The main aims of solid waste management are to protect the environment and human health; and, to conserve natural resources. However, increasing consumption, environmental issues and resource depletion threaten its sustainability. Solid waste management policies usually fail to reduce consumption, decrease environmental impacts, conserve raw materials and develop sustainable products. These pro...

This article describes the benefits of implementing an environmental management system (EMS) conforming to the ISO 14001 standard in Polish companies. Experience shows that implementing an environmental management system in a company can bring a number of benefits, not only for the company itself but also to the whole surrounding environment. Prevention of pollution, which is the idea underlyin...

Adaptive management, an approach for simultaneously managing and learning about natural resources, has been around for several decades. Interest in adaptive decision making has grown steadily over that time, and by now many in natural resources conservation claim that adaptive management is the approach they use in meeting their resource management responsibilities. Yet there remains considerab...

58 The challenges and realities in applying effective software risk management processes are difficult, in particular integrating the 59 risk management processes into software development organizations. However, the benefits of implementing effective risk manage60 ment tools and techniques in software development project are equally great. Current perceptions and emerging trends of various 61 ...

Recent approaches to community – based natural resource management appear diverse as their varied implementing agencies and natural resource settings; yet they rest on a set of common assumptions about community, natural resources and the relationship between them. This paper focuses on power relations between actors and how these set the framework for resource management in Duru – Haitemba. As...