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Avoiding Pollution Penalties: Risk Management is the Key

In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 91 (1991) 5, pp. 17-18

underwriting of pollution disasters in the light of the swingeing payments doled out in the past. They will now demand the highest … which could have obviated the demise of companies in the past. Penalties for corporate pollution of the environment will be …

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TQM and Environmental Excellence in Manufacturing

Klassen, R.D.; McLaughlin, C.P. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 93 (1993) 6, pp. 14-22

Recent public policy trends and new consumer demands are redirecting the attention of management outside the traditional focus of customers, suppliers and internal operations. However, little research has focused on the perspective that operations management and the growing body of literature on...

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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights: An International River Pollution Model

Laan, Gerard van der; Moes, Nigel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …

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Dynamics of China's Regional Development and Pollution

Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Withagen, Cees A.; Minliang, Zhou - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute … emissions tends to decelerate, but accelerates again at high levels of GDP per capita.Water pollution decreases with per capita …

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БИОГЕОЦЕНОТИЧЕСКИЙ УРОВЕНЬ ЭКОТОКСИКОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ЭФФЕКТОВ В СООБЩЕСТВАХ ЖИВЫХ ОРГАНИЗМОВ САРАТОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ...

ВИКТОРОВИЧ, ЛАРИОНОВ МАКСИМ; … - In: Вестник Волгоградского … (2009) 3, pp. 238-243

В статье приведены результаты исследований о степени антропогенной модификации природных и рукотворных экосистем, об упрощении образа жизни и деградации...

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ПОДЗЕМНЫЕ ВОДЫ ОРЛОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ И ПРОГНОЗ ИХ ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЯ В РАЙОНЕ ЖИВОТНОВОДЧЕСКИХ КОМПЛЕКСОВ

СЕЛЕЗНЕВ К.А.; ЛЫСЕНКО Н.Н.; … - In: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 2 (2012) 3, pp. 21-28

В регионах с интенсивной хозяйственной деятельностью отмечается значительное многообразие форм техногенного нарушения экологического равновесия в...

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What is the Role of Openness for China's Environment? An Analysis Based on Divisia Decomposition Method From the Regional Angle

He, Jie - HAL - 2011

Observing the weakness in the previous structural analyses on EKC formation, in this paper, author deepens the analysis into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China's 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the total industrial production) in each province during...

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Waste - A Major Contemporary World Problem

Duma, Sigismund - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 1 (2009) 2, pp. 84-103

Waste, as an agent of altering and contaminating the environment, jeopardizes human health and transforms the natural environment into a desolate wasteland; it has negative and discomfiting effects onto the human psyche, also. As such, waste management stands as an indicator of lifestyle quality...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Primer

Stern, David I. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation and income per capita. As economies get richer environmental impacts first rise but eventually fall. In reality, though some types of environmental degradation have been...

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ECO-URBANIZATION: A PRIORITARY PROBLEM IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

DOCIU, Madalina; DUNARINTU, Anca; CALIN, Ana-Maria - In: Proceedings of Administration and Public Management … 7 (2011) 1, pp. 457-463

, reduction of social inequity and global pollution. The negative impact on the environment in urban spaces surpasses their …

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