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Environmental technology foresight: New horizons for technology management

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1996
Decision-making in corporate technology management and government technology policy is increasingly influenced by the environmental impact of technologies. Technology foresight (TF) and environmental impact assessment (EIA) are analyzed with regard to the roles they can play in developing long-term strategies and policies for reducing the environmental
Den Hond, Frank, Groenewegen, Peter
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Technological Change and Environmental Policy: The Diffusion of Environmental Technology

Growth and Change, 1997
ABSTRACTAs concern for environmental protection is growing within all sectors of society, industrial firms are being forced to become more accountable for their actions. Government policies, in the form of environmental standards, have been designed to reduce the level of toxic pollutants being discharged by firms.
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Environmental Technologies and Their Business Drivers

2013
This chapter focuses on the economic and social drivers that influence that decision process in Europe. Different technologies and processes will be categorised according to the type of environmental burden they reduce at different stages of the product life-cycle.
Andrew Baynes, Christian Ridder, Lutz-Günther Scheidt   +2 more
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Environmental audits, clean technologies and environmental protection in Denmark

European Environment, 1993
AbstractEnvironmental auditing has a key role to play in the diffusion of cleaner technologies. However, it is vital that clean technologies and environmental audits are applicable in the small and medium sized companies that form the basis of many economies.
Christensen, Per, Nielsen, Eskild Holm
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Environmental Hazards in the Technological Age

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 1995
The proliferation of technology in critical care has intensified the potential for illness or injury due to physical hazards, which are hazards associated with the transfer of energy from the environment to a person. These are generated most commonly by machines or medical devices.
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Environmentalism and Technology [PDF]

, 2006
The environment movement often targets technology. It switches between enthusiasm for some technologies (like wind energy) and resistance to others (like nuclear power). And yet theory regarding the way social movements engage with technology is little developed.
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Combined technology in ecobiotechnological and environmental technologies

2023
The monograph outlines the theoretical foundations of the cultivation of microorganisms and the most common ecobiotechnological technologies, including biological water purification, biotechnology of soil and air purification, as well as aerobic and anaerobic treatment of sewage sludge and waste.
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Appropriate technologies for environmental hygiene

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences, 1980
Abstract Appropriate technologies for environmental hygiene usually centre on the delivery of adequate and accessible water supply, and proper treat­ment and disposal of excreta and refuse. In the face of the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade of 1981-90, several research efforts are under way in the developing ...
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Environmental technological innovation and diffusion

2001
Top European and American scholars contribute to this cutting-edge volume on little-researched areas of environmental and resource economics. Topics include spatial economics, poverty and development, experimental economics, large-scale risk and its management, organizational economics, technological innovation and diffusion and many more.
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Training for environmental technologies and environmental management

Journal of Cleaner Production, 1995
Abstract During the past five to ten years, increased public and government attention has been drawn to the harmful effects on the environment of business and industry. Consequently, legislation and encouragement in the form of incentives have acted to pressurize industry to review its practices and processes in connection with their effects on the ...
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