ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES, ISSUES & EXECUTION

Environmental Labeling Issues , Policies , and Practices Worldwide

Nitrogen in Europe: Current Status of Environmental Issues, Policies and New Effective Policies to Combat Nitrogen

Ever since the industrial revolution, there has been a growing excess of nutrients and related emissions into the atmosphere (ammonia, nitrogen oxides and nitrous oxide) and into groundwater and surface water (nitrate), leading to a large range of cascading environmental impacts. Vehicular traffic, sewage and animal husbandry are the main sources of oxidized and reduced forms of Nr. This report...

Prioritized Execution of Privacy Policies

This paper addresses the issue of solving conflicts occurring in the authorization decision process among policies applicable to an access request. We propose a strategy for conflict resolution based on the evaluation of the specificity level of the elements constituting the policies. Operatively, the strategy is implemented by exploiting a well known decision making technique. Two practical ex...

Market-Based Environmental Policies

Some eighty years ago, economists first proposed the use of corrective taxes to internalize environmental and other externalities. Fifty years later, the portfolio of potential economic-incentive instruments was expanded to include quantity-based mechanisms — tradeable permits. Thus, economicincentive approaches to environmental protection are clearly not a new policy idea, and over the past tw...

Waste Reduction: Issues and Policies

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