The public has a strong resistance to such potential hazardous facilities as nuclear power plants and waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration due their potentially negative environment health effects, which leads difficulties in siting location. Exploring the public's cognition acceptance of is therefore vital for sustainable development industry. Based on four typical WTE located central cities Yan...

safety distance has already been a main measurement for the hazard control of chemical installations interpreted to mean providing space between the hazardous installation and different types of targets. but, the problem is how to determine the enough space. this study considers the application of quantitative risk assessment to evaluating a compressed natural gas station site and to identify n...

Centre of the Cell is a unique biomedical science education centre, a widening participation and outreach project in London's East End. This article describes Centre of the Cell's first five years of operation, the evolution of the project in response to audience demand, and the impact of siting a major public engagement project within a research laboratory.

Background There is a growing concern that school siting, construction and renovation practices in the United States are inconsistent with efforts to reduce sprawl, encourage compact growth, and increase the sustainability of our built and natural environments. Current practices also undermine efforts to support walking and cycling to school, and to strengthen community-based schools. A range o...

A rapid transition towards a CO2-neutral steel industry is required to limit climate change. Such raises questions of justice, as it entails positive and negative impacts unevenly distributed across societal stakeholders. To enable stakeholders address such concerns, this paper assesses the justice implications three options that reduce emissions: CO2 capture storage (CCS) on (up 70%), bio-base...

BACKGROUND Pit latrines are one of the most common human excreta disposal systems in low-income countries, and their use is on the rise as countries aim to meet the sanitation-related target of the Millennium Development Goals. There is concern, however, that discharges of chemical and microbial contaminants from pit latrines to groundwater may negatively affect human health. OBJECTIVES Our g...

In this paper, we propose a novel technique to determine the optimal placement of wind farms, thereby taking into account wind characteristics and electrical grid constraints. We model the long-term variability of wind speed using a Weibull distribution according to wind direction intervals, and formulate the metrics that capture wind speed characteristics at a specific location, namely the ari...