Ethics and responsibilities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Winser ◽  
James Moore ◽  
Jim Bond ◽  
Rebecca Harris ◽  
Amy Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Clinical Competence ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
The Media

Ethics of expeditions - Clinical competence - Care of local staff - Interacting with local communities - Working with other expeditions - Environmental impact - Assessing an expedition’s environmental footprint - Working with the media - Disaster medicine

Ethics and responsibilities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Winser ◽  
James Moore ◽  
Jim Bond ◽  
Rebecca Harris ◽  
Amy Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Clinical Competence ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
The Media

Ethics of expeditions - Clinical competence - Care of local staff - Interacting with local communities - Working with other expeditions - Environmental impact - Assessing an expedition’s environmental footprint - Working with the media - Disaster medicine

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND CSR IN PETROLEUM REFINING COMPANIES IN GREECE: CONTENT AND GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE (GRI) ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
pp. 1650013
Author(s):  
THEODORE METAXAS ◽  
MARIA TSAVDARIDOU
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Petroleum Refining ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Corporate Social

The environmental policy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are two notions of high importance for enterprises and nations. Numerous pages have been written about the environmental policy of companies in their CSR reports. Whether it concerns to raise environmental awareness among their employees or local communities or to give in detail their environmental footprint at the end of the story it is about giving proofs of their environmental policy. Climate change is among the topics of CSR reports and is under examination in this paper. A case study analysis will be applied in order to present how climate change is interpreted in the CSR reports of Greek companies from the petroleum refining industry.

scholarly journals Does Circular Reuse of Chickpea Cooking Water to Produce Vegan Mayonnaise Reduce Environmental Impact Compared with Egg Mayonnaise?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4726
Author(s):  
Sophie Saget ◽  
Marcela Costa ◽  
David Styles ◽  
Mike Williams
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Oil Processing ◽  
Attributional Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Cooking Water ◽  
Renewable Electricity Generation

Consumers are increasingly asking for foods that are healthier, more humane, and environmentally sustainable. Recently, chickpea cooking water—aquafaba—has gained popularity as a potential egg substitute that complies with these criteria. However, research on the environmental impact of this ingredient is lacking. We performed a comparative attributional life cycle assessment (LCA) of mayonnaise made with aquafaba as the emulsifying agent, and traditional mayonnaise made with egg yolk. The vegan mayonnaise was found not to be as environmentally sustainable as the egg-based product. The vegan mayonnaise had a significantly (p < 0.05) lower impact across 4 categories, but a significantly higher impact across 8 categories out of 16, including climate change and resource-use-energy-carriers. The majority of categories under which vegan mayonnaise underperformed were related to the electricity needed for aquafaba processing. These impacts can be mitigated with a “cleaner” electricity grid, or onsite renewable electricity generation. Substituting the Mexican grid, where the aquafaba is currently processed, for the Canadian grid, where the mayonnaise is produced, reduced the carbon footprint of the vegan mayonnaise by 37%, making it similar to the egg-based product. As sunflower oil production was linked to extensive environmental burdens, we performed additional sensitivity analyses around oil processing, sunflower production, and other vegetable oils. Our study shows that substituting egg yolk with aquafaba could cause an increase in the environmental footprint of mayonnaise due to high processing costs, illustrating that vegan options do not always have a smaller environmental footprint, and can represent a trade-off in their comparatively more humane and healthier offer.

MEDIA ARCHITECTURE IN URBAN SPACE: PROBLEMS AND NEGATIVE PRACTICES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.П. Птичникова ◽  
О.В. Королева ◽  
О.В. Черничкина
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
The Media

Статья посвящена исследованию проблем интеграции объектов медиаархитектуры в сложившееся городское пространство. Являясь частью нового, творческого и интеллектуального обогащения городской среды, медиаархитектура оказывает значительное культурное, социальное и экологическое влияние на городское окружение. Целью работы являются определение и классификация проблем, связанных с негативным воздействием объектов медиаархитектуры на окружающую среду в контексте общественных пространств, а также ночной городской среды. The article is devoted to the study of the problems of integration of media objects in the existing urban space. As part of a new, creative and intellectual enrichment of the urban environment, the media architecture has a significant cultural, social and environmental impact on the urban environment. The aim of the work is to identify and classify the problems associated with the negative impact of media architecture objects on the environment in the context of public spaces, as well as the night city environment.

scholarly journals Environmental Impact of the Average Hong Kong Diet: A Case for Adopting Sustainable Diets in Urban Centers

