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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Environmental assessment"”.
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Strategic environmental assessment approach: governance and planning
… the topics of regional governance and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Compared to its relationship with governance the SEA may be defined as a set of rules, principles, techniques and tools with the function of supporting the decision making process. The evaluation process is …
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Adaptive rapid environmental assessment system simulation framework
Adaptive Rapid Environmental Assessment (AREA) is a new concept for minimizing the non model-based sonar performance prediction uncertainty and improving the model-based sonar performance by adaptive and rapid in situ measurement in the ocean environment. In this thesis, a possible structure of the …
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Multi-stakeholder contribution to biotechnology environmental assessment
Environmental assessments, such as those for biotechnology applications, are typically conducted by small groups of expert assessors, but scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in involving diverse stakeholders. In addition to other reasons for broader involvement, researchers have …
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Environmental assessment for wetland management in Sri Lanka
… of the study are to identify an appropriate environmentalassessment framework for the management of wetlands in Sri Lanka and todetermine its practicability under the prevailing conditions of data availabilityand expertise.Eight functions and values are used to characterize wetland …
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Natural hazards and environmental assessment in New Zealand
Environmental assessment in New Zealand is governed by the provisions of the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991. The Act requires persons wishing to undertake certain activities to apply for resource consent from their local or regional council - a procedure termed the Resource Consent Process. The …
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Environmental assessment of global site-specific industrial air pollution
… measurements at the same time. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is then applied to quantify current human health impacts. Thus, the global air emission inventory is coupled with current life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) methods, while the technological information for each site is then used to …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment for Municipal Water Demand Based on Climate Change
… quantifying municipal water demands through the assessment of climatic factors, using a combination of a Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) technique, three hybrid computational intelligence algorithms and an ANN model. These hybrid algorithms include a Lightning Search Algorithm (LSA-ANN), a …
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Technical and environmental assessment of all-electric 180-passenger commercial aircraft
Aviation emissions contribute to climate change, and all-electric aircraft offer an opportunity for zero in-flight emissions. Over the past decade, more than 50 all-electric conceptual, experimental, and commercial aircraft have been researched, with a particular focus on light aircraft. These …
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A techno-economic and environmental assessment of hydroprocessed renewable distillate fuels
… a model to quantify the economic costs and environmental impacts of producing fuels from hydroprocessed renewable oils (HRO) process. Aspen Plus was used to model bio-refinery operations and supporting utilities. Material and energy balances for electricity, carbon dioxide, and water …
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Re-conceptualising strategic environmental assessment: theoretical overview and case study from Chile
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organisations to pursue the complex goal of sustainable development. Academic literature and practitioners have devoted increasing attention to this instrument …
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Economic and Environmental Assessment of an Integrated Carbon Capture and Utilization Pathway
… need to assess the economic feasibility and environmental benefit of these technologies. While broad deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) has significant potential for carbon mitigation, the potential value that can be created by utilizing the captured CO2 in a way that can …
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Augmenting public participation with information technology in a Portugese environmental assessment context
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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An environmental assessment of recycling options for used lubricating oil in South Africa
… goal of the study was to develop a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based tool for comparing and evaluating the environmental performance of selected used oil management scenarios in South Africa. The LCA based tool presented a broad based strategy for used oil management which not only compares two …
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Technical, economic, and environmental assessment of liquid jet fuel production on aircraft carriers
This work is a first order assessment of the technical feasibility and characteristics of technologies to produce fuel onboard aircraft carriers, which is of interested to the United States Navy. They are interested because the logistical burden and supply chain required for delivering fuel at sea …
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A state-of-practice survey of health and environmental assessment in the Canadian north
The need to strengthen the role of environmental and health considerations in decision-making processes is increasingly recognized by the Canadian government and industry-based organizations. Integrating human health into environmental assessments (EAs) at the earliest stage is critical for …
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Environmental assessment of Lake Gibson sediments, water quality, and soils of the Niagara Region
… sparse, this project was initiated to conduct an environmental assessment of Lake Gibson. Chemistry of soils from adjacent areas and vineyards in the region provide a comparative background database. Water quality determinations were used to identify and highlight areas of environmental concern …
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A generic approach to environmental assessment of microbial bioprocesses through life cycle assessment (LCA)
The intrinsic environmental advantages of industrial scale bioprocesses over chemical processes remain a discussion point owing to limited objective analysis. Studies to date are often limited to energy or global warming considerations with little regard for full Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …
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