Environmental Management Hazards 2423-415X 11 3 2024 11 19 Identification and assessment of environmental hazards using the COCOSO technique - Excavation case: East Semnan industrial town Identification and assessment of environmental hazards using the COCOSO technique - Excavation case: East Semnan industrial town 175 192 99471 10.22059/jhsci.2024.381982.840 FA Mohammad Abdolshah Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran Journal Article 2024 09 06 <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">Natural hazards with their various types and extent of influence are repeatable and destructive phenomena that can harm people's lives and livelihoods. Considering that many articles have been done in the field of environmental hazards in cities, while it seems that industrial towns are a suitable option for research due to their special position in the field of producing products needed by society and the accumulation of people in these places. to be Therefore, in this article, an attempt was made to evaluate and rank the environmental hazards affecting Semnan industrial town. In this research, after reviewing the literature, using the opinion of experts, eight environmental hazards were defined for Semnan industrial town, as well as three criteria for evaluating these hazards. After weighting the criteria, a decision matrix was formulated with the opinion of experts and ranking was done using the COCOSO decision making method. Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed on the obtained results to check the stability of the data.</span> <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">Natural hazards with their various types and extent of influence are repeatable and destructive phenomena that can harm people's lives and livelihoods. Considering that many articles have been done in the field of environmental hazards in cities, while it seems that industrial towns are a suitable option for research due to their special position in the field of producing products needed by society and the accumulation of people in these places. to be Therefore, in this article, an attempt was made to evaluate and rank the environmental hazards affecting Semnan industrial town. In this research, after reviewing the literature, using the opinion of experts, eight environmental hazards were defined for Semnan industrial town, as well as three criteria for evaluating these hazards. After weighting the criteria, a decision matrix was formulated with the opinion of experts and ranking was done using the COCOSO decision making method. Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed on the obtained results to check the stability of the data.</span> https://jhsci.ut.ac.ir/article_99471_bad600c8ed0132988591ecae49b00b3e.pdf