nowadays, environmental impact assessment (eia) is a one of planning tool that used for the prediction of environmental impacts. there are several methods to assess environmental impacts in the world. degradation model is one of the mathematics models that investigates and predicts data for assessing the impact of development. degradation model consist degradation coefficient per ecology unit, ...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) tools link the environmental context of a building to design decision-making framework. Life Cycle (LCA) and Green Building Rating Systems (GBRS) are two approaches commonly used holistically analyse performance whole building. While GBRS is mostly based on checklist with many qualitative criteria, LCA compels decision-makers base analyses numerical evidenc...

more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...

Reviews of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice, particularly by industrial proponents, have highlighted common shortfalls. EIA would benefit from more ‘common sense’, which is not very common. For example, issue scoping usually includes too many inconsequential factors, and issues not directly affecting project decisions. Consideration of significance is often vague, misleading or in...

by the federal Minister of the Environment to advise government, industry and universities on ways to improve the scientific, technical and procedural basis for environmental impact assessment (EIA) in Canada. CEARC is currently in the process of establishing research programmes related to improving the practice of environmental assessment. The Council has identified the use of mathematical and...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been widely recognized as a crucial instrument for sound decision-making that will promote environmental conservation and sustainable development. International jurisprudence clarified the obligation of EIA under customary international law, especially concerning its legal status, threshold standards, procedural requirements, well issue State responsibi...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has led to the dominance of planners on the natural environment of the regions, providing the possibility of continuously monitoring and controlling the status quo by management staff. In this regard, a new semi-quantitative model is presented for the EIA of the Eastern Alborz Coal Mining complex using the matrix method, and determining the corresponding im...

 Due to the growth of population and industrialization, a great number of problems associated with producing industrial wastes have been created for both the environment and human beings. The industrial waste management in Brujen industrial park, located in the western part of Iran, has been investigated in this study using the environmental rapid impact assessment matrix techn...