Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 15 Issue 3

Mapping arable soils using GIS‐based soil information database in Kuwait

Waleed Roy, Gerard Grealish

A soil information system was developed to manage soil survey data and to ensure that soil information is readily available to support land use planning and development. The Soil…

An agent‐based intelligent environmental monitoring system

Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Pericles A. Mitkas

Fairly rapid environmental changes call for continuous surveillance and on‐line decision making. There are two main areas where IT technologies can be valuable. In this paper we…

Decision support for optimal emission reduction

Piotr Holnicki, Andrzej Kaluszko

In this paper, a problem related to the optimal allocation of financial means for reduction of air pollutants concentration in a given region is considered. The implementation is…

Automated generation of environmental reports with Umberto

Jorge Marx Gómez, Mario Amelung

In environmental reports contained environmental data must be updated and edited regularly (e.g. according to the reporting period). An important part of each environmental report…

Problem‐solving environment for flood forecasting

L. Hluchy, O. Habala, B. Simo, J. Astalos, V.D. Tran, M. Dobrucky

This paper presents a prototype of the collaborative problem solving environment (PSE) for flood forecasting. Flood forecasting is a complex problem that requires cooperation of…

Manage data – manage hazards: Development of urban hazard information infrastructure for the city of Windhoek, Namibia

Maura Ewa Merson, Lorena Montoya, Chris Paresi

This work aims at developing guidelines and methods for establishing urban hazard information infrastructure (UHII) for the City of Windhoek (CoW) in Namibia, to set up an…

Universal system for diagnosing environmental noise

A. Czyzewski, J. Kotus

A concept and an implementation of the multimedia computer system for the monitoring of environmental noise is presented in the paper. The system provides an extension to the…

ILMAX: a system for managing experience knowledge in a long‐term study of stream ecosystem regeneration: An application of ecological informatics

Michael Neumann, Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe

We present the concept and first experiences for a Web‐based ecological knowledge management system ILMAX. It manages experience knowledge resulting from an ecological long‐term…

Systemic data management for mathematical modelling of environmental problems

R.H. Khatibi, R. Lincoln, D. Jackson, S. Surendran, C. Whitlow, J. Schellekens

With the diversification of modelling activities encouraged by versatile modelling tools, handling their datasets has become a formidable problem. A further impetus stems from the…

Greening Chinese Business: Barriers, Trends and Opportunities for Environmental Management

Ulrich Steger, Fang Zhaoben, Lu Wei

Local Forest Management – The Impacts of Devolution Policies

David Edmunds, Eva Wollenberg

The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

UN‐Habitat

Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi: Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius and Compassion

Sissel Waage, The USA Natural Step