Setting Priorities for Environmental Management

Setting Priorities for Environmental Management

Author: Wendy S. Ayres

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780821341667

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Mining and industrial activities, if poorly managed, can damage the environment and leave behind contaminated soils, polluted groundwater, and waste material. The two papers in this volume illustrate the methodologies developed for selecting priority sites for remediating environmental problems due to mining. It also describes the high priority investments that would provide the greatest benefits for the available resources. The methodologies have broad application and could be used to identify priority remediation investments in other sectors where past activities have led to environmental problems.


Annual Report

Annual Report

Author: United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Setting Priorities

Setting Priorities

Author: Environmental Action Programme for Central and Eastern Europe

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780821331798

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Despite efforts by Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to tackle environmental problems, there are still a number of serious environmental problems that require immediate and urgent action. The Environmental Action Programme (EAP) provides a framework and guide for identifying the highest priority problems and for developing realistic, efficient and cost-effective solutions. This book describes the features of the broad strategy and action framework that EAP represents. Annexes provide summaries of topics such as human health problems and pollution "hot-spots"; the impact of economic reform and industrial restructuring; and priorities for environmental expenditure. Boxes discuss nitrates in drinking water in Romania, short-term threats to the environment in Russia, and debt-for-environment swaps in Poland.


Practical Guide to Environmental Management

Practical Guide to Environmental Management

Author: Frank Friedman

Publisher: Environmental Law Institute

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9781585760473

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Aimed at environmental and business professionals, this text explains how to create and maintain an effective corporate environmental management program. Corporate environmental lawyer Friedman begins with an overview of the history of environmental law. Other topics include, for example, reducing w


Oceans Governance in the Twenty-first Century

Oceans Governance in the Twenty-first Century

Author: Marcus G. Haward

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781782543169

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'This book is recommended for anyone wanting to quickly get up to speed with oceans governance, bearing in mind at this stage it is an immature and quickly developing field. The strength of the book is that it is grounded in real-world examples from four case study countries and in this context at the very least exposes the reader to emergent oceans governance and policy issues. . . an excellent starting point for further analysis of oceans governance and sets up a research agenda for the future.' - Murray Patterson, Journal of Ecological Economics


Improving the Environment

Improving the Environment

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1996-03-05

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0309054400

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This book addresses remedial action and waste management problems that the DOE and the nation are now facing that are the result of 50 years of nuclear weapons development and testingâ€"problems that require a reengineering of systems and a reexamination of the scientific, engineering, and institutional barriers to achieving cost-effective and safe stewardship of the nation's resources. Improving the Environment evaluates the DOE's environmental management program in four areas: regulatory measures, organization and management, priority-setting, timing and staging, and science and technology.