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Eco-Efficiency: A New Challenge for Romanian SMEs
Oncioiu, Ionica; Pocora, Mihail-Silviu - In: EuroEconomica (2011) 30, pp. 38-43
The eco-efficiency concept makes reference to the process that looks for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of the managerial activity and minimizing their impact on the environment.Traditionally it has been thought alone in the negative effects on the costs of being responsible with...
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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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Evaluation of the vulnerability to contamination of drinking water systems for rural regions in Quebec, Canada
Cool, Genevieve; Rodriguez, Manuel; Bouchard, Christian; … - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53 (2010) 5, pp. 615-638
contamination, in particular in rural regions used intensively for agriculture. To do so, various indicators were developed to …: source susceptibility to contamination; water treatment efficiency; distribution system management; and, overall management …
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Geostatistical Assessment of Groundwater Nitrate Contamination with Reflection on DRASTIC Vulnerability Assessment: The Case of the Upper Litani Basin, Lebanon
Assaf, H.; Saadeh, M. - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 4, pp. 775-796
contamination by pesticides and fertilizers, urban sewage and industrial waste. These circumstances are particularly true of the … periods. The results of analysis include maps of nitrate contamination and probability of exceedance of drinking-water nitrate … regulatory limit. The results indicate a significant, widespread and persistent nitrates contamination of groundwater in the ULB …
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Managing Surface Water Contamination in Nagoya, Japan: An Integrated Water Basin Management Decision Framework
Hartmann, Jens; Levy, Jason; Okada, Norio - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 3, pp. 411-430
involve (a) determining possible threats to surface waters; (b) identifying surface waters most at risk to contamination; (c … managing surface water contamination in Nagoya, Japan. Participatory surface water management is emphasized in order to achieve …
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Protection of Borehole Water Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa using Minimum Safe Distances and Zonal Protection
Rajkumar, Yasmin; Xu, Yongxin - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 13, pp. 3413-3425
In Africa, groundwater plays an increasingly important role as a source of potable water, more so in rural communities where the cost implication of routing surface water supplies may far exceed the budgets of local water service authorities. Protection of groundwater resources requires good...
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Heavy Metal Contamination and Physicochemical Characteristics of Soils from Automobile Workshops in Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria
OSAKWE, Stephen Anapuwa - In: International Journal of Natural Sciences Research 2 (2014) 4, pp. 48-58
>Mn>Zn>Cu. The Relative Pollution Potential and contamination/Pollution Index values revealed that the soils were slightly … contaminated by heavy metals. Although the present level of heavy metal contamination of the soils does not call for any alarm …
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On monitoring process variability under double sampling scheme
Ahmad, Shabbir; Riaz, Muhammad; Abbasi, Saddam Akber; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 142 (2013) 2, pp. 388-400
The presence of variation in all manufacturing and measurement processes is a natural phenomenon and is the key factor which affects the performance of all types of processes. A better understanding of the causes of variability in any processes is necessary to improve the process. For an...
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Robust fitting of a Weibull model with optional censoring
Yang, Jingjing; Scott, David W. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 67 (2013) C, pp. 149-161
criterion and the new Weibull model also happens for right-censored data with contamination. …
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The distribution of realized variances: Marginal behaviors, asymmetric dependence and contagion effects
Ané, Thierry; Métais, Carole - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
assess the direction of greater contamination among stock market variances. …
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