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AbstractThis article will discuss in some detail how prescribed command‐and‐control pollution abatement and economic growth must work together rather than in opposition. How a balanced environment can and must tolerate acceptable levels of pollution and how economic growth from added value pollution prevention in unity with pollution control technology can and does work.© 1999 John Wiley&Sons,

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080302

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractSustainable development poses challenges and opportunities to the development and management of business and technological systems. Most significantly, sustainability moves beyond meeting an economic and environmental bottom line to a triple bottom line of integrated economic, environmental, and social factors. Over 30 years there has been a paradigm shift that has led to the greening of industrial practices with regards to the environment. As evidence continues to demonstrate linkages between environmental causes and effects, problem‐solving techniques have been developed to meet both economic and environmental goals along with metrics to measure environmental performance. Today, sustainable development presents another paradigm shift and adds social considerations as a third element to the bottom line. This article describes the evolution from greening to sustaining and outlines the implication of developing metrics in the sustainable development context.© 1999 John Wiley&Sons, I

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080303

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractWhen New Jersey's Office of Sustainability was originally established in 1997, it was at first quizzically referred to as the “Office of What?” Now, good people, high purpose, and new name (Sustainable Business Division of the Commerce Commission) have steadily gained respect as skeptics reflected on what the term sustainability can mean to life on earth as we know it in New Jersey and elsewhere. Current rates of growth in population, industrial production, consumerism, and environmental degradation cannot be supported indefinitely by Earth's finite carrying capacity. New ways of thinking, working, and living will be required to change our course of unsustainable human activity both locally and globally. Such a transformation is achievable only through major changes in education. This article contends that the rate, content, and scope of learning required to take a sustainable path in America are not happening. Some ideas for what needs to be done are suggested.© 1999 John Wiley&Sons,

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080304

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis article outlines some of the rationale for integrating environment and sustainablility issues into core business practises and provides some guidance on how companies can begin to take a strategic view when selecting environmental management tools. Two of these tools, life cycle management and eco‐efficiency, are outlined in brief.© 1999 Five Wind International. Reprinted with permission by John Wiley&Sons, I

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080305

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 provides the basic national charter for protection of the environment in the United States. Today NEPA provides an environmental policy model, emulated by nations around the world. Recently, questions have been raised regarding the appropriateness and under what conditions it makes sense to combine the preparation of a NEPA analysis with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 14000 standards for Life‐Cycle Assessment (LCA). This article advances a decision‐making tool consisting of six discrete factors for use in determining when it is appropriate to perform an integrated NEPA/LCA analysis. Properly applied, this tool should reduce the risk that an LCA may be inappropriately prepared and integrated with a NEPA analysis.© 1999 John Wiley&Sons,

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080306

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractMany environmental and facility managers view the submittal and public availability of their facilities' risk management plans (RMPs) as discrete events and give little thought about how RMP information may influence their future relations with plant communities and other stakeholders. In fact, the public availability of RMPs will have some significant and lasting consequences that have the potential to alter RMP sources' relations with a wide variety of stakeholders.This article is the first of two installments that will explore some of the likely outcomes of the risk management program, with a particular emphasis on those consequences tied to the public availability of the RMPs themselves. This installment considers likely responses at the community level and from both national and local environmental advocacy groups. The second installment will look at likely responses to RMP information in land use planning, by the financial services sector, by regulatory agencies, and by the senior management of RMP sources' owners and operators.Although the responses of individual communities to RMPs will be governed by a number of variables, including the nature of existing relations with individual RMP sources, proximity (or perceived proximity) of residences or other public and environmental receptors to RMP sources, and stakeholders' attitudes toward chemicals and chemical use, there are certain potential responses that managers should look for in their communities. These RMP‐driven responses and expectations are discussed in the first installment of this article.© 1999 John Wiley&Sons, I

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080307

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractAt best, the future of alternative and renewable energy remains uncertain. Our dependency on fossil fuels is already depleting world supplies of coal and petroleum while increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Most assuredly, the ability of alternative energy, described in this article as biomass, hydrogen, wind, solar, and geothermal power, to compete and even integrate with fossil fuels will depend on several important variables: First, developing, as well as developed, countries must be willing to direct long‐term public and private funding towards innovative energy technologies by increasing research and promoting public education. Secondly, the “bottom line” economics associated with alternative energy technology must clearly show a positive cost/benefit ratio. Revenues and not deficits are paramount to the sustainability of alternative energy. Lastly, many experts argue for the environmental benefits of alternative energy by way of carbon reductions. The 1997 Kyoto Global Warming Treaty requires the United States in particular to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning by 7 percent below 1990 levels. While many experts argue that reactions to global warming and the alternative energy benefits anticipated because of them are fiscally irresponsible and not worth the billions of tax dollars intended, we can be assured that a business‐as‐usual attitude will continue without increased government and public support.© 1999 John Wiley

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080308

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractEnvironmental Information Services, Inc. (EIS) publishes detailed reports and offers custom research related to the full spectrum of environmental issues facing corporations. This article highlights several key sections from EIS's new 1998 Electrical Equipment Industry Report. It details the environmental performance, policies, and expenditures of the largest companies in the electrical equipment industry. EIS industry reports contain data on five key performance criteria—toxic waste management, hazardous waste generation, penalties and enforcement actions, and spills. Here we examine one of those—penalties and enforcement actions—and the policies of the largest comp

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080309

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080310

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1088-1913    

DOI:10.1002/tqem.3310080301

出版商:Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company    

年代:1999

数据来源: WILEY