In this paper a basic ethical framework is presented. It provides useful guidance for environmental informatics' contribution to design towards a sustainable information society. In more detail the framework is illustrated by a set of three essential verifications concerning human, social, and environmental acceptability. ...

In an effort to conserve water quality through the identification of the major impacts from the land-reclaimed project, EIS has been established using a GIS. All different types of layers were generated including topography, hydrography, soils, geology, etc. Also pollutant DBincluding point and nonpoint source pollutants ...

This paper describes the use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) as a decision support tool in environmentally relevant decision problems. Though various methods from Artificial Intelligence as well as from Computational Intelligence have been successfully integrated into Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS), the ...

Abstract A recently developed approach is applied for calibration and reduction of a water quality model. The method consists of a combination of the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation technique (GLUE) and Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) . The method is based on multiple model evaluations. The GSA is a ...

The German state Northrhine Westfalia is building a geospatial infrastructure (GDI) based on the OGC Web services. One result is terraSeek, a search engine for georesources, built by con terraGmbHand the Institute for Geoinformatics (University of Münster). terraSeek is the first conformant implementation of the OGC ...

There is described an environmental decision support information system for the environmental performance evaluation, called ISEPE, in the paper. The goal of this decision support system is to evaluate whether an organisation's environmental performance is meeting the criteria set by the management of an organisation. ...

The EU-Solvent Directive (Council Directive 1999/13/EC on the limitation of emissions of VOC due to the use of organic solvents) lays down emission limit values for twenty different categories of installations using solvents. These limit values are determined depending on the applied production processes and the installation ...