Environmental destruction caused by development activities has become a major concern among the global community. To overcome problem, environmental impact assessment (EIA) been introduced as tool that can help manage environment in activities. EIA implemented more than 100 countries around world including Islamic countries. However, implementation of not comprehensively understood. The objecti...

compost is one of the strategies of house hold solid wastes management that is used to decrease the volume and weight of wastes, odor and leach ate dispersion, resource recycles and decreasing disposal expenses. in order to observe environmental regulations in the frame of adaptation development projects with environmental concerns, assessment of environmental impact of composting plants has be...

this paper utilises the modified folchi method to assess the environmental impact of coal washing plant, alborz sharghi, north-east iran. in this study, the number of factors designed in the method was slightly modified by focusing on the environmental impact of coal washing operations. in addition, few other factors were designed and added to the previous factors. then, twenty-one values of en...

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...

This article provides a comparative overview of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, and the European Union (EU). EIA “systemic measure” and “foundation measure” criteria are used to evaluate and compare the performance of each system. In contrast to the EU, EIA must be carried out by registered experts in the African countries. In Tanzania...

environmental degradation model is one of the environmental impact assessment (eia) methods in which ecological cumulative effects of human activities on his surrounding nature could be evaluated and quantified. as a special trait of landscape ecological metrics is the ability of rapid assess and recognize of human activities in the shortest time. thus in this study, we used a landscape degrada...