Ecological Information Needs for Environmental Justice

Volunteered geographic information, urban forests, & environmental justice

"Environmental Justice"

Environmental Justice

Nature is reacting to the activities of modern society in unique and largely unexpected ways. The spread of acidified rain to every continent, a worldwide decline of forested lands, and the ubiquitous presence of persistent organic pollutants due to industrial experiments in biochemistry suggest that the contemporary naturesociety relation includes phenomena unlike any that were previously know...

Strategic elements for environmental justice.

Damage arising from putative environmental sources has been found in the DNA of the gastric and colorectal mucosae of patients presenting with gastrointestinal disorders from the South Manchester area. 06-Methylguanine (06-MeG) in the range 0.010->0.300timolesmole-' adenine was heterogeneously distributed both between and within individuals. The pattern of alkylation of tissue DNA appears to di...

Environmental Life Cycle Information Management - Needs for Standardisation

The overall aim of the EU funded project ELIMA is to enable eco-efficient management and acquisition of product life cycle data by closing the information loop in different phases of product life cycle including design, manufacture, distribution, use, service-support, maintenance, and end-of-life product recovery. Information systems that can integrate information about products from all stages...