Current geo web services and spatial data infrastructures support effectively the most common requirements and needs of spatial information users, such as discovering, accessing and visualization datasets. However, specialized users like water scientists carry out time-consuming tasks for capturing, analyzing and processing huge volumes of hydrological data by using commonly traditional GIS too...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is used to evaluate the environmental effects of regional plans and programs. SEA expresses dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and environmental pressures, and between these and environmental receptors. In this paper we employ fuzzy logic and many-valued logics together with numeric trans...

Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) are currently being deployed in increasing sizes, numbers, fast changing technologies, and varying environments but our operational experience to date has been limited to a relatively small scale and small number of environments. Consequently, some open technical and environmental interoperability problems about the ways in which PKIs will be organized and oper...

The development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) aims to promote environmental management. However, technological advances, organizational and regulatory frameworks available do not seem sufficient for the realization of such an objective. For many authors, the real contribution of SDIs depends on the answers they provide to their users. This paper presents an original methodological appr...

The growing computing demand from industry and academia has lead to excessive power consumption which not only impacting long term sustainability of Grids like infrastructures in terms of energy cost but also from environmental perspective. The problem can be addressed by replacing with more energy efficient infrastructures, but the process of switching to new infrastructure is not only costly ...

Limited water resources with uneven distribution in addition to the growing demands are the main challenges of the water governance in Iran. The Government has planned several water resources development project and due to their complex technical, socio-economical, and environmental outcomes, comprehensive evaluation is needed. To select more adaptive and accountable projects, suitable group de...

There is today an increasing interest in environmental monitoring for a variety of specific applications, with great impact especially on natural resource management and preservation, economy, and people's life and health. Typical uses encompass, for example, Earth observation, meteorology, natural resource monitoring, agricultural and forest monitoring, pollution control, natural disaster obse...

The paper traces the emergence of urban environmental history first in the United States and since the 1990s increasingly also in Europe. It identifies the development of large technical networks which provide cities with water and energy and which serve to take problematic substances and waste out of urban areas as a central theme of this new subfield where scholars from urban history, environ...

Building up Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has been an important and actively followed topic in geo research for years. It’s also regarded in politics and by decision makers as leveraging technology for reducing time and cost in building up geo services for internal usage as well as for public information services. On the European level the new INSPIRE (Acronym for Infrastructure for Spatia...