With the shift towards sustainable business development, many companies implement function-specific management systems, which can be certified against the corresponding management system standards. The management of the different systems, in particular the management of their documentation, is a very time consuming and costly process. In this context, the paper addresses the issue of the integr...

This study reports the results of problem/designbased education offered by the Environmental Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) through an example of the senior-year Graduation Design Project (GDP), and the outcomes of introducing new environmental management considerations to environmental system design, and impacts of those on the senior-year Environmental Engineeri...

the aim of this study was to determine the environmental risk of pesticide a.i. applied to control insects and fungus in cereal farming in sanliurfa, turkey. in 2013, 8 active ingredients (a.i.) in cereal farming were applied for insect and fungus control in sanliurfa, turkey. these a.i. were alpha-cypermethrin(ec), chlorpyrifos(ec;wp), difenoconazole(ec), indoxacarb(wg), lambda-cyhalothrin(ec)...

[1] Chile’s free-market Water Code turned 20 years old in October 2001. This anniversary was an important milestone for both Chilean and international debates about water policy because Chile has become the world’s leading example of the free-market approach to water law and water resources management, the textbook case of treating water rights not merely as private property but also as a fully...

As information systems become an important competitive advantage for firms in the information age, how to attract and retain IT professionals through compensation plans has been a critical issue in human resource management. This paper presents the rationale of designing compensation for IT professionals based on the perspectives of agency theory and contingency theory. With rapid change in IT ...

A significant technological challenge is the search for appropriate disposal of hazardous waste, It is evident that technologies that are simple, practical and economical for use should be developed, and they should both safeguard public health and reduce environmental pollution. Temporal disposal on the ground surface is a common approach in many European countries, a technique that could cont...

This paper provides a framework through which a dynamic resource management problem with potential regime shifts can be analyzed both in a strategic environment and from a social planner's perspective. Based on a fairly general model, a condition for a precautionary policy is discussed. By applying the framework to a common-property resource problemwith a linear production technology, we illust...

An initial step in hazard and risk assessment for an environmental contaminant is to identify the adverse effects resulting from exposure to a contaminant. What constitutes an adverse effect is not defined in environmental health legislation but is broadly defined in Federal risk assessment guidelines. For example, the EPA Integrated Risk Information System defines an adverse effect as “a bioch...

The present study was conducted to assess the possible risks induced by construction of Gavi Dam in Ilam Province; western part of Iran, using MIKE-11 model and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution. For this purpose, vulnerable zone of the dam site against the flooding risk of Gavi River was calculated for different return periods. The flooding zones were stimulated...