%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Tonmoy, Fahim
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment by outranking methods: heat stress in Sydney
%B The Fifth International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Houston
%I 
%V 2
%I American Science Press
%P 272-279
%E 


%0 Book Chapter
%~ IRMA
%A Jurdi, Mey
%A Fayad, Rim
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Environmental Degradation: The Challenge of Sustaining Life
%B Public Health in the Arab World
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Cambridge
%I 
%V 
%I Cambridge University Press
%P 47-59
%E Samer Jabbour, Rita Giacaman, Marwan Khawaja, Iman Nuwayhid


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Airey, David
%A Balaam, Nigel
%A Cafe, Peter
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Integrating a major Excel exercise in an introductory
soil mechanics course
%B Shaking the Foundations of Geo-Engineering Education
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Leiden
%I 
%V 
%I CRC Press/Balkema
%P 177-182
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A Meysami Azad, Farzad
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Rowe, R
%A Airey, David
%T Modelling of thermally induced desiccation of geosynthetic clay liners in double composite liner systems
%B Geotextiles and Geomembranes
%D 2012
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 34
%I Elsevier
%P 28-38
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Balaam, Nigel
%T Saturated-Unsaturated Flow and Solute Transport in Engineered Liner Systems: A New Special-Purpose Finite Element Analysis Software
%B Australian Geomechanics Journal
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Australia
%I 
%V 47
%I Australian Geomechanics Society
%P 11-26
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Masoudian-Saadabad, Mohsen
%A Airey, David
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Softening effect of CO2 and its influence on reservoir simulation and permeability prediction
%B 11th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics (ANZ 2012)
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Melbourne
%I 
%V 
%I Australian Geomechanics Society
%P 997-1002
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Masoudian-Saadabad, Mohsen
%A Airey, David
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T The effect of CO2 on micro structure and mechanical properties of Australian black coal
%B 11th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics (ANZ 2012)
%D 2012
%@ 
%C Melbourne
%I 
%V 
%I Australian Geomechanics Society
%P 728-733
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A McCarroll, Ingrid
%A Touze-Foltz, Nathalie
%T Three-dimensional finite-element analyses of seepage and contaminant transport through composite geosynthetics clay liners with multiple defects
%B Geotextiles and Geomembranes
%D 2012
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 33
%I Elsevier
%P 34-42
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Are the aims of increasing the share of green electricity generation and reducing GHG emissions always compatible?
%B Renewable Energy
%D 2011
%@ 
%C Oxford, UK
%I 
%V 36
%I Pergamon Press
%P 3031-3036
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Meysami Azad, Farzad
%A Airey, David
%A Rowe, Kerry R
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Laboratory Investigation of Moisture Content Redistribution on the Base of Double Composite Liner Systems
%B 6th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics
%D 2011
%@ 
%C New Delhi
%I 
%V 
%I Tata McGraw-Hill
%P 354-359
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A Meysami Azad, Farzad
%A Rowe, Kerry R
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Airey, David
%T Laboratory investigation of thermally induced desiccation of GCLs in double composite liner systems
%B Geotextiles and Geomembranes
%D 2011
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 29
%I Elsevier
%P 534-543
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A McCarroll, Ingrid
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Touze-Foltz, Nathalie
%T A parametric analysis of seepage and containment transport through composite liners with three-dimensional defects
%B 3rd International Symposium on Geosynthetic Clay Liners
%D 2010
%@ 
%C Wurzburg, Germany
%I 
%V 
%I SKZ - ComSem GmbH
%P 25-32
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Touze-Foltz, Nathalie
%T Equivalency of Landfill Liner Designs, including Clay Liners, Geosynthetics Liners and Polymer-Enhanced Mineral Barriers, under French Legislation
%B 9th International Conference on Geosynthetics
%D 2010
%@ 
%C São Paulo, SP, Brazil
%I 
%V 2
%I International Geosynthetics Society
%P 905-908
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Life-cycle assessment of municipal solid waste management alternatives with consideration of uncertainty: SIWMS development and application
%B Waste Management
%D 2010
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 30
%I Elsevier
%P 902-911
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T The development and application of multi-criteria decision-making tool with consideration of uncertainty: The selection of a management strategy for the bio-degradable fraction in the municipal solid waste
%B Bioresource Technology
%D 2010
%@ 
%C Netherlands
%I 
%V 101
%I Elsevier
%P 555-561
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A non-isodimensional finite-element approach to the modeling of transient flow and mass transport through domains with thin layers
%B Computers and Structures
%D 2009
%@ 
%C Oxford, England
%I 
%V 87
%I Pergamon Elsevier
%P 618-629
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Langrish, Timothy
%A Balaam, Nigel
%T Blended Teaching and Learning of Computer Programming Skills in Engineering Curricula
%B Advances in Engineering Education
%D 2009
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 1
