نتایج جستجو برای: environmental pollution reduction
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BACKGROUND Environmental air pollution is associated with a higher incidence of respiratory diseases, absenteeism and costs. AIM To model the health related economic benefits associated to a reduction in air pollution and the resulting lower prevalence of respiratory diseases, in a Chilean city. MATERIAL AND METHODS A time series model for year 2006 was elaborated. The dependent variable wa...
Water quality is a major environmental issue. Pollution from nonpoint sources is the single largest remaining source of water quality impairments in the United States. Agriculture is a major source of several nonpoint-source pollutants, including nutrients, sediment, pesticides, and salts. Agricultural nonpoint pollution reduction policies can be designed to induce producers to change their pro...
This paper analyses the decision to invest to reduce the emissions of a stock pollutant under environmental uncertainty. It shows that this decision depends on the type and level of uncertainty. When uncertainty is small, there is no simple irreversibility effect because of the tension between environmental irreversibility (the stock of pollutant causes costly long-term social damages), and inv...
Telecommuting is defined as the substitution of journeys to work by working from alternative locations using information technologies and telecommunications. Telecommuting is often stated as a solution for transport demand management and increase of quality of life. In term of environment, telecommuting can reduce gas emissions, traffic accidents, noise and traffic jams. This paper analyses pos...
Extraction and transportation of oil in the Sea are one of the pollution sources in the Seawater. Caspian Sea contains about 100000 million barrels of oil. It also contains over 35000 millions cubic meter of flue gas. Daily extractions of crude oil and gas and transportation of them are the main pollution sources of the Caspian Sea. Many truck to carry goods and oil tankers to carry oil from po...
Since the late eighties pollution prevention or waste minimization has become a concept which is extensively used to influence the behavior of companies towards a more environmentally friendly direction. Environmental policy previously used to lead mainly to end-of-pipe solutions. Pollution prevention (policies) on the other hand aims at minimizing waste and emissions by reduction at the source...
objective: the world is currently facing with various problems including water and soil pollution as well as a major threat to the health of the citizens due to the advancement at human civilization, technology development, pesticides and chemical fertilizers application, the increasing exploitation of natural resources by the agricultural sector and the increasing usage of fossil energy. there...
Several comprehensive publications have been issued recently on the environmental pollution of past times (e.g. Tylecote, 1976; Nriagu, 1983a; Brimblecombe, 1987a; Goldstein, 1988; Healy, 1988; Brimblecombe and Pfister, 1990; Hughes, 1993; Markham, 1994; Brimblecombe, 1995; Karatzas, 2000, 2001; McNeill, 2001; Mészáros, 2001). The aim of this study is to give an overview of information on the s...
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