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Policy by analogy: precautionary principle, science and polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Gouin, T.; Bocking, S.; Mackay, D. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 5 (2005) 1/2, pp. 54-67

chemical substances. From this knowledge, the risk of using chemicals can be assessed. As a means of facilitating the …, similarities can be drawn between a number of poorly studied chemical substances and those that are currently listed as chemicals …

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Research traditions in Malaysia and the West

Sy, Aida; Tinker, Anthony - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 5 (2013) 2, pp. 119-122

This research raises a complex of questions about the relationship between the West and its former colonies. Many ex-colonised countries are now emerging as developing or developed economies, yet they are still using the Western accounting systems. We know from the African history that these...

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Is multilateralism the future? Sustainable development or globalisation as 'a comprehensive vision of the future of humanity'

Pallemaerts, Marc - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2003

This paper provides an overall evaluation of the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which took place in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September 2002, in a historical perspective, against the background of earlier major United Nations conferences and General...

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Innovation and Productivity in U.S. Industry

Baily, Martin Neil; Chakrabarti, Alok K. - In: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 16 (1985) 2, pp. 609-639

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Strategies, market concentration and hegemony in chemical parcel tanker shipping, 1960-1985

Murphy, Hugh; Tenold, Stig - In: Business History 50 (2008) 3, pp. 291-309

seaborne transport of chemicals was characterised by rapid technological development, based on the introduction of parcel … tankers, which could carry chemicals in bulk. By the early 1970s two Norwegian companies had built up substantial market …

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Pesticide Applications in Bt Cotton Farms: Issues Relating to Environment and Non-Tariff Barriers

Lalitha, N.; K, Viswanathan P - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade of India. [Working paper No. 198]. URL:[http://www.gidr.ac.in/pdf/Working%20Paper%20198.pdf].

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Trade and Innovation: Report on the Chemicals Sector

Kiriyama, Nobuo - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2010

This study analyses linkages between trade and innovation in the chemicals sector, building on past work at the OECD on … trade and innovation. The chemicals sector has a long history of innovation and is a large trading item. It covers very … diverse sub-sectors. This paper analyses and compares different trade and innovation linkages in basic industrial chemicals …

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Potential Challenges Faced by the U.S. Chemicals Industry under a Carbon Policy

Bassi, Andrea; Yudken, Joel - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 3, pp. 592-611

Chemicals have become the backbone of manufacturing within industrialized economies. Being energy-intensive materials … the worst-case scenario for the U.S. chemicals industry when a medium CO<sub>2</sub> price policy is employed. After … climate policies that put a price on carbon could have substantial impacts on the competiveness of the U.S. chemicals industry …

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A solution for forecasting pet chips prices for both short-term and long-term price forcasting, using genetic programming

Fazli, Mojtaba Sedigh; Lebraty, Jean-Fabrice - HAL - 2013

Nowadays, forecasting what will happen in economic environments plays a crucial role. We showed that in PET market how a neuro-fuzzy hybrid model can assist the managers in decision-making. In this research, the target is to forecast the same item through another intelligent tool which obeys the...

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Factores socioculturales y medio ambiente en Samacá

Ramírez, Alba Nidia Triana; Rodríguez, Maria Cecilia; … - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)

of chemicals. All these factors havediminished the income of the households and indeed inhabitants´ lifequality. …

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