environmental process Articles
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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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Integrative environmental research and education
This paper is based on the premise that without integration of knowledge across disciplines, without integration of research with education, and without dialogue between science and stakeholders, opportunities to bound the complexity of environmental processes will be missed. Without adequate integration, solutions to environmental challenges will be partial at best, and new problems and ...
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Globalisation and environmental sustainability: an OECD perspective
Recent debates about economic globalisation have focused attention on the environmental implications of that process. Some analysts see globalisation as a force for improving the environment, via technology development and diffusion, structural reforms, and the so-called "Kuznets curve" (in which rising incomes lead to increased demands for environmental quality). Others see the ...
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Decision supporting model for the recovery of computer components
Legislation with respect to the recovery and environmentally friendly processing of discarded products may be an opportunity for companies to increase profits by creating components from the discarded products. This research was directed to the profitability of the disassembly of some of the components of a product to use them in the assembly of new products or for service aims. In order to get ...
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Report on Knowledge Exchange Workshops on an Ecosystem Services Approach
The WATERS project aims to support the planning processes of decentralized environmental management, in particular to take better account of the pressures caused by future environmental change. To achieve this, VSO volunteers working in 4 districts (Nsjane, Chikhwawa, Salima and Karonga, in Malawi) are working closely with district officials to support their environmental district planning ...
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Perspectives on a sustainable future
This paper presents an integrated assessment study into global change and sustainable development. A global, integrated assessment model called TARGETS, is used to develop a range of global futures. The model is intended to assess a number of the most important links between social, economic and environmental processes on a global scale. A unique feature of the TARGETS model is that it contains ...
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Addressing Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process
On February 11, 1994, Executive Order 12898 Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations was issued. Executive Order 12898 calls on each Federal agency to make achieving environmental justice part of its mission. Since that time the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA or Agency) has developed and issued several plans and ...
By All4 Inc.
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What Is Wastewater Treatment?
Each and every day, most people worldwide create wastewater. Whether cooking or bathing, washing clothes or using the lavatory, people are constantly creating wastewater with little consideration of where it goes - and how exactly it is returned to rivers and seas, often cleaner than it was coming in. Modern wastewater treatment is a much needed spot of good news in the environment. What most ...
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The process and mechanism of urban environmental change: an evolutionary view
This paper discusses how an evolutionary viewpoint can contribute to the understanding of the processes and mechanisms of urban environmental change. There are four major components in the urban environmental evolution concept: (a) cities can be viewed as complex systems that are subject to constant change, which constitutes a dynamic evolutionary process; (b) urban environmental profiles of ...
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Proximity, territory and sustainable management at the local level: an introduction
This introductory article presents the general theme studied in this special issue of the IJSD, concerning the relations between proximity economics and sustainable environmental management at local level. Interest in this research theme has grown significantly in recent years because of the rising concern about the environment but also following the realisation that environmental processes and ...
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Divergence to Convergence
Untitled Document A Case Study on Implementing Enterprise-Wide EHS Information Management Systems To Drive Business Process Consistency At Mead Corporation “Implement an enterprise Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) technology solution and establish common, corporate-wide environmental work processes.” Sounds simple enough, but there is a lot of program ...
By IHS Markit
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An intelligent system for green process design
Growing environmental issues have motivated technological advances to reduce pollution from chemical processing plants. These include the use of process simulators to design an environmentally benign process that minimises the plant emissions. While these simulators offer a convenient way of simulating the plant's capability to support environmental studies. In this article, we present a novel ...
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Organisational mechanisms in environmental management: an evolutionary analysis confronted with empirical facts
In this paper, we analyse the development of corporate environmental management systems through the core elements of the emerging evolutionary theory of the firm. The environmental management process means a process by which organisations change their structures and cultures as a result of an interlinked effort of individual learning and organisational transformation. We propose that effective ...
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The environmental results of the Accession process - Observations from environmental organisations in the New Member States
With this special report the EEB presents views of its member organisations in the new Member States on impact of the accession process to the environment, on the development of civic society and perspectives for the future. The report summarises results of the survey the EEB has organised in nine new Member States. The aim of the survey was to look back on the accession process and to see ...
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Integration of environmental issues in the firm: learning processes and coordination
This paper considers the extent to which the organisational structure of the firm influences the perception and the integration of environmental problems. Environmental economists who have been concerned for many decades with market failures, and more recently with regulation failures, still commonly assume that firms operate efficiently. It is our contention that there is a third institution ...
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From Aarhus to Kiev and beyond: the EU’s contribution to Environment for Europe
Untitled Document The Environment for Europe process is a political framework for a wide range of initiatives that aim to improve environmental performance across the wider European region. This brochure describes the European Commission’s contributions to the process and environmental co-operation in the region generally since the Aarhus conference in 1998. It also sets out its priorities ...
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Are ENGOs empowered through EU accession? The case of Maltese ENGOs
Malta joined the European Union in 2004 and carried out vast changes in its environmental legislation during the process. Environmental NGOs have been key actors in this regard. This paper verifies whether Malta's EU accession has helped empower such organisations. The paper argues that EU accession has enhanced empowerment of ENGOs. This has occurred as a result of EU-driven policy and ...
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Itella - Carbon footprint calculation with the help of Tofuture - case study
Itella is a service business whose core competency lies in information and product flow management. One of the key issues on Itella´s responsibility agenda is the carbon footprint of its service products, e.g. letters, parcels, unaddressed mail, magazine delivery and hybrid mail services. Tofuture helped Itella to introduce systematic carbon footprint calculation by developing a system that ...
By Tofuture Oy
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National Occupational Standards for Environmental Management
The environmental manager is an individual who oversees the process of environmental management by monitoring and coordinating stewardship of the ...
By ECO Canada
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Environmental policy integration in Europe
Article 6 of the European Community Treaty states that ‘environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of the Community policies and activities (...) in particular with a view to promoting sustainable development’. Environmental policy integration (EPI) involves a continual process to ensure environmental issues are ...
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