Over the last ten years the environmental concerns associated with the military activities have increased due to legislation pressure and an increasing awareness to the environmental issues. Such situation has leaded the defence industry and the Armed Forces to seek for a tool to evaluate the environmental burdens associated with ammunitions. Some methodologies have been applied to evaluate the...

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Smoking in public places is a hot debate presently in Europe. A number of legislative bodies in Europe have already made policy decisions on the issue of smoking in public places. Scientific evidence relating to this debate has been reported in a diverse range of publications such as BMJ, Indoor air and the BSJ. On inspection much of the reporting concludes negatively on the performance of vent...

The research for this paper was undertaken as part of a project on The Financial Implications of Environmental Legislation funded by the ESRC (L320253226), for which support we are very grateful. We are grateful to our collaborators on this project-especially Tim Jewell and George McKenzie-for useful discussions, which contributed to our thinking on this paper. An earlier version was presented ...

One of the most important causes of environmental pollution is certainly an inadequate waste management. The three factors that have primarily influenced this problem area are: ever increasing amount of municipal solid waste (which causes increasingly pronounced space occupation), increasing amount and types of hazardous waste, as well as lack of awareness on the importance of acting promptly i...