Human populations are not static or uniformly distributed across space and time. This consideration has a notable impact on natural hazard analyses which seek to determine population exposure and risk. This paper focuses on the coupling of population and environmental models to address the effect of seasonally varying populations on exposure to flood risk. A spatiotemporal population modelling ...

Previous research on exposure to flood hazards suggests that individuals characterized by low social vulnerability are more likely to reside in coastal flood hazard zones than individuals of higher social vulnerability, but few studies have examined if similar exposure patterns can be observed in inland flood hazard zones. This paper examines differences in environmental justice implications be...

compost is one of the strategies of house hold solid wastes management that is used to decrease the volume and weight of wastes, odor and leach ate dispersion, resource recycles and decreasing disposal expenses. in order to observe environmental regulations in the frame of adaptation development projects with environmental concerns, assessment of environmental impact of composting plants has be...

Hazards are situations that can result in accidents. This can include loss of lives, injuries and economic or environmental disasters, depending on the domain. For example, a common hazard in the aviation domain is in-flight engine shutdown. Hazard analysis is the process of discovering hazards in a system. This activity has been performed for many years in safety engineering and is a straightf...

T. Bredfeldt Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, MC-168, P.O Box 13087, Austin, TX 78711-3087, USA e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Hazard identification is considered an early step in the risk assessment process. The primary goal of this step is to determine whether exposure to a chemical is likely to cause a specific adverse health effect in humans. The process of hazard ide...