scholarly journals Re-Use of Silico-Manganese Slag

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11771
Author(s):  
Daniela Laura Buruiana ◽  
Cristian-Dragos Obreja ◽  
Elena Emanuela Herbei ◽  
Viorica Ghisman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Ferroalloy Production ◽  
Production Plant ◽  
Slag Dump ◽  
Manganese Slag

The world’s rapidly growing demand for raw manganese has made it increasingly important to develop methods for the economic recovery of manganese from secondary sources. The current study aims to present possible ways for the recycling and reuse of silico-manganese slag landfilled in Tulcea, City on the Danube River close to the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve in order to save the natural resources raw of manganese. In the last three decades, the ferroalloy production plant has over 2.6 million tons of slag. Slag dumping constitutes a significant source of air, water and soil pollution, which adversely affects the environment and human health. Mn present in the slag dump is an environmental pollutant with potentially toxic effects. The results obtained with a leaching method to recover manganese from slag shows two efficient ways to valorize manganese from solid fraction (54%) with size particles between 80 and 315 µm and/or reuse the leaching medium (56% Mn) with a slag size of <80 µm. The motivation of our research is the possibility to recover manganese from slag by saving natural resources of raw of manganese and the remaining fraction can be used as aggregate sources (construction and road rehabilitation by saving extract mineral aggregates and agriculture), in order to decommission the slag dump. The proposed research is in concordance with the sustainable use of natural resources for the achievement of sustainable development of the 2030 Agenda and Waste Management Legislation due of the huge ecological costs regarding non-conforming waste dumping. If we consider the cost-benefit analysis, the environmental future is more important the human health and the benefits on the quality of the population’s health and the environment which are not non-measurable in monetary value.

scholarly journals Towards a paradigm shift in environmental health decision-making: a case study of oxybenzone

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klara Matouskova ◽  
Laura N. Vandenberg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Environmental Chemical ◽  
Health Decision Making ◽  
Health Decision

Abstract Background Technological advancements make lives safer and more convenient. Unfortunately, many of these advances come with costs to susceptible individuals and public health, the environment, and other species and ecosystems. Synthetic chemicals in consumer products represent a quintessential example of the complexity of both the benefits and burdens of modern living. How we navigate this complexity is a matter of a society’s values and corresponding principles. Objectives We aimed to develop a series of ethical principles to guide decision-making within the landscape of environmental health, and then apply these principles to a specific environmental chemical, oxybenzone. Oxybenzone is a widely used ultraviolet (UV) filter added to personal care products and other consumer goods to prevent UV damage, but potentially poses harm to humans, wildlife, and ecosystems. It provides an excellent example of a chemical that is widely used for the alleged purpose of protecting human health and product safety, but with costs to human health and the environment that are often ignored by stakeholders. Discussion We propose six ethical principles to guide environmental health decision-making: principles of sustainability, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, community, and precautionary substitution. We apply these principles to the case of oxybenzone to demonstrate the complex but imperative decision-making required if we are to address the limits of the biosphere’s regenerative rates. We conclude that both ethical and practical considerations should be included in decisions about the commercial, pervasive application of synthetic compounds and that the current flawed practice of cost-benefit analysis be recognized for what it is: a technocratic approach to support corporate interests.

Green accounting using imperfect, current prices

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Cairns
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
National Income ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Partial Equilibrium ◽  
Shadow Prices ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Equilibrium Models ◽  
Green Accounting

Especially in developing countries, natural resources and the environment are not optimally managed. Even so, it is possible for green accounts based on current prices to measure the realized contributions of the environment to net product. The prices for use in the green accounts, however, are not necessarily shadow prices as would be recommended by cost–benefit analysis: in practice, green or comprehensive NNP is an approximation of an index of welfare. The fact that a linearization of generalized national income is used implies that disaggregated, partial-equilibrium models of resources are useful.

The Psychology of Ecosystem Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-218
Author(s):  
Arden Rowell ◽  
Kenworthey Bilz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Sustainability Framework

Ecosystems have many potential uses and values, and law and policy can affect ecological systems in extraordinarily diverse ways. This chapter argues that psychology can be helpful in generating legal strategies for more effectively managing ecosystems and natural resources. To that end, the chapter specifically addresses the operation—and psychological vulnerabilities—of influential decision-making frameworks within environmental law: the sustainability framework, the precautionary principle, and cost-benefit analysis.

The Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Evaluating Efficiency of Public Investment Projects (The Case of Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games)

2011 ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
I. Pilipenko
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Step Method ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
The Usa

The paper analyzes shortcomings of economic impact studies based mainly on input- output models that are often employed in Russia as well as abroad. Using studies about sport events in the USA and Olympic Games that took place during the last 30 years we reveal advantages of the cost-benefit analysis approach in obtaining unbiased assessments of public investments efficiency; the step-by-step method of cost-benefit analysis is presented in the paper as well. We employ the project of Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Russia to evaluate its efficiency using cost-benefit analysis for five accounts (areas of impact), namely government, households, environment, economic development, and social development, and calculate the net present value of the project taking into account its possible alternatives. In conclusion we suggest several policy directions that would enhance public investment efficiency within the Sochi-2014 Olympics.

Hostile Takeovers and Anti-takeover Defenses in the Russian Corporate Market

2007 ◽  
pp. 70-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Demidova
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Hostile Takeovers ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Takeover Defenses ◽  
The Cost ◽  
European Markets

This article analyzes definitions and the role of hostile takeovers at the Russian and European markets for corporate control. It develops the methodology of assessing the efficiency of anti-takeover defenses adapted to the conditions of the Russian market. The paper uses the cost-benefit analysis, where the costs and benefits of the pre-bid and post-bid defenses are compared.

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