Search for dissertations about: "environmental judgements"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words environmental judgements.
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1. Judgements in Equilibrium? : An Ethical Analysis of Environmental Impacts Assessment
Abstract : Since the end of the 1960s the questions of what duties current generations owe towards future generations and what duties human beings owe towards natural entities have been increasingly discussed within ethics. A new subdiscipline - environmental ethics - has emerged that especially focuses on these moral issues. READ MORE
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2. Strategic planning and environmental judgements : the performance in SBU organized industrial groups
Abstract : Formal Strategic Planning, FSP, has become an instrument to find long-term directions under profitability constraints in industrial companies. This instrument is used to decentralize decisions and more effectively adapt to unstable environments. FSP must, however, to some extent be adjusted to unique situations of single organizational units. READ MORE
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3. Facts and Interpretations in Environmental Assessments of Products
Abstract : Contemporary environmental discourse increasingly emphasises environmental impacts associated with products. In response to this attention, methods for assessing the impacts of products over their life cycles, life cycle assessment (LCA), have been devised. READ MORE
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4. Development of an Environment-Accident Index : A planning tool to protect the environment in case of a chemical spill
Abstract : The increasing mass and complexity of chemicals being produced and transported has resulted in more rigorous demands on both authorities as well as chemical-handling industries to assess the risks involved. The Environment-Accident Index (EAI), has been proposed as a planning tool created as an equation in which chemical properties (variables describing the chemical involved) are combined with site-specific properties (variables describing the accident site). READ MORE
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5. Sustainability Solutions : Lessons on Assessment and Facilitation
Abstract : Sustainable development is one of the most influential visions guiding future societies. Encompassed within its vision are various domains where improvements are desirable such as, social equity, environmental degradation, climate change. READ MORE