Abstract
This special issue presents a review of environmental modeling studies which aims to contributing to better decision making through improved understanding about the interaction between human activities and nature. This paper presents an overview of this issue comprising six papers on the following topics: Modeling related to the climatic change; Modeling of land use/cover change; Systematic description of material flows among anthroposhere and ecosphere; Modeling for risk assessment of chemicals; Approach to the integrated assessment of urban environment; and Indicators to evaluate environmental loads of human activities.
