Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Management in 2001"

TL;DR: The EU Rural Development Regulation (1257/99) provides an opportunity to implement measures for alleviating ecological impacts of arable management through a combination of cross-compliance and agri-environment schemes that integrate social, cultural, economic and ecological objectives for multifunctional land use.

TL;DR: AHP has been used for capturing the perceptions of stakeholders on the relative severity of different socio- economic impacts, which will help the authorities in prioritizing their environmental management plan, and can also help in allocating the budget available for mitigating adverse socio-economic impacts.

TL;DR: A comparative study using three fuzzy synthetic evaluation techniques to assess water quality conditions in comparison to the outputs generated by conventional procedures such as the Water Quality Index (WQI), indicating that the techniques may successfully harmonise inherent discrepancies and interpret complex conditions.

TL;DR: An environmental system dynamics model, named ErhaiSD, is developed for supporting this planning task of effective planning for the Lake Erhai Basin, China, and the results are directly useful for simulating and evaluating a variety of decision actions and their dynamic consequences.

TL;DR: The results show that the monetary value of amenity benefits in recreation areas is much higher than the present maintenance costs and suggest that a limit could be found where the infill of housing areas is not worthwhile from the point of view of society, if the losses of green space benefits are taken into account.

TL;DR: The rules for management and handling of biomedical wastes are summarised, giving the categories of different wastes, suggested storage containers including colour-coding and treatment options, and existing and proposed systems of health-care waste management are described.

TL;DR: It is concluded that, while participation is conducive to a localized and inclusive approach to EM, many questions remain about the extent to which it is meaningful in practice or can be institutionalized.

TL;DR: The results show that present levels of withdrawal are not sustainable, and parts of the local populations are already experiencing water deficits on a daily basis, so a precautionary water-management approach is suggested.

TL;DR: A framework for assessing the economic feasibility of sediment management strategies that would allow the life of dams to be prolonged indefinitely is provided and sustainable management of reservoirs is economically more desirable than the prevailing practice of forcing a finite reservoir life through excessive sediment accumulation.

TL;DR: A systems-based evaluation framework that incorporates these principles and also recognises the multiple levels and nested nature of NRM policy, namely: problem characterisation, policy formulation and intent, program logic, and on-ground implementation is developed.

TL;DR: A number of related methodologies, applications, and policy considerations were examined in this article for sustainable water-quality management in the twenty-first century, including data availability and reliability, concerns in system complexity and methodology validity, limitations of computer techniques, usefulness of research outputs, difficulties in policy implementation, and necessity of training programs.

TL;DR: The results showed that the water biotic quality did not degrade significantly below wastewater treatment plants, however, significantly lower water quality was found in areas downstream from high human impact areas where urban land was dominated or near point pollution sources.

TL;DR: Local people's perceptions of planning and management issues were investigated in Prespes Lakes National Park in north-western Greece, 24 years after designation and indicated that the information derived from such research could help managers of protected areas to resolve arising conflicts.

TL;DR: A focus on the often-overlooked use of riparian zones by freshwater turtles is focused, a biologically determined riparian width is calculated, and recommendations for ecosystem management are offered.

TL;DR: This approach will facilitate the accelerated and sustainable extension of environmentally responsible wastewater services to MENA's small communities and offers great potential for cost reduction, accommodates the necessary domestic water conservation efforts, reduces freshwater inputs in wastewater transportation thus eliminating unnecessary demand on freshwater, reduces associated environmental risks and increases wastewater reuse opportunities.

TL;DR: Managers considering prescribed burning of big sagebrush communities should be aware that herbaceous plant responses may be minimal while shrub values will likely be lost for many years.

TL;DR: The study describes how the recently implemented GCDAMP program, lessons from past events, and new climate information on the Colorado River Basin, facilitated responses during the major El Niño-Southern Oscillation event of 1997-1998.

TL;DR: This study shows that there is overwhelming support for source separation of waste in Mainland China, whether it is in rural or urban communities, and that most people are already undertaking source separation due to the redemption value of the recyclables.

TL;DR: The components of the decision making environment and the components of a decision support system are described and the various techniques available to deal with different modelling needs, the constraints of inadequate data and the multi-objective decisionMaking environment are explored.

TL;DR: The Kao-Ping River was characterized hydraulically and environmentally, based on a full investigation of discharges and withdrawals in the river reaches, and the QUAL2E simulation model was capable of predicting the concentrations of biochemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, total phosphate-phosphorus, and ammonia-nitrogen for the entire river system.

TL;DR: The results show that the degradation rates of both endosulfan isomers were greatly affected by changes in soil water content and temperature, and both factors slowed down the degradation of alpha-endosolfan and enhanced that of beta-endOSulfan, but their net effect was to prolong the overall persistence of this chemical in the soil.

TL;DR: Opencast mining dominates coal production in India and a survey was conducted to evaluate its local atmospheric impact, revealing high pollution potential due to suspended particulate matter and consequent impact on human health.

TL;DR: The authors examines the types of policy-making measures that are currently being taken in Canada to overcome these obstacles, comparing them to those being taking in the US and Europe. But it is also argued that this trend is unfolding in a relatively predictable way, and that policymaking in Canada is evolving more slowly than it is in the other jurisdictions examined.

TL;DR: Predictions generated by this type of modelling provide a reasonably sound basis for regional conservation planning and poor performing models tended to be for species which occur mainly within specific habitats not well sampled by either the model development or evaluation data.

TL;DR: The thesis that economic activity leads to environmental degradation unless ecosystem-based management is integrated into economic decision making is advanced, as well as tentative predictions as to where current trends in Alberta may lead if decisions biased against ecosystems continue.

TL;DR: The state of the environment in the 45 municipalities within the province has been monitored and their values have been used to rank the municipalities by multiple criteria analysis (MCA), providing information about the level of sustainability attained in the province as a whole as well as in the single municipalities.

TL;DR: Planting of large trees close to the west wall of buildings, dense planting on the north, and avoidance of planting onThe south are recommended to maximize indirect carbon reduction by residential vegetation, in Chicago and other mid and high-latitude cities with long heating seasons.

TL;DR: The differences between the level of farmers' involvement in landscape activities in two study areas in central Jutland, Denmark are investigated to investigate if patterns of landscape activities undertaken by farmers are related to certain farm characteristics and if landscape activities vary from one location to another.

TL;DR: This paper discusses an application of multicriteria analysis in an evaluation of riparian revegetation policy options for Scheu Creek, a small sub-catchment in the Johnstone River catchment in north Queensland, Australia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the local/regional industrial ecosystem approach is reflected in two examples from Finland and the potential of combining the forest industry system with the energy supply systems of cities is considered and the conditions for success are discussed.