Urban and building systems are awash with materials. The incorporation of green infrastructure such as integrated rooftop greenhouses (iRTGs) has the potential to contribute buildings’ cities’ circularity. However, its greater sophistication than conventional agriculture (CA) could lead a shift in environmental impacts. One key elements for greenhouse building-integrated (BIA) CA achieve high l...

With the International Energy Agency estimating that global energy demand will increase between 40 and 50 percent by 2030 (compared to 2003), scientists and policymakers are concerned about the sustainability of the current energy system and what environmental pressures might result from the development of future energy systems. EnerGEO is an ongoing FP7 Project (2009-2013) which assesses the c...

Multiple-objective decision making (MODEM) provides an effective framework for integrated resource assessment of agroecosystems. Two elements of integrated assessment are discussed and illustrated: (1) adding noneconomic objectives as constraints in an optimization problem; and (2) evaluating tradeoffs among competing objectives using the efficiency frontier for objectives. These elements are i...

1 Paper prepared for the NBER workshop on “Climate Adaptation: Improving the connection between empirical research and integrated assessment models,” Cambridge, MA, May 17-18, 2012. Revised version under review with Energy Economics. Hertel acknowledges support under US DOE, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Integrated Assessment Research Program, Grant No. DE-...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) Rapid impact assessment matrix (RIAM) Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Integrated environmental score (IES) Indicator weighting Urban planning Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has become an increasingly important decision-support tool for providing information on the environmental implications of a policy, plan, or...

The EC-funded project FASSET (Framework for ASSessment of Environmental impacT), which completed in 2003/2004, has developed an assessment framework for evaluating the environmental impact of ionising radiation on biota in natural ecosystems. The framework provides practical and scientific support to the international development of recommendations for radiological protection of the environment...

as one way to approach industrial symbiosis, environmental infrastructure sharing is principally concerned with providing an integrated environmental utility system for clustered firms. it is based on the assumption that environmental infrastructure sharing can improve the regional competitive advantage by reducing overall cost and improving environmental performance. in order to verify the ass...

in recent years, a number of large-scale writing assessments (e.g., toefl ibt) have employed integrated writing tests to measure test takers’ academic writing ability. using a quantitative method, the current study examined how written textual features and use of source material(s) varied across two types of text-based integrated writing tasks (i.e., listening-to-write vs. reading-to-write) and...

The aim of this research was to investigate the environmental impacts of olive fruit production under different orchard size and upon organic and common agro-systems through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology in Rudbar region, Guilan province, northern Iran. The data were collected using a self-structured questionnaire and face-to-face interview with 305 olive growers in the study region. ...

maharlu saline lake is located in the sw of iran. to assess the environmental pollution of thelake, the total concentrations of as, cr, co, cu, cd, pb, zn, ni, fe, and mn were determined in the surfacesediments and water of the lake. as and cr were not detected in the water samples, however, the meanconcentrations of other dissolved metals in maharlu lake water were 0.28 mg/l for cu, 0.28 μg/l ...