Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate the most important public environmental issues and concerns, the public knowledge about these issues, as well as the quality of environmental issues in Rafsanjan, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 384 people were randomly selected from Rafsanjan City and their public environmental issues and concerns were evaluated. Th...

introduction the automotive industry is one of the largest industries in the world, which is also very important in our country.according to the world bank, the automotive industry can be classified as the projects that have environmental impacts. therefore, the review and analysis of the environmental impacts is conducted to identify the significant effects of pollution caused by the activitie...

The blind number theory was applied to define the blind numbers of the parameters of environmental system according to the characteristics of several kinds of uncertainties coexisting in water environmental system. Entropy coefficient method was calculate indicator weight based on the differences of water evaluation indicators and effectively solve the problems of weight calculation and effect ...

Environmental pollution consists of different types of pollutants in air, soil, and water. Due to the fact that plants can respond to environmental pollution, they can be used as bio-indicators for environmental monitoring. Air pollution in areas with oil and gas refineries nearby is an important problem. This study aims to survey the effects of gas refinery air pollutants on Conocarpus erectus...

extended abstractintroductionin recent years, several studies around the world have shown that land use has a strong impact on water quality, and significant correlations exist between water quality parameters and land use types. generally land use types have adverse impacts on water quality, so positive relationships exist between percentages of these land use types and concentrations of water ...

The Lake Urmia and its satellite wetlands have been selected as a demonstration site for the United Nations Development Program / Global Environment Facility / Department of Environment Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project. This project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. A choice experiment was...

in this study we investigated the impacts of population increase on life quality, with a special focus on its impact on the natural resources and environmental issues. this analysis was conducted using data over a 16 year period. since water is one of the most important factors contributing to the growth and development of countries, the increase in population size, industry sector growth, urba...