This paper presents a decision support system (DSS) for sustainable development and environmental protection of agricultural regions developed in the framework of the Interreg-Archimed project entitled WaterMap (development and utilization of vulnerability maps for the monitoring and management of groundwater resources in the ARCHIMED areas). Its aim is to optimize the production plan of an agr...

the world health organization quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) has generally been used for patients, few studies in migrants who move from rural to urban within one country. many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health. poor social networks are associated with worse qol. this study examined health-related quality of life (hrqol) and social support in new-ge...

Environmental Studies and Artificial Intelligence are both of strategic interest. Both areas can provide society with nice solutions for many real applications, in order to protect the environment. The encounter between these fields is a new challenge for many researchers of both communities. In the foreword of the Environmental Science and Engineering for the 21st Century report [6], we can re...

We describe a decision analytic, structured approach for developing environmental indexes ensuring them to be explicit and problem specific. The indexes are used for setting and communicating targets related to products’ environmental performance. Two index models are the fixed model based on the prevailing tradition, where announced targets must be met in every impact category, and the flexibl...

Owners, managers and operators of most businesses are now increasingly aware of their responsibility to the environment. Oftentimes, however, there are significant costs associated with environmental initiatives. Fortunately though, adopting sensible, effective and efficient energy, water and waste management practices may result in substantial savings. In this paper, we report on the developme...

this paper investigates the impacts of economic and financial developments on environmental pollution for 6 opec countries using panel cointegration and panel long-run estimator (dols) over the period 1980–2008.  the results shows that both economic and financial development have significant effect on the environmental quality in selected opec economies. the findings not support the existence o...