environmental risk Articles

Mar. 26, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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

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

Dec. 26, 2014

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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

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

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

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

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.

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, ...

Oct. 18, 2012

By Environmental Risk Managers, Inc.

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

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

Oct. 23, 2015

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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

A landfill has its own risks, like many other technologies. In the framework of the Polyproject 'Risk and Safety of Technical Systems' (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) a special methodology has been developed for analysing and assessing the different risks of a landfill. In the first main task of this task-oriented methodology, the whole procedure and the goals of the risk analysis ...

Sep. 16, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

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

Government agencies responsible for environmental protection need a process that establishes priorities among competing issues. Examples are described, drawing particularly on the experience of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Prioritisation systems should have certain characteristics responsiveness to the various agencies' mandates, flexibility, discriminatory power, transparency and ...

Feb. 3, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

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.

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 ...

Jan. 1, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

As everyone in the E&P business knows, E&P companies operate in a world with ever increasing performance demands and where people want to have their energy and their compliance too. The good news is that technology now exists in Environmental Risk Management Systems to enable E&P companies to improve their compliance in real-time while also improving operational efficiencies, as well ...

May 31, 2008

By VisionMonitor Software, LLC