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Anju Mathew

E-Mail: aam1398@rit.edu

Registered Since: 2007-12-08 18:33:34

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a. Navigating to WordPress Go to www.environmentalmanager.org; find the “login” link at the top right of the page, and login using your user name and password. After logging in, you will be returned to the http://www.environmentalmanager.org home page (only now you will be signed in); once there, click on the “my profile” link at the top [...]

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Responsible Care: Akzo Chemicals

This article presents a role/ responsibility for the [environmental] manager in risk communication and community education, all together, better relations between the facility and the community with regard to environmental and safety issues.  This article is highly recommended for a role or responsibility of the environmental manager in the host community.

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Responsible Care: Listening to communities – What do they want to know?

This article presents a role/responsibility for the environmental manager in risk communication and community education. This article is highly recommended for a role or responsibility of the environmental manager in the host community. 

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COMMUNITIES ARE ADDING ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALISTS RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE CONSERVATION, EDUCATION

This article presents a role/ responsibility of the environmental manager and is highly recommended.  The reading presents examples of the environmental managers/ specialist’s role/ responsibility in the community, such as educating the public on conservation on Earth Day. 

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Responsible Care: Arco; Dow; Union Carbide; BASF; Cabot

This article presents a role/ responsibility for the [environmental] manager in risk communication and community education.  Chemical manufacturing facilities, during the early 90’s, are implementing/ strengthening “Responsible Care” programs that are primarily aimed to communicate environmental, health and safety risks, and their procedures, to the community.This article is recommended for a role or responsibility of [...]

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Industrial ecology: shedding more light on its perspective of understanding nature as mode

In this article the author reviews the theory of industrial ecology when nature is used as model for material flows and processing in industry. It describes the goal of industrial ecology as producing a more sustainable system for industry to follow by utilizing closed loop systems. The article then poses the problem that it is [...]

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Success and Its Price The Institutionalization and Political Relevance of Industrial Ecology

The authors examine industrial ecology under institutional areas: professional legitimacy, viable clientele, entrepreneurial acumen, and occupational opportunities. The analysis of these criteria helps establish the current status of industrial ecology as a concept and method and its long-term viability and possible use as a measure to achieve sustainability. The authors state what is required of [...]

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Little Green Lies

Overall, this article deals with a concern about companies that engage in falsely advertising that they are “going green”.  With respect to the question of whether we are (or should be) environmental educators versus  salespersons, Mr. Auden Schendler comes up short when trying to justify environmental enhancements solely on the basis of direct financial return [...]

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Environmental Health on the Global Scale – Developing Nations

The authors in this hard copy text (not available electronically) discuss the very large picture of our human implications on the world. Included in the reference are the changing disease burden, medicine, pesticide effects, nutrition, urbanization, injuries and water trends and predictions including the current state of affairs. These topics provide a strong positive affirmation [...]

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Measuring Policy Coherence among the MEAs and MDGs

This reference is a report published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, who in their mission statement says that they “contribute to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management”. Additionally they “report on international negotiations and share knowledge gained [...]

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