%I American Society for Engineering Education
%P 1-18
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Energy from waste: Incorporating the perspective of multiple agents
%B Australia and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics Conference ANZSEE 2009
%D 2009
%@ 
%C New Zealand
%I 
%V 
%I Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics
%P 1-23
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Richards, Parnel
%A Balaam, Nigel
%T Modelling fluid flow and contamination migration through geosynthetics in 2-D and 3-D
%B 13th Annual Symposium of the Australian Geomechanics Society Sydney Chapter AGS 2009
%D 2009
%@ 
%C Australia
%I 
%V 
%I Australian Geomechanics Society
%P 
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T On approaching health in the Arab world
%B International Journal of Public Health
%D 2009
%@ 
%C Switzerland
%I 
%V 54
%I Birkhauser (imprint of Springer)
%P 359-360
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Strategies for the municipal waste management system to take advantage of carbon trading under competing policies: The role of energy from waste in Sydney
%B Waste Management
%D 2009
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 29
%I Elsevier
%P 2188-2194
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A general approach to the modelling of contaminant transport through composite landfill liners with intact or leaking geomembranes
%B International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
%D 2008
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 32
%I John Wiley & Sons
%P 265-287
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Rowe, Kerry R
%T Impact on groundwater of concurrent leakage and diffusion of dichloromethane through geomembranes in landfill liners
%B Geosynthetics International
%D 2008
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 15
%I Thomas Telford Ltd.
%P 55-71
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Rowe, Kerry R
%T Parametric study of the effect on groundwater quality of leakage of benzene and toluene through composite liners
%B 4th European Conference on Geosynthetics EuroGeo 2009
%D 2008
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 
%I European Association of Geographers
%P 
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Balaam, Nigel
%T SPAS: A New Finite-Element tool for modelling transport through damaged landfill liners, with advanced mass-conserving boundary conditions
%B 4th European Conference on Geosynthetics EuroGeo 2009
%D 2008
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 
%I European Association of Geographers
%P 
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Airey, David
%A Bowden, Peter
%A Clarkeburn, Henriikka
%T Sustainability and ethics as decision-making paradigms in engineering curricula
%B International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
%D 2008
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 9
%I Emerald Group Publishing
%P 170-182
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T The Viability of Using Film Plastics in Sydney Municipal Solid Waste as Energy Source
%B International Conference on Environmental Research and Technology (ICERT 2008)
%D 2008
%@ 
%C Penang Malaysia
%I 
%V 
%I Press of the National University of Malaysia
%P 67-71
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Waste to Energy: The Sydney Case
%B 1st International Conference of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Brunei Darussalam Network 2008
%D 2008
%@ 
%C Brunei
%I 
%V 
%I Institution of Engineering and Technology IET
%P 
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Hanandeh, Ali
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A New Stochastic Multi-criteria Decision Analysis Tool based on ELECTRE III Method
%B Australia and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics Conference ANZSEE 2009
%D 2007
%@ 
%C New Zealand
%I 
%V online
%I Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics
%P 1-13
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Langrish, Timothy
%A Balaam, Nigel
%T A Self-Practice Online Tool for Teaching and
Learning Computational Skills in Engineering
Curricula
%B International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2007
%D 2007
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V cd rom
%I International Network For Engineering Education & Research
%P 1-5
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Airey, David
%A Bowden, Peter
%A Clarkeburn, Henriikka
%T Development of a course on environmental sustainability, ethical decision-making and communication skills in engineering
%B International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2007
%D 2007
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V online
%I International Network For Engineering Education & Research
%P 1-3
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Nuwayhid, Iman
%A El-Fadel, Mutasem
%A Mroueh, Salman
%T Did a ban on diesel-fuel reduce emergency respiratory admissions for children?
%B Science of the Total Environment
%D 2007
%@ 
%C Netherlands
%I 
%V 384
%I Elsevier
%P 134-140
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Rowe, Kerry R
%T Simultaneous leakage and diffusion of organic pollutants through damaged geomembranes
%B 10th International Symposium on Numerical Model in Geomechanics NUMOG X, 2007
%D 2007
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 1
%I Taylor and Francis
%P 297-301
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A mass-conservation boundary condition for the modeling of contaminant transport through leaking geo-membranes
%B ISSMGE's 5th International Congress - 5th ICEG Environmental Geotechnics  (2006)
%D 2006
%@ 
%C London
%I 
%V 2
%I Thomas Telford Publishing
%P 1131-1137
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A Jabbour, Samer
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Nuwayhid, Iman
%A Giacaman, Rita
%T Can action on health achieve political and social reform?
