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The environmental externalities of tobacco manufacturing: A review of tobacco industry reporting.
Growing research and public awareness of the environmental impacts of tobacco present an opportunity for environmental science and public health to work together. Various United Nations agencies share interests in mitigating the environmental costs of tobacco. Since 2000, transnational tobacco industry consolidation has accelerated, spotlighting the specific companies responsible for the environmental and human harms along the tobacco production chain. Simultaneously, corporate social responsibility norms have led the industry to disclose statistics on the environmental harms their business causes. Yet, independent and consistent reporting remain hurdles to accurately assessing tobacco's environmental impact. This article is the first to analyze publicly available industry data on tobacco manufacturing pollution. Tobacco's significant environmental impact suggests this industry should be included in environmental analyses as a driver of environmental degradation influencing climate change. Countries aiming to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals must act to reduce environmental harms caused by the tobacco industry
What is Mizzou Advantage?
This booklet provides detailed information about the Mizzou Advantage and the projects awarded grants in rounds 1 and 2 of the program
Sustainability in design: now! Challenges and opportunities for design research, education and practice in the XXI century
Copyright @ 2010 Greenleaf PublicationsLeNS project funded by the Asia Link Programme, EuropeAid, European Commission
Transforming our Regional Economy
This strategic action plan focuses on the future of Cuyahoga County and sets forth a roadmap to build a more prosperous economy. It is not the only road map available to us, and we can certainly improve upon it. But, it is a roadmap that is practical, one that we can begin using today. We have set out initiatives that can and should be implemented
Transforming our Regional Economy
This strategic action plan focuses on the future of Cuyahoga County and sets forth a roadmap to build a more prosperous economy. It is not the only road map available to us, and we can certainly improve upon it. But, it is a roadmap that is practical, one that we can begin using today. We have set out initiatives that can and should be implemented
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WORK is an annual publication of the Department of Architecture that documents student work in design studios and courses in the Master of Architecture and Post-Professional programs, as well as events, faculty news and student awards. It also includes abstracts of PhD dissertations defended that year. It provides an opportunity to explore the creative work of our students and is a permanent record of work in the Department
Circular Economy for Cities and Sustainable Development: The Case of the Portuguese City of Leiria
Funding: This research is financed by National Funds of the FCT - Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology within the project «UIDB/04928/2020» and, under the Scientific Employment
Stimulus-Institutional Call CEECINST/00051/2018.The principles of the circular economy play a central role in the global economy, and its application is suggested in the context of business and urban development for creating cities capable of reinventing themselves in the long term. The main objective of this study is to assess the perception of the inhabitants of the city of Leiria (Portugal) regarding the concept of the circular economy and the acceptance of circular actions and projects, gathering their opinions and motivations, and understanding the challenges they perceive for implementing the circular economy. This study is relevant because, to date, no work has analyzed the circular practices of citizens and consequent projects for a city. The adopted methodology consisted of a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach, which was materialized in the administration of an online questionnaire to the inhabitants, workers, or students of the Municipality of Leiria. We obtained a sample of 547 answers. These results underwent statistical analysis, and it was concluded that the familiarization of study participants with the circular economy is low, but that they have a positive predisposition to engage in rental, reuse, article repair, and recycling activities. The municipality should continue to invest in the extension and promotion of circular economy initiatives in the city, since there is a predisposition of respondents towards using them, which may lead to the conclusion that they would support their implementation. This is an initial step that should promote further research into understanding the perception of citizens regarding circular economy initiatives and actions, followed by how it might be supported to achieve its full potential in cities.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Transformational urban landscapes: industry - infrastructure - logistics and the opportunity in shifts
The notion of city is altered and transformed more rapidly than ever before. Rather than extremely high densities, the repercussions of massive urbanisation is the decentralisation of industrial programs, infrastructures and resources, all of which are pushed out even further from the central city. The project examines the relationships between shifting industrial practices in the context of increasing urbanisation, centring on the symbiotic relationship between industry, infrastructure and logistics. The work focusses on logistic networks and the temporal, strategic and opportunistic transformations of the urban landscape that assert themselves on the collective form of the city. Through a series of writings, speculative experiments, and projects, the work seeks to accelerate the discontinuous density of change, integrating the existing milieu and future trajectories. The result is an amplification of relationships that are forged between both, interconnected and seemingly unrelated entities. The research identifies particular socio-economic conditions affecting the increments of contemporary urban development, and proposes a series of methods and interventions through which urban form can be reconstituted, and future change may occur. Instead of removal of industrial and replacement with residential, how might one propose a model of urbanism that can be created out of these activities in common, one that builds a new and complex urbanism from the different forces, and timelines, given the existing and new occupations of industrial inner-city sites
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