Download or read book Geoscience for the Public Good and Global Development written by Gregory R. Wessel and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers overview of applications of geosciences to sustainable development and geophilanthropic efforts worldwide, and offers advice to guide creation of development projects. Primacy of geologic input to all development activities is highlighted along with problems that are encountered and environmental issues that must be addressed" --

Download or read book Environmental Accounting and Reporting written by Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria. It also describes the institutional environment, which affects the development and application of environmental accounting and reporting, as a basis for evaluating current achievements and the future steps that need to be taken to develop and spread environmental accounting. The book is unique in presenting exemplary cases from different emerging and developed countries. It is a valuable resource for theorists in the field, practitioners in companies, as well as investors and other stakeholders. Moreover, it provides students with the necessary theoretical constructs, empirical studies as well as practical and managerial tools to allow for a quick orientation in the methodology, techniques and selected practices used in environmental accounting and reporting.

Download or read book Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management written by Steven Sadhra and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to integrate all aspects of workplace risk assessment and management, now the overriding emphasis in occupational health. Topics include: basic concepts and developments; toxic hazards; hazard characteristics and identification; setting standards; requirements of monitoring workplace exposure; contaminants; exposure modeling; risk perception and management; prevention and control; economics; emergency response; health surveillance; auditing; compliance; pesticides, chemicals, carcinogens, biological agents, and radiation; equipment screening; manual handling; stress; and workplace violence.

Download or read book Pathways to Environmental Sustainability written by Roberta Salomone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, in a single volume, an overview of multiple applications of the concept of environmental sustainability, featuring examples of useful methodologies and tools for pursuing environmental targets, experiences and case studies spanning a variety of sectors, embracing both industry and research projects; and case studies applied to very different territorial contexts. The first section of the book covers methodologies and tools for environmental sustainability, including Industrial Ecology, Urban Metabolism, Life Cycle Assessment, analysis of industrial water footprint and such chemical technologies as Hypercritical Separation Technology (HYST). Part Two provides case studies of environmental sustainability in specific industrial sectors including electronics, pharmaceutical manufacturing, bio-energy, agriculture, food and residential construction retrofitting. Part Three explores experiences of environmental sustainability in territorial contexts on a local, regional or national scale. This section includes chapters on sustainability in the Republic of San Marino, the European “Covenant of Mayors” urban sustainability initiative and efforts to promote sustainability in Italy, Norway and Poland among others. The book concludes with a discussion of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in Objective I regions of Italy. Featuring the contributions of academics, managers operating in various productive sectors and consultants, the book aims to promote the growth and spread of scientific research and technological development for environmental sustainability.

Download or read book Environmental Accounting in Theory and Practice written by K. Uno and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy failures in environment and development have been blamed on frag mented and eclectic policies and strategies. The 1992 United Nations Con ference on Environment and Development, the 'Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro, called therefore for an integrated approach in planning and policy making to achieve long-term sustainable growth and development. The Con ference also recognized in its action plan, the Agenda 21, that integrated poli cies need to be supported by integrated information, notably requiring the implementation of integrated environmental and economic accounting by its member States. During the preparations for the Rio Summit, scientists and practitioners of national accounting met in a Special Conference on Environmental Account ing, organized by the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Baden, Austria. Their aim was to explore the need for and methodologies of adjusting national accounts for environmental reasons. National accountants had faced mounting criticism that conventional accounting neglected new scarcities in natural capital, as well as the social cost of environmental degradation. The result of their deliberations was a draft manual, later issued by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) as a handbook of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.

Download or read book Integrated Reporting written by Samuel O. Idowu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the implementation and adoption of integrated reporting (IR) in organizations and corporations. A relatively new area of policy and practice, IR has rapidly gained considerable prominence since the formation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee in 2010. The book analyzes the outcomes and benefits as well as the shortfalls of integrated reporting. It offers an introduction to the foundations of IR and a comprehensive overview of its use through a number of detailed case studies. Lastly, it discusses the outlook for further developments in sustainability accounting and reporting.

