Resource constraints, improved availability and quality of information, and increasing public awareness are all contributing to severe difficulties in arriving at acceptable decisions in such areas of public policy as choice of energy technologies, environmental management and transport planning. The paper describes a European research project called STEEDS (Strategic Transport Energy Environme...

The initial impact of a disaster can lead to a variety of associated hazards. By taking a multi-hazard viewpoint with respect to disaster response and recovery, there is an opportunity to allocate limited resources more effectively, particularly in the context of long-term planning for community sustainability. This working paper introduces an approach for extending quantitative resource alloca...

The article addresses methodical support of forensic environmental research and national standards the Russian Federation (GOSTs), which are also used for methodological purposes.The author demonstrates that in studies ecological condition objects to determine cost their restoration, approaches presented federal assessment as materials. She proposes directions further improvement forensics.

Climate type is one of the potentially most relevant pieces of metadata for identifying studies in evidence-based environmental management. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically predicting the climate type in environmental science literature using NLP techniques, relative to a pre-existing set of climate type categories. Our main approaches combine toponym detection and resolutio...

Life-cycle assessment concepts and methods are currently being applied to evaluate integrated municipal solid waste management strategies throughout the world. The Research Triangle Institute and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are working to develop a computer-based decision support tool to evaluate integrated municipal solid waste management strategies in the United States. The waste...

BACKGROUND The recognition of road traffic noise as one of the main sources of environmental pollution has led to develop models that enable to predict noise level from fundamental variables. Traffic noise prediction models are required as aids for designing roads and highways. In addition, sometimes are used in the assessment of existing or envisaged changes in traffic noise conditions. In thi...