Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 16 Issue 4

An analysis of the feasibility of a paperless environment – the case of the Mona School of Business

Mardene Rosalee Carr

To show how the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies, Jamaica can move towards a less paper environment.

Diffusion of landscaping services in organizations: a two nation study of determinant factors

Nelson Oly Ndubisi, Nnaemeka C. Chukwunonso

Environmentalists, researchers, policy makers, governments, and the general public have frequently expressed the concern for the depleting state of the environment. As a panacea…

Application and validation of a desertification risk index using data for Lebanon

Massimo Dragan, Talar Sahsuvaroglu, Ioannis Gitas, Enrico Feoli

To investigate whether the desertification risk index (DRI) which was originally developed for the coastal area of Turkey in a previous work, could be used as an effective…

An appraisal of virtual networks in the environmental sector

Klaus Helling, Markus Blim, Bernadette O'Regan

To provide information to practitioners and researchers on how virtual networks can enhance the cooperation between organisations to help find sustainable solutions for complex…

Hazardous effects of sewage water on the environment: Focus on heavy metals and chemical composition of soil and vegetables

Masood Sadiq Butt, Kamran Sharif, Babar Ehsan Bajwa, Abdul Aziz

Pakistan is an agricultural country having the world's largest canal irrigation system. Indus basin that covers 70 percent of irrigated area for crop production is the major…

Irrigation planning using geographic information system: A case study of Sana'a Basin, Yemen

Gawaher Muthanna, M.S.M. Amin

The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure to estimate the total irrigation water requirement for a command area of 2,500 hectares in an arid environment under various…

Land use, water quality and ecological responses in Lake Colac – trends from Australia

Mohsen Khalifé, Janet Gwyther, John Aberton

Recently, Colac Otway Shire in Australia released its management plan for Lake Colac, claiming over‐enrichment of the lake with nutrients and degraded water quality. This paper…