Environmental Management and Health: Volume 10 Issue 3
Table of contents
Innovative regional environmental policy – the RECLAIM‐emission trading policy
Uwe Schubert, Andreas ZerlauthThe discussion of how to manage air‐quality in a heavily polluted area like Los Angeles (LA), California, in an era of shrinking public budgets and a trend towards deregulation…
Regional productive structure and water pollution in the Ebro Valley (Spain)
Rosa Duarte Pac, Julio Sánchez‐ChólizThis paper uses the input‐output methodology in order to study the water pollution associated with an economic system, through an examination of the productive relationships which…
The atmospheric emissions in Spain: a regional analysis
X. Guntín‐Araujo, M.L. Chas‐Amil, M.C. Lorenzo‐DíazThe gas emissions towards the atmosphere are one of the main and most actual environmental problems in the world. The effects of greenhouse gas emissions have been studied and…
Ecological sustainability and personal behavior: relations demonstrated by the decision‐making process of selecting a certain transportation mean
Reinhold PriewasserFacing the aim of ecological sustainability only little emphasis has been placed on the fact that the extent of environmental stresses is not only a consequence of certain factual…
Weak and strong sustainability indicators and regional environmental resources
Michael GetznerWeak sustainability indicators often suffer from their unrealistic and inadequate assumption of substitutability between natural capital and man‐made capital. Defining sustainable…
Indicators of sustainable land use: concepts for the analysis of society‐nature interrelations and implications for sustainable development
Helmut Haberl, Heinz SchandlProposes two concepts for the empirical analysis of society‐nature interrelations: first, socio‐economic metabolism – the material and energy flows between societies and their…