Environmental Assessment of Benthic Impacts Associated with Pulp Mill Discharges. II. Distribution of Sediment EOX in Relation to Environmental Factors

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Sibley ◽  
D. G. Dixon ◽  
D. R. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Pulp Mill ◽  
Benthic Impacts

Environmental Assessment, Cognition, and Action: Research Applications

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ervin H. Zube
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Assessment Activity ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Physical Environmental Factors

Environmental assessment has been defined as “a general conceptual and methodological framework for describing and predicting how attributes of places relate to a wide range of cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses” (Craik & Feimer, 1987). A primary purpose for assessing environments is to provide valid and reliable information that has utility in environmental planning, design, and management decision making. Implicit in the assessment activity is the assumption of identifiable relationships of physical environmental factors with descriptive and evaluative assessments, and with predictions of responses to places conceptualized in plans and designs, but not yet built. This chapter addresses the utility of research findings. Three primary questions are posed. Why are some environmental assessment and cognition research findings used successfully in decision making while others are not? What factors contribute to these outcomes? And how important are physical environmental factors in planning, design, and management decision making? The preceding chapters by Rachel Kaplan, Reginald Golledge, and Harry Timmermans provide the background for the following discussion. The first section of this chapter presents a brief review of similarities and differences among the three preceding chapters, with specific attention directed to interpretations or definitions of the concepts of assessment and preference, the use of physical environmental variables in the assessment process, and the roles of laypersons and experts in assessment. Potential uses for and applications of environmental assessment research are described in the second section. This is followed by a discussion of the differences between instrumental and conceptual applications and of factors that have been identified as influencing applications, factors such as communications between researchers and users, responsibilities for problem definition, and the context within which the research is conducted. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the opportunities for and probable limitations on applications of the preceding chapters by R. Kaplan, Golledge, and Timmermans. Four concepts and elements that are addressed in the three chapters have been selected for purposes of structuring a comparison among them. These concepts and elements—assessment, preference, roles of laypersons and experts, and physical environmental factors—are particularly salient to the issue of research applications.

TEACHINGS ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IN GEOGRAPHY REFLECTING DEMANDS OF THE WORKING PRACTICE: A GERMAN CASE STUDY

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULRIKE WEILAND
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practice Gap

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are applied in many project approval procedures, and many experts from various disciplines are engaged in this, among them environmental consultants and geography graduates. In this paper, teaching on EIA in German geography programmes is analysed and evaluated with respect to the demands of the working practice. The results are used to advice on further environmental assessment related teaching programmes. The analysis reveals the small number of geography programmes teaching EIA at universities, a large breadth of teaching, and discrepancies between teaching and actual demands from the profession. Agreement between teaching and working practice exists only in some areas, e.g. with respect to knowledge on EIA processes, knowledge on environmental factors considered, and the minor importance of the history of EIA. Finally, conclusions are drawn for teaching EIA, based on the demands from practitioners as well as results from the literature. The teaching-practice-gap is discussed.

Influence of ecological abiotic factors on human health

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 48-51
Author(s):  
Firangiz Agadadash Jabrailova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Abiotic Factors ◽  
The Impact

The article considers the medical environmental assessment of the effects of abiotic factors on human health, as well as analyzes the impact of extreme environmental factors on the prevalence of disease. It is explained that rhythmic changes in the natural environment cause the spread of different diseases among people. Key words: abiotic, photosynthesis, radiation, electromagnetic, meteorological, meteoneurosis, aerophobia

scholarly journals Nursing Unit Design and Hospital Falls: Protocol for Linking Patient Falls and Environmental Factors (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Shorr ◽  
Sherry Ahrentzen ◽  
Stephen Luther ◽  
Chaady Radwan ◽  
Bridget Hahm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Fall Risk ◽  
Patient Falls ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Surgical Units ◽  
Unit Design ◽  
Fall Rates ◽  
Assessment Survey ◽  
Design Factors

BACKGROUND Patient falls are the most common adverse events reported in hospitals. Although it is well understood that the physical hospital environment contributes to nearly 40% of severe or fatal hospital falls, there are significant gaps in our knowledge about the relationship between inpatient unit design and fall rates. The few studies that have examined unit design have been conducted in a single hospital or a small number of inpatient units, limiting generalizability. Furthermore, there have been no studies focused on unit design and falls in Veteran Administration medical centers. Thus, the overarching goal of this study is to identify unit design factors contributing to inpatient falls within the Veterans Health Administration. OBJECTIVE Aim 1: Investigate front-line and management perceptions of and experiences with Veteran falls as they pertain to inpatient environmental factors. An iterative Rapid Assessment Process will be used to analyze the data. Interview findings will directly inform the development of an Environmental Assessment Survey to be conducted as part of Aim 2, as well as, contribute to interpretation of Aim 2 results. Aim 2: Quantify associations between unit design factors and fall rates by comparing spatial and environmental factors of units with higher- versus lower- than expected fall rates. METHODS Aim 1. We will conduct walk-through interviews in 12 medical/surgical units at three Veterans’ Administration medical centers in Florida unit and facility personnel to identify environment-related fall risk factors at each site. Data will be used to finalize an Environmental Assessment Survey for nurse managers and facilities management leaders. Aim 2. We will use fall data from the VA Inpatient Evaluation Center and patient data from additional data sources to identify med/surg nursing units with higher- than expected (n = 25), and lower- than expected (n = 25), fall rates. Once these units are identified, we will measure spatial factors by analyzing computer aided design files of unit floorplans, and environmental factors, based on the Environmental Assessment Survey. Statistical tests will be performed to identify those design factors that distinguish high and low outliers. RESULTS Data collection and analysis was completed for Aim 1 with a manuscript of results in progress. For Aim 2, the medical/surgical units were categorized into higher and lower than expected falls categories, the Environmental Assessment Surveys were distributed, and data to measure spatial characteristics are being compiled. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge this study is the first to objectively identify spatial risks for falls in hospitals within in a large multi-hospital system. The proposed research design employs multiple methods to paint a complete picture of fall risk in medical/surgical units, leverages the large VA administrative databases to identify nursing units that have the highest and lowest risk-adjusted fall rates, and creatively combines spatial analyses to identify fall risk.

