A current concern in many European countries is the environmental impact of agricultural pesticide usage and appropriate policy development to reduce impact. Currently, relatively hazardous pesticides that might be targeted for replacement by other products or management practices are not positively
Environmental performance evaluation and indicators
โ Scribed by Christine Jasch
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-6526
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โฆ Synopsis
This article deals with the new ISO standard ISO 14031 on environmental performance evaluation and describes its main outline as well as its link to the EU EMAS Regulation. A further development are sector specific frameworks of accounts for massbalances, shown by the example of breweries. The appendices contain more examples of environmental management and operational performance indicators.
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