“…In terms of environmental concerns, the application has covered many issues. These vary from salt accumulation in lowlands under continuous irrigation practice (Saysel and Barlas, 2001);the value of water conservation (Stave, 2003); the consequences of dioxins to the supply chain of the chicken industry (Minegishi and Thiel, 2000); the eutrophication problem in shallow freshwater lakes (Guneralp and Barlas, 2003); the impact of environmental issues on long-term behavior of a single product supply chain with product recovery (Georgiadis and Vlachos, 2004); sustainability of ecological agricultural development at a county level (Shi and Gill 2005); estimation of methane emissions from rice welds (Anand et al, 2005), basin's environmental management system (Guo et al, 2001) and waste management (Dyson and Chang, 2005;UlliBeer, 2003;Karavezyris et al, 2002;Sudhir et al, 1997).…”