ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Future competencies for hospital management in developing countries: Systematic review

    Background: This was a systematic review presenting the future competencies for hospital managers.     Methods: Participants, interventions, comparisons and outcomes (PICO) strategy with MeSH terms were used for searching. Databases used were Web of Science, PsycINFO and Medline, EBSCO, ScienceDirect, Emerald, ProQuest, Social Sciences Research Network, Embase, and some Iranian database su...

Qualitative Risk Management Framework to evaluate environmental risk events in infrastructure projects in developing countries

This paper presents a Qualitative Risk Analysis Framework to identify and prioritize environmental risks encountered in infrastructure projects, which is applied to developing countries. The framework incorporates consensus and quality of experts in the process of evaluating environmental risk events and is composed of (1) Fuzzy Expert System (FES) to determine attributes of experts; (2) Fuzzy ...

Incentive-Based Policies for Environmental Management in Developing Countries

Environmental toxicants in developing countries.

Health effects from environmental toxicants may be a more serious problem in developing countries compared with developed countries because the problem is potentiated by other factors: a) the lack of or failure to enforce regulations, which allows human exposures to genotoxic agents; b) undernourishment of the lower economic and social classes that comprise the most exposed populations from ind...

Developing an Infrastructure for Sharing Environmental Models

The Internet and the World Wide Web offer a new solution to the problem of sharing scientific knowledge. Unlike traditional libraries based on print media, these new technologies facilitate the sharing of any information that can be expressed in a binary alphabet. Environmental models expressed as computer codes are instances of such information objects, and codes are the last of a four-stage p...