Environmental Issues

growth Do you have a road map? Do you have a road map? Proeminentes mercados existentes para a energia hídrica mundial Outstanding markets exist for hydropower worldwide Os desafios ambientais para a expansão do setor elétrico brasileiro The environmental challenges in the expansion of the Brazilian electric energy sector ISSN 1676-0220 técnicos + Artigos Technical articles de eventos + Agenda Events schedule Publicação apoiada pela Associação Internacional de Máquinas Hidráulicas …

Palavras-chave: Educação ambiental. Escola. Trabalho. ABSTRACT The environmental issue is one, among many others, that permeate the process of reflection about the future of humanity at the beginning of this century. Currently there is great concern with sustainable development since this represents a guarantee of responsible changes in the environment in which we live. It is vital to the school community participation in dealing with this issue since this is considered as a center…

PANORAMA E POTENCIALIDADES PARA PUBLICAÇÃO DE ARTIGOS CIENTÍFICOS NA ÁREA AMBIENTAL PAPER PUBLISHING OVERVIEW AND POTENTIALITIES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACADEMIC AREA Recebido em: 17/09/2012 Aprovado em: 25/10/2012 Avaliado pelo sistema double blind review Editora Científica: Manolita Correia Lima DENIZE DEMARCHE MINATTI FERREIRA dminatti@terra.com.br CAROLINA AGUIAR DA ROSA JOSÉ ALONSO BORBA universidade federal de santa catarina resumo As questões relativas ao meio…

preservação do planeta em que vivemos.(WWF, 2002) 3 Environmental issues have been and continue to be a major social issue facing many corporations. Laws and regulations promoting a cleaner environment are due to social changes, which in turn have led corporations to take actions relating to the environment which are costly. These actions have accelerated the need for a measurement and reporting system dealing with environmental issues. 11 confrontadas as divulgações…

depends on complex biological, chemical, and physical interactions, which are in turn affected by human activities. P What are Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services? An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plants, animals, microbes, and physical environmental features that interact with one another. Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems, and they are produced by interactions within the ecosystem. Ecosystems like forests, grasslands, mangroves, and urban…

represent an international consensus on the state of the art in the technology or good practice concerned. ISO’s portfolio of more than 17 800 * standards and related documents addresses all three dimensions of sustainable development : economic, environmental and social. ISO technical committee ISO/TC 176 is responsible for the ISO 9000 family of standards for quality management and quality assurance. National delegations of 81 * countries participate in its work, while another 21 *…

Introduction The need for creating a safe mode of using, cooking and maintaining the quality of food has been an issue since 1957, the first sign of concern was introduced by NASA. Although it began in the United States of America it is now recognized and used world wide. After several changes of the original document it has now become a single acronym, HACCP meaning Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, restaurants, supermarkets, factories all have to follow these instructions towards better

and provides increasing amounts of glasses in correctly discarded after their use and application. Aiming at reducing the amount of glass discarded in dumps and landfills, we seek to implement a recycling process to thereby reduce environmental impacts and there by generating employment and income for the community, making this initiative a sustainable business opportunity, through the imposition of cooperatives of collectors and recyclers of glass. Keywords:Glass,…

ambiental. Revista do BNDES, Rio de Janeiro, v. 7, n. 14, p. 301-328, Dez. 2000. BEUREN, I.M. e LONGARAY, A.A. Considerações a respeito da mensuração e contabilização da variável ambiental. In: 13th ASIAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING ISSUES. Rio de Janeiro, Anais, Rio de Janeiro: FEA/USP – Brasil & CSU/FRESCO – USA. 2001, 7. CD-Rom. BOGER, F.G. Valorização econômica do meio ambiente: aplicação da técnica avaliação contigente no caso da bacia do Guarapiranga. São Paulo,…

project for impacted areas by mining”, as well as, to compare its contents with a mine closure plan, in order to establish similarities and differences between them. This work presents the results of this comparative analysis; highlights the environmental, socio-economic and cultural risks of taking a PRAD as a mine closure plan; shows the necessity of differing PRAD from a mine closure plan and stresses the requirements’ overlap for mine companies. Keywords: Mine…