Environmental Risk Management Articles
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Cost and time overrun analysis for green construction projects
Green construction projects are initiated in complex and dynamic environments resulting in circumstances of high level of uncertainty with respect to cost and duration. This is attributed to the fact that construction of green buildings requires stricter norms in terms of environmental conservation, carbon emission, construction footprint, pollution, etc. which can cause an addition to 'cost and ...
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Ecological risk assessment in the context of global climate change
Changes to sources, stressors, habitats, and geographic ranges; toxicological effects; end points; and uncertainty estimation require significant changes in the implementation of ecological risk assessment (ERA). Because of the lack of analog systems and circumstances in historically studied sites, there is a likelihood of type III error. As a first step, the authors propose a decision key to ...
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Implications of global climate change for the assessment and management of human health risks of chemicals in the natural environment
Global climate change (GCC) is likely to alter the degree of human exposure to pollutants and the response of human populations to these exposures, meaning that risks of pollutants could change in the future. The present study, therefore, explores how GCC might affect the different steps in the pathway from a chemical source in the environment through to impacts on human health and evaluates ...
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Combined and interactive effects of global climate change and toxicants on populations and communities
Increased temperature and other environmental effects of global climate change (GCC) have documented impacts on many species (e.g., polar bears, amphibians, coral reefs) as well as on ecosystem processes and species interactions (e.g., the timing of predator–prey interactions). A challenge for ecotoxicologists is to predict how joint effects of climatic stress and toxicants measured at the ...
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3 Companies That Are Making Money By Embracing Sustainability
Superstorm Sandy and the subsequent Nor’easter were the biggest news this week and last. The combination of two powerful forces resulted in unprecedented and widespread damage. Our thoughts are with those who have been impacted. I can’t help but draw the connection between our recent extreme weather and businesses today—corporations are increasingly recognizing that they, too, ...
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Companies and MBAs test new sustainability SWOT
At last week’s Net Impact conference, WRI challenged teams of attendees to come up with what was essentially a “mashup” of megatrends and environmental challenges. The teams then engaged in a friendly competition to see who could create the most innovative corporate sustainability strategies for a hypothetical company modeled after LEGO. The teams began by looking at global ...
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Risk management goals and identification of critical infrastructures
Strategic goals help streamlining risk management efforts, and criticality assessments of infrastructures benefit from such goals. This paper offers an introduction into recent German civil protection activities on this topic at national level. It offers a transferable concept on how to identify, document and justify priorities regarding critical infrastructure services. Based on human values it ...
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Supporting Multi Stakeholder Involvement for Flood Risk Management Planning
Good governance concepts are required for the development of Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMP) in the sense of the EC Flood Directive (2007/60/EC). Within the INTERREG IVb project SAWA [1] a governance approach has been developed and implemented which tries to meet the requirements of good governance through broad stakeholder involvement in the planning process. It uses Learning & Action ...
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The Asta–Ja management capacity–building framework (Asta–Ja MCBF) for sustainable development in Nepal
Capacity–building is essential to sustainable environmental and natural resources management and fast–paced socio–economic transformation. Capacity–building requires the involved commitment of individuals, community organisations, private businesses, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and other stakeholders. As population and the corresponding demand on environmental and natural ...
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Beyond the Brand: leaders in supply chain environmental sustainability
Companies ignore the magnitude of their supply chain environmental impacts - and the environmental and financial risks and opportunities that they represent-at their own peril, writes James Salo. Republished from Newsweek; with thanks. Apple, Nike, and Wal-Mart have at least two things in common: they are among the most well-known brands in the world, and they all outsource environmentally ...
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Delivering an essential and sustainable water plan for Sydney, Australia
The water supply for Sydney, which is the largest city in Australia, has been affected by variable climate patterns which include long periods of drought. Water resource needs for the future will be significantly affected by climate change and population growth. A ‘Water for Life’ equation has been adopted as a multi-faceted approach to achieving future, sustainable water ...
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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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Pavan Sukhdev discusses 4 ways to create more sustainable corporations
“To tell the story of the corporation is to tell the story of a grand bargain gone awry,” says Pavan Sukhdev in his new book, Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World. It’s a bold statement, but he backs up his claim persuasively. While many companies are reaching record profits, they’ve oftentimes come at the expense of ecological degradation, ...
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Gap Analysis: Evaluating the Readiness to Respond
Experts Analyze a Major Oil Company’s Preparedness Introduction O’Brien’s is a highly specialized and recognized emergency preparedness and crisis management consulting firm providing environmental, security, risk and regulatory compliance services to a diverse group of industries, as well as public entities such as ports, universities and government agencies. Our client base ...
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Electrochemical biosensors for environmental monitoring
The challenge for the monitoring of environmental hazards such as pollutants, herbicides, pesticides and toxins caused by expanding industrialisation and application of new intensive agricultural technologies is to develop efficient tools that offer precision, sensitivity, and speed and ease of operation in situ and avoid consequently risks for both human and environmental health. In this ...
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Has the Kyoto Protocol reached its main goal? A brief review
This paper critically analyses the International policy on climate change, the role of the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and the GHG emissions, particularly CO2. Also the commitment of the different countries to reduce or limit these emissions, the development of carbon sinks and the flexible mechanisms that uses credit trading between countries members. The work also highlights the brightest ...
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Global warming potential of waste management options: case study of Delhi
Municipal solid waste in developing nations like India is an area of major concern. The concerns associated with waste management are not only public health and safety but also for sustainable development. Life cycle assessment (LCA) can be applied to assess the environmental sustainability of waste management systems. In the present study, global warming potential of various municipal waste ...
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Discharge of pharmaceuticals into municipal sewers from hospitals and long-term care facilities
The presence of pharmaceutically active compounds in the aquatic environment has become well established, and their presence is of potential concern because they are designed to produce biological response in the target receptor, may bear intrinsic toxicity (e.g. cytostatic agents, antibiotics) and they possess the potential to foster and maintain drug resistance. For both risk assessment and ...
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Mercury mobility and availability in highly contaminated solid wastes from a chlor–alkali plant
This article suggests an approach of sustainable development in Cuba based on the environmental impact assessment of mercurial sludge generated by a chlor–alkali Cuban plant. It consists of a study of mercury mobility and availability in the sludge samples using sequential extraction procedure. High values of total mercury content (2320 ± 40 mg/kg) in the sludge sample as well as in the toxicity ...
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Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment
Troy Risk was approached by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIBI) to complete a combination Phase I Environmental Site Assessment and Phase II Subsurface Investigation, on a multi-lot parcel that would be KIBI’s new headquarters building. Troy Risk performed the Phase I / Phase II on a not-for-profit basis in support of the merit of KIBI’s mission. The historical use of the ...
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