%B BMJ: British Medical Journal
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 333
%I BMJ Publishing Group
%P 837-839
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Nasrallah, Rola
%A Nuwayhid, Iman
%T Determinants of the willingness-to-participate in an environmental intervention in a Beirut neighborhood
%B Environmental Management (New York)
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 37
%I Springer
%P 200-208
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A Hala, Tamim
%A Akkary, Ghassan
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A El-Roueiheb, Zana
%A Souheil, El-Chemaly
%T Exposure of pre-school children to passive cigarette and narghile smoke in Beirut
%B European Journal of Public Health
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 16
%I Oxford University Press
%P 509-512
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Laplace Boundary Element Model for the Thermoelastic Consolidation of Multilayered Media
%B International Journal of Geomechanics
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 6
%I American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
%P 136-140
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Steady-State Diffusion-Advection by Exponential Finite Elements
%B International Journal of Geomechanics
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 6
%I American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
%P 428-434
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Carter, John
%A Airey, David
%T Three-dimensional finite elements for the analysis of soil contamination using a multiple-porosity approach
%B International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 30
%I John Wiley & Sons
%P 577-597
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A Bowden, Peter
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Airey, David
%T Underpinning a Discipline-Specific Ethics Course
%B Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics 13th Annual Conference  (2006)
%D 2006
%@ 
%C Sydney
%I 
%V 1
%I Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE)
%P 1-13
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Nasrallah, Rola
%A Nuwayhid, Iman
%A Kai, Lea
%A Makhoul, Jihad
%T Why do neighbors have different environmental priorities? Analysis of environmental risk perception in a Beirut neighborhood
%B Risk Analysis: an international journal
%D 2006
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 26
%I Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
%P 423-435
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Exponential finite elements for diffusion-advection problems
%B International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
%D 2005
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 62
%I John Wiley & Sons
%P 2086-2103
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Carter, John
%A Airey, David
%T Multiple-Porosity Contaminant Transport by Finite-Element Method
%B International Journal of Geomechanics
%D 2005
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 5
%I American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
%P 24-36
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Tewtel-Salem, Mylene
%T On the association between high temperature and mortality in warm climates [To the Editor]
%B Science of the Total Environment
%D 2005
%@ 
%C Netherlands
%I 
%V 343
%I Elsevier
%P 273-275
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Tewtel-Salem, Mylene
%A Nehme, Gebran
%T A Time-Series Analysis Of Mortality And Air Temperature In Greater Beirut
%B Science of the Total Environment
%D 2004
%@ 
%C Netherlands
%I 
%V 330
%I Elsevier
%P 71-80
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Accuracy Gains From Exponential Discretizations Of The Diffusion-Advection Equation
%B The Sixth World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Conjunction with the Second Asian-Pacific Congress on Computataional Mechanics
%D 2004
%@ 
%C  
%I 
%V 
%I Springer & Tsinghua University Press
%P 
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Contaminant transport in fissured soils by three-dimensional boundary elements
%B International Journal of Geomechanics
%D 2003
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 3
%I American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
%P 75-83
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Multiple-Porosity Model for the Transport of Reactive Contaminants in Fissured Soils with Nonequilibrium Partitioning
%B International Journal of Geomechanics
%D 2003
%@ 
%C United States
%I 
%V 3
%I American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
%P 182-190
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Carter, John
%T A multiple-porosity finite element model for reactive contaminants in soils
%B The Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics
%D 2002
%@ 
%C  
%I 
%V 
%I  
%P 
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A multiple-porosity model of contaminant transport in fractured soils
%B Eight International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics
%D 2002
%@ 
%C  
%I 
%V 
%I  
%P 
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T Thermo-elastic consolidation of non-homogeneous soils by boundary elements
%B Eight International Symposium on Numerical Models in Geomechanics
%D 2002
%@ 
%C  
%I 
%V 
%I  
%P 
%E 


%0 Journal Article
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%T A three-dimensional boundary element/Laplace transform solution of uncoupled transient thermo-elasticity in non-homogeneous rock media
%B Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
%D 2001
%@ 
%C United Kingdom
%I 
%V 17
%I John Wiley & Sons
%P 639-646
%E 


%0 Conference Proceedings
%~ IRMA
%A El Zein, Abbas
%A Leo,, C
%T Boundary Element Approaches in Contaminant Transport Modelling
%B First Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics
%D 2001
%@ 
%C Japan
%I 
%V 1
%I Ads & Adea
%P 765-770
%E