The pressure on environmental systems is increasing worldwide due to population growth and the consequences of climate change. Adaptable tools and methods are needed to elaborate information, develop understanding and strategies for sustainable use and management of environmental systems. Such tools should assist scientists, natural resource managers and decision makers in their work by providi...

Assessment of human health risks of environmental agents has often been limited to consideration of the potential for the agent to cause cancer or general systemic toxicity after long-term exposure. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is increasingly moving toward the development of integrated assessments, which consider all potential health end points including developmental to...

Unbalanced distribution of population in a country like Iran as well as accelerating urbanization and environmental degradation, both arising from incorrect location of industrial areas, are two problems that require appropriate industrial development policies to get resolved. Considering the expansion of industrial areas along with their role in contamination of the environment, it is necessar...

the impact assessment method seeks to bring about a more ecologically, socio-culturally and economically sustainable and equitable environment. determining the main factors affecting the attitudes of stakeholders is crucial for understanding the impacts of development plans. this approach helps planners and decision makers to identify the values and traits of stakeholders and accelerate the dif...

The prioritisation of chemical compounds is important for the identification of those chemicals that represent the highest threat to the environment. As part of the CADASTER project (http: / /www.cadaster.eu), we developed an online web tool that allows the calculation of the environmental risk of chemical compounds from a web interface. The environmental fate of compounds in the aquatic compar...