the most important environmental pollutant in steel industry is air pollution due to the process of its products. optimise sitting for this industry, in a great extend will prevent pollutants and emissions. khorasan steel company is located near some populous villages and three rivers. it is necessary to perform an investigation for providing abatement and control of air pollution, in time of p...

1. Introduction The siting of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is a highly controversial issue in most countries. So far, Finland [6; 9] and Sweden have been exceptions; for reviews see Sjöberg [13; 15]. The corporation responsible for finding a site and building a repository for SNF in Sweden, SKB, managed to find two promising host communities in 2001: Östhammar and Oskarshamn, two small communities ...

Dr. Maxwell is a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at MIT and Director of the Center for Environment and Health at John Snow, Inc He received his Ph.D. in the field of Public Policy at MIT. He is currently supervising studies of siting in US and foreign countries, integration of environment and health in policy making, and environmental management practices in the automob...

The siting of a radioactive waste repository involves a series of decisions that require an integrated analysis of conflicting ecological, economical and social objectives. While making sure that these criteria are met, the main goal of such decisions is to ensure that the population and the environment are safe. According to IAEA (2007), the siting process consists of site selection and charac...

We describe two current projects with our toolkit for siting multiple observers on terrain. (Both observers and targets are at some specified height above ground level. Observers can see targets, when not hidden by the terrain, out to a specified radius of interest.) Siting the observers so that they are intervisible, i.e., so that the visibility graph is a connected set, is the first project. ...

The siting of an increasing range of facilities has become a major policy problem for all nations alike. Developers often face significant resistance from community interests in seeking to site socially desirable facilities. Siting is inherently political. While in some cases, developers are unable to get community agreement for projects, in others, they have had more success. This overview pap...

This paper examines the recent siting of foreign-owned corporate technological development in European regions. The data used are patents granted in the US to the world's largest firms in the period 1987-‘95. According with the literature on knowledge creation in MNCs, we find that location of foreign-owned research tends to agglomerate, depending positively upon the potential for intraand inte...

[1] Recent photographic documentation of poor siting conditions at stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has led to questions regarding the reliability of surface temperature trends over the conterminous United States (CONUS). To evaluate the potential impact of poor siting/instrument exposure on CONUS temperatures, trends derived from poor andwell sited USHCN stations wer...

The traditional practice to assess and evaluate different types of risk in isolation to each other are liable to give erroneous results. Integrated risk assessment is an answer to overcome this problem. This paper presents the cumulative or integrated assessment of acute risk posed by accidental release of hazardous chemical (e.g. chlorine) and chronic risk induced by toxic chemicals (e.g. cadm...