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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"Environmental damage"”.
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Insurance for environmental damage : a South African perspective
Thesis (LL.M. (Import and Export Law))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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Civil liability for environmental damage in German and South African
Under the heading 'Civil Liability for Environmental Damage', provisions which compensate all those who suffer environmental damage are discussed. Traditionally environmental legislation could be found mainly in administrative law dealing with resource management and conservation. Only a small …
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The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s
… politicization and globalization of the American environmental movement? and How do these novels depict psychological responses to ongoing environmental damage and destruction? This study is particularly interested in depictions of abjected environments inhabited by socially abjected people. …
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An analysis of foreign statutes dealing with environmental liability with a view to the drawing up and promulgating of an environmental liability statute in South Africa to deal with the legal problems of civil liability for environmental damage
This essay concerns civil liability for environmental damage and has as its focus, the drawing up of an Environmental Liability statute for South Africa. The approach taken in the essay is largely a comparative one, with topics being approached first from a general perspective and then with …
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Economic growth, trade policy and the environment in Indonesia / Anna Strutt.
… interactions with a dynamic model that takes environmental damage and production feedback effects into account. Suggests that policies which increase growth, such as trade liberalization, may have ambiguous effects on the natural environment
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Development of Regional Optimization and Market Penetration Models For Electric Vehicles in the United States
… on fossil fuels, the emissions and overall environmental impacts of the transportation sector are particularly relevant to the mitigation of the adverse effects of climate change. Sustainable transportation therefore plays a vital role in the ongoing discussion on how to promote energy …
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The Influence of Farm Advisory Services and Socio-Economic and Physical Factors on the Toxicity of Pesticides Used for Cotton and Peanuts in the Albemarle-Pamlico Watershed
… should include information about potential environmental damage from alternative pesticides. Advisors should be informed about the effects of soil physical characteristics on potential for environmental damage from pesticide use. Farm advisors should also be trained in methods to disseminate …
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PyrSat - Prevention and response to wild fires with an intelligent Earth observation CubeSat
… problem. Besides loss of life and extensive environmental damage, fires also result in substantial economic losses, not to mention property damage, injuries, displacements and hardships experienced by the affected citizens. This project proposes a low-cost intelligent hyperspectral 3U CubeSat …
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Extraction of Rare Earth Elements from Aqueous Solutions by Using Hydrometallurgical Techniques
… energy sources due to an increasing demand for environmentally friendly technologies that depend on essential elements like REE. Within hydrometallurgy, the solvent extraction (SX) method plays a crucial part in the purification of rare earth elements (REE) from concentrated solutions through …
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Economic and Ecosystem Impacts of GM Maize in South Africa
… (GM) cultivars. Using a combined economic and environmental approach, we estimate the total welfare benefits attributable to GM white maize in South Africa for 2001-2018 are $694.7 million. Food security benefits attributable to GM white maize in South Africa also manifest through an average of …
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Оценка и снижение экологической опасности отвалов горного производства в Новороссийской промышленной агломерации
… Cu, Ba and Sr. Land zoning based on accumulated environmental damage indicators and the debris-flow technical risk was performed to assess environmental threats. The designed mine dump reclamation includes soil stabilisation by application of geosynthetic cover, hydro-seeding of soil improvers …
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Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town.
… this waste is sent to landfill where it causes environmental damage and endangers human health.
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Methodological Guide for Cumulative Impacts Management Through Environmental Impact Assessment in Peru
The Environmental Impact Assessment has been a great tool to prevent environmental damage, however the individual scope of this tool limits the analysis of the interaction of the impacts with the impacts of neighboring projects, to generate cumulative impacts. The objective of this research is to …
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Integration Of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Into Precision Agriculture: Putting The Power Of Remote Sensing Into The Hands Of Farmers
… while simultaneously decreasing chemical use and environmental damage. However, satellite imagery has some limitations in regards to agriculture that sUAS has the potential to supplement and correct. This study will present the technical and legal integration of sUAS into private agriculture in …
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Leakage of carbon dioxide from a simulated subseabed Carbon Capture and Storage reservoir: potential impacts on benthic biogeochemistry
… against the risks of serious and long-term environmental impact should an accidental release occur. The aim of this thesis is to study the potential for environmental damage caused by a release of carbon dioxide into the marine environment from a sub-seabed carbon dioxide reservoir generated …
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Environmental Planning of the Ebenezer Quadrangle, Missouri
This study provides an inventory of the environmental characteristics of the Ebenezer Quadrangle, for use by the land owners, developers, planners, and educators, as a tool to utilize the land resources more efficiently and with less environmental damage. The inventory includes karst, hydrologic, …
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Powerlessness and Pollution in Alleghany County, Virginia: A Historical Analysis of Paternalism and Economic Coercion in Appalachia and its Relationship with Environmental Degradation
… quiescence regarding the company's negative environmental impact in Alleghany County. This paper mill has negatively affected Alleghany County relative to other Virginia communities. However, there has been very little local action against the paper mill's environmental impact. To define and …
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Liability for pollution damage from offshore oil spills: The CLC and fund conventions, the EU's Environmental Liability Directive and their implications for New Zealand law
… and Member States developed and implemented the Environmental Liability and Offshore Safety Directives. New Zealand’s government has actively encouraged growth in its offshore petroleum sector in the belief that seabed drilling can be carried out safely and profitably at any depth, and that the …
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Total quality environmental management (TQEM) framework towards sustainability (UK novated D&B principal contractors)
To reduce the substantial environmental damage of the built environment, contractors have to comply with an increasing number of environmental building regulations. Apart from the purely practical implications of compliance, there is a perception of a gap emerging from not joining up the …
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