The goal of this project, conducted for El Cuerpo de Bomberos, the national fire department of Costa Rica, was to promote understanding and responsibility for the effects that chemical disasters have on the environment. We created TEEICI, Tool for Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Chemical Incidents, to quantify the environmental damage done by hazardous materials. The program is to be used for communicating to the Environmental Tribunal of Costa Rica the extent of the environmental impact caused by polluters. During our studies of many chemical disasters, we also formulated recommendations that would reduce the frequency of chemical incidents and better improve emergency response.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Strauss, Joshua A.
• Vaillancourt, April L.
• Bhuptani, Parth

Subject

• Security
• Environment
• Sustainability
• Well-Being
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-070805-123703

Keyword

• Emergency management
• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Sustainability

Advisor

• Vernon-Gerstenfeld, Susan
• Gerstenfeld, Arthur

Year

• 2005

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• INS

Date created

• 2005-07-08

Location

• San José

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright