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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"environmental goals"”.
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The role of legislative processes and electric utilities in effecting global environmental goals
… any country can attain some level of environmental-friendliness in its power generating capacity mix. In support of this claim, the author addresses some of the many variables included in controlling global emissions due to electric power generation through legislative processes. …
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Banking on the environment : multilateral development banks and environmental policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe
… to operationalize and implement relatively new environmental mandates. MDBs are increasingly being relied upon to address environmental issues in their activities, while at the same time facing criticism for allegedly promoting serious environmental degradation in borrowing countries. The …
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Incorporating Agroforestry Into Water Quality Trading: Evaluating Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs
… these programs offer a mechanism to achieve environmental goals at least cost. However, in practice these programs face ongoing challenges arising from limited participation by farmers who supply water quality credits and, as a result, often fail to achieve cost efficiency. We build a …
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Miljömålet i skogsbruket : Styrning och frivillighet
… available to state authorities to meet the environmental goals in forest policy. Furthermore, norm theory as developed within the sociology of law is applied to analyze how various categories of forest owners can be motivated to shoulder a greater responsibility for nature conservation and …
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Switching to Switchgrass: Pathways and consequences of bioenergy switchgrass entering the Midwestern landscape
… this goal because of its excellent agronomic and environmental characteristics. With national policy supporting the development of a switchgrass to bioenergy industry two key questions arise: 1) Under what economic and political conditions will switchgrass enter the landscape? 2) Where on the …
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Environmental governance: urban community-driven conservation endeavors in the Cape
… Region. This research uses the framework for environmental governance by Bennett and Satterfield (2018) to uncover the rich material of urban green space conservation, which is presented against the backdrop of relevant policies. It is important to determine how these spaces are governed on …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Brazilian Lodging Industry: A Perspective of Small and Medium-Sized Properties
… quality, society/community wellbeing, and environmental goals. Further comparison was made with regard level of communication and significant differences were found between commitments and initiatives. Brazilian lodging SMPs demonstrated to be in an incipient stage regarding CSR, where …
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Exploring discourse change in the formulation of coastal management policy in South Africa
… a history of a narrow scientific approach with goals related mainly to environmental conservation, coastal management has in the 1990s become far broader and more orientated towards socio- economic development. This forms part of a wider transition in the social practice of environmental …
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Utility Right of Way Management: Potential for Expanded Integrated Vegetation Managment in California
… their right of ways and complying with various environmental laws and company goals. Vegetation management programs at the major utility companies cost millions of dollars a year. Reducing cost and increasing compliance are goals of right of way managers at utilities across the country. This …
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Translating international commitments to domestic action : Mercury co-benefits, sustainable development, and climate policy in China
… Mercury and the global Sustainable Development Goals. Understanding the interactions between climate change, air pollution, and sustainable development can help decision-makers identify more effective policies that can address environmental and economic goals simultaneously. To address …
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Improving Supplier Engagement as a Means to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Global Company
… on how they can reduce their overall environmental impact and risk related to climate change by extending their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy to include partnerships with suppliers, for instance third-party logistics contractors. A secondary objective is to create a …
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Modelling Electrical Vehicle Charging Demand with Historical Vehicle Movement Data
In order to meet the environmental goals of 2030 set by the European Union, Sweden needs to build between 90 000 and 260 000 public charging poles in the upcoming eight years. In this thesis we have developed a mathematical model that given a area and time outputs the demand for charging in said …
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Ecosystem Management and its Application at the Local Level: APNEP, CAMA and Local Land Use Planning in North Carolina
… growth management has been to infuse regional environmental concerns into local land use planning. Similarly, collaborative ecosystem planning efforts have attempted to encourage local communities to participate in regional planning efforts, and to adopt regional environmental goals and …
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Balancing economic and environmental sustainability for small-scale rice farmers in Peru
Balancing economic and environmental sustainability in rice production systems is a global challenge for which integrated research efforts are needed to provide insights for achieving food production and environmental goals. In this study we analyzed data from surveys applied to 65 rice farmers in …
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Improvement of simulating BMPs and LID practices in L-THIA-LID model
… BMP/LID practice solutions to attain the same environmental goals differed. For sites with the same characteristics, the optimal implementation of practices could vary significantly for different environmental goals. For higher expenditures, the implementation levels and types of favored …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
This dissertation examines how national environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden and the United States (US) tried to diffuse cleaner production technologies in the pulp and paper industry from 1980-1998. The environmental organizations were: Greenpeace Sweden, Swedish Society …
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Public Ecology: Linking People, Science, and the Environment
… to resolve today's complex and controversial environmental issues (e.g., biodiversity loss, global warming, cultural evolution, etc.). In response to these concerns, a variety of applied science programs have emerged to help people make better decisions about the environment. Each of these …
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Air-quality related health impacts of food in the United States
… human health and protect the environment. The environmental impacts of our food system on climate change, on land, energy, and water use, and on water quality are well established. Less is known about the role of food in influencing human health via reduced air quality. This is despite the food …
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Environmental policy implementation networks : who are the movers and shakers?
… the structure of partnership involvement in the environmental area, has introduced an implementation model which encompasses both ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ theoretical typologies, consequently, there is an opportunity to examine the impact of this novel framework by in-depth, practical …
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Mitigating Investment Risks in Nature-Based Solutions: A Strategic Approach Towards Sustainable Project Implementation
… that rely on reforestation to achieve ambitious environmental goals. This thesis focuses on the strategic challenge of developing large-scale investments in reforestation, considering both scientific and economic perspectives. It first applies analytical workflows to explore the relationship …
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