Environmental Impact Assessment Initiated to Mitigate Pollutions from Industries

Biosensors: Migrating from Clinical to Environmental Industries

Biosensors are analytical devices that are capable of providing a selective sensitive information by means of a biorecognition element and a transducer to an electrical signal. They appeared as a respond to fast observation and pathogen identification in clinical application and have grown toward different markets such as environmental monitoring, food and biodefense. Within biosensors, electro...

Converting Technology to Mitigate Environmental Damage

We thank Jim Brander, Al Dexter and Alan Kraus for helpful comments. We are also indebted to the Departmental Editor, an Associate Editor, and two referees for their detailed and insightful suggestions. There are many situations where policy-makers would like to induce firms to make a major discrete conversion in production technology to help the environment. This paper examines how heterogenei...

Environmental Impact Assessment

Social and Environmental Impact of the Rare Earth Industries

The use of rare earth elements in various technologies continues to grow despite some alternatives being found for particular uses. Given a history of ecological concerns about pollution from rare earth mines, particularly in China, there are growing social and environmental concerns about the growth of the mining and mineral processing in this sector. This is best exemplified by the recent soc...

Environmental Impact Assessment of Coal Washing Plant (Alborz- Sharghi –Iran)

This paper utilises the modified Folchi method to assess the environmental impact of coal washing plant, Alborz Sharghi, North-east Iran. In this study, the number of factors designed in the method was slightly modified by focusing on the environmental impact of coal washing operations. In addition, few other factors were designed and added to the previous factors. Then, twenty-one values of en...