This paper examines how strategic environmental assessment has been practiced at the national level in China through 2005 and why it has been practiced in the manner observed. Based on literature reviews and interviews carried out in 2005 and 2006, we find that bureaucratic politics between environmental and nonenvironmental ministries has limited the legislation and implementation of strategic...

Rational planning of thermal power capacity is one of the main measures to reduce emissions. According to air pollution control plan, different environmental capacity regions provide different constraints to the scale of thermal power plants. With the development of electric market, unified relationship among thermal power plants has been changed to gambling one. To solve the above new problems...

employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...

The prevailing systems for decision-making in many countries tend to separate environmental factors at the policy, planning and management levels, a practice that has important implications for sustainable development. Among many methods, at different decision-making levels, environmental planning and environmental assessment are currently the most widely used in China. This article briefly int...

Introduction In major corporations the winds of globalisation and the efforts to seek further process efficiencies are accompanied by the frequent and massive deployment of large ICT platforms and business redesigns. ERP packages are one example of this drive to wire into software and hardware new routines, processes and practices in ways that are aligned with the prevailing globalisation and r...

workflow, resource management, resource model Resource management is a key issue in providing resource independence and efficient use of workflow resources. The paper has outlined a design of such a resource management system for enterprise workflow environments. It is capable of handling a large number of workflow resources that are independently managed by pre-existing resource systems. It in...

China’s interest in developing countries has exploded in the past decade as it continues to search for resources to fuel high growth rates. This paper examines China’s activity in various resourcerich countries through the lens of the resource curse. What are the implications of China’s involvement in developing countries in terms of the resource curse, and what factors or circumstances determi...

since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. this could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. therefo...