Existing spatial decision support applications, implemented using the most recent tools in the area of spatial information manipulation and Graphical User Interface development, do not consider, in its functional flow, the dynamic spatial implications of relating and processing this information. It is necessary to incorporate spatial reasoning into application control. This can be achieved by a...

Environmental planning usually involves a large number of decision makers with different backgrounds and interests. Appropriate decision making procedures are needed in order to jointly consider their individual approaches and achieve collaboration. This paper discusses issues involved in Collaborative Environmental Planning and reports work on GeoMed, a group decision support system for Geogra...

regarding to importance of strategic planning and existence critical success factors (csfs) affecting strategic planning in national iranian gas company (nigc), these cfss identifies in this research using the experiences of managers and expert of nigc planning department and the other references like books, journals and new papers. the purpose of this research is identifying csfs of strategic ...

Public Law 93-641 provides health systems agencies (HSAs) with a broad planning preview which has enabled a number of agencies to address environmental health issues in their health systems plans. Opponents of HSA involvement in environmental health planning charge that these activities overextend agency resources, duplicate efforts of other government agencies and involve HSAs in "issues of pu...

Urban planning is the space expression of urban resource configuration. Its central goal is using the effective resource with the lowest ecological cost in exchange for the greatest economic benefits. The current city’s expansion which is dominated by the development, is too fast, which has overlooked the balance between planning and environmental protection. The contradiction between urban dev...

Try to reach a particular goal in an environmental management system should be associated with strategies, e.g. for environmental goals, or for environmental policies. Sustainable protection can be achieved so that public environmental departments get the possibility to have a better costs control about planning, doing and checking measurements, or organizations have the possibility to control ...

Spatial differences in urban environmental conditions contribute to health inequalities within cities. The purpose of the paper is to map environmental inequalities relevant for health in the City of Dortmund, Germany, in order to identify needs for planning interventions. We develop suitable indicators for mapping socioeconomically-driven environmental inequalities at the neighborhood level ba...

the present study aims to provide a solution to optimize land use through multi-objective linear programming, and to solve the conflicts generated in the process using game theory, in two cities of gorgan and kurdkoy, iran. the primary land use planning was completed for seven land use through multi-criteria evaluation and then a first allocation was implanted using mola. in the secondary land ...