In developing countries, it is common to site (or locate) industries without environmental impact assessment. In this study the impacts of two food processing industries on land use and land capability, noise and vibration, environmentally sensitive areas and visual quality as environmental elements were investigated. The research method adopted was the investigative survey research approach (I...

Fast growing population, excessive expansion of cities, and dominance of automobile in urban life have troubled cities with complicated traffic problems. In many parts of the world, transport network development has always been considered as a solution for this problem. Apparently, one-dimensional ‘traffic solutions’ would never thoroughly bring best results as the city and its problems are com...

When protected areas reduce threats within their boundaries, they often displace a portion of these threats into adjacent areas through a process known as 'leakage', undermining conservation objectives. Using theoretical models and a case study of terrestrial mammals in Indonesia, we develop the first theoretical explanation of how leakage impacts conservation actions, and highlight conservatio...

multinational corporations (mncs) are major actors in contemporary world. their negative and positive impacts on human life make clear the need for expanding their responsibilities. the aim of this article is to show how responsibilities of mncs evolve during recent 50-60 years. through two sections, the article examines vertical and horizontal expansion of mncs’ responsibilities and then recen...

post-zionism is one of the intellectual trends and new discourses which has appeared in israel in recent decades. on the impacts of post-zionism on the future of israel, there are different opinions: some scholars say post-zionism is positive for israel and a resolution for all its problems, while others say it is negative for israel and may create bigger crises in the zionist state. with regar...

This study was designed to research the impact of pandemic situations such as COVID-19 in digital transformation (DT). Our proposed whether is a driver and look at three most positive negative DT disruptors. suggests that transformation, since 94 percent respondents agreed DT. The second phase our shows technology, automation, collaboration (TAC) significant factor which enables work from anywh...

—The negative impacts of biological invasion are economically and ecologically significant and, while incompletely quantified, they are clearly substantial. Ants (family Formicidae) are an important, although often overlooked, component of many terrestrial ecosystems. Six species of ants are especially striking in their global ability to invade, and their impacts. This paper focuses on the impa...