India: country report on children’s environmental health

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Narayanaswamy Bangalore Thimmadasiah ◽  
Tushar Kant Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Industrial Chemicals ◽  
Country Report ◽  
Children’S Environmental Health ◽  
Improved Sanitation ◽  
The One

AbstractChildren contribute substantially to the burden of disease in India. Most common are problems with outdoor and household air pollution, with solutions not immediately apparent or implementable. Children are also often exposed to heavy metals, industrial chemicals and pesticides. Despite advances in some regions, many children still do not have adequate access to clean water and improved sanitation. Infectious diseases remain a problem, especially for children living in poverty. The children of these regions are now facing the dual problems of undernutrition and stunting on the one hand, and overnutrition and obesity on the other.

scholarly journals Reagents Activity in a Copper Droplets / Post-Processing Slag Suspension

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
W. Wołczyński ◽  
J. Karwan-Baczewska ◽  
K. Najman ◽  
A.W. Bydałek
Keyword(s):  
Buoyancy Force ◽  
Liquid Slag ◽  
The Other ◽  
Slag Viscosity ◽  
Flash Furnace ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Industrial Chemicals ◽  
Crucible Bottom ◽  
The One

Abstract The suspension of the copper droplets in the post-processing slag taken directly from the KGHM-Polska Miedź S.A. Factory (from the direct-to-blister technology as performed in the flash furnace) was subjected to the special treatment with the use of the one of the typical industrial reagent and with the complex reagent newly patented by the authors. This treatment was performed in the BOLMET S.A. Company in the semi-industrial conditions. The result of the CaCO3, and Na2CO3 chemicals influence on the coagulation and subsequent sedimentation of copper droplets on the crucible bottom were subjected to comparison with the sedimentation forced by the mentioned complex reagent. The industrial chemicals promoted the agglomeration of copper droplets but the coagulation was arrested / blocked by the formation of the lead envelope. Therefore, buoyancy force forced the motion of the partially coagulated copper droplets towards the liquid slag surface rather than sedimentation on the crucible bottom. On the other hand, the complex reagent was able to influence the mechanical equilibrium between copper droplets and some particles of the liquid slag as well as improve the slag viscosity. Finally, the copper droplets coagulated successfully and generally, were subjected to a settlement on the crucible bottom as desired / requested.

The Volkswagen Scandal - Air Pollution and Administrative Inertia

elni Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 64-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nox Emissions ◽  
The One

This contribution deals with the manipulation of NOX emissions from Volkswagen diesel cars on the one hand, and with the manipulation of CO2 emissions from diesel and petrol cars by Volkswagen on the other. The scandal became public in 2015. Volkswagen is a German car manufacturer; to the company also belong Porsche, Audi, Skoda, Scania, Ducati, Seat, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Quattro.

On the Methods for Calculating the Size of Harm to the Environment, Сaused by Аir Рollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
A.S. Tulupov ◽  
A.F. Mudretsov ◽  
M.G. Prokopyev
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
Pollution Damage ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The One ◽  
Waste Accumulation ◽  
Stationary Sources ◽  
Air Pollution Damage

The analysis of the Method developed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation for calculating the amount of damage to the environment caused by air pollution. In accordance with the calculation tools proposed in the method, the damage caused to the environment by excessive emissions of stationary sources of atmospheric air pollution, as well as from agricultural fires and from combustion at waste disposal sites, including landfills, temporary waste accumulation sites and unauthorized landfills, has been estimated. It is shown that, on the one hand, the adoption of a methods for assessing air pollution damage is strategically important, since there is currently a significant gap in this field of methodic support for harm assessment. On the other hand, the required Methods needs to be corrected.

Integrierter Schutz vor gefährlichen Stoffen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Löffler
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Environmental Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Reach Regulation

Many environmental problems occurring in modern industrial society are caused by hazardous substances, in particular organic chemicals and heavy metals. They pollute the environmental media water, air and soil, change their material composition and can cause changes in the functioning of the human body and of ecosystems through their absorption. The causes for the arising environmental problems lie, on the one hand, in knowledge gaps regarding hazardous substances, their properties and effects, but on the other hand, also in legal deficiencies, such as ineffective regulatory concepts and incoherences between different regulatory areas. To this end, this work analyses whether and how the REACH Regulation affects sectoral environmental law – in the form of water and immission control legislation - and to what extent these regulatory areas ensure coherent and effective protection of man and the environment against hazardous substances.

