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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Pollution prevention"”.
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Essays on the economics of pollution prevention
… unintended consequences of intermittent air pollution monitoring. Compliance monitoring of environmental standards is often conducted intermittently due to its expense. Intermittent monitoring, however, may encourage polluters to show compliance during monitoring, but to increase polluting …
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Total cost analysis of pollution prevention in automotive electrocoating
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1997.
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Pollution prevention studies in the textile wet processing industry
The objective of this study was to investigate pollution prevention (PP) opportunities in the textile wet processing industry. This industry uses vast amounts of water, energy and chemicals. PP audits were conducted at four textile companies. The companies were located in Virginia and included: a …
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Pollution prevention and treatability of phosphate laden wastewater in the seafood industry
Seafood processing wastewater containing high concentrations of phosphate was evaluated for its composition, applicability for reuse and recycle, and treatability for phosphate removal. Wastewater from two seafood processing industries was characterized for orthophosphate (OP), condensed phosphate …
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Barriers to and enablers for effective pollution prevention practices in the Air Force
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Industrial pollution control down on the farm : integrated pollution prevention & control and intensive pig farming
Multi-medium pollution control has finally transcended the boundary from its roots in traditional manufacturing industry, and has entered the realm of intensive pig farming. This research has revealed the problems that face pig farmers when confronted by the Integrated Pollution Prevention & …
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Promoting the Adoption of Pollution Prevention Innovations With the Assistance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works
The thesis explains key factors and events that influenced the various adoption/rejection decisions regarding this technology. Additionally, the efforts of the State P2 change agents to promote the technology are evaluated along with the impacts of involving change agent aides (publicly owned …
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Identification of pollution prevention and accident prevention technology opportunities for use in supplemental environmental projects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1997.
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Voluntary Environmental Initiatives, Pollution Prevention and Product Quality: The Role of Strategic Competition, Consumer Information and Regulation
The empirical analysis shows that TQEM adoption and innovativeness differ in the extent to which they promote different types of P2. Additionally, TQEM adoption and innovativeness operate as substitutes in promoting raw material, process and product modification types of P2. Strong location-based …
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Environmental technology and policy development in a regional system : transboundary water management and pollution prevention in southeastern Europe
In order to surmount the barriers to transboundary integration and coordination of environmental technology and regulatory policy in Southeastern Europe, the environmental capabilities and needs of the region are discussed, and a regional cooperation and coordination systems framework is developed. …
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The effectiveness of the voluntary 33/50 program in inducing adoption of pollution prevention techniques and toxic release reduction
… program participation motivated the adoption of Pollution Prevention (P2) technology, and whether learning from peers increased the adoption of P2 technology by a facility after controlling for the effects of program participation and regulatory pressures. Last, we examine the extent to which …
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An integrated approach to AMD mitigation through sulfide removal from tailings
… has focused research in addressing the prevention of pollution by AMD. Current waste management approaches focus on deposition techniques to control AMD formation and on remediation. However, these approaches do not remove the risk of AMD generationand are yet to be proven effective in …
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A comparative study of the environmental laws of India and the UK with special reference to their enforcement
… laws, including adopting a revised policy on pollution prevention, developing an integrated approach to pollution abatement, developing a policy on prosecution and enforcement, restructuring various environmental laws to meet treaty obligations, introducing incentive based instruments for …
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Air pollution in Christchurch: the current state of affairs
… type smog in winter." International Union of Air Pollution Prevention Associations, 1977. This article is an attempt to fill a gap in the literature relating to air pollution in Christchurch. Most, if not all, available reports and articles give only a very brief, narrow introduction relating to …
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Two Cost Analyses in Resource Economics: The Public Service Costs of Alternative Land Settlement Patterns and Effluent Allowance Trading in Long Island Sound
… allowance trading involves the transfer of pollution control responsibility between pollution sources. Effluent allowances are the right to discharge a given quantity of waste into the environment over a given time period. Allowance trading has been proposed as a way of reducing pollution …
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China Urban Pollution Information Disclosure Study (CUPIDS) : socioeconomic implications of dirty industry and a guide to national cleandustrialization
… is polluted. In this paper I develop a simple pollution intensity index to test China's existing national and local environmental data, to answer the questions: "Bad" how? "Polluted" why? And finally: what can be done? I find that China's existing data is rudimentary, piecemeal, and inaccurate. …
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Environmental policy in Jordan : analysis, gap identification, and strategies for improvement
… mismanagement of land use, and air pollution. Attempting to describe the "State of the Environment" and to provide an informed analysis of the threats to the nation's environment is a Herculean task. This analysis examines the efforts made by Jordan in regard to protection and …
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A legal and economic analysis of the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act
… with an analysis of the regulations’ main pollution prevention tool, the vegetative buffer strip, and a brief listing of various issues and controversies involving the Act and the regulations. Chapter Two introduces a linear programming model designed to determine the most cost-effective …
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A probabilistic evaluation of tank ship damage in grounding events
… to alternative tanker designs for evaluation of Pollution prevention effectiveness. The simulation uses the structural damage model DAMAGE to predict bottom damage extents following a grounding for a series of notional single hull, double hull and intermediate oil-tight deck tankers of comparable …
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