Maritime Guinea is subject to the development of numerous mineral ports enabling the benefits of the mining sector to be fully realized. However, in Guinea...

The 1970s-1980s droughts in the Sahel caused a significant degradation of land and plant cover. To cope with this situation, populations have developed seve...

The purpose of this guide is to present steps and tools to establish a decision-aid process in an organization linked to public health. This decision-aid p...

Ce guide vise à présenter les différentes étapes et outils de mise en place d'un processus d'aide à la décision, au sein d'une organisation liée à la santé...

Poorly formulated initiatives on the port planning strategy are have negative effects on the tropical coastal zone. To reduce these effects, it is importan...

The introduction of the environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) into public environmental protection schemes and corporate performance standards ha...

Maritime Guinea is a region that opens onto the Atlantic Ocean on about 300 km of coastline. This is characterized by the almost continuous formation of mang...

Au fil des années de nombreuses critiques ont été formulées par les observateurs et divers comités d'étude concernant le manque de transparence du processus ...

Une très grande partie des problèmes de décision se caractérise à la fois par un environnement décisionnel complexe devant considérer de nombreux enjeux de n...

It is increasingly important to provide the relevant data for strategic decisions related to oil production and the marketing of oil products. We propose the...

<b>Background:</b> Zoonoses are a growing international threat interacting at the human-animal-environment interface and call for transdisciplinary and mul...

In terms of energy resources, Canada is an important player on the world scene. However, the energy systems of the Canadian provinces and territories are muc...

The PROMETHEE method, developed by Brans and Mareschal (Brans, 1982; Brans and Mareschal, 1994) has been extended to be used in the group decision context (a...

This paper presents an analysis of Canadian energy and climate policies in terms of the coherence between federal and provincial/territorial strategies. Afte...

We use a newly developed bottom-up model of the entire Canadian energy system (TIMES-Canada) to assess potentials for electrification of the road transport s...

Le changement climatique constitue un défi majeur du 21^e siècle. C'est un phénomène global, transfrontalier s'inscrivant dans un horizon de temps ...

Sustainable wind energy development takes into account socio-cultural variables that can be identified from citizens' concerns about the use of this renewabl...

This paper presents the application of a new approach, territorial intelligence modelling for energy development (TIMED), developed in response to growing ...

The large-scale (more than 25MW) development of wind energy seems to be a very promising option given climate change and the need to diversify sources of ene...

The complex epidemiology of vector-borne diseases creates significant challenges in the design and delivery of prevention and control strategies, especially ...

<p> There is a revival in the nuclear debate observed in the literature. Most of the emission scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I...

In the long term, the Kyoto Protocol itself will be insufficient to stabilize the greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere; the participation of...

Eugène is a sophisticated mixed integer linear programming model developed to help regional decision makers on long-term planning for solid waste management...

La problématique du changement climatique implique des efforts globaux à long terme et la participation des pays en développement est requise pour assurer l...

Eugène est un modèle dynamique de programmation linéaire mixte qui constitue un outil d'aide à la décision efficace pour les décideurs impliqués dans la pla...

This paper describes a decision support system based on a sophisticated mixed integer linear programming model, EUGENE, developed to help the regional decis...

Several technologies and renewable energy forms are evaluated using the global energy model MARKAL. This report describes some advantages of such an approa...

In this research, two large scale MARKAL L. P. models of Québec and Ontario are used to evaluate the response of their energy systems to various economic an...

Ce document présente la façon dont a été traîtée la modélisation du secteur de la production électrique de 5 États américains selon l'approche MARKAL. Il es...

The large-scale MARKAL Linear Program is applied (separately) to the energy systems of Québec and of Ontario, under several alternative constraints on emiss...

In this paper, we report on an updated, improved version of the MARKAL energy model, developed in the late 1970's under the aegis of member countries of the...

L'évaluation des émissions et le transport à grandes distances des polluants atmosphériques (TGDPA) sont des composantes essentielles de la problématique de...

We report on the development of a linear process model of energy supplies and uses in the province of Ontario (Canada). The minerals industries producing ...

The MARKAL-Québec dynamic process model is used to simulate the reaction of the Québec energy and industrial sectors to the imposition of upper limits on th...