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On the Dynamics of Recycling and Natural Resources
by Springer (Feb. 1, 2006)We study the dynamic impact of recycling through its effect on the production set of the economy and its relationship with natural resources. The contribution of renewable and recyclable resources for sustainability is studied. Although in the short run recycling may alleviate resource scarcity, in the long run it is not enough to compensate for ...
House of commons committee on natural resources
by Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA) (Mar. 23, 2010)Introduction The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association represents the interests of municipal water and wastewater services in respect of federal or national legislation, policies and programs. More than 24 million Canadians receive drinking water from municipal services and discharge wastewater to those services. The services are provided on ...
Sustainable Use and Management of Natural Resources
by European Environment Agency (EEA) (Jan. 5, 2006)Background The EU sixth environment action programme (6EAP) expressly calls for 'breaking the linkages between economic growth and resource use'. This report, which contributes to the EEA's five-year report 'The European environment — State and outlook 2005', was prepared in recognition of the importance of the sustainable use and management of ...
A Natural-Resource-Based View of the Firm
Over the next decade, businesses will be challenged to create new concepts of strategy, and it seems likely that the basis for gaining competitive advantage in the coming years will be rooted increasingly in a set of emerging capabilities such as waste minimization, green product design, and technology cooperation in the developing world. ...
Sustainability and productivity – how can businesses successfully achieve both?
by TOMRA Sorting (TITECH) (Sep. 15, 2016)Every business is aware of the challenges associated with helping to increase productivity without the move having a detrimental impact on other areas of the business. If processes can be streamlined and output increased, most businesses would grab the opportunity to do so, but this may also come at the expense of other things outside of the ...
How well are resource prices likely to serve as indicators of natural resource scarcity?
by Inderscience Publishers (Mar. 4, 2005)It is generally believed that when a resource becomes increasingly scarce, a shadow is automatically cast in the form of a higher market price. The higher price induces substitution towards more abundant resources and the development of resource-saving technological progress. A growing number of ecological economists argue that, while resource ...
Pollution, natural resource and economic growth: an econometric analysis
by Inderscience Publishers (Mar. 30, 2006)Theoretical arguments imply that an inverted U-shaped relationship may be quite plausible. It is still not clear from the empirical literature whether the relationship of income and environmental degradation is linear or inverted U-shaped. This paper utilises a more global representative sample, than previous EKC studies, and re-evaluates the ...
Building local democracy through natural resource interventions
by World Resources Institute WRI (Nov. 25, 2008)This policy brief provides natural resource policy makers and practitioners with an approach for evaluating how their policies and projects can support the emergence and consolidation of local democracy. In practice, everything but democratic decentralization has taken place in the name of ‘democratic decentralization’ reforms: privatization, ...
From Conflict to Peacebuilding - The role of natural resources and the environment
by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (Feb. 1, 2009)Since 1990 at least eighteen violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources. In fact, recent research suggests that over the last sixty years at least forty percent of all intrastate conflicts have a link to natural resources. Civil wars such as those in Liberia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo have ...
Encouraging Americans to Reuse, Recycle, and Conserve Natural Resources
by Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) (Feb. 2, 2006)When Congress passed the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in 1976, it charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with ensuring the safe disposal and management of municipal and industrial waste, and it broadly championed a new ethic of resource conservation. During the first two decades of RCRA, EPA, in partnership with ...
Article: Valuing nature resource damages: a transatlantic lesson
Abstract This paper presents a comparison of the United States natural resource damage assessment regulations for restoration of natural resources, the 1992 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Oil Pollution Fund provisions on reinstatement of environmental impacts caused by oil pollution, ...
Using Spectroscopy for Used Oil Analysis
by Spectro Scientific (Sep. 2, 2016)Evaluating the wear condition of equipment is a primary requirement of condition monitoring programs. Oil wetted equipment will generate wear particles throughout its lifetime, the nature and rate of the wear varies from initial ...
Major Considerations in Landfill Closure
by Agru America, Inc. (Sep. 16, 2016)Preparing for the closure and long-term care of a municipal solid waste landfill (MSWLF) can be an inordinate undertaking. Whether public or private, all landfills eventually reach the end of their active lifecycle. Before closure, a landfill must meet a series of criteria as determined by Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ...
Green Buildings: Economics and Policies
by Oxford Journals (Aug. 27, 2016)Introduction Green building has received increased attention over the past decade from both environmental economists and policymakers. While there is no single definition of “green buildings” or its related policy, researchers and organizations tend to emphasize resource efficiency in building and reducing the impacts of buildings on ...
Technical Evaluation of Natural Resource Damage Assessments (NRDA) of Groundwater Resources
Abstract To support a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) for groundwater resources impacted by oil or hazardous substances, careful technical evaluation is required to define the nature and volume of the affected groundwater zone and the associated impact on the potential services provided by the affected aquifer and other ...
Iowa Department of Natural Resources-case study
by SRS Crisafulli, Inc. (Dec. 7, 2015)August 2005. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources purchased a Crisafulli 16” L- Series Vertical Pump, Dual Drive (gear and belt), and accessories, to replace a very old pump of unknown brand, and made the following comments about Crisafulli product quality and customer service - "The Vertical Pump was delivered on time per ...
How Recycling Plastic Helps To Save The Environment And Natural Resources
by Challenger Handling Limited (Jul. 8, 2015)We all have recycling boxes that sit next to our wheelie bins and often there is a public recycling point in a car-park nearby. Some of us have become recycling experts and recycle almost 100% of their household waste, while the vast majority of us are just beginning to get involved in recycling. Budget cuts have resulted in household ...
Natural Resources Conservation Service soil survey office laboratory safety guide
by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Jun. 22, 2009)Since the passage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970 for employee health and safety, laboratory safety has greatly improved as a result of regulation. Careful pre-planning has been shown to mitigate the potential health hazards of the laboratory environment. NRCS Soil Survey Office Laboratory workers need to assess potential ...
Natural resources and environmental accounting in the Czech Republic: an overview of methodology and results
by Inderscience Publishers (Oct. 29, 2004)This paper describes the main features of the study "Natural Resources and Environmental Accounting in the Czech Republic" (NREACR), carried out under the Phare programme during 1998—1999. Within the project, five major methodological areas were specified: NAMEA-type accounting; land cover/land use (LC/LU) accounting; abatement cost curves ...
Outlines of a multicommodity and multilateral integrated cooperation agreement for sustainable management of natural resources
by Inderscience Publishers (Dec. 17, 2010)In this work, by resuming and developing researches carried out in the 70s and 80s, a potential solution is outlined, where the complex issues of natural resources limitedness, the environmental imbalances and the economic and social imbalances among industrialised and non-industrialised countries are put at the first place of the international ...
