Safety Responsibilities for Owner and Example in Public Works

Challenges and responsibilities for public sector scientists.

Current agriculture faces the challenge of doubling food production to meet the food needs of a population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century whilst maintaining soil and water quality and conserving biodiversity. These challenges are more overwhelming for the rural poor, who are the custodians of environmental resources and at the same time particularly vulnerable to environmental degra...

Public works and social protection in sub-Saharan Africa Do public works work for the poor?

Distributing responsibilities for safety from flooding

In today’s society, safety from flooding is no longer the sole responsibility of the central government. In recent decades, we have witnessed a governance turn in flood risk management, in which private parties as well as regional and local governmental bodies have a role to play. As a result, the question of how to distribute the responsibilities among the actors involved has become urgent. We...

New public responsibilities for life scientists

“What your genes want you to eat”. This was the title of an article in the New York Times of 4 May 2003 on the ways in which the life sciences will influence food and drug choices of consumers and patients in the next decade. The author, a journalist by the name of Grierson, states that our diets and prescriptions will in the future be customized; to achieve this, consumers and patients will ne...

Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety.

FOREWORD The following article was approved by consensus of the scientific and medical societies with major representation in Europe. The mode of operation was that an initial draft was provided by the safety committee of ISMRM (Fernando Calamante (chair), Bernd Ittermann, Emanuel Kanal). An intersociety working group on MR safety was established with representation from each society as follows...