The decision-making on approval of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an intrinsically complex multi-dimensional process because it does not only consider the scientific facts but also reflect subjective values. The use of decision-support methods to balance facts and values can be beneficial for decision makers. This paper attempts to propose an integrated decision-support framework that...

Health impact assessment (HIA) on a strategic level focuses on the broad determinants of health. However, the evidence with regard to the health impacts is often necessarily 'soft'. The example of a health impact review on national housing policy in the Netherlands shows that HIA can be effective even in the absence of hard data. Strategies used to overcome the problem of not having hard data a...

The green constitution concept in the Indonesian Constitution is legal fundamental basis for environmental protection implementing national economy through public participation. rationale "public participation" as part of rights International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights needs to be examined Government Regulation instead Law No. 2 2023 concerning Job Creation, passed into a act. This ...

Self-organizing emergent multi-agent systems are a solution to reducing the operational expenditures of complex information technology systems. However, emergent behavior is inherently unpredictable, sacrificing the guarantee of efficiency for flexibility and scalability. The addition of self-adaptation through an Efficiency Improvement Advisor (EIA) provides the ability to increase efficiency ...

further to emerging the environmental protection thoughts in the 1970's, most of the governments in the developed countries have been faced with social pressures for taking actions in order to stop the degradation in the environment and the quality of life. in response to such a societal desire, those governments have approved the requirement of environmental impact statement for the proje...

Self-organizing emergent multi-agent systems are a solution to reducing the operational expenditures of complex information technology systems. However, emergent behavior is inherently unpredictable, sacrificing the guarantee of efficiency for flexibility and scalability. The addition of self-adaptation through an Efficiency Improvement Advisor (EIA) provides the ability to increase efficiency ...

The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as ‘a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution o...

The World Bank Group is an intergovernmental organization of more than 180 member countries that provides financial assistance to borrower governments in accordance with its goal of fighting poverty. It has embraced the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and has developed a strategy for achieving them, based on two main pillars: building the climate for investment, jobs and sustainable...

Social Impact Assessment (SIA) has been incorporated into part of EIA legislative structures in most nations following the adoption National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) USA. The assessment acts as a policy instrument for evaluating project’s socio-cultural consequences and advising socio-political stakeholders on its social viability. also provides operational advice tackling any negative e...