Utility services represent economic activities of special social importance, as they determine the quality of people's everyday work and life. The local self-governments need to provide utility services of acceptable scope and quality for their citizens. Among them, supplying the population with hygienically correct drinking water is one of the mai...

This paper presents the terminological definitions of indexing methods and the possibilities of their use in different scientific areas. Additionally, the paper identifies the most relevant indexing methods for water quality assessment with an overview of how they are applied in Serbia. Serbia has adopted a National List of Environmental Protection...

Both developed and developing economies are characterized by a very large number of activities of transformation, reorganization or modification of various production and non-production processes to improve competitiveness on the one hand and protection of resources (human, material and natural) on the other. The International Organization for Stan...

The analysis of the administrative public utility bodies in charge of water treatment and distribution revealed the need for improvement and a clear definition of the place and role of the administrative-planning bodies for water delivery, as well as the improvement of the implementation of works in water supply systems. In this research, the asses...

The level of sustainability of a modern society is associated with the ability to manage unwanted stressors from the environment, regardless of origin. Torrential floods represent a hydrological hazard whose frequency and intensity have increased in recent years, mainly due to climate changes. In order to effectively manage the risks of torrents, i...

The objective of this chapter is to evaluate assessment methodology of 2 one of the most basic parameters of water, termed as water quality, also defined 3 as Water Quality Index, in view of recent technological advancements. The chapter 4 focusses on drinking water only, however various other applications, such as in 5 agriculture, transportation a...

Since the emergence of the first organized social communities, there has 2 always been a need for continuous and safe provision of basic life necessities such as 3 food and water. Nowadays, access to safe and sustainable drinking water and other 4 sanitation services is vital for a healthy and dignified life. Even the sustainability ratio 5 of any mo...

Sustainable development of a regional and local community involves setting a strategic balance among economic, social, and environmental criteria (factors) of development. Due to their large number, physical quantity variance, and incompleteness, these factors have a limited, sometimes even conflicting and ineffectual application in producing a uni...

Employees in local self-government units perform tasks of immediate interest for the local population, and their workplace safety and health is an important factor for the effective implementation of all policies at the local level. Given that there is not much research on the safety and health of employees in local self-government units in Serbia...

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate a plan for the leachate treatment at the “Zeljkovac” sanitary landfill in Leskovac city. Different processes occur over time at the landfill. The processes of infiltration and transpiration occur continuously, distributing the humidity and affecting the water balance within the body of the landfill. The lan...

The concept of effective and proactive natural disaster risk management represents a highly complex phenomenon researched in different scientific disciplines. While the nature of the events that trigger risk scenario and resources that need to be protected are quite clearly defined, there is no such similar compliance level regarding the response....

A legal framework is a key factor in the effective implementation of environmental policy at the local level. Although environmental protection is primarily a matter of wider, global importance , local self-government units perform the tasks of immediate interest for the local community and local population. Therefore, the competencies of local sel...

This paper presents an analysis of the current practice in the field of municipal waste management in the Republic of Serbia. Data on generated, reused and disposed waste, collected by the Serbian Environmental Protection Agency, have been analyzed. The analysis showed that part of the generated waste is still not properly disposed of in sanitary l...

U radu je dan opis podrijetla vode na planeti Zemlji i njezino značenje u prošlosti i sadašnjosti. Analizirani su razmjeri kretanja vode na zemlji, njihove značajke, kao i glavni izvori dostupne vode na zemlji izraženi kroz postotni udio na globalnoj razini. Također je razmatran nastanak vode u Svemiru i proizvodnja kisika u ranoj fazi nastanka pla...

Historically, the human society and water-related ecosystems have been always faced with adverse effects of climate changes and challenges related to sustainable water resource management (SWRM)-having too little, or too much water. According to the contemporary scientific data, there is a strong evidence for increases in some extreme hydrological...

Nowadays, the Republic of Serbia is at the bottom of the scale of European countries in terms of public utility equipment of the respective communal infrastructure particularly within the area of wastewater collection and treatment. The current situation in the area of water resources management in the Republic of Serbia indicates that the basic pr...

The aim of this research is to emphasize the impact of extreme hydrological phenomena on the sustainable management of water-related societal needs. Therefore, it provides a definition of extreme hydrological events, as well as a survey of extreme hydrological events in the Republic of Serbia. It also gives a brief overview of Agenda 2030 with part...

From a global perspective, the negative consequences of the medical waste impact on human health and the environment are becoming increasingly intensified nowadays. On the one hand, these consequences are manifested as infections, injuries and diseases, while on the other hand they cause soil, water and air contamination with pollutants from medica...

The frequency and consequences of natural disasters on functioning of a society require definition of indicators describing how critical a municipality area is, as well as the methods for assessing the vulnerability of an area. In this paper, system approach is applied to analyse the vulnerability of a municipality area, where factors and indicator...

Building design and construction consumes nearly 40% of primary energy. Environmental issues, such as higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations due to combustion of fossil fuels used for energy production, necessitate increased use of renewable energy sources in buildings. Solar energy is used in building design and construction through active and pass...

