From Environmental Awareness to Environmental Responsibility: Towards a Stewardship Curriculum

Slovenian SMEs: From the Environmental Responsibility to Corporate Social Responsibility

Environmental and societal issues are emphasising the social role of enterprises, including all size classes, even the smallest ones, so-called micro enterprises. This paper reflects on Slovenian SMEs. These enterprises are confronting ever increasing and changing expectations, demands and claims for accountability not concerning only economic, but also environmental and social performance. Env...

Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds

Environmental sounds provide many contextual cues that enable us to recognize important aspects of our surroundings. The goal of this project is to consider techniques to allow machines to extract and classify features from pre-defined classes of sounds in the environment. We will present the different phases of the project: capture of environmental audio, pre-processing of audio data, feature ...

Chemical Engineers and Environmental Stewardship

Industrial activities have also long contributed harmful pollutants to the air, waterways and land, but for years few were concerned. Specific incidents began to raise concern among the populace, such as the 1952 London smog blamed for the death of 12,000 citizens, but they were generally considered aberrations. During the 1960s, a number of industrial accidents and widely publicized pollution ...

Environmental Violence, Liberalism, and Responsibility

Designing an Environmental Responsibility Institution – The Environmental Mitigation Banking System

While institutions are a key determinant of economic behavior and new institutions are often formed as a part of an economic policy, a systematic way to design these institutions and test their potential performance before they are created does not exist. I have attempted in this paper to create and test such a design for an environmental mitigation banking system using system dynamics modeling...