Group for Modelling, Risk Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment

Head: Professor Branko Kontić

Working Areas

Environmental Impact Assessment Group works on the following three main areas: environmental modelling, risk assessment, environmental impact assessment. In the framework of environmental modelling the foci are spatial analysis and simulations with GIS tools, and mass-balance modelling of transport and accumulation of substances in different environmental media. Risk assessment covers incidents and accidents in process industry. Research in EIA is oriented towards clarification of validity of formal impact assessments needed at different stages of legal procedures and other decision-making situations. The later is linked with concepts and forms of combining scientific evidence with societal and economic valuation (strategic decision-making, externalities, spatial development).

Concrete research areas

• Association between accidental risk assessment for industries and spatial planning
• Uncertainties in environmental modelling and risk assessment
• Valuation and inclusion of scientific evidence into EIA
• Long-term environmental assessments
• Strategic environmental assessments
• Mass-balance oriented exposure evaluation in the framework of epidemiological studies

Projects

• ARAMIS (Accidental Risk Assessment Methodology for Industries)
• SHAPE-RISK (Sharing Experience on Risk Management (Health, Safety and Environment) to Design Future Industrial Systems)
• CIVITAS Mobilis (Mobility Initiatives for Local Integration and Sustainability)
• ALPENCORS (Alpen Corridor South)

Contact

Staff:

• Dr. Branko Kontić
• Dr. Davor Kontić