Für die Ökologische Risikoanalyse, also die Beurteilung möglicher Auswirkungen im Zuge einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung für ein bestimmtes Vorhaben, wird eine Vielzahl von Daten über das zu untersuchende Gebiet benötigt. Daten über die Ausgangssituation werden verwendet, um alle möglichen Auswirkungen auf die im Gesetz ...

Data infrastructures and responsibilities of public authorities in Germany are still very heterogeneous. eGovernment initiatives to enhance technical and semantical interoperability between different data and information providers exist in some fields though, on the whole, public and private information systems for ...

Strategic decision-making for dealing with municipal solid waste is a problem currently exercising the minds of many Member States throughout the European Union. This paper is devoted to environmental–economic modelling of the strategic developments in Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems at the Czech Republic. It ...

An approach is presented to model environmental information relevant for industry in the European information space. The approach is based on the theory of external control mechanisms initially introduced by Dyllick (1992). This certain theory has its roots in new political economy on the one hand and institutional ...

Die nachfolgende Polemik ist von der Sorge um den gegenwärtigen Stand der Betrieblichen Umweltinformatik als Wissenschaft und dem Stellenwert der Betrieblichen Umweltinformationssysteme im betrieblichen Kontext getrieben. Sie resultiert aus einer langjährigen Beschäftigung des Autors mit diesen Gegenständen in Wissenschaft ...

The paper focuses on the conception and development of mobile software applications to assist small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the field of industrial environmental protection. The goal is to support SME in collecting data that might be relevant for environmental protection purposes. In this project which is ...

Pollution prevention stands at the forefront of industry's potentiality and practice of ecological responsibility. Yet, business and industry have not always lived up to this potential on their own, and there is still an important role for governments to play in establishing regulatory baselines. This paper explores some ...

The environmental impact of internet is growing, reaching an estimated 1.4% of world greenhouse emissions. This impact is hidden for both users and developers. Understanding and analyzing the environmental footprint of a website is not an easy task. The impacts are distributed through multiple hardware networks and a ...

Material Flow Assessment (MFA) is a method of analyzing the material flow of a process in a well-defined system. Referring to the life cycle of a product the Material Flow Assessment is part of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and provides the possibility of assessing the environmental impact of a process and product ...

The present article describes the development of a methodology and of a software for monitoring quality of life as well as the implementation and application in the Urban Planning Authority of Dresden. We will discuss quality of life indicators, approaches to modelling and multiple criteria evaluation of the quality of ...