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Libraries and environmental management
Library Management, 2006PurposeThis paper opens the debate on the contribution that libraries can, and might, make to their environment.Design/approach/methodologyAnalyses libraries' explicit commitment to environmental issues in their public statements. Suggests that they may be lagging behind major businesses. Challenges for libraries in relation to environmental management
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1988
A world with acute health problems, economic depression, war or the threat of nuclear annihilation, and high injury rates is not one where environmental issues are likely to be the focus of attention. Only when short-term health problems are under control, income is at a high level, and other immediate threats such as war are viewed as being under ...
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A world with acute health problems, economic depression, war or the threat of nuclear annihilation, and high injury rates is not one where environmental issues are likely to be the focus of attention. Only when short-term health problems are under control, income is at a high level, and other immediate threats such as war are viewed as being under ...
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Collaborative Environmental Management
2012After decades of rapid technological advancement and economic growth, alarming levels of pollution and environmental degradation are emerging globally. Due to the geographical diffusion of pollutants, the unilateral response of one nation or region is often ineffective. Reports portray the situation as an industrial civilization on the verge of suicide,
Leon A. Petrosyan +2 more
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Environmental Management of Mosquitoes
2010The concept of environmental management for mosquito control spans a broad range of measures, designed to suppress mosquito populations and the risk of disease transmission. In 1980, the WHO Expert Committee on Vector Biology and Control defined three basic categories of environmental management for vector control: Environmental modification: long ...
Marija Zgomba +6 more
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Effective Environmental Management
SPE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, 1993ABSTRACT The emergence of the new environmentalism and the resultant wave of regulation forces industry to rethink how it deals with related environmental issues. How does business account for environmental programs to ensure that society is apprised early enough to avoid catastrophic and costly over-regulation?
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Integrating environmental education and environmental management
Environmental Management and Health, 1997Shows how environmental education and environmental management, two major tools in promoting sustainable development, may be integrated. Outlines the common features of environmental education and environmental management, listing the benefits of the integration of both methodologies.
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Environmental Management in the Anthropocene
2016In the filmBeasts of the Southern Wild, the main character, Hushpuppy, lays out the dilemma of environmental management in the Anthropocene: “For the animals that didn’t have a dad to put them in the boat, the end of the world already happened.” The Anthropocene will not recede, and the central question of environmental management will be whether we ...
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Environmental Management and Strategy
2019This chapter starts by looking at waste production as the inevitable by-product of business activity. Then it examines the challenges to corporate environmental management that come from shifting public attitudes, the opposing ideological frameworks that proponents of the environmental movement advance, the limitations of economic analysis and ...
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Environmental management systems and environmental performance
2013Environmental management systems (EMSs) are tools that can be used to steer and controlan organisation’s environmental efforts. This chapter focuses on standardisedEMSs, those that deal with fulfilling the requirements of the international standard ISO14001 (ISO 1996) and/or the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) (EC 2001).These standardised ...
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