Environmental licensing: quality evolution of Environmental Impact Assessment (ISE)

Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment of Coal Washing Plant (Alborz- Sharghi –Iran)

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...

Application of PCRaster for environmental impact assessment using environmental models

A simplified case study shows how the PCRaster software can be used in the framework of environmental impact assessment. PCRaster comes with generic spatial functions that can be combined in a structured script. This script can be used to 1) define scenarios for human activities, 2) construct static or dynamic (i.e. temporal) spatial environmental models with these scenarios as input, and 3) to...

The Environmental Impact of Galaxy Evolution

Galaxy evolution reveals itself not only through the evolving properties of galaxies themselves but also through its impact on the surrounding environment. The intergalactic medium in particular holds a fossil record of past galaxy activity, imprinted on its thermodynamic and chemical properties. This is most easily discerned in small galaxy groups, where the gravitational heating of this gas r...

Evolution of environmental epidemiologic risk assessment.

Epidemiology has historically played an important role in the recognition of causes for diseases affecting the health of the public. Initially, epidemiology was concerned with infectious diseases. Later it became involved in metabolic and dietary deficiency diseases. Most recently, epidemiology has addressed the question of the public health effects of chemicals from production facilities, acci...