Space–time analysis of disease data has historically involved the search for patterns in
aggregated data to identify how regions of high and low risk change through time. Space …

Many works have been done on the topic of Geographic Visual Display with different
objectives and approaches. There are studies to compare the traditional cartography …

During the last decade one has witnessed an increasing interest in assessing health risks
caused by exposure to contaminants present in the soil, air, and water. A key component of …

Differential exposure to mixtures of environmental agents, including biological, chemical,
physical, and psychosocial stressors, can contribute to increased vulnerability of human …

From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical
characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population projected to peak at 8 to 12 billion …

One of the main tasks of regional and environmental economics is to construct
Environmental Quality Indexes for big cities. A standard method is to generate a single …

Incineration is one of the most common technologies for waste disposal [1]. The number of
incineration plants in Europe has been constantly rising in the last years, in the effort to …

Background This paper introduces a new approach for evaluating clustering in case-control
data that accounts for residential histories. Although many statistics have been proposed for …

Introduction The reasons for elevated breast cancer rates in the upper Cape Cod area of
Massachusetts remain unknown despite several epidemiological studies that investigated …

Background Recent years have seen an expansion in the use of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) in environmental health research. In this field GIS can be used to detect …