Responding to Environmental Challenges in Alberta

Responding to the Environmental Challenge

Profile Pakistan's leather industry is one of the major foreign exchange earners for the country. About 90% of its products are exported in finished form. During 1996-97, the production of leather was about 14.3 million m and export earning amounted to US$ 642 million. There are some 600 tanneries in the formal sector and an equally large number of tanneries in the informal sector. These are co...

Role of local government in responding to environmental health challenges: a case study of Chungnam

The purpose of this study is to introduce the establishment process, policy target, and projects for "Chungnam's master plan on environmental health policy (2017-2020)" as the local government's role in addressing local environmental health challenges. We first analyzed existing studies and social issues on the media related to "Chungnam's master plan" to understand Chungnam's environmental hea...

Responding to environmental issues: lessons learned.

'We, as a scienti/ic cornznity, s.hon/ld responsibly addrdess new scientific issutes by zeroing i ni on the highest priority needs with strategies that are in proportioni to the size oJthe problens. Committing resources to one project often means another issue will go unattended. The potential impact on human health and environmental quality can be significant. Admittedly, research career goals...

Project Rescue: Challenges in Responding to the Unexpected

This paper provides an overview of Project RESCUE, which aims to enhance the mitigation capabilities of first responders in the event of a crisis by dramatically transforming their ability to collect, store, analyze, interpret, share and disseminate data. The multidisciplinary research agenda incorporates a variety of information technologies: networks; distributed systems; databases; image and...

Responding to Communication Challenges in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science