Setting the Stage for Sustainabilty (Sustainable Community Development, #5)
by Chris Maser, Charles R. Beaton, and Kevin M. Smith
As humans, we make choices. With change as a constant, we are continually presented with a number of choices, and we must choose. The change represented by the divergence of humanity from the rest of the world is rapidly growing, and in need of transformation. Setting the Stage for Sustainable Community Development is a guide for that transformation, which can help to create a sense of "place" where it did not previously exist. This invaluable text looks at resolving environmental conflicts thro...
Cost Engineering for Pollution Prevention and Control
by Paul Mac Berthouex and Linfield C. Brown
Environmental engineers work to increase the level of health and happiness in the world by designing, building, and operating processes and systems for water treatment, water pollution control, air pollution control, and solid waste management. These projects compete for resources with projects in medicine, transportation, education, and other fields that have a similar objective. The challenge is to make the investments efficient – to get the best project outputs with a minimum of inputs. Cost...
Strategien Zur Bewältigung Globaler Umweltrisiken (Welt Im Wandel, #1998)
Dieses Gutachten leistet einen konstruktiven Beitrag zu einem sachlichen Umgang mit Risiken des Globalen Wandels, indem - global relevante Risiken typisiert und besonders gravierende Risikotypen herausgestellt werden, - diesen Typen sowohl bewahrte als auch innovative Strategien zur Risikobewertung sowie entsprechende Instrumente fur das Risikomanagement zugeordnet werden, so dass daraus Managementprioritaten festgelegt werden konnen. Ein Ziel dieses Gutachtens ist die Versachlichung der intern...
Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments (Environment, Science and Society, #3)
Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and economic instruments are increasingly under stress. This volume deliberately aims to break new...
Being "problem driven" this textbook on applied statistics goes beyond the presentation of introductory "Quantitative Method". It focuses on issues ranging from population explosion to the inequalities of global income distribution, from depletion trends of non-renewable resources to atmospheric pollution and potential climate change. The book includes national socio-economic and environmental statistics from over 140 countries, building an up-to-date scenario of worldwide population growth, eco...
This study contains a critical review of the Swedish producer responsibility legislation related to discarded packaging materials and newspapers, magazines, and selected other kinds of paper waste. The major finding of this analysis is that this legislation is exceedingly inefficient and that it imposes a considerable burden on society for little benefit in terms of environmental improvements. This book endeavors to destroy the romantic notion that recycling is a good thing, of itself a benefit...
Erfolgskontrolle Von Umweltmassnahmen (Umweltnatur- & Umweltsozialwissenschaften)
Roland W. Scholz' Die letzte Dekade des 20. Iahrhunderts war durch einige Besonderheiten und Er- eignisse gekennzeichnet, die bemerkenswerte Veranderungen der Umweltbe- lastungen und ein neues Denken bezogen auf die Beurteilung von UmweltmaB- nahmen zur Folge hatten. Zu ihnen gehoren neben dem Abschluss des Industrie- zeitalters, mit der eine weitgehende Reduktion von Emissionen im Bereich Pro- duktion einherging, sowie dem Phanomen der Globalisierung und vor allem der Trend zur Monetarisierung...
Environmental Justice in Latin America (Environmental Justice in Latin America) (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Environmental justice concerns form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. Activists, scholars, and policymakers in the developing world, for example, increasingly use the tools of environmental justice to link concerns over social justice and environmental well-being. Environmental Justice in Latin America investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analyses and case studies that examine both the promise...
Energy Technology Innovation
Energy technology innovation - improving how we produce and use energy - is critical for a transition towards sustainability. This book presents a rich set of twenty case studies of energy technology innovation embedded within a unifying conceptual framework. It provides insights into why some innovation efforts have been more successful than others, and draws important policy conclusions. The case studies cover a wide range of energy technologies, ranging from energy supply to energy end use, f...
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit? Or is it better understood in more collective terms, as an institution that communities reshape over time to promote evolving goals? What should it mean to be a private landowner in an age of sprawling growth and declining biological diversity? These provocative questions lie at the heart of this perceptive and wide-ranging new book by legal scholar and conservationist Eric Freyfogle. Bringing together insights f...
Implementing the Precautionary Principle
This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery reforms and their evaluation. The third and final section focuses on urbanization and the environment...
Energiemanagement
by Marko Geilhausen, Juliane Branzel, Dirk Engelmann, and Olaf Schulze
Das Buch stellt die Anforderungen der ISO 50001 als Grundlage fur eine Zertifizierung dar. Dabei wird immer die Sicht des Energiemanagementbeauftragten im Auge behalten, indem praktische Hinweise fur die Umsetzung und zu den einzelnen Normenpunkten gegeben werden. Die AEnderungen zur Vorgangernorm DIN EN 16001 sind dargestellt und Moeglichkeiten der Integration eines Energiemanagementsystems in bestehende Systeme nach ISO 9001 und ISO 14001 werden beschrieben. Damit bietet das Buch sowohl Neuein...
The Water-Energy Nexus in the American West
The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. This book contributes to the body of knowledge and understanding regarding water, energy, and the links between the two in the American West and beyond. The research and analyses presented by the authors shed new light on the choices that must be made in order to avoid unnecessary harm in the development an...
Loss Control Auditing (Occupational Safety & Health Guides, #9) (Occupational Safety & Health Guide)
by Erik Scott Dunlap and E Scott Dunlap
As a critical function in monitoring workplace safety, loss control auditing provides an organizational assessment of safety program performance in relation to regulatory requirements and company policies. Principles of quality management dictate that measurement of an activity receives organizational attention and provides an excellent tool for communicating performance to management. A comprehensive audit, rather than individual metrics such as injury rate, helps to determine which aspects of...
By mid-1996, over 10,000 companies in the United States had achieved ISO registration-a staggering jump from the 100 registered at the end of 1991. Why the explosive growth? For many, ISO registration acts as proof that the company has an outstanding and continuously improving quality process. As registration continues to grow at a rate of more than 400 companies a month, it's clear that the ISO/QS phenomenon shows no sign of slowing down. To become ISO/QS-9000 registered, a company needs an ef...
Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks (World in Transition, JG 1998)
Global risk potentials and their interplay with economic, social and ecological processes of change have emerged as a challenge to the international community. By presenting this report, the Council hopes to contribute constructively to an effective, efficient and objective management of the risks of global change. The approach taken by the Council is first to classify globally relevant risks and then to assign to these classes of risk both established and innovative risk assessment strategies a...
Review of Maritime Transport 2017
With over 80 per cent of global trade by volume and more than 70 per cent of its value being carried on board ships and handled by seaports worldwide, the importance of maritime transport for trade and development cannot be overemphasized. The 2017 Review of Maritime Transport presents and discusses key developments in the world economy and international trade and related impacts on shipping demand and supply, freight and charter markets, as well as seaports and the regulatory and legal framewor...
Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure (Environment for Development)
by Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, and Thomas Sterner
This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale – Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-...