... development, thereby calling for the development of GLOF hazard and risk assessment procedures. This study aims to delineate the enablers of GLOF risk and establish a contextual relationship between them. Design/methodology/approach The risk enablers are identified from the extant GLOF literature...

... Group Publishing Limited 2015 Life cycle assessment Environment Human health Risk assessment Soy-biodiesel Liquid biofuels provided about 3 per cent of global road transport fuels in 2011. Amongst them, biodiesel is the dominant fuel in Europe and Asia (20 per cent) and bioethanol...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Seas Rivers Sedimentation Contamination Estuaries Sediments Environmental assessment Toxicity Weight of evidence Risk assessment Estuaries are highly productive yet complex ecosystems where anthropogenic contaminants can have potentially greater impacts than...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Environmental management Perception Pesticides Risk assessment South Korea The modern South Korean society has been undergoing a clash between traditional values and Western cultural ideology (Joh, 2002). Along with the changes of economic...

... physical planners and four building inspectors to deal with enormous tasks of processing building applications and monitoring the physical development for the entire city. The implication is that the city is facing a huge work backlog and building breaches are rampant. Risk assessment Coastal regions...

... and pollution and can be found in all human activities. These notions correspond to specific and technical definitions. It is in environmental sciences where the notion of risk assessment has been developed. It consists of qualitatively estimating the risk the population and ecosystems encounter when...

... is based on the principles of risk assessment, a key technique in the protection and management of the environment. When well‐constructed, it may cover all aspects of an organisation's activities, thus providing a sound base for the identification of the most significant indicators to be considered...

... of Technology. One of the project's goals is to assess and demonstrate tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental risk assessment (ERA) and life cycle costing (LCC). Design/methodology/approach Different strategies for eco‐efficiency evaluation based on existing tools as well as case study...

... Risk assessment Sweden Wastewater sludge is contaminated by organic and inorganic pollutants to varying degrees, as a result of domestic and industrial wastewater discharges to municipal wastewater treatment plants (Schnaak et al., 1997 ; Paxéus, 1999 ; Litz, 2000). This makes using...

... program modules: geo‐information system; PM for risk assessment of emergency occurences in the AZ; PM for dynamic optimisation tasks. 1. (5) A PM for solution of problems connected with using an effective means for a support of a desirable level of ecological and technogenic safety in AZ. 2. (6...