A Combined Approach for Environmental Management

The Malaysian Department of Environment recommended that the different project phases of exploration, development, operation, and rehabilitation are evaluated due to their environmental, biological, and socioeconomic impact. Once the possible environmental impacts are assessed, the project initiator must identify and indicate the possible mitigation measures to be taken with a purpose of controlling the environmental pollution. Compliance auditing is performed during the assessment to check whether the project complies with environmental protection standards. 

HITERM integrates high-performance computing on parallel machines and workstation clusters with a decision-support approach based on a hybrid expert system. Typical applications are in the domain of technological risk assessment and 

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