Children's environmental health based on birth cohort studies of Asia (2) – air pollution, pesticides, and heavy metals

2019 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 108754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng-Shan Tsai ◽  
Mei-Huei Chen ◽  
Ching-Chun Lin ◽  
Chen-Yu Liu ◽  
Pau-Chung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Children’S Environmental Health

scholarly journals Malaysia: country report on children’s environmental health

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Rozaini Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Country Report ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Children’S Environmental Health ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Waste Incinerators

AbstractChildren’s environmental health (CEH) has become a main agenda in the National Environmental Health Action Plan (NEHAP) 2019 in Malaysia. Children are affected by exposure to many environmental hazards because they are uniquely vulnerable due to their immature immune systems and organs. This country report aims to review the environmental threats to CEH in Malaysia. There are a few key issues that have been identified, including air pollution, pesticides in food and water pollution. However, air pollution has been recognized as one of the major concerns in CEH, coming from both localized and transboundary sources. The localized sources include traffic-related air pollutants, industrial waste incinerators, land clearing and open burning. In addition, due to the tropical climate, children are exposed to fungal toxins, mycotoxins, endotoxins and allergens from classroom dust. Transboundary pollutants from neighboring countries result in recurring haze episodes in Malaysia, causing a negative impact on public health, especially in children. All in all, improving CEH in Malaysia requires all stakeholders and related agencies to recognize the issue as a problem, to develop a harmonized action plan and to work together to promote the protection of human health, specifically of children.

scholarly journals Air Pollution Mortality in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden

2009 ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Ulla Lehmijoki ◽  
Elena Rovenskaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Environmental Kuznets Curve ◽  
The Other ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The One ◽  
The Baltic

The adverse health consequences of air pollution are of concern currently and there is a fear that these consequences escalate along with economic growth. The effect of economic growth on air pollution deaths is analyzed in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden by applying the Environmental Kuznets Curve approach, according to which economic growth has competing effects on air pollution and related deaths. On the one hand, emissions tend to increase as the scale of economic activity increases, but on the other hand, consumers and firms in richer countries use cleaner goods and adopt cleaner technologies. In Denmark and Finland, the latter effects are stronger, while in Sweden the opposite is true. Therefore, air pollution deaths will decrease in Denmark and Finland but increase in Sweden. Since country's own emissions do not determine air pollution completely, the paper briefly analyzes emissions from the Baltic countries and Russia.

scholarly journals Topical issues of the use of territories of enterprises in sanitary protection areas (Commentary to article: May I.V., Vekovshinina S.A., Kleyn S.V., Nikiforova N.V. Methodical approaches to the substantiation of accommodation of the object for food products in the boundaries of sanitary-protective zones of enterprises of other lines of the industry. Gigiena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation, Russian journal). 2020; 99 (11).)

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (11) ◽  
pp. 1315-1317
Author(s):  
Zulfiya F. Sabirova
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protection Zone ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
The One ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Broad Interest

In recent years, a broad interest has been aroused by a range of issues related to the possibility of placing regulated objects in “the areas with special conditions for the use of territories.” May I.V. with co-authors devoted their article to the methodological aspects of the location of the production of juices and non-alcoholic products in the sanitary protection zone of other industries. The work is relevant both in theoretical and practical terms. The general algorithm for assessing the safety of the location of food production in the sanitary protection territory is logical and clear. The material is presented from a modern standpoint, taking into account the latest regulatory documents. But it is not fully confirmed by the results of their own research on a specific example. Exceeding the standards for air pollution by two substances indicates the lack of guarantee for the quality of the products used in the population’s nutrition. Moreover, the food company is also a source of environmental pollution. And therefore, on the one hand, it can increase air pollution in the area of its location. On the other hand, as a regulated object, it needs to organize its sanitary protection areas. The authors no considered this aspect of the work.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Stories and the Self

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krause ◽  
Markus Appel
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lower Degree ◽  
Contrast Effects ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Abstract. Two experiments examined the influence of stories on recipients’ self-perceptions. Extending prior theory and research, our focus was on assimilation effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in line with a protagonist’s traits) as well as on contrast effects (i.e., changes in self-perception in contrast to a protagonist’s traits). In Experiment 1 ( N = 113), implicit and explicit conscientiousness were assessed after participants read a story about either a diligent or a negligent student. Moderation analyses showed that highly transported participants and participants with lower counterarguing scores assimilate the depicted traits of a story protagonist, as indicated by explicit, self-reported conscientiousness ratings. Participants, who were more critical toward a story (i.e., higher counterarguing) and with a lower degree of transportation, showed contrast effects. In Experiment 2 ( N = 103), we manipulated transportation and counterarguing, but we could not identify an effect on participants’ self-ascribed level of conscientiousness. A mini meta-analysis across both experiments revealed significant positive overall associations between transportation and counterarguing on the one hand and story-consistent self-reported conscientiousness on the other hand.

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