Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 19 Issue 5

An assessment of air pollution impact for an Indian highway project: A GIS based approach

The paper aims to demonstrate a geographic information system (GIS) based study on environmental impact assessment (EIA), due to air pollution, for a highway project.

Analysis and overview of industrial solid waste management in Kuwait

The purpose of this paper is to determine the amount of different kinds of solid wastes produced, segregated, collected, stored, transported and disposed off by the different…

Applying LCA to organic waste management in Piedmont, Italy

The aim of the paper is to understand the environmental performances of the current management activities of organic waste from separate collection.

Economic instruments and the conservation of biodiversity

The purpose of this paper is to describe and examine the problem of biodiversity loss and to explain its underlying causes and the possibilities of using economic instruments to…

Improving environmental performance through integrated management systems (IMS) in the UK

This paper aims to report on a government funded doctorate research project examining the developments in and applications of integrated management systems (IMS) applied to the…

A remote sensing based monitoring system for discrimination between climate and human‐induced vegetation change in Central Asia

This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of taking into account precipitation and the vegetation response to it when trying to analyse changes of vegetation cover in drylands…

Assessing informal waste recycling in Kanpur City, India

The purpose of this paper is to outline the socio‐economic and environmental implications of the informal sector engaged in waste recycling in the city of Kanpur, with special…

ISO 14001 and sustainability at universities: a Mexican case study

The aim of this paper is to show some relevant issues about how the framework of the ISO 14001‐based EMS contributes to the transition of higher education institutes (HEIs…

The Illusion of Certainty: Health Benefits and Risks

Diary

Nordics cluster together against climate change

Mixed fortunes for shipping regulation

Editorial

Public understanding of sustainable behaviours: report available

DEFRA advocates waste wood as the “untapped resource for biomass fuel”

New report confirms strong growth in CO2 trade

WWF Report analyses market approaches to the environment

UNEP discusses breaking down barriers to a green economy in new Yearbook