Does the Central Environmental Protection Inspectorate Accountability System Improve Environmental Quality?

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines Cobalt

Environmental effects on the central nervous system.

The central nervous system (CNS) is designed to respond to the environment and is peculiarly vulnerable to many of the influences found in the environment. Utilizing an anatomical classification (cortex, cerebellum, peripheral nerves) major toxins and stresses are reviewed with selections from recent references. Selective vulnerability of certain areas to particular toxins is apparent at all le...

Circumventing environmental policy: does the Americans with Disabilities Act provide protection where environmental statutes don't?

A Knowledge-Based Environmental Protection System

Making decisions in the field of environmental protection management is highly complex and a solution for reducing this complexity is given by the knowledge-based approach. Such a solution could structure the domain expert knowledge into a knowledge base and later will use this knowledge during the reasoning process. The paper describes a knowledge-based environmental protection system designed...

Why does the Talk of Positive Environmental Values not match the Walk of Environmental Accountability in Shanghai?

Most research in corporate environmental management and environmental accounting indicate a substantial gap between the espoused environmental attitudes of business leaders and the actual practices of their companies. In this paper, we apply institutional theory in an effort to explain this gap. In exploring the emerging embryonic stage of China’s environmental management issues and more specif...