Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 15 Issue 4

Some trends related to air pollution in Damascus

Yousef Meslmani

Short‐term monitoring of air pollutants for 15 selected sites in Damascus city has been investigated. The following air pollutants were measured: total suspended particulate…

An overview of integrated and interdisciplinary studies on conservation of a coastal lagoon system in Turkey

D.Z. Seker, A. Tanik, M. Gurel, A. Ekdal, A. Erturk, S. Kabdasli, A. Aydingakko

This paper presents part of the results of ongoing integrated and interdisciplinary studies conducted at a vulnerable coastal lagoon system with the aim of protecting it from…

Environmental management in Brazilian companies

Gisele Cristina Sena da Silva, Denise Dumke de Medeiros

The survival of an organisation today depends directly on its capacity to be efficient and competitive. Growing transformations in the world economy impose new variables on the…

Municipal solid waste management in Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Obstacles and prospects

Josiah M. Ayotamuno, Akuro E. Gobo

Until recently, Port Harcourt was known as the “garden city of Nigeria” because of its neatness and the overwhelming presence of vegetation and flowers all over the metropolis…

Adoption and maintenance of environmental management systems: Critical success factors

Ambika Zutshi, Amrik S. Sohal

The implementation of various management systems and standards has become an important activity for organisations irrespective of their size, sector or nature of the business…

A comparative study of the contents of corporate social responsibility reports of UK companies

Samuel O. Idowu, Brian A. Towler

The last few decades have seen an increase in awareness on the part of corporate entities in Western democracies that they are morally obliged to give something back to society…

Raising awareness of environmental risks: A case study in Portugal

Lígia Costa Pinto, Artur Fonseca Salgado

This paper presents a study of the effects of an abandoned mining site on the environment and human health and discusses possible mechanisms to raise public awareness of the risks…

Marginal worker force and forest cover change in India: An analysis

K.S. Murali

Data were gathered on demographic, forest‐related and geographic parameters to understand the pattern of forest cover change in the Indian subcontinent and discern any underlying…

Integrative Approaches towards Sustainability in the Baltic Sea Region

Walter Leal Filho, Arnolds Ubelis

Eco‐Efficiency and beyond: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise

Jan‐Dirk Seiler‐Hausmann, Christa Liedtke, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, The Wuppertal Institute, Germany

World Trends in Environmental Education

Ulisses Azeiteiro, Fernando Gonçalves, Walter Leal Filho, Fernando Morgado, Mário Pereira

Energy Subsidies: Lessons Learned in Assessing their Impact and Designing Policy Reforms

Anja von Moltke, Colin McKee, Trevor Morgan