human rights the environment and armed conflict

... volume fracturing of some tight gas and conventional reservoirs in the southern part of the North Sea and in onshore Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK Preliminary indications are that ... to the risk to the environment and human health of such operations in the EU An analysis of all EU 27 Member States’ legislation and standards was outside the scope of this study, as was the ... tight gas and conventional reservoirs in the southern part of the North Sea and in Ref: AEA/ED57281/Issue Number 17 Support to the identification of potential risks for the environment and human...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... overview of the key issues to be taken into account for a better understanding of the impact of the conflict on the SRH rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict They should ... CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS On basis of the outcome of the outcome of the literature review, the interviews, the focus group discussions and the visits to the camps and settlements conclusions and ... research for the Belgian Development Co-operation into the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict The basic assumption of the guide is that sexual and reproductive...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... individuals and groups who enrich themselves at the expense of the citizens and the state This phenomenon has plagued the country for decades In the past, factions within the national armed forces of the ... resources and environmental factors in these conflict dynamics In the 1990s, regional conflict, resultant displacement and influxes of refugees shifted land ownership and control in the Kivus Further, ... non-governmental and governmental agencies and academic institutions working to promote coordinated responses and analyses to violent conflict The Association for the Protection of Human Rights and the Rights...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... chemistry and is a founder member and former chairman of the Environment Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and editor of ‘Industry and the Environment in Perspective’ (RSC, 1983) and ‘Understanding ... IN THE SERIES: Mining and its Environmental Impact Waste Incineration and the Environment Waste Treatment and Disposal Volatile Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere Agricultural Chemicals and the ... a number of new applications The colour of the emitted light depends on the size of the dot: the larger the dot, the redder the light As the dots become smaller, the emitted light becomes shorter...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2016, 20:27

... benefits from the good or asset Much of the focus of the property rights literature is on understanding the nature of the rights, who has them, and the outcomes associated with these rights In this ... growth and the environment, and the interconnections in the global commons also requires that we understand the broad dynamics and feedback effects of the systems we wish to understand Whatever the ... hypotheses about the processes for which the model is being built These hypotheses help dictate the model we ultimately formulate, along with the existing models in the literature The hypotheses...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... using the new standard, it found that one fully met the standard, and the second barely missed meeting the standard due to formaldehyde off-gassing The company worked to address the off-gassing and ... agencies better understand the environmental implications of lean manufacturing and to help them adjust environmental management and regulatory initiatives to boost the environmental and economic benefits ... examine further the relationship between lean manufacturing and environmental performance and the regulatory framework The goal of this effort is to help public environmental agencies understand ways...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... reference to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Articles 31 and 32, the nature of the armed conflict, the extent of the armed conflict, the effect of the armed conflict on the treaty, the treaty ... instance, the relationship between armed conflict and the environment) , the Martens Clause stipulates that States should respect a minimum standard as established by the standards of “humanity” and the ... between human rights and the environment The 2005 UN Secretary-General’s report on Human Rights and Environment as part of Sustainable Development acknowledges that the work carried out by human rights...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... onto the instrument through the head of the chromatographic column The sample is then transported through the column by the flow of the inert and gaseous mobile phase of the carrier gas Later, the ... of the interaction between the odorous molecules of butyl mercaptan present in the nose cavity and the sensory cells A.Yuwono and P Schulze Lammers “Odor Pollution in the Environment and the ... phase The chemical state of the environment with its different compounds determines the complete analytical information A.Yuwono and P Schulze Lammers “Odor Pollution in the Environment and the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... research The use of “emerging” is not intended to infer that the presence of these compounds in the environment is new These chemicals have been released into the environment as long as they have ... production or, in the case of hormones and other endogenous compounds, since the rise of animal life What is emerging is the interest by the scientific and lay communities in the presence of these chemicals ... defines the composition and concentrations of PPCPs in potential sources and their fate and effects following release into the environment Independent of the drivers that potentially fuel the interest...