Meteorology as Related to Reactor-Site Selection

Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

Factors Related to the Ethical Selection of Food Products

Background: The study aims to study the issue of the people choices and examine the relationship between ethical marketing with consumer buying behavior. The purpose of this study was to factors related to the ethical choices of food products. Method: This research is a descriptive - survey research and in terms of its purpose is an applied research. The statistical population of this study was...

Ecopark Site Selection in Central Isfahan Province

Today’s situation in cities requires that planned parks be set up to create ecological equilibrium. The current study was  aimed to identify suitable zones for establishing ecoparks in the central region of Isfahan province; this was done using seven effective criteria including topography, landscape, climate, rock and soil, water resources, environmental sensitivity, and accessibility. The wei...

Using the Hybrid GA-TOPSIS Algorithm to Solving the Site Selection Problem in Passive Defense

One of the main principles of the passive defense is the principle of site selection. In this paper, we propose a multiple objective nonlinear programming model that considers the principle of the site selection in terms of two qualitative and quantitative aspects. The purpose of the proposed model is selection of the place of key production facilities of a system in which not only it observes ...

Forecaster’s Guide to Tropical Meteorology