Download or read book Le nuove norme sui Sistemi di Gestione per Qualit UNI EN ISO 9001 2015 e Gestione Ambientale UNI EN ISO 14001 2015 written by Luca Pavletic and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2017-10-24T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100.854

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Download or read book Sustainable Modernity written by Nina Witoszek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary sense: though by no means following the same socio-economic formula, they are all cases of a "non-hubristic", socially sustainable modernity that puzzles outside observers. Using Nordic welfare states as its laboratory, Sustainable Modernity combines evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives to illuminate the mainsprings of what the authors call the "well-being society". The main contention is that the Nordic uniqueness is not merely the outcome of one particular set of historical institutional or political arrangements, or sheer historical luck; rather, the high welfare creation inherent in the Nordic model has been predicated on a long and durable tradition of social cooperation, which has interacted with global competitive forces. Hence the socially sustainable Nordic modernity should be approached as an integrated and tightly orchestrated ecosystem based on a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies within and across several domains: normative-cultural, socio-political and redistributive. The key question is: Can the Nordic countries uphold the balance of competition and cooperation and reproduce their resilience in the age of globalization, cultural collisions, the digital economy, the fragmentation of the work/life division, and often intrusive EU regulation? With contributors providing insights from the humanities, the social sciences and evolutionary science, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, institutional economics, Nordic studies and human evolution studies.

Download or read book La conduzione degli audit Guida operativa agli audit sui sistemi di gestione qualit ambiente sicurezza ed etico sociale e sui modelli organizzativi previsti dal D Lgs 231 written by Andrea Chiarini and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2016-06-13T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100.649

Download or read book La Prevenzione quale fulcro del Sistema di Gestione Integrato written by Lorenzo Cristaudo and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'opera si rivolge a quelle Organizzazioni che, nell'ottica di promuovere l'efficienza del proprio sistema gestionale, vogliano dotarsi di un Sistema Integrato Qualità, Ambiente e Sicurezza sul Lavoro, dimostrando la compatibilità dei tre sistemi e focalizzando l'attenzione sulla componente di Prevenzione del rischio, quale matrice dell'approccio sistemico. In particolare si propone come una guida per le Organizzazioni che vogliano applicare alla propria un Sistema di Gestione Integrato Qualità, Ambiente e Sicurezza secondo standard internazionali (la UNI EN ISO 9001:2000, la UNI EN ISO 14001:2000 e la BS OHSAS 18001:1999).

Download or read book Guida allo sviluppo dei sistemi di gestione ambientale Norma ISO 14001 written by Vito D'Incognito and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book UNI EN ISO 9001 2015 Linea guida operativa written by Gianluca Di Girolamo and published by Edizioni del Faro. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il manuale traccia una panoramica dei requisiti proposti dalla norma ISO 9001:2015, ormai lo standard di riferimento a livello internazionale per la gestione della qualità nelle organizzazioni. La norma propone una visione evoluta della gestione manageriale, introducendo concetti inediti. Il libro percorre tutte le tappe che la ISO 9001 contempla, a partire dall’impostazione della struttura innovativa che segue lo schema HLS (High Level Structure), passando per l’analisi del contesto, la valutazione delle esigenze degli stakeholder, la pianificazione attraverso la valutazione dei rischi e delle opportunità, sino ad arrivare alle modalità per valutare le prestazioni del sistema al fine di migliorarlo. La linea guida si basa sull’esperienza diretta dell’autore che, avendo acquisito le competenze sul campo, riesce a sottolineare con semplicità ed efficacia le direttive e i requisiti più appropriati e necessari all’ottimizzazione dell’organizzazione aziendale. La trattazione è stata volutamente semplificata per consentire a tutti di conoscere al meglio le novità introdotte, che andranno a regolare nei prossimi anni l’architettura organizzativa dei sistemi di gestione per la qualità.