Environmental issue linkage as an electoral advantage: the case of NAFTA

he Coronavirus pandemic that spread around the world in the first half of 2020 brought impacts to society that will be registered for an extended period. In this paper, the effects showed an impossibility to maintain the progress of mineral research made by professionals in the academic and scientific areas. In an attempt to find justifications in the legal order of the mineral industry, to continue the work, it was faced with imposing environmental legislation that made a claim even more difficult. It was found that the Mining Code in place no longer regulates the activities of extraction of mineral specimens for museums, educational establishments and other scientific purposes. This left the legal security tied only to the interpretation of legal provisions in articles of the code and its regulation, as well as procedure manuals for environmental inspection bodies, and therefore, subject to the consequences of legal disputes with final decisions in higher courts, given the claim of superiority of the environmental issue over mining. Keywords: Coronavirus, pandemic, environmental legislation, mining code

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Pharmaceutical waste as a new environmental issue

Remedium Journal about the Russian market of medicines and medical equipment ◽

10.21518/1561-5936-2017-11-14-19 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 14-19

Author(s):

Julia Prozherina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Environmental Issue ◽

Pharmaceutical Waste

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Uncertainty about the risks associated with microplastics among lay and topic-experienced respondents

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-86569-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Christina J. Thiele ◽

Malcolm D. Hudson

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Environmental Issue ◽

Contaminants Of Emerging Concern ◽

Online Questionnaire ◽

Present Part ◽

Fact Checking ◽

Level Of Concern ◽

People’S Perceptions

AbstractMicroplastics are contaminants of emerging concern but there is currently a lack of evidence on actual risks relating to them, despite claims in media and scientific articles. Research on people’s perceptions on microplastics is in its infancy. Here we present part of a larger survey about people’s perceptions of issues with microplastics. Our analysis of 1681 responses across the globe to an online questionnaire demonstrates a certain level of uncertainty, not only in lay people but also respondents who study/work on the topic of plastics and microplastics as a pollutant. This uncertainty ranges from level of concern about microplastics as an environmental issue to existing evidence for effects. Further, there is some discrepancy between risk perception and state of the research. Some of this may be driven by scientific work with some serious limitations in reporting and methods. This highlights the need for fact-checking of circulating information about microplastics, but also for addressing the discordance between ecotoxicological risk and how risk is framed within the scientific community.

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