in the last few years, public awareness has been on the increase about short- and long-term effects of forest roads construction on the environment. therefore, forest road managers have to be concerned about the negative impacts and mitigate them as much as possible. this research conducted multi-criteria analysis techniques in a useful way to define the effective criteria and propose a model f...

Integrated environmental system assessment and planning requires the application of different methods and software tools in a systematic and consistent workflow, often involving spatial data management, remote sensing and environmental modelling. Moreover, flexible and powerful interfaces are needed to allow for a seamless integration of these tools while avoiding file format and other transfer...

The field of environmental public health is at an important crossroad. Our current biomonitoring efforts document widespread exposure to a host of chemicals for which toxicity information is lacking. At the same time, advances in the fields of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, genetics and epigenetics are yielding volumes of data at a rapid pace. Our ability to detect chemicals in biological ...

more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...

We describe the formative assessment process, using an approach based on social learning theory, for the development of a school-based obesity-prevention intervention into which cultural perspectives are integrated. The feasibility phase of the Pathways study was conducted in multiple settings in 6 American Indian nations. The Pathways formative assessment collected both qualitative and quantit...

Integrated assessment (IA) models and Decision Support Systems (DSS) offer a framework for capturing, storing, and synthesising available knowledge and data to support effective management of complex environmental problems. The nature of DSS projects and the features and functionality of the delivered product vary according to the problem focus and selected modelling methodologies as well as th...

The integration of environmental impacts in the conceptual design of energy systems can be achieved by combining Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with process integration techniques. The use and the disaggregation of life cycle inventory (LCI) databases allows for extending the systematic generation of resources to services conversion chains and for including the environmental impacts in the process...

In Malaysia, at present, 19 different category projects require Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports duly approved by Department of Environment (DOE) before their implementation. Predictions on environmental impacts made during EIA for major development projects are hypotheses about such responses, which can be tested with data collected from environmental monitoring programs. The syst...

The design of thermal insulation in roofs is very important to reduce energy consumption and decrease the environmental impacts buildings. An integrated economic assessment-based optimization method presented this paper find best candidate scheme for building roofs, including determination roof type optimum thickness. In method, a zonal method-based double-skin ventilation heat transfer model d...