Design for the Environment Guide High performance ISO 14001 DfE Environmental Management Systems The ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) can be optimized by emphasizing resource efficiency and cleaner production. Advantages of building this high performance into your ISO 14001 system include reduced production costs‚ efficient use of materials and resources‚ and improved public image. This guide sheet includes examples of high performance systems from a variety of ISO
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Environmental Engineering in the Power Electronics Education Annika Nilsson Environmental Engineering in the Power Electronics Education Annika Nilsson *‚ Per Karlsson **‚ Lars Gertmar **‚*** Department of Building and Environmental Technology Lund University‚ Lund‚ Sweden Phone: +46 46 222 96 15 Fax: +46 46 222 45 35 ** Department of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation Lund University‚ Lund‚ Sweden Phone: +46 46 222 92 90 Fax: +46 46 14 21 14 *** ABB Corporate Research‚ Västerås
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Environmental Racism in Los Angeles and its Formation The siting of a $500 million railyard project backed by BNSF Railroad Company‚ which recently won the approval from Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners and Los Angeles City Council‚ has been a highly debated issue in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles. According to a report from Pacific Swell‚ ‘The BNSF railway’s project would serve as a transfer point between the harbor complex and rail. Short-haul trucks would travel four miles up the freeway to move
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Sustainable development It is the proper use and management of out natural resources for the benefit of the present and future generations. It is well exemplified in the objectives of the Philippine Environmental (P.D. No. 1151) which are as follows: A. to create‚ develop‚ maintain and improve conditions under which man and nature can thrive in productive and enjoyable harmony with each other; B. to fulfill the social‚ economic and other requirements
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Prayoon‚ Prasart Nuangchalerm‚ 2011. Effects of Environmental Ethics Infusion Instruction on Knowledge and Ethics of Undergraduate Students. Research Journal of Environmental Sciences 5 (1): 73-77. It’s not easy to define what environmental literacy is‚ but based on discussions of (Schneider‚ 1997) and (Bobick‚ 2001)‚ we can say that environmental literacy is the capability for a contextual and detailed understanding of an environmental problem in order to enable analysis‚ synthesis‚ evaluation
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Introduction 3 Professional Ethics and Construction 5 Professional Ethics 5 The case in Ethiopia 13 Ethical Issues 15 Construction Business and Ethics 22 References 25 Acknowledgement The group would like to take this opportunity to thank our Ethics and Legal Environment Instructor‚ Dr. Tilahun Goshu‚ who gave us the chance to explore the ethical issues in the construction industry at present time. Introduction Construction is the largest industry in the world‚ benefiting
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According to Thomas Theorem‚ people’s behaviors can be determined by their subjective construction of reality rather than by objective reality. In The Social Construction of Reality book‚ Berger and Luckmann also argued that society is created by humans and human interaction. Reality is not absolute and what we understand to be “real” is actually a social constructed idea. It
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John O’Donnell Gallagher Construction and Development are based in north London. They are a property development and refurbishment company. They have been in the construction industry for about twenty five years. They have a workforce of twenty directly employed and about fifty self employed workers at the moment. The major political influences on the construction industry in London at the moment are the Mayor of London’s Sustainable Design and Construction Supplementary Planning Guidance
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An environmental scanning process consists of an organization gathering information about the industry in which it operates‚ including information about the economy‚ government‚ laws and demographic factors such as population size‚ distribution and other factors. The organization should focus on its competitors. The company should examine the research for trends‚ opportunities and threats that might impact its business. An internal scan of the organization is needed to examine the organizations strengths
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first U.S. company to distribute its products in China after China implement reform and opening up policy in 1979. Through many years business operation in China‚ the company fully understands their development worldwide must adapt China’s macro-environmental various forces and must put into practice their localization strategy “Think local‚ Act local”. In this report‚ by serious study and literature review‚ with refer to relevant books‚ journals‚ search information from internet. First‚ the company’s
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