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Review of Indian studies on environmental impact assessment
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Kritika and Anjali Sharma
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 21, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 117–130, https://doi.org/10.1093/inteam/vjae004
Published: 06 January 2025
... management and sustainable development interventions in India. Key points EIA in India started in 1994, under the Environmental protection act but faces challenges with enforcement and compliance. EIA process includes public participation but struggles with poor data, and low-quality reports. EIA...
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Understanding the factors that impact federal rulemaking: a survey of former EPA regulators
Rachel J Topazian and others
Health Affairs Scholar, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2024, qxae125, https://doi.org/10.1093/haschl/qxae125
Published: 03 October 2024
... using members’ profiles to select individuals who had worked in rulemaking offices. Our study sought to understand regulators’ preferred information sources and communication preferences via a survey of former regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA is a highly active...
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Race and Superfund site remediation
Chad M Topaz and others
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PNAS Nexus
PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2024, pgae364, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae364
Published: 23 August 2024
... and inclusion of diverse populations in environmental studies. remediation Environmental Protection Agency Superfund demographics race Significance Statement Motivated by issues of environmental fairness in the United States, we examine the relationship between the cleanup of certain hazardous waste sites...
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Breaking the Mould—Britain’s New Office for Environmental Protection
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Richard Macrory
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 33–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqac019
Published: 12 January 2023
... react to cases brought before them whether by individuals or NGOs, but environmental NGOs have their own priorities and do not necessarily cover all areas of environmental protection’. 12 The European Commission was able to settle the vast majority of its infringement actions by negotiation...
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The Protection of the Environment through International Human Rights Litigation: Taking Stock of Challenges and Opportunities in the Inter-American System
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Diego Mejía-Lemos
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2022, ngac015, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngac015
Published: 18 May 2022
... aspects of environmental protection through international litigation under the American Convention on Human Rights. It examines and places relevant recent developments in the practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights within broader trends in the practice of states and treaty organs of both...
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Experts and climate change politicisation. A case study of the Environmental Protection Agency (1983–2015)
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Loredana Loy
Science and Public Policy, Volume 49, Issue 5, October 2022, Pages 699–713, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac020
Published: 11 April 2022
... provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) between 1983 and 2015, I find that the proportion of climate-related advocacy statements increased over time, yet their prevalence varied with the political context. As the agency’s position-taking on the issue intensified over time, this intensity...
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From Extra-Territorial Leverage and Transnational Environmental Protection to Distortions of Competition: The Level Playing Field in the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
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Giulia Claudia Leonelli
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 33, Issue 3, November 2021, Pages 611–637, https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab010
Published: 03 August 2021
... inquires to what extent the European Union (EU)–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) may help safeguard high levels of transnational environmental protection, taking into consideration potential reductions in UK levels of protection and the ensuing effects. The article encompasses an analysis...
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A review of the status of environmental impact assessment in Pakistan
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Laraib Ehtasham and others
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 18, Issue 2, 1 March 2022, Pages 314–318, https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4499
Published: 01 July 2021
.... The adverse effects of a project can be reduced by incorporating environmental mitigation measures and amendments, which may lead it to achieve environmental protection and sustainable resource utilization (Centre for Science & Environment, 2006 ). Moreover, one of an EIA's basic principles is the active...
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The Atrazine Saga and its Importance to the Future of Toxicology, Science, and Environmental and Human Health
Jason R. Rohr
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Volume 40, Issue 6, 1 June 2021, Pages 1544–1558, https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5037
Published: 01 June 2021
... the USEPA concluding in 2016 that atrazine poses risks to aquatic plants, fish, amphibians, mammals, birds, and reptiles (Farruggia et al. 2016 ), and in 2018, that it poses reproductive and developmental risks to humans, particularly children (US Environmental Protection Agency 2018 ), in 2020, the USEPA...
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Contested Indigeneity and Traditionality in Environmental Litigation: The Politics of Expertise in Regional Human Rights Courts
Marie-Catherine Petersmann
Human Rights Law Review, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 132–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngaa054
Published: 08 January 2021
... and cultural geography, the article develops a critique of the politics of expert-based approaches to conflict management in regional human rights settings. strategic litigation expert networks indigenous peoples Roma minorities environmental protection In order to understand and thus accept you, I...
