A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 935-937
Author(s):  
Brian C. Black
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Legacy

scholarly journals Will Cigarette Butts Be Our Environmental Legacy?

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Joel
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Butts ◽  
Environmental Legacy

People litter them by the trillions—but how long will butts last through the ages?

Knowledge Transfer for Emerging Work Paradigms

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Sturdivant ◽  
Earl Carnes
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Environmental Legacy

Abstract Department of Energy (DOE) missions include scientific research and development, nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship, and cleanup of the environmental legacy from weapons production. Since the cold war’s end, changes in mission focus have placed considerable attention on the standards for performing work. For activities where risk is understood, the work force’s collective experience is codified in standards. For activities with unconventional risks, good practices and individual experience communicate what is known at the edge of technology and consensus Standards. This paper describes the basis for a Procedures standard, a principles-based enterprise approach for knowledge transfer that supports the unique missions of DOE.

The Soviet Environmental Legacy

2017 ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Oldfield
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Legacy

scholarly journals THE HISTORIC VENTILATION SYSTEM OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1840–52: RE-VISITING DAVID BOSWELL REID’S ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 245-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Schoenefeldt
Keyword(s):  
Ventilation System ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Central System ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Climatic Control ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Environmental Legacy ◽  
Actual Contribution ◽  
New Perspective

Between 1840 and 1846 the Scottish physician David Boswell Reid produced a scheme for a central ventilation system serving the Palace of Westminster. This scheme included a proposal for a sophisticated ventilation and climatic control system in the House of Commons. Although the plans for a central system were abandoned after six years, Reid was able to implement his idea within the confines of the House of Commons. Existing literature on Reid’s involvement in the design of the Palace of Westminster has focused largely on his difficult relationship with the architect Charles Barry, but his actual contribution to the design of the ventilation system has remained largely unexplored. Neither his unfinished early proposal nor his final design for the House of Commons has been studied in any depth before. This paper retraces the evolution of Reid’s original plans, and provides a systematic reconstruction of the ventilation system implemented inside the House of Commons between 1847 and 1854. The historic system is now completely lost, but new archival research, involving the study of several hundred letters, sketches and plans, has yielded detailed insights into its design and how it performed historically. In addition to revealing the ventilation system’s physical arrangements, research has uncovered how scientists and engineers had evaluated its design empirically from a human and technological perspective. As such, this paper provides a new perspective on antiquarian studies and illuminates how architectural technology in the mid-nineteenth century was shaped, evaluated and refined based on environmental performance. Although environmental factors, such as climate or air purity, were more transient dimensions of architecture, in the case of the House of Commons this paper shows that they were key drivers of architectural form.

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