environmental costs — The costs of making sure that a company s activities do not damage the environment or that any such damage is put right. There are many types of environmental costs and these are often difficult to identify as they are hidden in overheads.… … Accounting dictionary
environmental costs — The costs of making sure that a company s activities do not damage the environment or that any such damage is put right. There are many types of environmental costs and these are often difficult to identify as they are hidden in overheads… … Big dictionary of business and management
Environmental mitigation — Environmental mitigation, compensatory mitigation, or mitigation banking, are terms used primarily by the Unites States government and the related environmental industry to describe projects or programs intended to offset known impacts to an… … Wikipedia
Environmental pricing reform — (EPR) is the process of adjusting market prices to include environmental costs and benefits. An externality (a type of market failure) exists where a market price omits environmental costs and/or benefits. In such a situation, rational (self… … Wikipedia
Environmental impact of oil shale industry — includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution. Surface mining of oil shale deposits has all the environmental impacts of open pit mining. In addition, the combustion and thermal processing… … Wikipedia
Environmental policy of the United States — The environmental policy of the United States is federal governmental action to regulate activities that have an environmental impact in the United States. The goal of environmental policy is to protect the environment for future generations… … Wikipedia
Environmental impact statement — This article refers to environmental impact statements under United States federal law. For worldwide perspective on environmental impact statements, see Environmental impact assessment. An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United… … Wikipedia
Environmental impact of the oil shale industry — Kiviõli Oil Shale Processing Chemicals Plant in Ida Virumaa, Estonia Environmental impact of the oil shale industry includes the consideration of issues such as land use, waste management, and water and air pollution caused by the extraction and… … Wikipedia
Environmental economics — is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues. Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:Cquote| [...] Environmental Economics [...] undertakes theoretical or empirical studies of the… … Wikipedia
Environmental policy — is any (course of) action deliberately taken (or not taken) to manage human activities with a view to prevent, reduce or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources, and ensuring that man made changes to the environment do not have… … Wikipedia
Environmental engineering — [cite book|author=Danny D. Reible|title=Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering |publisher=CRC Publishers|year=1998|id=ISBN 1 56670 047 7] [cite book |author=James R. Mihelcic, Martin T. Auer, and others |title=Fundamentals of Environmental… … Wikipedia