Including the building environmental efficiency in the environmental building rating systems

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.

Building Better Environmental Risk Assessments

Risk assessment is a reasoned, structured approach to address uncertainty based on scientific and technical evidence. It forms the foundation for regulatory decision-making, which is bound by legislative and policy requirements, as well as the need for making timely decisions using available resources. In order to be most useful, environmental risk assessments (ERAs) for genetically modified (G...

Designing and building real environmental decision support systems

The complexity of environmental problems makes necessary the development and application of new tools capable of processing not only numerical aspects, but also experience from experts and wide public participation, which are all needed in decision-making processes. Environmental decision support systems (EDSSs) are among the most promising approaches to confront this complexity. The fact that ...

The Role of Geography Course in Building Environmental Conscious

In this research, secondary education students’ views towards the role of geography lessons in building environmental conscious were examined. A total of 394 secondary school students participated in the reasearch in the 2010-2011academic year in the province of Karabük (Turkey). In this research Survey model was used and a questionnaire developed by Keçeci (2010) was used as a means of data co...