During the last few years, the concern about the protection of the environment has largely increased due to the contaminants mainly with anthropogenic origin and have affected and continue to threaten human resources especially air quality, surface soil and groundwater. Solid wastes are produced every day in urban societies as a result of human activities and in an attempt to dispose of these m...

there is a strong mutuality between tourism and environment via the creation of feedback mechanisms, since tourism often places adverse effects upon the quality and quantity of natural and cultural resources of the destination, leading to its qualitative and quantitative degradation. within theenvironmental impacts assessment (eia) studies, various methods have been proposed to assess and analy...

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a preemptive tool used by engineers, environmental consultants and planners to avoid the most likely adverse consequences of development projects. As planning tool, EIA should curb harmful effects from all stages project lifecycle. Landslides flash floods are common problems faced Malaysians almost yearly due rapid development, especially that involving ...

In Korea, a greenhouse gas (GHG) environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been conducting since 2012, which sets the evaluation procedures and methods for GHG items during EIA. However, current EIA on emissions can support wrong decision-making because does not consider Scope 3 emissions. Accordingly, this study proposed life cycle (LCEIA) method to identify changes in that need be managed by ...

In order to achieve the ambitious carbon peak and neutrality targets, China is in process of revising Environmental Impact Assessment Law. This study devoted proposition how incorporate activities regulating greenhouse gas emissions into legal system (EIA). inspired by Embedding Theory, which provides explanatory framework that allows economic be regulated political social norms. requires a rel...

Mining engineers and environmental experts around the world still identify evaluate risks associated with mining activities using field-based, basic qualitative methods The main objective is to introduce an innovative AI-based approach for construction of impact assessment (EIA) indexes that statistically reflects takes into account relationships between different factors, finding relevant patt...

We propose an ethical analysis as a method to reflect on how companies’ decisions promote sustainable development. The method proceeds by first identifying the choice according to financial business interests, and by then scrutinizing this choice according to consequentialist and deontological ethics. The paper applies the method to the choice of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that a ...

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a real problem of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) where information, as much quantitative as qualitative, coexists. The traditional methods of MCDM developed for the EIA discriminates in favor of quantitative information at the expense of qualitative information, because we are unable to integrate this latter information inside their procedure. ...