To Label or Not to Label? – It's More than a Nano-sized Question

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel D’Silva ◽  
Diana Megan Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

Nanomaterial Safety: The Regulators' Dilemma

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Jaspers
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

How to Avoid International Trade Conflicts

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Jaspers
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Trade Conflicts ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

Environmentally Relevant Aspects of Nanomaterials in Products at the End-of-life Phase

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Gazsó ◽  
Daniela Fuchs ◽  
Sabine Greßler ◽  
Iris Gruber ◽  
Florian Part ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Scientific Freedom ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Insight Into

This section is meant to give readers an insight into the emerging field of nanotechnologies and risk regulation. It informs and updates readers on the latest European and international developments in nanotechnologies and risk regulation across different sectors (e.g., chemicals, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) and policy areas (e.g., environmental protection, occupational health and consumer product, food and drug safety). The section analyzes how existing regulatory systems deal with new kinds of risks and reviews recent regulatory developments with a focus on how best to combine scientific freedom and technological progress with a responsible development and commercialization of nanotechnologies.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of Environmental Regulation’s Impact on Green Technological Progress—Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1600
Author(s):  
Weijiang Liu ◽  
Mingze Du ◽  
Yuxin Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry

As the world’s largest developing country, and as the home to many of the world’s factories, China plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of the world economy regarding environmental protection, energy conservation, and emission reduction issues. Based on the data from 2003–2015, this paper examined the green total factor productivity and the technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was used to measure the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC) by decomposing the technological progress. It also investigated the mechanism of environmental regulation, property right structure, enterprise-scale, energy consumption structure, and other factors on China’s technological progress bias. The empirical results showed the following: (1) there was a bias of technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry during the research period; (2) although China’s manufacturing industry’s output tended to become greener, it was still characterized by a preference for overall CO2 output; and (3) the impact of environmental regulations on the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological progress had a significant threshold effect. The flexible control of environmental regulatory strength will benefit the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological development. (4) R&D investment, export delivery value, and structure of energy consumption significantly contributed to promoting technological progress. This study provides further insight into the sustainable development of China’s manufacturing sector to promote green-biased technological progress and to achieve the dual goal of environmental protection and healthy economic growth.

scholarly journals How Does the Arctic Council Support Conservation of Arctic Biodiversity?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5042
Author(s):  
Tom Barry ◽  
Brynhildur Daviðsdóttir ◽  
Níels Einarsson ◽  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
Insight Into

The Arctic Council is an intergovernmental forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic states, indigenous communities, and peoples on issues of common importance. The rising geo-political importance of the Arctic and the onset of climate change has resulted in the Council becoming a focus of increasing interest from both inside and beyond the Arctic. This has resulted in new demands placed on the Council, attracting an increasing number of participants, and instigating a period of transformation as Arctic states work to find a way to balance conflicting demands to improve the Council’s effectiveness and take care of national interests. This paper considers whether, during this time of change, the Council is having an impact on the issues it was formed to address, i.e., environmental protection and sustainable development. To provide answers, it looks at how the Council reports on and evaluates progress towards the implementation of recommendations it makes regarding biodiversity, how it identifies where activities have had impacts and uncovers the mechanisms through which they were successful, to provide an insight into how the Arctic Council can be an agent of change.

scholarly journals Potency and power

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Tessaro
Keyword(s):  
National Health ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cosmetic Products ◽  
Women Consumers ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Estrogen Regulation ◽  
New Type ◽  
Response Thresholds

Building on a rich body of feminist scholarship on estrogen, this account interrogates how potent estrogenic cosmetics and consumer product labels emerged together, through the regulatory practices of scientists and lawyers, in mid-century Canada. Composed from archival and other primary sources, the story traces the development of Canada’s first cosmetic regulations – which applied only to cosmetic products containing estrogens. In 1944, “sex hormones” had been the first substances for which the Department of National Health and Welfare adopted labels in lieu of dose or potency standards under the Food and Drugs Act. With dose-response thresholds thus written out of the Sex Hormone Regulations, in 1949, regulators devised a new type of consumer product label that warned women to use estrogenic cosmetic products “with care”. Further regulatory amendments in 1950 appeared, on their face, to require positive proof of safety for estrogenic cosmetics, However, through varied administrative and enforcement practices that hinged upon “directions for use” in product labels, National Health officials quietly reintroduced dose-response logics back into estrogen regulation. As legal technologies for disciplining women consumers to regulate their own exposures, product labels were becoming instrumental. With labeling, estrogen catalyzed an early example of risk regulation in Canada.

The Integration of Safety, Environmental and Quality Management Systems

2005 ◽  
pp. 304-316
Author(s):  
Werner Strauss ◽  
Klaus-Dieter Herrmann ◽  
Christoph Roenick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Legal Security

This chapter will show how the demands on safety, environmental and quality management systems and their implementation into IT solutions have changed over the years and how such systems may appear in the future. Tangible business processes from the areas of occupational health and safety and environmental protection are described and a solution shown as to how these can be dealt with in a task-related way. Furthermore, there will be shown the connection between these business processes and the relevant legislation and the special benefits pertaining to legal security. Following this we describe how the linking of IT systems mentioned with scientific management systems with the primary processes of the company can be arranged. We also provide a look at the benefits arising from using such systems. The chapter concludes with a critical look at the future distribution and use of such integrated, process-oriented and legally based management systems. This chapter is particularly directed to companies that have set the carrying out of the material-related legal requirements and cost reduction through thought-out product use as a corporate objective. The concept of a networked corporate occupational health and safety and environmental protection information system and its implementation as a standard product will be introduced. Core components include basic data maintenance, modules for supporting decentralised specialised tasks and an efficient reporting system used at all locations and linked to an intranet.

scholarly journals Environmental monitoring odds by carbon nanotubes

2021 ◽  
Vol 342 ◽  
pp. 03022
Author(s):  
Marwan S. Mousa ◽  
Ildiko Tulbure ◽  
Saleh Fawaeer
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Nanotubes ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Environmental Sensors ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Technological Field ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Club Of Rome

After the Conference for Environment in Stockholm 1972 and the first report to the Club of Rome „Limits of the Growth“, which has been published in same year, was finally understood, that the technological progress can bring also undesired effects. As a consequence of the recognized situation, debates on a global level have started concerning potential solutions. After long debates on scientific as well as on sociopolitical levels, the concept of Sustainable Development has been defined in the Brundtland Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, as a potential answer. Many actions after this time emphasize that the evolution of technical, economic, as well as environmental and social systems has to be approached by considering physical, chemical, biological, economic and social processes. Registered advances in technological field combined with the field of physics, as representing basics for developments and advances in nanotechnology have emphasized the existence of its multiple using odds also in environmental field. In particular, the application of carbon nanotubes, CNTs for environmental protection seems to bring advance in this field. A first step is represented by designing environmental sensors by using CNTs in order to carry out suitable environmental monitoring for environmental protection.

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