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Abstract: Sustainability is increasingly considered an essential business function, but in Libya, petroleum companies are slow to address operational issues that could reduce environmental concerns. This study aims to evaluate the environmental impacts of upstream petroleum operations. The methods adopted in the study are a literature review, an environmental impact assessment (EIA) study and q...

Environmental consciousness has become critical in the design and operations management. In recent years, the sort of issues that have come to light and drawn the attention of managers has extended staggeringly. Sustainable development is a significant component of growing interest for managers who have to address with social and environmental issues related to the own company as well as their ...

This paper is the first in a proposed series of papers that will try to answer a question commonly directed to the Department of Energy: “How is risk used to make decisions in the Environmental Management (EM) program?” This paper summarizes the role that human health and safety risk plays in DOE cleanup decision-making under CERCLA and RCRA, two main regulatory drivers behind DOE cleanup effor...

A project of the CGIAR systemwide program on Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM), concerned with improving integrated nutrient management practices on small-scale farms in Africa, has been carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for last two years (September 1999 to September 2001). The project aims to enable small-scale farmers to profitably reverse nutrient depletion of their soils b...

How can communities of resource users effectively organize to self-regulate use of shared resources? Can community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) fulfill its promise of enhancing resource management and conservation while improving human lives and livelihoods? These are the central questions driving much research on CBNRM around the world. Since the 1970s, a large volume of mostly ca...

Many States are moving away from a very active role in the supervision of aviation activities. The reasons for this include the large number of inspectors required to perform this function, confusion over safety responsibilities and the need for a large enforcement organization, factors are assumed to contradict the safety culture that is promoted as being an important factor in safety manageme...

Roads perform an important connecting function for the community. At the same time their design, construction and operation are not always easy from the point of view of sustainability. Achieving sustainability in this process requires the undertaking of initiatives such as sound environmental management, water sensitive urban design, use of advanced and recycled materials, and environmentally ...

Within recent years, various concepts have arisen in environmental management that directly address the flow of material (and information) along life cycles or supply chains and thereby relate to inter-organizational management aspects. These include industrial ecology (IE), life-cycle management, closed-loop supply chains, integrated chain management and green/environmental or sustainable supp...

Recent policy directions aimed at improving water quality entering the Great Barrier Reef lagoon require targets to be set for catchment sourced contaminants. Catchment models can assist in identifying pollutant loads and quantifying the impact of ameliorative land management practices on these loads at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. However, the use of catchment models by natural re...