As noted in the previous edition of “Environment and the Appraiser,” 1 assignments involving contaminated properties, or properties that may be impacted by environmental contamination, often require specialized valuation methods and techniques. The Appraisal Standards Board provides guidance on this issue in Advisory Opinion 9 (AO-9), “The Appraisal of Real Property That May Be Impacted by Envi...

Environmental mainstreaming (EM) is a policy instrument to integrate environmental risks and opportunities into planning and implementation. A body of knowledge exists on identifying barriers for EM at the national level. This paper identifies contributions of regional institutions for improving capacities for EM at the national level, using the Caribbean region as a case study. The methodology...

Statistical decision theory can be a valuable tool when considering the results of a statistical analysis for health policy decisions. In this paper, we review brieey the history of decision theory in statistics, and introduce methods for eliciting loss functions to be used when two parties with possibly connicting interests need to reach a decision. We illustrate the methods with examples conc...

Universities can nowadays be regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect impacts on the environment. The environmental pollution and degradation caused by universities in form of energy and material consumption via activities and operations in teaching and research, provi...

it is proposed to use a single base platform in the persian gulf considering its low depth and more appropriate environmental conditions in comparison to north sea and mexico gulf where this kind of platform is very popular. the pile of platform is responsible for transmission of environmental loads resulted from waves, currents, wind and dead loads to foundation of platform. using sacs 5.3 sof...