Environmental Issues

these organizations, by a community’s own interests, or by the acquisition of specific knowledge via scientific research, entitles them to take part in discussions involving environmental issues under state planning. Aside the debate on the virtues of the public or the private sectors in the management of environmental resources, the rise of non-profit organizations dedicated research and solution providing is ever more evident around the globe. This article is limited to examining…

of a winning and challenge-loving work team. Such an approach is reflected in the way our clients evaluate us, as is the case of supermarket owners, who voted us “Best Supplier of the Year” in 2006. Since the 1970s, our concern for environmental and social issues has not stopped growing. In these last 30 years, we have been striving for perfection, and have continually been improving our practices and enhancing our social work. Today, Colgate is an active participant in important…

only those individuals considered at risk of becoming ill. This notion is based on an expanded concept of health, considered a posit i ve, dynamic state, a quest for well-being, including aspects both physical and mental (absence of disease), environmental (adjustment to surroundings), personal/emotional (individual and affective achievement), and psychosocial (a commitment to social equality and preservation of nature). Ne ve rt h e l e s s, along with this expanded notion of health,…

Gestão ambiental; Hospitalidade. Abstract This study was constructed based on a literature review and aims to discuss, through a theoretical essay, on the environmental management as competitive advantage in hospitality, to conquer a market increasingly concerned about the sustainability. Key Words: Competitive advantage; Environmental management; Hospitality. 1 INTRODUÇÃO O mercado mundial está cada vez mais complexo. Inovações e mudanças acontecem e contribuem no desempenho…

Saúde Ambiental na América Latina e no Caribe: numa encruzilhada Environmental Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: at the Crossroads Mirta Roses Periago Diretora da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde e Diretora Regional para as Américas da Organização Mundial da Saúde, Washington DC Endereço: 525 23rd Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20037-2895, E. U. A. Luiz Augusto Galvão Gerente da Área de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Saúde Ambiental, Organização Pan-Americana da…

contribute to the reduction of municipal solid waste’s (MSW) genaration, and how to implement successful actions. For that purpose, the issues about waste reduction approached in the Act were analyzed, and comparable actions in other countries were researched. The conclusion was that the Brazilian Act about solid waste presents concepts and approaches the MSW issue in an innovative manner, which contributes to the development of a new paradigm: sustainability. This becomes possible…

l or environmental exposures. Current know l - edge of human genome open up the possibilit y of individual genetic screening of disease su s - ceptibility among those exposed in workplace s to chemical or physical hazards, or for late o n - set hereditary disease. Epidemiological stu d - ies including genetic and molecular biology a p - proaches have been designed to evaluate th e interaction of genetically determined met a - bolic variants with different…

scarce, and lack indicators validated for this evaluation. As they represent environmental and social inclusion public policies it is important to identify their strong and weak points and to point ways for their viability and sustainability (RIBEIRO & BESEN, 2007). The indicators were developed within the research “Municipal Programs of Selective Waste Collection as a factor of sustainability of public systems of environmental sanitation in São Paulo Metropolitan Region”– COSELIX, 2005…

escala ambiental e econômica. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: produção, energia, petróleo, termoplásticos, microalgas Prospects of sintect petroleum production ABSTRACT The energy from hydrocarbons has proved a big problem for the present environmental scenario. Among various issues such as the cheapening of the cost in the production of energy, production optimization and replacement of fossil source for alternative sources, two aspects stand out: The synthetic petroleum and biofuel…

some issues that until recently did not speak much: preserving the environment and cost generated by this growth worldwide. Thus, specific sectors of society began to seek ways and have them to control the order that they were produced desired solutions for sustainable development. With everything that accounting is a science which aims to study the equity of entities, social followed this path and shows how a management mechanism essential in order to give the burdens of…