Mikkilä, M. 2006. The many faces of responsibility: Acceptability of the global pulp and paper industry in various societies. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry. Business enterprises have always had to consider responsibility issues in their relations with the surrounding society, but the content of this responsibility has altered, as it inevitably reflects changes in the societal situa...

In the present work we study the relationship between population allocation and the combined effects of urban size and energy consumption, for two given areas and through a major part of the twentieth century. Along these lines a general application model is laid down which relates city-growth rates to initial inhabitants and to exosomatic energy increment, the deviations from it showing order ...

Socioeconomic adversity is among the foremost fundamental causes of human suffering, and this is no less true in old age. Recent reports on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality rate in old age suggest that a low socioeconomic position continues to increase the risk of death even among the oldest old. We aimed to examine the evidence for socioeconomic mortality rate inequalities in old age, i...

Ameliorating pressures on the ecological condition of the wider landscape outside of protected areas is a key focus of conservation initiatives in the developed world. In highly urbanized nations, domestic gardens can play a significant role in maintaining biodiversity and facilitating human-wildlife interactions, which benefit personal and societal health and well-being. The extent to which so...

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides temporary relief from deportation and legal work authorization for eligible undocumented youth in the United States. This study investigates the factors that help or hinder undocumented youth in applying for DACA. We focus on contexts of reception to understand the determinants of DACA applications, as studies of previous legali...

6 Summary The evaluation of the UNIDO Leather Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa, based on field visits to four countries, concludes that the Programme is relevant as it addresses actual needs of development partners and target beneficiaries (institutions, industrial companies, hides and skins extension services, etc.) in a sector with a potential to produce competitive companies. The Pro...

BACKGROUND Rapidly evolving socioeconomic and technological trends make it challenging to improve access, effectiveness and efficiency in the use of pharmaceuticals. This paper identifies and systematically classifies the prevailing pharmaceutical policies worldwide in relation to a country's income status. METHODS A literature search was undertaken to identify and taxonomize prevailing polic...

This report compares cancer classification systems, health risk assessment approaches, and procedures used for establishing occupational exposure limits (OELs), in various European countries and scientific organizations. The objectives were to highlight and compare key aspects of these processes and to identify the basis for differences in cancer classifications and OELs between various scienti...