BACKGROUND "Smoke-Free" legislation prohibiting smoking in all enclosed public places was introduced in March 2006. This qualitative study presents insights from bar workers about their observations of the changing social bar environment, changing patrons' behaviours and challenges bar workers have faced in managing smoke-free legislation. METHODS Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted bet...

A noteworthy feature of international environmental discourse since the late-1980s has been the shift toward anticipatory policies. Precaution is the leading policy approach that has emerged to guide environmental decision-makers confronted with inadequate information. The "precautionary principle" has found expression in Australia in the 1992 Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment, var...

This paper addresses the impacts of environmental legislation and vehicle emissions on the future of alternative fuels sucl~ as methanol, compressed natural gas, propane, electricity, hydrogen, and reformulated gasoline in the transportation industry, and it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of fuel in terms of fuel efficiency, fuel cost, environmental impacts, and vehicle...

We study the impact of product recovery on a firm’s product quality choice, where quality is defined as an observable performance measure that increases a consumer’s valuation for the product. We consider three general forms of product recovery: (i) when product recovery reuses (after reprocessing) quality inducing components or material (e.g., remanufacturing), (ii) when product recovery does ...

Severe occupational chromium allergy despite cement legislation Yolanda S. Hedberg1,2, Martin Gumulka3, Marie-Louise Lind1,3, Mihály Matura3 and Carola Lidén1,3 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Division of Surface and Corrosion Science, Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden, and 3Unit ...

Pharmaceutical waste has become an urgent public health and environmental protection issue in recent years, leading to a variety of sometimes-conflicting federal and state legislation and regulations that health care entities must take seriously.

This article analyzes the development of international legislation, as well legislation individual states regarding legal regulation compensation for environmental damage. The authors identified and analyzed two levels regulation. first level is international; it includes acts adopted or approved by a group states. second national; regulations conclusion about existence general rules in various...