Challenges ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Tsz Wing Tang ◽  
Tanja Sobko
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Sustainable Diets ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Global Population

As global population growth continues, the rapidly increasing demand for food and the environmental impact of this demand is a growing concern. Most food in Hong Kong is imported, which has implications for the associated environmental footprint. The carbon and water footprints (CF and WF) of the average Hong Kong diet were estimated from available sources and compared to well-accepted sustainable diets to characterize environmental sustainability. The total CF was 5701.90 g CO2-eq per capita/day, and the WF was 4782.31 L per capita/day. While meat products contributed only 22% to the weight, they were responsible for 57% and 53% of the total CF and WF, respectively. The impacts of the Hong Kong diet were greater than those of well-accepted sustainable diets, possibly due to the heavy consumption of meat and the import of foods. This confirms an urgency to increase environmental awareness among Hong Kong’s consumers and make interventions toward the adoption of sustainable, plant-based diets.

Entering history? Archaeologists as intellectuals à la recherche du temps perdu

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Schlanger
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

AbstractFollowing some comments on the notion of ‘public’ intellectuals (can they be otherwise?), this brief paper focuses on the intellectual roles that could be played by archaeologists today. Exposure to the media, usually following some spectacular discovery, serves to confirm the romantico-empirical image of the discipline, but should also lead to an engagement with key public debates. Three such debates are indicated: the idea that ‘African man has yet to enter history’ as expressed by the former French president; the creation of a Maison de l'histoire de France under the tutelage of the Ministry of National Identity; and, across the Channel, the Localism Bill, which pushes decision making to an untenably low level while promoting a historically and archaeologically questionable view of local communities.

Cost optimisation and minimisation of the environmental impact through life cycle analysis of the waste water treatment plant of Bree (Belgium)

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. De Gussem ◽  
T. Wambecq ◽  
J. Roels ◽  
A. Fenu ◽  
G. De Gueldre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Waste Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Aeration Tank ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Recirculation Flow

An ASM2da model of the full-scale waste water plant of Bree (Belgium) has been made. It showed very good correlation with reference operational data. This basic model has been extended to include an accurate calculation of environmental footprint and operational costs (energy consumption, dosing of chemicals and sludge treatment). Two optimisation strategies were compared: lowest cost meeting the effluent consent versus lowest environmental footprint. Six optimisation scenarios have been studied, namely (i) implementation of an online control system based on ammonium and nitrate sensors, (ii) implementation of a control on MLSS concentration, (iii) evaluation of internal recirculation flow, (iv) oxygen set point, (v) installation of mixing in the aeration tank, and (vi) evaluation of nitrate setpoint for post denitrification. Both an environmental impact or Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based approach for optimisation are able to significantly lower the cost and environmental footprint. However, the LCA approach has some advantages over cost minimisation of an existing full-scale plant. LCA tends to chose control settings that are more logic: it results in a safer operation of the plant with less risks regarding the consents. It results in a better effluent at a slightly increased cost.

scholarly journals Nutrition-Oriented Reformulation of Extruded Cereals and Associated Environmental Footprint: A Case Study

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1260
Author(s):  
Namy Espinoza-Orias ◽  
Antonis Vlassopoulos ◽  
Gabriel Masset
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Food System ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Nutritional Composition ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Land Use Impacts

The global food system faces a dual challenge for the decades ahead: to (re)formulate foods capable to feed a growing population while reducing their environmental footprint. In this analysis, nutritional composition, recipe, and sourcing data were analyzed alongside five environmental indicators: climate change (CC), freshwater consumption scarcity (FWCS), abiotic resource depletion (ARD), land use impacts on biodiversity (LUIB), and impacts on ecosphere/ecosystems quality (IEEQ) to assess improvement after three reformulation cycles (2003, 2010, 2018) in three extruded breakfast cereals. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed using life cycle inventory (LCI) composed by both primary data from the manufacturer and secondary data from usual third-party LCI datasets. Reformulation led to improved nutritional quality for all three products. In terms of environmental impact, improvements were observed for the CC, ARD, and IEEQ indicators, with average reductions of 12%, 14%, and 2% between 2003 and 2018, respectively. Conversely, the FWCS and LUIB indicators were increased by 57% and 70%, respectively. For all indicators but ARD, ingredients contributed most to the environmental impact. This study highlights the need for further focus on the selection of less demanding ingredients and improvements in agricultural practices in order to achieve environmental and nutritional improvements.

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