environmental risk Articles
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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 ...
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Book Review. Living in a Contaminated World. Community Structures, Environmental Risks and Decision Frameworks
Omohundro, Ellen. Living in a Contaminated World. Community Structures, Environmental Risks and Decision Frameworks. Ashgate, 2004. 206pp. ISBN 0-7546-4299-2.Keywords: book ...
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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 ...
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Can Natural Experiments Measure Behavioral Responses to Environmental Risks?
Efforts to measure people’s responses to spatially delineated risks confront the potential for correlation between these risks and other, unobserved characteristics of these locations. The possibility of correlation arises in part because individuals observe other locational attributes that can be expected to influence the hedonic equilibrium. One response to this problem is to use events from ...
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Environmental information and the symbolic value of consumer products
Environmental information has a central role in the programmes and documents of sustainable consumption policies. Its role is based mainly on the view of a rational consumer, i.e., the consumer makes decisions according to rational knowledge and facts. However, we need a broader and deeper understanding of how environmental risks are socially constructed and of how products act as transmitters of ...
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Environmental Strategist Certification
Environmental Strategist Certification: www.estrategist.com For business professionals (insurance agents, attorneys, bankers, accountants, realtors, environmental engineers, business owners, CEO’s, CFO’s and risk managers) interested in leveraging their business model in today’s sustainable business environment, www.estrategist.com is the first step you take on your sustainable ...
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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 ...
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Risk analysis, a tool for decision-making
Risk analysis is an instrument for the decision-making process. Three possible applications are described: methods used for a (first) 'quick and dirty' analysis; the question of unacceptable risks; and aspects related to decision-making under risk and uncertainty. These applications have advantages and disadvantages, and sometimes their own specific pitfalls.Keywords: environmental risk ...
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Tenax extraction as a simple approach to improve environmental risk assessments
It is well documented that using exhaustive chemical extractions is not an effective means of assessing exposure of hydrophobic organic compounds in sediments and that bioavailability‐based techniques are an improvement over traditional methods. One technique that has shown special promise as a method for assessing the bioavailability of hydrophobic organic compounds in sediment is the use of ...
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Assessing the precautionary principle in the regulation of genetically modified organisms
This article seeks to clarify and then assess the regulatory legitimacy of the Precautionary Principle (PP). The investigation proceeds by way of an example, the commercialisation of genetically modified pest protected plants (GMPPPs). First, I sort the various formulations of the PP into two categories - weak and strong. Weak versions afford regulators significant latitude as to what counts as a ...
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Material flow analysis, TMR and the MIPS concept: a contribution to the development of indicators for measuring changes in consumption and production patterns
It is not the scarcity of resources that constitutes environmental problems, but their use, the physical throughput of our economies. Material flows are a proxy for the totality of the unspecific environmental risks from human activities. As a strategic goal, an increase of the life-cycle-wide resource productivity by a factor 10 is suggested, including the materials bought and sold and the ...
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Enhancing environmental justice research and praxis: the inclusion of human security, resilience and vulnerabilities literature
Despite the diversification in research topics, the increase of academic fields addressing environmental wrongs and the global level reached by the environmental justice discipline, this scholarship still struggles in its effectiveness. To empower sociologists and build bridges that allow more synergistic development between disciplines dealing with environmental wrongs, we examine critical ...
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Ecological modernisation, environmental innovation and competitiveness: the case of public transport in Hong Kong
This paper focuses on the role of environmental innovation in the context of the development of ecological modernisation theory and as a driver for firms to gain competitive advantage in the market. While ecological modernisation theory offers a variety of theoretical and prescriptive viewpoints on the mechanisms through which modern societies respond to the environmental risks of industrialism, ...
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Managing environmental risk in agriculture: a systematic perspective on the potential of quantitative policy-oriented risk valuation
This article seeks to offer a systematic overview of methods and techniques for valuing environmental quality degradation, with a particular view to the management of agricultural risk, against the background of policy relevance. The article argues that modern valuation methods from ecological economics can play an important role in advancing transparent policy decisions, but at the same time the ...
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Attitude and purchasing decisions regarding genetically modified foods based on gender and education
Amir Heiman; Ori Agmon; Racheli Fleisher; David Zilberman Previous studies have found that gender affects perceptions and resistance to genetically modified food (GMF). Stronger aversion to innovations, lower technical interest, more concern with environment, and higher perceptions of environmental risk on the part of females relative to males have previously explained why females are less ...
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Nanopharmaceuticals – tiny challenges for the environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals
Many new developments and innovations in health care are based on nanotechnology. The field of nanopharmaceuticals is diverse and not as new as one might think: for many years nanopharmaceuticals have been marketed and future is likely to bring more nanosized compounds to the market. Therefore it is time to examine, whether the environmental risk assessment for human pharmaceuticals is ...
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Assessing population coverage of safely managed wastewater systems: a case study of Lebanon
This paper presents the evaluation of the proportion of the population connected to safely managed wastewater collection systems (PW) based on the proportion of population connected to wastewater collection systems and additional specific indicators that can properly inform on the extent of environmental risks associated with the disposal of wastewater. A safely managed wastewater factor (SF) ...
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