In the field of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), the deployment of sensitivity analysis
has become a fundamental approach to testing the robustness and reliability of the results …

Uranium contamination is a global health concern. Regarding natural or anthropogenic
uranium contamination, the major sources of concern are groundwater, mining, phosphate …

Soil pollution by potentially toxic trace elements (PTEs) near uranium (U) mines arouses a
growing interest worldwide. However, nearly all studies have focused on a single site or only …

Fuzzy-AHP (analytical hierarchy process) is a powerful method for dealing with subjective
information. This popular hybrid approach is widely applied in medical and health science …

The São Pedro da Cova waste pile (Porto, Portugal) is composed of coal mining residues
that have been self-burning since 2005 and is located close to an inhabited area and social …

Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has been influenced by a combination of
environmental and sociodemographic drivers. To date, population studies have …

Mining activities promote resulting wastes, so coal mines are prone to release contaminants
to the environment, namely to the soil and water. Therefore, the analysis of this type of risk is …

Objective To date, there are no studies of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Navajo Nation,
US. The primary objective of this manuscript is to understand whether counties with a higher …

This study proposes a GIS-based multi-criteria approach to identify areas vulnerable to
subsidence in the world's largest ongoing urban socio-environmental disaster, caused by …

Unless a toxicant builds up in a deep compartment, intake by the human body must on
average balance the amount that is lost. We apply this idea to assess arsenic (As) exposure …