Environmental quality evolution and environmental policy involve uncertainties in various dimensions. These uncertainties can often not be represented by a unique, probabilistic belief and thus standard expected utility preferences representation models can not be used for the determination of optimal mitigation and adaptation decisions. Several alternatives for the expected utility model have ...

Restructuring in electric power sectors took a significant step backward in the summer of 2000 when wholesale and retail markets in California experienced staggering price increases that continued through June of 2001. During this period, California suppliers neared bankruptcy and one went into bankruptcy, as did the state’s cornerstone market institution, the California Power Exchange. While t...

Future land cover will have a significant impact on climate and is strongly influenced by the extent of agricultural land use. Differing assumptions of crop yield increase and carbon pricing mitigation strategies affect projected expansion of agricultural land in future scenarios. In the representative concentration pathway 4.5 (RCP4.5) from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) of putrescible urban waste for energy recovery has seen rapid growth over recent years. In order to ascertain its systems scale sustainability, however, determination of the environmental fate of the large volume of digestate generated during the process is indispensable. This paper evaluates the environmental burdens to air associated with land applied food-based diges...

The significance and role of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) toward environmental planning and management of the potential impacts made to the environment, necessitates a comparison of the EIA procedure in Iran with that in other countries around the world. To this end, 10 countries and regions comprising developed countries (Canada, Finland, New Zealand and Belgium), developing countries...

China's unprecedented change offers a unique opportunity for uncovering relationships between economic growth and environmental pressure. Here we show the trajectories of China's environmental pressure and reveal underlying socioeconomic drivers during 1992-2010. Mining and manufacturing industries are the main contributors to increasing environmental pressure from the producer perspective. Cha...

Logistics encompasses the business processes that plan, control, and implement the flow of goods and related information between points of origin and points of consumption to meet customer demand. It does so by managing transportation, warehousing, and inventory decisions across the company and, whenever possible, across its supply chain. Traditionally, logistics decisions have been driven by m...

Large-scale corporate projects, particularly those in extractive industries or hydropower development, have a history from early in the twentieth century of creating negative environmental, social, and health impacts on communities proximal to their operations. In many instances, especially for hydropower projects, the forced resettlement of entire communities was a feature in which local cultu...

population growth and urbanization increase the demand for developing new roads. heavy traffic of the east of tehran imposes high pressure on transportation. network of this city and old road of tehran-rudehen does not meet this need. therefore, constructing the new highway (tehran – pardis) in the east of tehran would be needed. but the new highway passes through protected area of jajrood an...