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Automating Sustainability: How Climate Action Unlocks the ESG Potential of Industrial Robotics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of Industry 4.0 and global sustainability goals presents a critical paradox: while automation drives efficiency, its net impact on comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains contested. This study investigates the relationship between industrial robot and country‐level ESG performance across 63
Brahim Bergougui
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Acute effects of air pollutants on daily mortality and hospitalizations due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2019
Background Chiang Dao is one of the districts in Chiang Mai, Thailand facing high level of seasonal air pollution every year, the exposure of community dwellers to outdoor air pollutants 24 hours a day during seasonal smog period because of their open ...
C. Pothirat, W. Chaiwong, C. Liwsrisakun, C. Bumroongkit, Athavudh Deesomchok, Theerakorn Theerakittikul, Atikun Limsukon, P. Tajarernmuang, Nittaya Phetsuk   +8 more
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Occupational exposure sampling for engineered nanomaterials [PDF]

"NIOSH developed guidance for workplace sampling for three engineered nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes and nanofibers, silver, and titanium dioxide, each of which have an elemental mass-based NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limit (REL).

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Environmental Sustainability, Health and Social Wellbeing and Agility in Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0 Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industry 4.0 is pushing the triple bottom line toward a necessary evolution: Society 5.0. Achieving this agile future depends on environmental sustainability, health and social wellbeing (H&SW). Therefore, this study,examines how environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies operationalise the psychological, social and physical ...
Arjun Chaudhuri, Mahak Sharma, Devrim Murat Yazan   +2 more
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Australian child health and air pollution study (ACHAPS) final report [PDF]

, 2012
This report looks into the long and short term health effects of air pollution on Australian children. The study aims were to: provide an evidence base of long-term and short-term health effects of air pollutants in Australian children that will ...

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Effects of air pollution and meteorological parameters on human health in the city of Athens, Greece [PDF]

, 2010
The impact of air pollution (CO, NO, NO2, SO2, O3) and meteorological parameters (air temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure) on three indicators of human morbidity (circulatory, respiratory and skin diseases) is quantified, while the sensitivity
Doriana Delfino, Mentzakis, Emmanouil, Emmanouil Mentzakis, Delfino, Doriana   +3 more
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Mechanochemical Amidation Mediated by 1,1’‐Oxalyldiimidazole for the Synthesis of Agrochemicals

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Mechanochemical amidation using 1,1'‐oxalyldiimidazole (ODI) overcomes limitations of 1,1’‐carbonyl diimidazole (CDI) as coupling agent by enabling the efficient mechanochemical synthesis of three marketed agrochemicals from deactivated carboxylic acids.
Andrea Casagrande, Rubén Solorzano‐Rodriguez, Maria Carta, Francesco Delogu, Joris Vezzani, Allan Niidu, Evelina Colacino   +6 more
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A Social Entrepreneurship Perspective of De‐Carbonising the Footprint through Recycling Compensation: A Case Study of the NGO Madre Coraje

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research analyses the carbon footprint of the NGO Madre Coraje, using an integrated methodology that combines the calculator provided by REAS (Red de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria) Navarra and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It quantifies emissions across the three scopes of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, evaluating both direct and ...
José Fernandez‐Serrano, Juan A. Hueso, Orlando Vega‐Galeano   +2 more
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Occupational exposure of firefighters to hazardous pollutants during prescribed fires in Portugal.

Chemosphere
Firefighters perform high-risk activities and during the course of their functions are highly exposed to a wide range of occupational hazards, including air pollution.
Joana V. Barbosa, M. Alvim-Ferraz, F. G. Martins, Sofia I. V. Sousa   +3 more
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Occupational and indoor air exposure to persistent organic pollutants : a review of passive sampling techniques and needs.

, 2007
Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and related compounds such as PCBs, brominated flame retardants, organochlorine pesticides and PAHs is regarded as an important environmental risk factor for humans.
Pernilla Bohlin, Strandberg, Bo., Jones, K. C., Jones, Kevin C., Strandberg, Bo,, Bohlin, Pernilla,, Kevin C. Jones, Bohlin, Pernilla, Bo Strandberg   +8 more
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