environmental impact assessment Articles
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Environmental impact assessment for nanotechnologies: integrating the ecological and the chemical perspective
The development and application of products containing engineered nanoparticles (ENP) has dramatically increased over the past decade, whereas the assessment of potential hazards to humans and especially to the environment substantially falls behind. The UFT Centre for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technology at the University of Bremen focuses on environmentally benign nanomaterials. ...
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The Third Workshop's environmental impact assessment model intercomparison exercise
Twelve European modelling teams calculated the impact of a 600 MW power plant, using one of their national regulatory transport and dispersion models. They were asked to report the model results in a uniform way and to provide detailed information on the meteorological data and on the model used. Three modelling teams, from Greece, Germany and Belgium, used the same meteorological dataset. The ...
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The UK's nuclear renaissance and its legal foundations
This paper addresses the proposed development of a new generation of new nuclear power stations in England and Wales. It explains the genesis of this nuclear renaissance and explores the legal changes which have been instituted to facilitate that programme. It explores some of the areas of likely legal controversy and conflict, for example in relation to how the wastes from new power stations ...
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The management of environmental services in the City of Bologna
This paper explores the debate around the pursuit of an integrated and participatory approach to environmental services within the Italian planning system, using the case of Bologna as a practical and innovative example. The Master Plan of Bologna, virtually unchanged since it was established in 1989, is not suited to dealing with the range of environmental issues evident today. The pursuit of an ...
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Comparison of environmental impact and energy efficiency of desalination processes by LCA
In this study two desalination technologies have been compared by means of LCA with the focus on energy supply with a variety of scenarios based on different assumptions. The studied technologies are reverse osmosis and the newly developed technology Memstill where electrical energy demand is reduced by using external thermal energy source and use of chemicals is reduced. The scenarios are chosen ...
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Setting up a regulatory frame for atmospheric dispersion modelling in Italy: needs, actors and ongoing activities
The need for regulatory models for predicting the impact of atmospheric emissions, both for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies and in the frame of Air Quality Management Plans (AQMP), is well known to the Italian technical-scientific community, and is acknowledged also by decision makers. Some specific features of the Italian territory, e.g. complex orography, land-sea discontinuity ...
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Advantages and challenges in using LCA–based environmental impact assessment for guiding design decisions
Owing to the increased awareness of environmental issues along with tighter regulatory norms, there is greater emphasis among manufacturers to lower the environmental impacts of their products and solutions. Many organisations are seeking to adapt the life cycle assessment (LCA) method to estimate impact during the design stage and guide the development of sustainable products. In this research, ...
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Model evaluation of the Austrian Gaussian plume model ON M 9440: comparison with the Kincaid dataset
The Austrian Gaussian plume model ON M 9440 is evaluated with the Kincaid dataset using the workshop model validation kit. Results are shown for different meteorological options. Mean model concentrations compare well with or overestimate measured data, depending on the choice of these options.Keywords: Gaussian plume model, Kincaid data, model evaluation, plume rise, atmospheric dispersion ...
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Atmospheric dispersion models for regulatory purposes in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part II: the current situation
This paper starts with some remarks on the present air pollution situation in Germany. The air quality standards will be presented and compared with data from the continuous monitoring network stations. Subsequently a short description of the tools in use for regulatory applications is given. The quality of these tools and their status of validation are critically discussed. Finally, conclusions ...
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PSS design: a general framework perspective
The paper presents a tentative framework for Planning Support System (PSS) design. The aim is to aid planners to fully exploit the potential offered by the introduction of Spatial Information Technology into planning practice. The framework proposed is based on a taxonomy of PSSs, which offers different conceptual models useful to adapt a general PSS model to different planning processes. The ...
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Comparison of health and environmental impacts from electricity generation systems
Health and environmental impacts from fossil, renewable and nuclear electricity generation are estimated following a detailed bottom-up impact pathway analysis. By using a set of harmonised air quality and dose-effect models, a methodological framework has been established and consistently applied across different fuel chains, including the analysis of consequences from beyond design nuclear ...
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Long-term environmental impact assessment of agricultural land transition – a comparative case study
Agriculture is often blamed to be a leading source of water environment degradation. However, a fundamental question: ‘Would the reduction of agricultural activities lead to the recovery of water environment?’ remains insufficiently explored. The present work addressed this issue through a comparative study on two watersheds where agricultural policy was shifted from promotion to ...
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Bringing Bangladesh to World Bank standards - A case study on satisfying the criteria of the World Bank requirements in Bangladesh
Client: Cairn Energy and Halliburton Brown & RootConsultant: Andy IveNaturally when the World Bank was asked to finance the first offshore platform in Bangladesh in 1994 they demanded stringent environmental protection. What was needed was someone who could combine engineering practicalities with legislative requirements to ensure environmental compliance. Andy Ive was called in to assist in ...
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Lagrangian particle model LAMBDA: evaluation against tracer data
The capabilities of the Lagrangian particle model LAMBDA in simulating tracer dispersion are shown. Two different datasets of experimental campaigns proposed in the Manno Workshop (Copenhagen and Lillestrom) are used to compare measured and calculated concentrations. LAMBDA, which is based on the Langevin equation, can use as input higher moments (like skewness and cross-correlations) of the ...
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Environmental problems of Canakkale City and solutions
Environmental problems are getting more serious in almost every region of Turkey. They occur for many reasons and take many forms. Canakkale City has potential for both domestic and international tourism, because of its rich historical past and natural and cultural resources. However, in common with other parts of the country, Canakkale faces environmental problems such as air pollution, water ...
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Methodology for a comparative evaluation of two air-quality models
This paper presents a methodology for conducting an objective comparative evaluation of two air-quality models using several datasets. This methodology is designed to be simple to implement and understand, to reliably discern improvement in performance, and to accommodate the use of datasets from a variety of field studies of varying quality. The reliability of the comparison is enhanced by the ...
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Operational short-range analytical air pollution modelling
Operational models that use solutions of the advection-diffusion equation based on more realistic assumptions than that of homogeneous wind and eddy diffusivity coefficients are presented. In particular, these solutions accept that wind and eddy diffusivity profiles are power functions of the height. Moreover, a practical short-range model evaluating ground-level concentrations from elevated ...
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Mercury mobility and availability in highly contaminated solid wastes from a chlor–alkali plant
This article suggests an approach of sustainable development in Cuba based on the environmental impact assessment of mercurial sludge generated by a chlor–alkali Cuban plant. It consists of a study of mercury mobility and availability in the sludge samples using sequential extraction procedure. High values of total mercury content (2320 ± 40 mg/kg) in the sludge sample as well as in the toxicity ...
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Development of biomarkers to detect the effects of organic pollution on aquatic invertebrates: recent molecular, genotoxic, cellular and immunological studies on the common mussel (Mytilus edulis L.) and other mytilids
Organic contaminants are continually entering aquatic environments and thence the tissues of resident biota. Mussels and other molluscs are used worldwide as sentinels in pollution monitoring. Recent years have seen the development of biological measurements (biomarkers) as tools for use in monitoring and environmental impact assessment, such biomarkers being indicative of contaminant exposure ...
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Sludge Treatment and Disposal: Management Approaches and Experiences
Abstract This report describes various methods of sludge treatment and disposal: it is intended for those charged with the task of determining the fate of sludge, providing them with the information necessary to select among action alternatives. Table of contents Introduction Background Sludge characterisation Transportation and storage Agricultural Use Composting Drying ...
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