Employing attitude measures to explain valuation responses in contingent valuation studies has the potential to improve statistical analyses as well as interpretation of response information. In this paper, four types of attitude measures are compared for their ability to provide these benefits in the context of a contingent valuation of an air quality management plan for Sofia, Bulgaria. Findi...

This paper builds on recent work on measuring and evaluating environmental performance of a process using statistical process control (SPC) techniques. We propose the CUSUM chart as a tool to monitor emissions data so that abnormal changes can be detected in a timely manner, and we propose using process capability indices to evaluate environmental performance in terms of the risk of non-complia...

With the emergence of environmental protection as a global issue, implementing environmental practices for sustaining green supply chain management (GSCM) has received a lot of attention. This study investigates the impact of integration with suppliers and supply disruption risk on environmental practices. It also examines the role of supplier integration and supply disruption risk on performan...

The article deals with the risk assessment model of environmental illnesses every person comes across. It is suggested to compare ecological information with the dynamics of individual’s regulatory systems functional state. The fuzzy risk assessment model of environmentally triggered illnesses occurrence is presented. This fuzzy model is used in the system of urban air environment ecological mo...

The initial impact of a disaster can lead to a variety of associated hazards. By taking a multi-hazard viewpoint with respect to disaster response and recovery, there is an opportunity to allocate limited resources more effectively, particularly in the context of long-term planning for community sustainability. This working paper introduces an approach for extending quantitative resource alloca...

Executive Summary This Environmental and Climate Change Policy Brief has been written as an input to the Poverty and Development Assessment that Sida is undertaking as part of the preparation of a revised Swedish cooperation strategy with Zambia. It aims at briefly presenting key environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities (including climate change and disaster risk reduction) in ...

Age has long been known as the primary population ‘risk factor’ for cancer. We suggest that the observed disparities in hormonal cancers by ethnicity, gender, and other indices of social structure and power relationships, imply a differential aging by psychosocial and environmental exposures, in the context of cross-generational epigenetic heritage. A relatively simple model of malignancy regul...

Despite the fact that environmental problems have been recognised as legitimate phenomena since the early 1970s, they did not really attract the attention of industrialists and management theorists until the beginning of the 1990s. During the last ten years, industry has been central in shaping a new corporate environmentalism. Now, we argue, it is time to take a critical look at the nature and...