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The role of chemical policy in improving supply chain knowledge and product safety
Scruggs, Caroline; Ortolano, Leonard; Schwarzman, Megan; … - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 4 (2014) 2, pp. 132-141
associated with poor information on hazardous chemicals in supply chains. These market conditions make it difficult for consumer … their products chemicals that could harm human health or the environment. Understanding the motivations behind—and barriers … to—these actions could inform efforts to modernize US chemicals policies in ways that promote effective chemical …
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Why negotiate a legally binding mercury convention?
Andresen, Steinar; Rosendal, Kristin; Skjærseth, Jon - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 13 (2013) 4, pp. 425-440
The purpose of this paper is to explain how and why consensus was reached on a legally binding approach given the opposition of powerful actors. Why did the United States and key emerging economies change their positions? We apply tools from the regime formation literature—classical...
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Production, properties and catalytic hydrogenation of furfural to fuel additives and value-added chemicals
Yan, Kai; Wu, Guosheng; Lafleur, Todd; Jarvis, Cody - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38 (2014) C, pp. 663-676
and value-added chemicals. These include 2-methylfuran and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran, furfuryl alcohol, tetrahydrofurfuryl … production routes started from furfural to various fuel additives and chemicals are critically reviewed, and the current … furfural in industrial and laboratory sector for the production of fuel additives and value-added chemicals. …
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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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Crop Chemophobia
Entine, Jon - American Enterprise Institute
This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.
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Energy and Chemicals from Native Grasses: Production, Transportation and Processing Technologies Considered in the Northern Great Plains
Tiffany, Douglas G.; Jordan, Brendan; Dietrich, Erin; … - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 2006
Production of biomass from native prairie species offers the opportunity to produce energy and chemicals while … chemicals. Yields of bio-oil, the quantities of extractable chemicals, and chemical prices drive the economics of this concept … and chemicals from native prairie grasses. …
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Wastewater Irrigation, Heavy Metals and the Profitability of Rice Cultivation – Investigating the East Calcutta Wetlands in India
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Gupta, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2012
recycle useful nutrients through the food chain, but, as there can be toxic chemicals in the wastewater, it also poses risks …
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Risk Preference and Perceptions in the Use of IPM
Hanemann, W. Michael; Farnsworth, Richard L. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 1980
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Role of supply chains in adopting product related environmental regulations : case studies of Vietnam
Michida, Etsuyo; Nabeshima, Kaoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
This paper shows some findings how product related environmental regulations, especially those that relate to management of chemical substances affect firms in Asia. Interviews were conducted for some firms in Vietnam that are part of global supply chains of electrical and electronic, furniture,...
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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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