- Society merges technology and ecology
A new association, the International Society of Industrial Ecology (ISIS), has been established to promote industrial ecology as a way of finding innovative solutions to complicated environmental problems and to facilitate communication among scientists, engineers, policy makers, managers, and others who are interested in how environmental concerns and economic activities ......
- UKEN Policy Checklist - Environmental Impact
Assessments.
Environmental Impact Assessment regulations were amended in 1999 to incorporate the EU Directive of 1997. Projects with a Schedule One classification are obliged to have an EIA. Schedule 2 projects may require an EIA where there may be "significant" environmental impacts and guidance sets out the criteria which will need ......
- Education; Social & Behavioral Sciences 2:00 pm
Saturday, April 6, 2002 Battelle Hall 212 Kenneth A.
LaSota-Presiding.
2:00 ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC COURSES COMMON TO UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAMS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Kenneth A. LaSota, lasota@robert-monis.edu and Daniel Short, short@robert-morris.edu Robert Morris College, Dept of Natural Sciences, 600 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15219-3099. In developing an undergraduate degree in environmental sciences, Robert Morris College surveyed 45 academic institutions ......
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOLOGICAL
ECONOMICS.
HISTORICAL ROOTS AND MOTIVATIONS Ecology and economics have developed as separate disciplines throughout their recent histories in the 20th century. While each has addressed the way in which living systems self-organize to enable individuals and communities to meet their goals, and while each has borrowed theoretical concepts from the other ......
- Addressing environmental issues
HEADNOTE In this age it is said that companies will not be able to continue in business during the 21st century unless they pursue both ecology and economy. The perspective of sustainable growth has become indispensable to business activities, and consequently the fiber industry has begun to create environmental management ......
- Sustainable housing -- the legal
context.
In the concluding part of his article on the legal context for building more sustainable new housing, Paul Winter looks at environmental assessment, planning obligations, and the Building Regulations Part II: Environmental assessment, planning obligations, and the Building Regulations The first part of this article, published in the January issue ......
- Green advertising: salvation or
oxymoron?
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the nature of green advertising, thus demonstrating that the concept is far more complex than the extant marketing literature suggests. Green is characterized here as a two d dimensional concept with political (reformism to radicalism) and human positional (Anthopocentric to ecocentric) dimensions....