the international economy the environment and development

... addressing the whole field of environment and development The Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment (1972), the World Charter for Nature (1982), and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development ... Government of the Netherlands and the International Council of Environmental Law for providing the means to support our work And finally, we are indebted to the staff of the IUCN Environmental ... the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to utilize their resources to meet their environmental and developmental needs, and the duty to ensure...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... for Environment and Development Industry: Producing More with Less The Urban Challenge III International Cooperation and Institutional Reform The Role of the International Economy Managing the ... Security, Development, and the Environment 86 Among the dangers facing the environment, the possibility of nuclear war is undoubtedly the gravest Certain aspects of the issues of peace and security ... strengthening their institutions The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) should be strengthened as the principal source on environmental data, assessment, and reporting and as the principal advocate and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... they have are simply too limited Furthermore, the high profits from wildlife trade enable traders to afford fines and bribes This indicates the need to review the structure of the fines and the ... Trade Barbier and Swanson (1990), Bulte and Soest (1996), Bulte and Kooten (1999), Khanna and Harford (1996), and Simmons and Krueter (1989) investigated the effects, advantages, and disadvantages ... estimated the volume of trade in the Longyao port on June 29 and at the Dongxing port on July 27, 1994 The volumes of wildlife imported to China from Vietnam through the Longyao port and the Dongxing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2016, 16:42

... 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 ... however, the likely audience lacks the training or background to understand the model, or the implications and caveats of the results, then considerable effort is required to explain the model and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... CHAPTER – THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CEREAL PLANT 24 THE WHEAT BOOK THE WHEAT BOOK CHAPTER – THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CEREAL PLANT THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CEREAL ... a leaf are the tip of the blade and the top of the sheath Where the blade and sheath join, there are structures called the ligule and the auricles (Figure 2.3) Characteristics of the shoot plant ... structure of the stem and leaf of the wheat plant 27 CHAPTER – THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CEREAL PLANT DESCRIPTION OF THE WHEAT PLANT THE WHEAT BOOK (continued) at their bases, so the oldest...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... 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

... 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 ... wells and other equipment throughout the development, operational and post-abandonment lifetime of the plant (well pad) so as to avoid the risk of surface and/ or groundwater contamination The challenge ... characterise these effects The study identified a number of issues as presenting a high risk for people and the environment These issues and their significance are summarised in the following...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... 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 ... describe the relationship between odor pollution and the detection instrumentation: Survey of the biogenic odor emissions in the environment and their abatement methods Overview of the current development...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... regulators, and engineers understand the factors that affect the environmental fate of pharmaceuticals in soil and water to facilitate the development of best management practices and optimize ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... 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 ... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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 ... 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 ... impact the environment is directly influenced by their mobility and persistence in animal wastes and soils As a result, many studies have examined the dissipation and partitioning of these contaminants...

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

... 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 ... 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 ... 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

... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems O– Reaction and Transformation of Antibacterial Agents with Aqueous Chlorine 267 of the aniline N and the other corresponding ... 12.2a) and reaches a maximum at the pH near the average of the pKas © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 274 Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems of HOCl and ... Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems chlorine conditions, confirming that the hydrazone side-chain is the reactive site and the quinoxaline N,N´-dioxide and quinoxaline...

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