environmental analyzer Articles
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Environmental Taxes and First-Mover Advantages
This paper studies whether governments prefer to be leaders or followers in environmental policies. To analyze this question I assume transboundary pollution and two countries that have to decide whether to set environmental taxes sequentially or simultaneously. When taxes are set sequentially an effect, denoted as the sequential setting effect, arises that raises the equilibrium taxes. I show ...
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Strategic Environmental Policies in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment
We analyze strategic environmental standards in the presence of foreign direct investment. A number of foreign firms located in a host country compete with a domestic firm in another country to export a homogeneous good to a third country. When the number of foreign firms is exogenous, the host country applies a stricter environmental regulation than the other producing country. However, under ...
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Sustainability at the forefront
Water, air, soil, or waste – companies that identify and analyze environmental aspects of their business activities gain a competitive advantage, in particularly regarding standards like ISO 14001. ISO 14001-certified companies must identify and assess aspects impacting or possibly impacting the environment that are caused by the company and its operations. To meet the challenge to comply ...
By Quentic GmbH
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ISO Publishes Standard on Considerations for the Measurement of Nano-Objects and their Aggregates and Agglomerates in Environmental Matrices
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published standard ISO/TR 21386, “Nanotechnologies - Considerations for the measurement of nano-objects and their aggregates and agglomerates (NOAA) in environmental matrices.” The standard provides some considerations for the collection of environmental samples to be analyzed for manufactured NOAA, considerations to ...
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PAH analysis and forensic mapping in sediments on Grand Calumet River - Case Study
Sitelab Corporation was hired by an environmental contractor to analyze 100 sediment samples collected from a post-dredge area covering a 1 mile stretch of river in Hammond, Indiana. The data was used to determine which of the 25 sample locations would require further ...
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Evaluations of Polar and Highly Polar Ionic Liquid Capillary GC Columns with Environmental Samples
Ionic liquids are a class of non-molecular ionic solvents with low melting points. These liquids are unique combinations of cations and anions and can provide a variety of different selectivities when used as stationary phases in capillary gas chromatography. A number of ionic liquid phases have been evaluated and characterized for selectivity and determined to be polar or highly polar in ...
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Environmental Performance and Shareholder Value
This report investigates the connection between the environment and financial performance. In it, we show how established models of shareholder value can be expanded to include the effects of environmental issues, both positive and negative. The report argues that the financial community can improve the quality of its decision-making by integrating companies' environmental performance into its ...
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Probabilistic policy experiments: the use of energy economic environmental models in the climate change policy process
This paper uses the Edmonds-Reilly model to explore an alternative approach for using energy-economic-environmental models when analyzing future CO2 emissions. This approach – conducting probabilistic policy experiments – can be used to investigate the effectiveness of various policy options in the context of uncertainty. The analysis builds on work by Nordhaus and Yohe (1983) and ...
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Rxi-624Sil MS Exceptionally Inert, Low Bleed Columns for Volatiles Analysis
- Optimized selectivity for volatiles and polar compounds ensures good separations. - Highly inert columns improve accuracy and allow lower detection limits, even for active compounds. - Most thermally stable 624 column available; low bleed, fully MS compatible. While mid polarity 624 columns are widely used for analyzing polar analytes and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), not all columns ...
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Sociological understanding of risks: an empirical case study of Tipaimukh dam in Manipur, India
This paper attempts to explore theory–empiric linkages of risk, technology, society, and environment movement by selecting a case study of Tipaimukh dam in Manipur. It begins with certain research questions: What is the theoretical understanding of 'risk' in the empirical domain of Tipaimukh dam? What is the significance of Beck's 'sub–politics' for understanding the environmental movement of ...
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Survey and evaluation on residents' environmental awareness in Jiangsu Province of China
A survey was designed to evaluate the present status of residents' environmental awareness in Nanjing and Yangzhong in China. First, it set up an index model to evaluate the level of residents' environmental awareness from three aspects: environmental attitudes, environmental behaviour and environmental knowledge. Then, the influence of individual factors on environmental awareness was analysed. ...
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Fast GC In Environmental Analysis
Fast GC can be practical for many environmental analyses, and may not require a major investment in new equipment. By applying the techniques of Fast GC such as, using shorter, narrower bore columns, faster oven temperature ramp rates, hydrogen carrier gas, and by taking advantage of the variety of column chemistries available in fast dimensions, analyses times can be significantly reduced while ...
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Ecological modernisation theory and the changing dynamics of the European automotive industry: the case of Dutch end-of-life vehicle policies
In this article, we use ecological modernisation theory to analyse environmental changes in the car chain. We do not intend to cover all environmental aspects of car production and consumption. The focus will be on the handling of cars in the waste phase. We are interested in the interaction between technology and policy. We argue that some technological developments in handling end-of-life ...
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Book Review: Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards Better Decision-Making
Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards Better Decision-Making, by Pietro Caratti, Holger Dalkmann and Rodrigo Jiloberto. Marston Book Services, 2004. 198pp. ISBN 0-84376-448-2Keywords: book ...
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Tales of sustainability and justice? A sustainability reading of contemporary commercial Hindi cinema
This essay explores the extent to which sustainability tales could come from the Mumbai–based Hindi film industry on one hand because this cinema culture is much more diverse than a Western gaze usually assumes and, arguably, has the potential to deal with serious topics such as sustainability or climate change, on the other hand because it can broaden the perspective of this special issue ...
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Why do we need green economics when we have ecological economics? A proposal for 'pulling people together' at the crossroad of environmental and social sustainability
This paper argues that the epistemological and intellectual space of green economics is or should be located where ecological economics, even in its socio-economic perspective, still fails to provide a coherent conceptual framework such that environmental problems could be analysed in a holistic and inclusive way. Based on explanations of this failure, this paper provides a brief but structured ...
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Cyanobacteria and bacteria co-occurrence in a wastewater treatment plant: absence of allelopathic effects
Fifty-one cyanobacteria strains, belonging to Phormidium autumnale, Planktothrix mougeotii, Limnotrix sp. and Synechocystis sp. species, were isolated during a twelve months period, from a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) located in the north of Portugal. Isolated strains and environmental samples were analyzed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique to evaluate the presence of the genes ...
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The Environmental Assessment Process
The Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook is intended to be used principally as input to the World Bank Group’s Environmental Assessment (EA) processes. This note outlines the key features of the EA procedure for World Bank projects. The IFC and MIGA follow the same overall policies but have somewhat different environmental analyses and review procedures (for details contact IFC’s or MIGA’s ...
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Influence of environmental factors on abundance and temporal variation of benthic fauna resources in the eutrophic Tha Chin estuary, Samut Sakhon province, Thailand
The influence of environmental factors on the abundance and temporal variation of benthic fauna resources was studied in the eutrophic Tha Chin estuary located in Samut Sakhon province. The objectives were to analyze the status of abundance and temporal variation of the benthic fauna and to clarify the impacts from environmental factors (water and sediment quality). Field surveys were conducted ...
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Innovation by disaster: the ozone catastrophe as experiment of forced innovation
In this paper, the process of adapting and replacing products and processes by new alternatives will be analysed. The paper will reflect upon effective means of stimulating environmental innovation by analysing the innovations that resulted from the ban on CFCs. The ozone hole catastrophe has been announced in two steps: first there was the land breaking paper of Rowland and Molina of 1974, which ...
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