Proceedings : International Conference on Environment Locational Decisions and Regional Planning

Contents Preface. Presidential Address Environmental management locational decisions and regional planning/Som Pal. I. Locational systems 1. Compilation and multicriterial ranking of optimal decentralized scenarios for locating solid waste management facilities at the region of Peloponesse in Southern Greece/A. Karagianidis G. Perkoulidis and N. Moussiopoulos. 2. Model for competitive location with foresight/F. Plastria. 3. Optimisation of rural energy systems in the Shivalik Hills of Haryana India/H.D. Venema P.H. Calamai and K. Ponnambalam. 4. Locational characteristics of quality of life in Dimapur Area Nagaland/M.L. Ngullie and S.K. Mishra. II. Regional development and planning 1. Ecosystem approach to sustainable regional and local development a Swadeshi model for ecological renaissance of India/C.B.S.R. Sharma and K. Ilangovan. 2. Level of road development variation in India a factor analysis approach/B. Kanaga Durai Neelam Jain P.K. Jain and I.P. Rao. 3. Use of trip utility index in regional transport planning an experimental study from the state of Assam/A.P. Mahanta and R.D. Mahanta. 4. Inter sectoral linkages in the economy for Uttar Pradesh a graph theoretic approach/N. Srivastav. 5. Regional disparities of industrial development in India an evaluative note/Josojit Dey. 6. Population agriculture relationship a case study in the Jorhat District Assam/B. Borah. 7. Emerging crop combination regions in Arunachal Pradesh a note/Damodar Panda. III. Use of remotely sensed data and GIS for resource management 1. Soil resources management in Hirakud irrigation command of Baragarh District Orissa/S. Devi P. Mishra A.K. Mahapatra P.K. Pagoda and G. Behera. 2. Landuse/landcover detection mapping and identification of shifting cultivation areas of Tirap District/B.S. Mipun and A. Saikia. IV. City environment and public health 1. An appraisal of the geo environment of Greater Shillong in Meghalaya Plateau/L. Cajee R.R.B.R. Thabah P. Thapa and P. Dev Burman. 2. Universalization of primary education a case study on the achievement level of tea garden community in Assam India/J. Borah M. Gohain and K. Deka. 3. Health pattern of the rural people in Lower Ganga Plain/B.R.K. Sinha. 4. Pattern of drinking water availability and use as determinants in urban planning (a case study of Guwahati City Assam)/N. R. Kalita and D.C. Goswami. 5. Growth and development of residential flats in Bhubaneswar city and its implication to environment/A.K. Acharya. Report on the deliberation of conference. Subject index. There are numerous studies on the application of location allocation procedures for solving the problems of space partitioning and allocating new location for infra structural facilities and obnoxious locations like nodal points of road networking market as well as social facilities of an area location of commercial and economic enterprises and locational provisions of distribution of new agricultural technology search the multi criteria decentralized solid waste management facilities and so on. The problems of locational decision in spatial planning have been recognized in three ways (a) the minimisation of Euclidean distance between facility location and users home on a plane (b) the optimization of multi facility locations and hierarchies which tried to solve by applying integer programming formulations and (c) the network optimization problems which have been attempted to solve by considering inter connected nodes representing transport and communication systems and their dynamic aspects. Optimization of space has now become the main theme of operational researches. The similar problems are cropping up in the newly organised spatial activities in the countries of growing economies where clusters of new activities that are recently emerging nodes and reorientation of local economies in its global perspective are major issues to solve. Present proceedings of the conference include the articles on these aspects and would be immense use f.…