Environmental Issues

ARTIGO ARTICLE Aspectos de saúde coletiva e ocupacional associados à gestão dos resíduos sólidos municipais Public and occupational health issues related to municipal solid waste management João Alberto Ferreira 1 Luiz Antonio dos Anjos 1 Departamento de Engenharia Sanitária e do Meio Ambiente, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, bloco A, sala 5002, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20550-013, Brasil.…

Environment and Energy As the poor are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation and lack of access to clean, affordable water, sanitation and energy services, UNDP seeks to address environmental issues in order to improve developing countries’ abilities to develop sustainably, increase human development and reduce poverty. UNDP works with countries to strengthen their capacity to address global environmental issues by providing innovative policy advice and linking…

sustainable environment? Environmental legislation have a character education in the prevention of environmental degradation and the pursuit of sustainable development, environmental education must integrate knowledge of and compliance with these laws, seeking to build environmental agendas through a participatory process that enables the learning of more various issues related to environment. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find out about the laws, environmental crimes and the…

requires organizations to adopt a broader view of its responsibilities that includes not only stockholders, but many other constituencies as well, including employees, suppliers, customers, the local community, local, state, and federal governments, environmental groups, and other special interest groups. Corporate social responsibility is related to, but not identical with, business ethics. While CSR englobes the economic, legal, ethical responsibilities of organizations, business…

among companies makes the competitiveness distinctions more valued in organizations, and that the professional has to be aware of this. In this context, the Analyses of the Implantation of an Environmental Management System (EMS), based on ISO 14001 Standard, fits this frame, in order to look after the environmental preservation required by communities, nongovernmental organizations and governments demands, besides the companies that seek to offer their products and/or services not only…

2003), support the production of ethanol using corn and are making huge profits from ethanol production, which is subsidized 1 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853. 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley California 94720. 3 To whom correspondence should be addressed; e-mail: dp18@cornell.edu. 65 1520-7439/05/0300-0065/1 C 2005 International Association for Mathematical…

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abordada neste artigo com foco na prática da compostagem como alternativa às técnicas não orgânicas de correção do solo e para o manejo sustentável do cultivo de vegetais em uma escola publica do município de Jaguarão – RS. Abstract The environmental issue, a subject whose importance has been perceived in all extension of society and widely discussed in the classroom, is addressed in this article with a focus on the practice of composting as an alternative the techniques of organic…

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occupational, pharmacological or environmental exposures. Current knowledge of human genome open up the possibility of individual genetic screening of disease susceptibility among those exposed in workplaces to chemical or physical hazards, or for late onset hereditary disease. Epidemiological studies including genetic and molecular biology approaches have been designed to evaluate the interaction of genetically determined metabolic variants with different environmental exposures on…