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Developing the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities to boost the development of low-carbon economy
Weijuan Li and Pengcheng Zhang
International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, Volume 16, Issue 2, May 2021, Pages 305–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctaa066
Published: 03 September 2020
... development and ecological environment protection. At present, the development of a low-carbon economy has become an essential part of green environmental protection. The Kyoto Protocol adopted in Tokyo, Japan, in 1997 is the key to the formation of a low-carbon economic concept. In 2003, the British...
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Challenges Associated with Generating Reliable Nanogram‐per‐Liter Measurements of Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater
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Allison Felix and others
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Volume 39, Issue 8, 1 August 2020, Pages 1526–1533, https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4752
Published: 16 May 2020
... Publication Model (https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights) Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and several states are considering regulatory limits for hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) <100 ng/L, increasing the importance of obtaining accurate and reliable data...
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What is the Purpose of Planning Policy? Reflections on the Revised National Planning Policy Framework 2018
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William Upton
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 135–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqz005
Published: 12 March 2019
... on their intention to increase the delivery of housing. Whilst the framework gives some support for a greater level of environmental protection, we are still a long way off from an integrated planning and environmental system. This analysis looks at how a different approach could have been taken, with reference...
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Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) by-products and their impact: from bioactive compounds to biomass energy and sorbent material for removing contaminants. A review
Raffaella Colombo and Adele Papetti
International Journal of Food Science and Technology, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2019, Pages 943–951, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14143
Published: 01 March 2019
... in photocatalysis and biofuel production are also discussed. All the utilisations attest the great potential of recycling avocado by-products, a little known resource. Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract Utilisation of avocado by-products. Agricultural waste avocado biofuel production environmental...
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Narcissus’ Reflection in the Lake: Untold Narratives in Environmental Law Beyond the Anthropocentric Frame
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Marie-Catherine Petersmann
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 30, Issue 2, July 2018, Pages 235–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqy001
Published: 30 January 2018
...’ is a substantively indeterminate concept that has borne different meanings throughout time and translated different visions of the (legal) relationship between Man and Nature. Over the past centuries, the normative concern for environmental protection emanated from distinct legal, cultural and socio-economic...
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The need to integrate laboratory‐ and ecosystem‐level research for assessment of the ecological impact of radiation
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François Bréchignac
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, 1 October 2016, Pages 673–676, https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1830
Published: 01 October 2016
... in the laboratory, to derive standards for environmental protection (Forbes and Calow 2002 ; Verdonck et al. 2003 ). The discrepancy between individual‐ and ecosystem‐level assessment has been interpreted in terms of methodological weaknesses such as the underestimation of radiation dose in situ. Other...
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Grain production versus resource and environmental costs: towards increasing sustainability of nutrient use in China
Xiaoqiang Jiao and others
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 17, September 2016, Pages 4935–4949, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw282
Published: 03 August 2016
... of the root zone nutrient management to achieve the target of high yields and high efficiency with low environmental risks on a broad scale. Coordinating grain production and environmental protection by increasing the sustainability of nutrient use will be a key step in achieving sustainable crop production...
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A Thundering Silence: Environmental Rights in the Dialogue between the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights
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Ilina Cenevska
Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 28, Issue 2, July 2016, Pages 301–324, https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqw013
Published: 08 July 2016
... Environmental protection Environmental rights Procedural environmental rights Substantive right to a clean environment The human rights protection system established under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR; hereinafter, the Convention) and the European Union’s own human rights protection system...
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A statistical evaluation of the safety factor and species sensitivity distribution approaches to deriving environmental quality guidelines
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Barry Alan Zajdlik
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 2, 1 April 2016, Pages 380–387, https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1694
Published: 01 August 2015
... all species at all times. SFs are used today primarily as a “fall‐back” option, in the event that a preferred method cannot be used. Even when SFs are correctly indexed to sample size, the degree of environmental protection will still vary with the degree of variation in compiled toxicity test...
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EDITOR'S CHOICE
Pesticide Regulation amid the Influence of Industry
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Michelle D. Boone and others
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BioScience
BioScience, Volume 64, Issue 10, October 2014, Pages 917–922, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biu138
Published: 01 September 2014
... are used to determine impacts, particularly if most of the data used in an assessment are produced by a pesticide's manufacturer, which constitutes a conflict of interest. Here, we present the shortcomings of the US Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide risk assessment process, using the recent...
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