The article deals with conceptual questions of the role and place that international standards advocacy take in system sources Russia. author, relying on decisions Plenum Supreme Court Russian Federation, points out priority importance rules matters legal regulation proceedings. Considering a significant array documents adopted within framework organizations, including Council Europe, author si...

Worldwide tobacco smoking kills nearly 6 million people each year, including more than 600,000 non-smokers who die from smoke exposure. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS, also called secondhand smoke, involuntary smoke, or passive smoke) is the combination of sidestream smoke, the smoke given off by a burning tobacco product and mainstream smoke, the smoke exhaled by smokers. People may be expos...

Around the world there is an increasing tend to introduce regulations concerning the environmental impact of products. In the automotive industry legislation has concentrated on exhaust emissions. Initially on-highway applications were regulated, but now attention has spread to include off-highway vehicles. This paper examines the impact of legislation on diesel engine manufacturers. They have ...

This paper provides a concise insight into the application of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures for future Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects. Main environmental impacts allocated to the three parts of a CCS chain (capture of CO2 from power plants, transport through pipelines and onshore geological storage) are identified by reviewing analogue EIA’s. Furthermore, bottlenec...

earlier, environmental problems have been considered as technical and economic problems. in the last decades of the twentieth century the societal dimensions of environmental problems and environmental issues attracted more public attention. as a result of this circumstances a new social scientific discipline, “environmental sociology” was appeared to investigate the environmental behavior ...

the relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment has been the subject of a growing body of literature in recent years. as can be seen from the differing assessment of instrument types for environmental protection, one of the important factors for the relationship between environmental protection and economic competitiveness are regulatory stringency and efficiency. this concern...