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Solid Waste Management Policies in Kenya: The Silence on the Plight of Women and Children

Building on available evidence that there are differences of exposure to solid waste among men, women and children, it follows that effective solid waste management (SWM) policies need to recognise such variations, as a prelude to rolling out programmes to address associated socio-economic and health risks. ...

By The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management

Environment at the heart of Tanzania's development: Lessons from Tanzania's National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA)

a significant leap forward in integrating poverty reduction and environmental management. The authors ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Environmental Data Management

Two basic tools for integrated management of the environment are modeling and environmental data. Both tools were available and valid in the past; however, the recent requirements for integrated environmental management have also led to a significant evolution of both modeling procedures and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing

Manufacturers are increasingly, under pressure from their major stakeholders to integrate environmental issues in the design and management of their products. These stakeholders include customer, regulators, employees, communities, and interest groups who have a common stake in protecting the earth from ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Linkages into Development Planning : A Handbook for Practitioners

This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the painstaking task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. It draws on a substantial body of experience at the country level and the many lessons learned by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme in working with ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Balkan Vital Graphics

Environmental protection is one of the areas where the Balkan countries still face a big challenge to catch up with their western neighbours. After the 1990s conflicts and the breakup of Yugoslavia, six new Balkan states emerged. Apart from integrating environmental concerns into the new policies, a major ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process

Environmental restoration has entered an era of faster, better, cheaper. Uniquely suited to meet all of those requirements, macroengineering has become one of the hottest concepts in the field. Macroengineering: An Environmental Restoration Management Process provides a comprehensive understanding of all the ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Eco Targets, Goal Functions, and Orientors

This book introduces a new concept in ecosystem theory and discusses it in an interdisciplinary framework, originating in succession theory, network theory and thermodynamics. The central hypothesis claims that there are certain system attributes which are regularly optimized in the course of ecosystem development. Many of these orientators can also be interpretated as general attributes for ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Linking Species and Ecosystems

This is the first volume devoted to the integration of population and ecosystem ecology--an approach that offers vast potential for improving our understanding of the complexities of nature and the management of environmental problems. The editors, Clive Jones and John Lawton, work at the Institute of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management

With contributions from a wide array of economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision-making at a watershed level. It introduces the fields of ecological ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance

Environmental policy in its broadest context has been significantly revitalized and renewed during the last two decades. That observation is nothing new, attested to by the number of publications, conferences and both private and public projects that have been initiated. However, our understanding of the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Groundwater for Sustainable Development: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

Designed to provide a common platform for sharing knowledge and experience, this book presents state of the art developments in the field of groundwater. Recognizing the importance of integrated water resources management, the text covers technical, environmental, legal, economic, and social aspects of ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Beyond Enforcement? Enforcement, Compliance Assistance, and Corporate Leadership Programs in Five Midwest States Report

This study identifies the structural and management prerequisites for sound integrated environmental compliance programs. Integrated compliance programs require unified planning and management of compliance activities and rely on targeted, priority-based problem solving. Integrated compliance ...

By Environmental Law Institute (ELI)

Environmental management

It includes the new versions of the ISO 14000 series of standards, as well as other complementary standards to successfully develop the environmental management. 19 UNE standards compiled in this publication, establish directives for the implementation of environmental management system, the environmental ...

By AENOR INTERNACIONAL

Handbook of Globalization and the Environment

Proponents of globalization argue that it protects the global environment from degradation and promotes worldwide sustainable economic growth while opponents argue the exact opposite. Examining the local, national, and international impacts of globalization, the Handbook of Globalization and the Environment explores strategies and solutions that support healthy economic growth, protect the ...

By Taylor & Francis Group (USA)

Perspectives on Uncertainty and Risk

This volume is intended to stimulate a change in the practice of decision support, advocating an interdisciplinary approach centred on both social and natural sciences, both theory and practice. It addresses the issue of analysis and management of uncertainty and risk in decision support corresponding to the ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems

The demand for advanced management methods and tools for marine ecosystems is increasing worldwide. Today, many marine ecosystems are significantly affected by disastrous pollution from industrial, agricultural, municipal, transportation, and other anthropogenic sources. The issues of environmental ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Activity-Based Cost and Environmental Management

It is clear that our environment is changing, and not for the better. Companies cannot ignore environmental issues anymore. Public awareness is growing, legislation is tightening, and demand for ISO 14000 compliance is rising. For many, however, the field of environmental management (including ISO 14000) is ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Integrated Technology for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production

This book focuses on the current issue of environmental data management in view of the difficulties associated with various aspects of data management, i.e., objectives and constraints, design of data collection networks, statistical and physical sampling, remote sensing and GIS, databases, reliability of data, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Remote Sensing for Environmental Data in Albania: A Strategy for Integrated Management

A comprehensive source book for anybody interested in the potential of remote sensing and GIS technology for the Eastern Europe countries in transition, and less developed countries in general. Leading experts from Europe, Canada and the USA cover a wide variety of applications, from the provision of satellite data to land, water and atmosphere planning issues. The individual contributions ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

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