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... drugs of abuse, and some human metabolites in the aquatic environment are discussed.17–19 The recent trends in multiresidue methodologies for the determination of the drugs and their human metabolites ... commonly on the basis of their consumption in the country where the study is being conducted, the rate of metabolism of drugs, the environmental occurrence, and persistence in the environment ... close to the landfill Two studies also reported the occurrence of barbiturates in the environment, pentobarbital and 5,5-diallylbarituric acid in groundwater70 and phenobarbital and the metabolite...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... that the unwanted matrix can be captured in the SPE sorbent while the analytes pass through the cartridge and are collected for further concentration Either way, the main purpose of SPE is the ... where the sorbent is “wetted.” Solvents are used to rinse the sorbent and to allow contact of the analytes with the solid phase The next step involves the “loading” of the sample onto the cartridge ... analytes and humic acids is passed through tandem SAX and HLB SPE cartridges The humics are retained by the SAX cartridge and the tetracyclines pass through to the HLB cartridge, where they are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... concentration, on the one hand, and the experimental determination of a no-effect concentration (NOEC) of the pharmaceutical on the other hand.3,4 Because the aquatic environment represents the primary ... mg/L), and the blank solution were incubated with the preadapted microorganisms for 27 days The biological degradation of the test and reference substances was evaluated by the measurement of the ... case the cell number was determined via measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence The increase of biomass and the growth rate was calculated on the basis of the cell counts The calculated biomass and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems reviews our understanding of the inputs of livestock medicines to the environment and synthesizes the available information on the fate and ... be incorporated into the calculation The model calculated the concentration of the veterinary medicine in animal manure and then uses the nitrogen content of the manure and the maximum spreading ... the soil environment and their subsequent fate and transport There is clearly a large body of data available on veterinary medicines in the soil environment, and it is timely to begin to further...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... on the degradation of antibiotics and hormones in the environment 6.2 ASSESSING CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT IN SOIL ENVIRONMENTS The potential for antibiotics and hormones to contaminate and ... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems TABLE 6.1 (Continued) 2.28j 7.42j Human therapeutic; Livestock growth promoter and prophylactic 253.27 1.85j 5.29j Human and veterinary therapeutic ... reducing the mobility and persistence of these antibiotics in the environment 6.3.2 DEGRADATION IN MANURE AND SOIL Lee et al.8 and Kumar et al.11 have recently reviewed the literature on the degradation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... the slurry These organisms were selected for the preliminary trial because of their ease of detection, relevance, and availability The slurry was then poured onto the surface of the columns The ... of these characteristics, it is important to understand the survival and mobility of these microorganisms in the environment Several researchers have reported E coli surviving up to weeks, and ... so that the bottom of the soil column rested firmly on the sand Soil columns were allowed to drain, and those with drainage times of 24 to 48 h were chosen for the experiment and were randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... deposited onto the soil surface For most plants the top soil layer is the most important interface with their environment, providing support and protection of the roots and, at the same time, ... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems was formed (40 to 960 mL, dependent on the soil), sampled from the collecting dish, weighed, and aliquoted At the end of the experiment the ... leaching potential Therefore, the later uptake was less in the sandy soil due to depletion of the compound in the pore water Sulfamethazine is more mobile and is therefore taken up first and depleted...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems Phytoremediation, the application of plants and their associated microbes to enhance biodegradation of contaminants in the environment, ... as Phase III of the detoxification pathway, and the end result for the xenobiotic differs depending on the organism In plants, the GSH-conjugated xenobiotic is either stored in the cell’s vacuole ... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems protein and nucleic acid synthesis, including modulation of enzyme activity and adaptation to environmental stress.28 Environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... drugs throughout the world, their partial metabolism after ingestion, and inconsistencies in the way they are disposed make their presence in the aquatic environment inevitable Their sources in ... expected in the environment, their constant infusion can cause them to become more persistent and, therefore, even if the half-lives of these compounds are short, long-term exposure effects and combinatory ... what does and does not work in remediating the presence of drugs in drinking water There is no question that subtherapeutic doses of these compounds are finding their way into the surface and groundwaters...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... tendency Dow is the ratio of the sum of the concentrations of all species of the compound in octanol to the sum of the concentrations of all species of the compound in water, and its value highly ... Disruptors and Pharmaceuticals 255 The authors are grateful for the kind assistance and support from their colleagues in the Water Quality Research & Development Division of the Southern Nevada ... are for the neutral form of the molecules For these species, the octanol–water distribution coefficient (Dow) should be more appropriate to represent their hydrophobicity and relate to their removal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20