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The environmental impacts of anesthesia
Current Opinion in UrologyPurpose of review The healthcare sector has a substantial environmental footprint, and the delivery of anesthesia contributes significantly. Inhaled anesthetics themselves are potent greenhouse gases, unused intravenous medication exert toxic effects on the environment, and the increasing reliance on single-use devices has led ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment
Impact Assessment, 19821 National Environmental Policy Act and Its Implementation2 Planning and Management of Impact Studies3 Simple Methods for Impact Identification Matrices, Networks and Checklists4 Description of Environmental Setting5 Environmental Indices and Indicators for Describing the Affected Environment6 Prediction and Assessment of Impacts on the Air ...
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Environmental impacts of tourism
2003The environment is made up of both natural and human features. Human settlements set in the countryside may contain a large number of attractions for tourists. Often the natural environment is referred to as the physical environment. The natural or physical environment includes the landscape, particular features such as rivers, rock outcrops, beaches ...
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Environmental impact of biomethanogenesis
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1996The environmental impact of biomethanogenesis is related to its ecological role, accumulation and effect as a greenhouse gas, and application in anaerobic digestion for conversion of biomass and wastes to methane and compost. Biological formation of methane is the process by which bacteria decompose organic matter using carbon dioxide as an electron ...
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Transgenerational Impact of Environmental Change
2019The ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions is critical for any species to survive. Many environmental changes occur too rapidly for an organism's genome to adapt in time. Accordingly, being able to modify either its own phenotype or the phenotype of its offspring to better suit future anticipated environmental conditions could afford an ...
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Environmental Impact and Environmental Values
2020This chapter completes coverage of environmental risks begun in Chap. 6, which emphasized both the philosophical rationale for expected-value risk analysis, along with weaknesses in the way that approach has been applied to agrifood gene technology. This chapter discusses ethical objections to expected value analysis and takes up classical questions in
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Lubricants and their environmental impact
1992Environmental considerations have increased in importance in the last two decades and lubricants are part of that. The REACH Regulations apply to the components of lubricants. About 50% of a lubricant can be reclaimed using refining processes ranging from acid/clay treatment through to distillation/hydrogenation to produce up to Gp.
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The Impact of Economics on Environmental Policy
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999Environmental economists have seen their ideas translated into the rough-and-tumble policy world for over two decades. They have witnessed the application of economic instruments to several environmental issues, including preserving wetlands, lowering lead levels, and curbing acid rain.
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Xenoendocrine disrupters — Environmental impacts
Toxicology Letters, 1998There is now unequivocal evidence that a wide variety of chemicals capable of disrupting the endocrine system are present in the aquatic environment. These range from natural (e.g. 17beta-oestradiol) and synthetic (e.g. ethinyl oestradiol) oestrogens through to industrial chemicals that can mimic endogenous hormones (e.g. nonylphenol, some pesticides).
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The potential of emerging bio-based products to reduce environmental impacts
Nature Communications, 2023Carla Caldeira +2 more
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