Challenges and pitfalls in analyzing, reporting, and interpreting health effects related to occupational and environmental exposures [PDF]
Occupational and environmental epidemiology play a vital role in efforts to reduce preventable forms of disease and premature mortality worldwide by evaluating disease risk in relation to exposure sources, routes, and levels in a variety of industrial ...
Glinda S. Cooper +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
A framework for integrated environmental health impact assessment of systemic risks
Traditional methods of risk assessment have provided good service in support of policy, mainly in relation to standard setting and regulation of hazardous chemicals or practices.
Briggs David J
doaj +3 more sources
A case for systemic environmental analysis of cultured meat
The environmental implications of cultured meat are profound. An anticipatory life cycle assessment of cultured meat published in 2011 suggested it could have a smaller impact than agricultural meat in all categories except energy consumption.
Carolyn S Mattick +2 more
doaj +3 more sources
SYSTEMIC ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT [PDF]
exaly +2 more sources
Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction: new perspectives for restoration economy, and development: the Belo Monte Power Plant case study [PDF]
The Environmental Impact Assessment of reservoir construction can be viewed as a new strategic perspective for the economic development of a region. Based on the principles of a watershed approach a interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary systemic view ...
JG. Tundisi +2 more
doaj +3 more sources
Assessing the Visualization-Based Decision Support System for Environmental Impact Assessments [PDF]
Even though environmental impact assessments (EIAs) have been an important tool for environmental decision-making, most EIAs are published as a mix of text and tabular data that is not easily accessible to or understandable for the public. In this paper, we present a decision support system (DSS) that supports the decision-making of stakeholders in the
Seo-young Lee +5 more
openaire +2 more sources
A prototype Earth system impact metric that accounts for cross-scale interactions
Human activities are disrupting the Earth system’s biophysical processes, which underlie human wellbeing. The planetary boundary framework sets ‘safe’ global limits on these pressures, but a sub-global assessment of these pressures, their interactions ...
Steven J Lade +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Environmental issues such as environmental pollutions and climate change are the impacts of globalization and become debatable issues among academics and industry key players.
En Xin Neo +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Assessing the impact of environmental management systems on corporate and environmental performance
Abstract The interests of companies have increased to reduce or remove the waste produced during the manufacture, usage and/or disposal of the goods of the company. The necessity for such activities has been prioritised, while current research attempts to uncover the components which promote or dissuade such actions.
D Ushakov, E Goryunova, Kh Shatila
openaire +1 more source
Epigenetic profiling to environmental stressors in model and non-model organisms: Ecotoxicology perspective [PDF]
Epigenetics, potentially heritable changes in genome function that occur without alterations to DNA sequence, is an important but understudied component of ecotoxicology studies.
Nivedita Chatterjee +2 more
doaj +1 more source