In operational sense, wastewater treatment plants and operators who work at those facilities present a proper basis for good water quality status. The basic aim of this paper is to assess the risk to which workers - water treatment operators - are exposed to within water treatment plants, as well as to propose preventive measures in order to reduce...

From a global perspective, there is currently an ever-increasing problem of natural water resource pollution and daily decrease of available amounts of potable water. In addition to the definition of their ecological status, the existing problems of polluted water systems also require that parameters of the oxygen regime should be determined. The i...

Sustainable environmental management in the context of landfills involves the inclusion of sustainable planning in all landfill lifecycle phases, from initial design and location selection, through its use, to its closure. An important aspect in the planning process is the consideration of landfill fires, which are major problems from the viewpoint...

This paper presents a consequence analysis for the air, water, and soil quality with particular regard to utilisation of environmental and energy indicators for the purpose of environmental conditions overview within the Balkans. Starting point is ever present necessity to harmonise the environmental engineering management system with the guideline...

Impact of climate change on environmental quality is assessed through the degree of change of selected environmental indicators using the European Environment Agency (EEA) methodology and the relevant national methodologies. This paper presents a comparative analysis of gas emissions within the indicator greenhouse gas emission - CO2 in developed E...

Understanding the concept of resource protection implies the understanding of safety activities and behaviours stemming from the responsibility and readiness to act on the part of all safety subjects within a society, in keeping with the acquired knowledge and skills, as well as with the accepted social values and value orientations, beliefs, and e...

Large amounts of data about activities affecting the environment, as well as about environmental impact assessment, require application of procedures for their organisation and processing. Comprehensive view is based on consideration of technical and organisational aspects, different stakeholders opinions and continuous compliance with regulations....

With the development of society, the problem of treatment of generated waste water is getting increasingly bigger. Polluting substances from waste waters directly affect the quality of surface and indirectly the quality of ground water. Disturbances of aquatic ecosystems caused by the discharge of untreated waste water have gradually increased to s...

Actual problems of water ecosystem pollution require the ecological classification and the identification of the most influential parameters on the variability of water quality, stressing the importance of both in the realization of the sustainable water management principles according to the Water Framework Directive European Union (WFD EU), and t...

Resilience analysis and thinking serve as emerging conceptual frameworks relevant for applications assessing risk. Connections between the domains of resilience and risk assessment include vulnerability. Infrastructure, social, economic, and ecological systems (and combined social-ecological systems) are vulnerable to exogenous global change, and o...

Roofs are much more than mere ‘functional components’ that protect the structure of a building. They give character to both individual buildings and entire city quarters. Roofs attract urban designers looking for socially responsible concepts, which are opposed to the loss of natural living space and offer solutions to the problems such as precipit...

Efficient and effective resource protection from the perspective of society usually involves minimizing costs and capital commitment in any way, while maximizing the percentage of resource utilization. Effective resource management from the perspective of the environment means leaving them in their natural, intact, state. On the other hand, effecti...

Aims and background: Mining and energy complexes in Serbia are recognized as a major source of a large number of pollutants. Serbia’s environmental performance reports clearly indicate that large mining and energy complexes are the dominant source of air pollution. It is difficult to determine which of them remarkably threaten the quality of the en...

Applying the basic principles of sustainable development in the energy sector is the possibility of solving environmental problems and reducing emissions of harmful products. Improving the management system by protecting the environment in mining and energy complexes is based on the application of the theory of risk assessment and consideration of...

There are a significant number of activities to be performed at the level of large industrial plants in order to fulfill national law requirements transposed by Seveso III, IPPC/IED, and Water Framework Directive. Particularly interesting are the large energy complexes, which have been recognized as subjects under all of the aforementioned directiv...

Forecasting changes in the environment, creating preventive actions and defining the corresponding measures are in the focus of contemporary scientific researches in the area of sustainable environmental management.An essential part of preventive thinking is consideration of the concept of environmental capacity.The aim of this study is to examine...

The last decades of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century have been characterized by rapid urban growth of cities, which resulted in overcrowding and the lack of land. The aftermath of such circumstances is the construction of many buildings near the main roads and the bus stations, which causes population exposure to significant l...

The term security, in the narrow sense, represents the degree of safety in terms of protecting a nation, a people, or individuals from danger, damage, or crime. Structures that raise the security level constitute elements of security as a form of protection in the technical sense. Analysis of relevant scientific sources clearly indicates that it is...

System modelling for environmental management of mining and energy complex, based on the analysis of the consequences of exploitation and coal combustion, is a prerequisite for the reduction of cross-border pollution and preserving the quality of air, water and soil. This paper analyses the impact of air pollution by the energy complex 'TE Kostolac...

Water is a complex issue embedding different disciplines from biology, chemistry, physics, law, economics, and politics. However, water quality is affected by many other factors. It's very important to have a holistic approach to do a better assessment and management of a catchment. Previous research and evaluation of anthropogenous effects of disc...

In Serbian National Energy Strategy it is clearly stated that one of the main directives in upcoming years will be substitution of conventional fossil fuels with renewable sources. This opens up prospects for development of new business ideas for utilization of Serbian biomass resources which will undoubtedly contribute towards lessening domestic d...