Comparative study for Environmental Impact Assessment in Environmental Iraqi and Saudi legislation

Environmental Impact Assessment of Erbil Dumpsite area - West of Erbil City-Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

During the last few years, the concern about the protection of the environment has largely increased due to the contaminants mainly with anthropogenic origin and have affected and continue to threaten human resources especially air quality, surface soil and groundwater. Solid wastes are produced every day in urban societies as a result of human activities and in an attempt to dispose of these m...

Environmental impact assessment and sustainability level determination in cement plants (Case study: Shahrood cement plant)

Focusing on environmental impact assessment as a new tool to determine the harmful effects of projects on the environment is very necessary. The establishment of cement plants in Iran is accompanied by huge investments that aim to create jobs and have others economic aspects; this trend is on the rise. However, cement plants contribute to environmental pollutions. Therefore, understanding the e...

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

The destructive effects of activities such as illegal and unreported fishing, pollution of the marine environment and resource exploitation have led to increasing concern for the health of the oceans. Nowadays, human activity in the seas is not limited to areas under national jurisdiction but extends to areas beyond national jurisdiction, in addition , science and technology cause to emerge new...

Application of PCRaster for environmental impact assessment using environmental models

A simplified case study shows how the PCRaster software can be used in the framework of environmental impact assessment. PCRaster comes with generic spatial functions that can be combined in a structured script. This script can be used to 1) define scenarios for human activities, 2) construct static or dynamic (i.e. temporal) spatial environmental models with these scenarios as input, and 3) to...