Environmental Sensitivity Indices (ESI) composed of many field-data are essential for monitoring and control systems. At the beginning of the last decade an ESI of the German Wadden Sea was developed for use by the relevant authorities. This ESI was derived by experts semi-manually analysing the extensive field data-set. An algorithm is presented here which emulates human expert-decisions on th...

1. Countergradient variation in growth rate requires that rapid growth rate trades off with other performances, such that submaximal growth evolves in certain environments. Negative effects of rapid growth on other traits within a single ontogenetic stage are conspicuous candidates for such trade-offs, but trade-offs spanning ontogenetic stages have received much less attention. 2. We tested wh...

The selection of product portfolios, processing routes and the combination of technologies to obtain a sustainable biorefinery design according to economic and environmental criteria represents a challenge to process engineering. The aim of this research is to generate a robust methodology that assists the process engineers to conceptually optimise the environmental and economic performances of...

This paper develops an index of pollution based on the epidemiological dose-response function associated with each pollutant, and the welfare losses due to exposure to pollution. The probability of damage is translated into welfare losses, which provides the common metric required for aggregation. Isopollution surfaces may then be used to compare environmental quality over time and space. An Ai...

Abstract This study intends to propose a novel approach based on fuzzy synthetic evaluation in order to realize power enterprise supply chain performance evaluation. Through the characteristic analysis of power enterprise supply chain, a 2-dimensions mesh framework for power enterprise supply chain performance evaluation is put forward, and the indexes of power enterprise supply chain performan...

The aim of the study is to measure sustainable value added created by companies spending environmental resources. For this purpose, three enviromental resources were selected: water, energy, and CO2. amount consumption these has been investigated. covers years 2017, 2018 2019 10 listed in BIST Sustainability Index operating manufacturing sector. With data, calculated with opportunity cost-based...

1. introduction: increasing urbanization and industrialization rate in developed and developing countries cities, such as tehran, has led to increased air pollution. todays, the prediction and estimation of air quality parameters in urban regions are important topics in environmental studies due to their effect on human health. measurement of air quality are widely used in air quality control p...

The concept of sustainable development, which has emerged over the last few decades, has moved away from the global to the local level. The sustainability measurements at the global level use the triple bottom line, considering environmental, economic and social dimensions; however, the limited data available at the local level has driven what little research there is to use these optics when c...

the present research designed to evaluate the effects of foliar application of methyl jasmonate (meja), salicylic acid (sa) and potassium sulfate on improving fruit quality and photosynthesis system. ten treatments include: sa (0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 mm), meja (0.5, 1 and 2 mm), potassium sulfate (0.5, 1 and 1.5%) and distilled water (control) were sprayed on pomegranate trees 2 and 7 weeks after ful...