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Nanomaterial environmental risk assessment

Mar. 26, 2015

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-Verlag GmbH

Effective environmental risk communication—Success stories or urban legends?

Dec. 26, 2014

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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 ...

May 4, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

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

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

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 ...

Mar. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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 ...

Apr. 30, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

In Response: Challenges when weighing evidence about environmental risks—An industry perspective

Oct. 23, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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 ...

Oct. 18, 2012

By Environmental Risk Managers, Inc.

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 ...

Oct. 14, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

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 ...

May 11, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

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 ...

Feb. 3, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

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 ...

Jun. 26, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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) ...

May 11, 2016

By IWA Publishing

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 ...

Jan. 2, 2015

By Inderscience Publishers

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 ...

Sep. 16, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Evaluation of trade-offs between cost, perceived and environmental risk associated with the management of computer waste

Growing public concern over the hazards associated with management of computer waste necessitates assessment of risk perceived by the public for such activities. This paper presents a goal-programming approach to achieve satisfaction of multiple objectives of economy, perceived risk and health and environmental risk during the entire life cycle of waste computers. A case study of Chennai (India) ...

Apr. 16, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

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, ...

Nov. 18, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

EC invites scientists to apply for membership in SCCS and SCHEER

The European Commission (EC) invites scientists to apply for membership in its non-food scientific committees, the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) and Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER). SCCS and SCHEER provide the EC with “high quality and independent risk assessment and scientific advice in the areas of public health, consumer safety ...

Sep. 11, 2015

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.