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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Environmental compliance"”.
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Environmental compliance: determinants, interactions and performance
… Environment Agency, 2020b), understanding how environmental regulations, innovation and performance interact has become critical for achieving sustainable transformation goals (European Commission, 2011; Accenture, 2023). This thesis explores the complex relationships between green innovation, …
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Development and Implementation of A Multimedia Environmental Compliance tool
… institutions are subject to extensive environmental regulations. Maintenance activities, laboratory research and continual growth all contribute to this burden. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a Colleges and Universities Initiative that promotes awareness through …
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Environmental compliance in quarrying operations: a computer-based decision support system
… operators must continue to change and adapt environmental compliance methods to meet increasingly demanding regulations. To fulfill industry needs, a computer-based decision support system has been developed to facilitate legal and environmental decisions that mine operators are required to …
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Semantic deontic modeling and text classification for supporting automated environmental compliance checking in construction
Compliance checking in the construction industry refers to checking the conformance of a process, plan, document, design, or action to applicable norms (regulatory norms, contractual norms, and advisory practices). Manual compliance checking has been time-intensive, resource-consuming, and …
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Administrative penalties as a tool for resolving South Africa’s environmental compliance and enforcement woes
South Africa’s environmental resources are in serious decline, despite the constitutional environmental right, and multiple environmental protection laws. A predominant reason for this is that the criminal sanction is the default method of environmental enforcement. Even if prosecutors succeed in …
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Development of a Novel Multi-Parameter Monitoring Tool for Optimisation and Environmental Compliance of Anaerobic Digestion Technology
… performance, reduce odour complains, and support environmental compliance and evidence gathering. Here a novel approach using Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry (GC-IMS) as a multi-parameter monitoring tool to measure volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been investigated. To enable the …
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Why did they comply while others did not? : environmental compliance of small firms and implications for regulation
… dissertation aims to offer new insights into the environmental compliance behavior of small firms (SFs). Specifically, the dissertation examines the impacts of two categories of factors. The first category concerns internal motivations that drive SFs' decisions to comply or not comply with a …
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Three essays on the efficiency of the environmental compliance process for pre-mining operations on U.S. Forest Service lands
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135).
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Chemistry and the Automotive Industry
… in the automotive industry with emphasis on environmental compliance via chemical reporting by database and internal Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) screening, third party laboratory material testing, and the future of the chemist in the United States (U.S.) automotive industry. …
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There's Something Happening Here: What is Really Happening on the Front-lines of Environmental Regulation
Environmental policy debates are gaining momentum in the public square from scholars and citizens alike. From all sides of the debate, a growing consensus is emerging that advocates a shift in the environmental regulatory system in the United States from one that emphasizes command and control …
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Green Banking in Hong Kong: Exploring the Attitudes and Knowledge of Middle Tier Management in Foreign Banks
… green banking to show commitment and support for environmental sustainability. Institutions have adopted the concept of green banking as a measure of environmental compliance and legitimacy to governments, regulators and society. The transition by banks to a sustainable business model demands the …
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Sustainable Wastewater Treatment in the American South
<p>Aging infrastructure and changing social and environmental conditions are two factors that are currently pushing wastewater treatment towards more sustainable methods. This thesis investigates what sustainable treatment technologies are being used in the American South through a focused sample …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… an increased interest in studying impacts of environmental risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… an increased interest in studying impacts of environmental risks and opportunities on business firms. Across various strands of the literature on this topic, however, there is still sizeable theoretical and empirical ambiguity around the direction of their impacts and underlying causal …
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Proactive Environmental Strategies: Managing a Corporate Culture Shift toward Sustainability
<p>The roles and responsibilities of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) professionals have expanded over the last several decades. Initially focused solely on reducing a firm's ecological impact, many EHS professionals are now tasked with managing a firm's cultural shift towards sustainability. …
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Beyond protected areas : assessing the role of legal reserves and permanent preservation areas for conserving tropical forests in private properties in the eastern Brazilian Amazon
… on private lands is regulated by the Brazilian Environmental Law (Law N° 12.651, 25 March 2012), commonly known as the Forest Code, and focus on two main mechanisms: Legal Reserves (LR) and Permanent Preservation Areas (APP in Portuguese). The aim of this thesis is to advance our understanding …
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Informational Environmental Regulation in Practice
Environmental degradation limits the prospects of sustainable economic development and the pursuit of a life of better quality. An informational approach to environmental regulation, a policy innovation implemented after direct regulation and economic incentive mechanism, has exhibited its positive …
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Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA
… with the Big Box retail system in terms of environmental compliance with the RCRA enforced by the United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This research employed an embedded comparative case study design using the comparison of two Big Box firms, Walmart Stores, Inc. and …
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Financial Performance of Pasture-Based Dairies: A Virginia Case Study
… issues; stocking rates, farm profitability, and environmental compliance.
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