Ethics and Risk in the Global Environment

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon T. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Global Environment

Company Name, the Internet, and Achieving Competitiveness in a Changing Global Environment

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veljko Trivun ◽  
Fatima Mahmutćehajić ◽  
Vedad Silajdžić
Keyword(s):  
Global Environment ◽  
The Internet

Is There Hope for the Global Environment? A Discussion of Prospective Parent Corporation Liability for a Subsidiary's Environmental Practices Abroad

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-189
Author(s):  
Amelia Tuminaro
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Response ◽  
Foreign Subsidiaries ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Prospective Parent ◽  
Forum Non Conveniens

U.S. parent corporations should be held liable for environmental pollution caused by their foreign subsidiaries. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) already holds parent corporations liable in some ways for pollution caused by domestic subsidiaries. Regulations similar to CERCLA's could be applied extraterritorially and would be facilitated by abrogation of two common law principles: limited liability and forum non conveniens. Extraterritorial application of U.S. environmental regulations would greatly enhance transnational corporations' environmental behavior and facilitate just adjudication of plaintiffs' claims against irresponsible companies. Establishing the corporate parent's liability and upholding U.S. environmental standards in such cases would end many current hazardous practices that create pollution in developing countries.

Social Competencies and Global Skills—Professional Competences of University Teachers of Engineering Programmes

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Eva Svitačová ◽  
Tímea Šeben Zaťková
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Complex Training ◽  
Global Skills ◽  
Globalization Of Education ◽  
Social Competences

Globalization of education is closely connected to increasing personality requirements for university teachers who should be well-educated professionals as well as mature personalities coping with interactions not only within the environment of their faculty or university, but also in the broader new global environment. As they are expected to provide complex training of the graduates for the practice in the globalized world, they are supposed to have mastered not only professional and pedagogical competences, but also social competences which belong amongst the key competences. This contribution deals with the issue of social competences amongst which we also include specific group of global skills. The issue of competences can be perceived as a challenge for the whole educational system, including the training of future teachers who in the new global environment gradually change into global teachers. For realization of educational activities at universities in the new global environment intercultural and global competencies or global skills are important in particular. Not only they facilitate fulfilling of educational goals, they also provide complex training of the graduates for the practice in different fields of science and technology with regard to the the fact that they will then realize teaching in the new global economic and social environment. At the same time they provide easier communication and cooperation with different subjects at schools, universities and in the broader social environment. In the contribution we provide a summary of definitions and opinions of different authors on this issue. Currently these are considered to make a part of the “professional competence” of a global teacher who can understand the changes in the global environment and react to them flexibly through his pedagogical activities. No matter to what extent the competencies along with knowledge and skills are considered to represent goals and simultaneously results of education, social competences of university teachers should be currently perceived as an issue that demands increasing attention also from university pedagogy which is understood as an important prerequisite of quality pedagogical work of a university teacher. This issue actually became a matter of interest of numerous university workplaces.

Current research trends on micro- and nano-plastics as an emerging threat to global environment: A review

2020 ◽  
pp. 124967
Author(s):  
Manish Kumar ◽  
Hongyu Chen ◽  
Surendra Sarsaiya ◽  
Shiyi Qin ◽  
Huimin Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Trends ◽  
Global Environment

Understanding Chemicals in Products

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-25
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Global Environment Facility ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Chemicals Management ◽  
Funded Project

Abstract The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) has published a policy brief that addresses chemicals of concern in products such as textiles, toys, building materials, and electronics, and efforts to minimize their adverse effects on human health and the environment. The policy brief titled, “Understanding Chemicals in Products,” is a contribution from the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project on “Global Best Practices on Emerging Chemical Policy Issues of Concern under SAICM.”

Managing IT professionals in a global environment

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice M. Burn ◽  
Louise C. K. Ma ◽  
Eugenia M. W. Ng Tye
Keyword(s):  
Global Environment ◽  
It Professionals
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