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Software systems to support environmental research and management can often be developed and applied within the context of general purpose computer-aided engineering tools such as spreadsheets and databases. Reliance on general purpose CAE tools reduces development time, is usually less expensive and yields software that is often more capable for a specific task than custom-designed systems with a broader range of functionality. We outline several examples of such applications in this paper, including a spreadsheet for toxic emissions weighting, database and matrix manipulation software for life cycle assessment using economic input-output models, a database system to support environmental reporting, and a Java-enabled browser for visualizing a TRI database.
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Garrett, J., Hendrickson, C.T., Horvath, A., Joshi, S., Juarez, O., McMichael, F.C. (1997). General Purpose Computer-Aided Engineering Tools for Environmental Software Systems. In: Denzer, R., Swayne, D.A., Schimak, G. (eds) Environmental Software Systems. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-5041-2869-8_24
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