Environmental health has a significant role to play in all stages of disaster management, from planning through to recovery. The conceptualizetion of the environmental health role by environmental health practitioners and other disciplines involved with disaster management is the focus of this review. To provide context for this discussion, we present an overview of disasters and disaster manag...

investigating urban environmental conditions, informs us about the unsustainability and excessivedegradation of ecological context, which result in rising environmental concerns among the society. classifiedinformation about the status and trends of environmental components is needed as a rational tool to help urbansustainable planning and soer reports can help provide such information. prepari...

In this paper, a dynamic optimization approach for optimal choice of energy carriers in thermal power plants is proposed that analyzes the substitution of energy carriers in short-term planning of a power plant.The model is based on the linear programming method with the objective of minimizing costs under constraints of resource availability, energy balances, environmental regulations and elec...

Energy-environmental planning for road transportation involves a vast investigation of vehicles’ technologies and electricity production. However, in developing countries where the public sector is growing quickly, energy-environmental urgently needed. This paper evaluates future demand, as well fuel consumption CO2 emissions reduction, due to operation an expected increasing number electric ve...

Integrated resource planning (IRP) helps utilities and state regulatory com missions assess consistently a variety of demand and supply resources to meet customer energy-service needs cost-effectively. Key characteristics of this planning paradigm include: {a) explicit consideration of energy-efficiency and load-management programs as alternatives to some power plants, (b) con sideration of env...

As environmental criteria become more and more important for the energy systems operation and planning, this paper proposes a method that can support the decision makers in future electricity systems planning. The evaluation of future electric power transmission investment plans is based on a social welfare analysis when the external costs of production are internalized. The social benefit can ...