scholarly journals Macroeconomic assessment of the environmental quality of economic growth at the regional level

2022 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-578
Author(s):  
Andrey Panov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
Decoupling Effect

The research featured a macroeconomic assessment of the quality of economic growth. The analysis was based on various environmental factors, obtained in the process of strategic environmental assessment of the developmental priorities of the Kemerovo region in 2002–2020. The research objective was to determine the effect of environmental factors on eco-intensity and economic growth in this resource-based region in the context of global and national environmental challenges. The paper presents an overview of the methods of ecological and economic analysis suitable for strategic environmental assessment. The study featured mathematical methods of calculating the economic eco-intensity and the decoupling effect, as well as the model of economic growth developed by P. Victor. The decoupling effect was rather weak for the main types of negative impact, i.e. pollution, waste generation, disturbed lands, etc. The only green decoupling effect was revealed by the volume of contaminated wastewater. P. Victor's extended model showed the predominance of "brown" economic growth, while the increase in the carbon intensity of the gross domestic product for methane coincided with the significant decrease in the economic development of the region. The article also introduces a forecast of the economic development of the Kemerovo region, based on global and national trends of decarbonization. Transition to the use of the best available technologies should reduce the level of eco-intensity and increase the rate of decarbonization, both in the main industries and in methane processing.

Reductionist thinking and animal models in neuropsychiatric research

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Baran
Keyword(s):  
Animal Models ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Neuropsychiatric Disorders ◽  
Model Organisms ◽  
Developmental Genetic ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
Mechanisms Of Plasticity

AbstractReductionist thinking in neuroscience is manifest in the widespread use of animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders. Broader investigations of diverse behaviors in non-model organisms and longer-term study of the mechanisms of plasticity will yield fundamental insights into the neurobiological, developmental, genetic, and environmental factors contributing to the “massively multifactorial system networks” which go awry in mental disorders.

The dual nature of obesity in metabolic programming: quantity versus quality of adipose tissue

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (18) ◽  
pp. 2447-2451
Author(s):  
Anissa Viveiros ◽  
Gavin Y. Oudit
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Maternal Obesity ◽  
Metabolic Programming ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Prevalence Of Obesity ◽  
Adipose Tissue Volume ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Metabolically Healthy

Abstract The global prevalence of obesity has been rising at an alarming rate, accompanied by an increase in both childhood and maternal obesity. The concept of metabolic programming is highly topical, and in this context, describes a predisposition of offspring of obese mothers to the development of obesity independent of environmental factors. Research published in this issue of Clinical Science conducted by Litzenburger and colleagues (Clin. Sci. (Lond.) (2020) 134, 921–939) have identified sex-dependent differences in metabolic programming and identify putative signaling pathways involved in the differential phenotype of adipose tissue between males and females. Delineating the distinction between metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity is a topic of emerging interest, and the precise nature of adipocytes are key to pathogenesis, independent of adipose tissue volume.

Shared Responsibilities for Full Participation in Society: Planning Further Integration of the ICF Into AAC

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Blake Huer ◽  
Travis T. Threats
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Community Support ◽  
World Health ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Full Participation

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) 2001 International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) has as one of its central tenets the full inclusion of persons with disabilities in society. It acknowledges the need for medical and rehabilitation intervention in its biopscychosocial framework. However, the WHO realizes that society must do its part to facilitate this full participation and empowerment. Persons with complex communication needs (PWCCN) often need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in order to express themselves. However, in order to access and successfully use AAC, PWCCN need access to the necessary AAC devices and services, as well as a willing society to interact with them as full contributing members of society. The factors outside of a person's specific physical and/or cognitive functional limitations are addressed in the ICF via the Personal and Environmental Factors. Personal Factors include the individual's personality traits, lifestyle, experiences, social/educational/professional background, race, gender, and age. Environmental Factors include community support systems, social service agencies, governments, social networks, and those persons that interact with the PWCCN. This article addresses the sociopolitical influences on PWCCN and their functioning from a human rights perspective. The necessary introspective role of speech-language pathologists in this process is explored.

377: Distribution of Smoking, Water Resource and Other Environmental Factors in Patients Affected by Superficial Bladder Cancer

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 99-99
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Serretta ◽  
Vincenzo Altieri ◽  
Giuseppe Morgia ◽  
Rosalinda Allegro ◽  
Alessandra Di Lallo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bladder Cancer ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Superficial Bladder Cancer
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