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Queensland: a water sensitive future

South East Queensland (SEQ) is planning a water sensitive future for the region and its cities. In order to the transition to be successful, it is necessary to develop an implementation plan. This plan aims is to identify a common vision that focuses on the transition pathway and mechanisms the region needs, to become a water ...

Aug. 3, 2017

By Geoplast US Corp.

Choosing Children’s Environmental Risk

A model of endogenous risk provides a foundation to study a parent’s child care decisions when the child could be exposed to an environmental hazard (e.g., toxic substance, foodborne pathogen). The parent invests in childcare quality and quantity to reduce the likelihood of a hazard exposure occurring and to reduce its severity if the exposure is realized. We supply conditions to sign ...

Mar. 1, 2006

By Springer

Nanomaterial environmental risk assessment

Mar. 26, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

International environmental cooperation with risk aversion

This paper models global environmental policy in a stochastic setting: reducing pollution not only reduces expected environmental damage but also its spread. The national incentives to cooperate are analysed under adverse conditions: expected payoffs are taken to have the structure of a (static) prisoners' dilemma. It is shown that, even then, incentives to cooperate unilaterally or even ...

May 11, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Environmental Policies to Reduce Cancer Risk

Untitled Document Cancer is the second most prevalent cause of death in the United States, behind heart diseases. The lifetime risk ...

Jun. 1, 2005

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

Post-deal environmental risk management

In the Mergers & Acquisitions series supplement of Financier Worldwide, Simon Johnson, Managing Director of ENVIRON FRS, provides insight into how to avoid 'suprises' in business by completing strategic and comprehensive risk management, both pre- and ...

Dec. 1, 2004

By ENVIRON

Environmental Impact does NOT equal risk

Auditing the new ISO 14001:2015: Environment Impacts does not equal Risk In recent transition audits, there has been one common misconception that I have seen repeated, and that is that environmental impacts are risks. This is not correct. Environmental impacts do not equal risk. Let’s start ...

Jun. 4, 2017

By Strategies for the Environment

Risk communication and stakeholder participation in the governance of systemic environmental health risks

Achieving effective stakeholder participation in discourses about modern, systemic risks is difficult. Risks and policies to control them stimulate behavioural changes in society, so stakeholdership evolves as events play out, and defining stakeholders requires the ability to model the adaptive responses involved. Engaging stakeholders is also problematic because of inherent barriers of time, ...

Jan. 4, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals: Regulatory developments

Concern about the potential environmental impact of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment was first expressed over 30 years ago. It is therefore surprising that there is still so little current regulation requiring environmental risk assessments to be undertaken on human pharmaceuticals. Particularly in view of the rapid development in legislation, that has taken place in many ...

Oct. 1, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Help protect children from environmental risks

October is Children’s Health Month. To heighten awareness about environmental issues impacting children, EPA is providing parents and caregivers simple tips they can use to help protect children in their homes, schools and communities.“As both EPA Administrator and a mother, I understand the importance of protecting our children from environmental threats,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. ...

Oct. 8, 2009

By EnviroVantage

Environmental and human health risks of aerosolized silver nanoparticles

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are gaining attention from the academic and regulatory communities, not only because of their antimicrobial effects and subsequent product applications, but also because of their potential health and environmental risks. Whereas AgNPs in the aqueous phase are under intensive study, those in the atmosphere have been largely overlooked, although it is well established ...

Jul. 1, 2010

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

Simultaneous treatment of environmental and financial risk in process design

In this paper, we propose a new measure for environmental risk and discuss a way of considering it simultaneously with financial risk. Instead of using single numbers to define environmental risk, we propose to use the cumulative probability of emissions, similarly to the cumulative distributions of profit used for financial risk. We also propose to use a risk surface as a generalisation of the ...

Mar. 16, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

A New Vigilance: Identifying and Reducing the Risks of Environmental Terrorism

Environmental terrorism is an old type of conflict with a new face. Large, costly wars between two or more states have become less prevalent over the past 50 years, and with the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union, there ...

Sep. 1, 2001

By Pacific Institute

Risk management on energy and environmental conservation in CEE countries

The report has been prepared on the basis of seven independent provided research projects, realised by experts from all countries of CEE. The seven research projects are: 1) Development of risk analyses on energy and environmental conservation; 2) Strategic forecast on energy and environment conservation; 3) Main risk sources identification on energy conservation policy; 4) Risk valuation methods ...

Dec. 7, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Managing environmental risk and compliance: facility decommissioning

While most companies are familiar with the regulatory requirements that must be managed when opening or operating a commercial or industrial facility; the regulatory requirements which need to be met when closing a facility are less commonly known. To reduce operating costs in a challenging economic environment, organizations may need to downsize, relocate, or close facilities. There are ...

May 4, 2010

By WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff

Environmental risk assessment of a closed industrial landfill

Client: Waste Management Industry Location: Closed landfill, Warwickshire, UK Services: Hydrogeological risk assessment and Closed landfill support Issues: Potential risk to groundwater and surface water, environment and human health. Gaps in available data for closed landfill site. Summary: ESI ...

Oct. 8, 2011

By ESI Ltd - Environment Specialists

Case note: Environmental risks, rights and black swans

Keywords: Environmental rights, risk, European Court of Human Rights, black ...

Jul. 15, 2013

Transfer Your Environmental Risks to a Third Party

Remediation of contaminated sites often is costly and time-consuming, diverting scarce corporate resources from a company’s core operations. Moreover, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and recent Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board rules and standards governing accounting for and reporting of environmental liabilities (e.g., FIN 47 Accounting for Conditional Asset ...

Jan. 24, 2007

By Freeborn & Peters LLP

Book Review: Corporate Strategies for Managing Environmental Risk

Corporate Strategies for Managing Environmental Risk, by Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne. Ashgate, 2004. 584 pp. ISBN 0-7546-2411-0Keywords: book ...

Mar. 19, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Integrated Environmental Risk Financing for Successful Brownfields Redevelopment

Untitled Document Environmental engineers and others involved with brownfields redevelopment have increasingly come to appreciate the role of the new environmental insurance products in financing ...

Jan. 1, 2001

By Environmental Insurance Agency, Inc.

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