In the past 20 years, municipal solid waste policies have changed in response to societal
and environmental changes. Municipal solid waste policies in many countries become more …

Waste materials generated from building demolition have become a great challenge to
sustainable urban development due to its consumption of the limited landfill spaces, water …

The paper provides for an evaluation of the potential level and nature of sustainable
development of the Sabalan geothermal power plant in NW Iran, to be operational in 2011 …

In the last several decades, Iran's ecosystem has suffered due to the careless usage of
natural resources. Cities have grown in an uneven and non-normative way, and poor project …

This study contributes to building a valid hierarchical sustainable solid waste management
(SSWM) attribute set with qualitative information, which is a complicated and ambiguous …

In this paper the applicability of the RIAM method (rapid impact assessment matrix) is
evaluated in the context of impact significance assessment. The methodological issues …

This paper discusses interactions between the generation, collection and recovery of used
tyres while considering an indicator of their mass accumulation per area in Poland. Notably …

Indiscriminate use of natural resources has adversely affected Iran's environment over the
past few decades. Cities have developed irregularly and non-normatively, and project …

Population growth and the corresponding production of more waste as well as considering
the lack of appropriate municipal solid waste management strategies in recent years have …

Cement industries produce millions of tons of by-products each year, including dust, toxic
gases, and heavy metals, which pose respiratory health hazards and environmental …