SOCIAL ISSUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS: AN ASSESSMENT

A new multi-objective mathematical model for hazardous waste management considering social and environmental issues

Hazardous waste management incorporates collection, separation, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous wastes. In this paper, a new multi-objective mixed integer model is presented for hazardous waste collection problem. The model aims to minimize transportation and construction costs, and environmental and population risks in hazardous waste management systems. This model is applied in...

Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues

agency biological determinism biomedicine/biomedical model Cartesian dualism class (or social class) epidemiology/social epidemiology eugenics lifestyle choices/factors new public health public health/public health infrastructure reductionism social construction/ constructionism social Darwinism social institutions social model of health social structure sociological imagination state structure...

Social Responsibility and Environmental Issues Addressed by Businesses in Romania

This article aims to analyze the situation of Romanian companies from an environmental point of view. Environmental issues are addressed very often nowadays, and they reach and affect every domain, including the economical one. Implementing an environmental management system will not only help the companies to comply with laws and regulations, but, above all, will offer them an important compet...

On "Quality" in Translation Studies: issues and Problems

Economic, Social and Environmental Assessment of Electricity Generation from Renewable and Gas Technologies

Growing demand for electricity and the reduction of fossil fuels have made it essential to consider alternative and renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, to generate electricity. In this paper, by computing levelized output energy cost and levelized cost of electricity, the prices of electricity generated from the different combined cycle, wind, and photovoltaic power plants are com...