A GIS-based Approach for Flood Vulnerability Assessment in Hoa Vang District, Danang City, Vietnam

GIS-based DRASTIC method for groundwater vulnerability assessment: a review

City Vulnerability Assessment with Passive Defense Approach; A Case Study: Rasht City, Iran

BACKGROUND: The passive defense approach is one of the approaches in planning and organizing cities and residential complexes with the aim to reduce environmental hazards. Given the vital and sensitive position of cities, while preparing against military invasions, this approach provides special capabilities to cope with natural and human crises to a large extent. METHODS: This was an applied s...

Optimizing Municipal Solid Waste collection using Chaotic Particle Swarm Optimization in GIS based environments: A case study at Danang city, Vietnam

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is an increasing concern at any municipality in the world, and is one of the primary factors that contribute greatly to the rising of climate change and global warming. MSW collection and disposal especially in the context of developing countries are indeed the urgent requirements for the sustainable development of environment and landscape, which rule over the quali...

SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment

In the framework of a wider research project, aimed at developing an high performance computing infrastructures in Southern Italy, the SISI project aims at developing customized GIS tools for vulnerable site selection in Italian territory. Vulnerable sites will be defined based on co-presence of different dangerous/vulnerable geographic features in given areas. Morphological and topological cri...

Environmental Health Risk Assessment of Dioxin Exposure through Foods in a Dioxin Hot Spot—Bien Hoa City, Vietnam

This study used the Australian Environmental Health Risk Assessment Framework to assess the human health risk of dioxin exposure through foods for local residents in two wards of Bien Hoa City, Vietnam. These wards are known hot-spots for dioxin and a range of stakeholders from central government to local levels were involved in this process. Publications on dioxin characteristics and toxicity ...