Options for Informal Environmental Management: The Agricultural Industry Highlighted

Newbold, Marguerite; Lewis, Kathleen; Tzilivakis, John; Finch, James; Kaho, Tina; Skinner, John; Bardon, Keith

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0925(199703)4:1<22::aid-ema55>3.0.co;2-9

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“…In the case of the agricultural sector, the first studies related to the voluntary adoption of EMSs appeared at the end of the twentieth century [14,15]. Newbold et al [16] studied the informal environmental management options used in agriculture. Carruthers [17] reports interviews with 40 growers and administrators of production units in Australia and New Zealand, who had either adopted a recognized EMS or had used a less formal one.…”

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Environmental management in the vegetable sector of Mexico

Padilla-Bernal¹,

Herrera²,

Velez³

et al. 2016

Int. J. SDP

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The major environmental concerns of agriculture in Mexico are related to water resources and deforestation, in addition to the increasingly important issues of pesticide use, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion. This situation worsens in arid or semiarid regions, such as the state of Zacatecas, where the main source of water is 34 aquifers, 15 of which are overexploited. One option for reducing environmental deterioration is to encourage production units to adopt environmental management systems (EMS). These systems, however, are not well known to growers at the local or national level. The establishment of an EMS in the agricultural sector is relatively new, although it is widely used in other industrial sectors. This study determined the views, drivers and barriers to adopting an EMS in the vegetable sector of the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. A questionnaire was given to 202 technicians or owners of vegetable production units. The data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Improving access to markets was the most important driver for EMS adoption, while the lack of government support was the main barrier. The study demonstrated that views of sustainability are closely related to attitudes toward environmental management actions and environmental sustainability.

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Environmental management in the vegetable sector of Mexico

Padilla-Bernal¹,

Herrera²,

Velez³

et al. 2016

Int. J. SDP

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“…The software offers a unique approach to agri‐environmental protection synthesising the concepts of formal environmental management systems, such as ISO 14 001, with the principles of integrated crop management (ICM). The formalised standards adopted by other industries are not sympathetic to the current stressed agricultural industry,4 being very prescriptive and labour intensive. However, their basic concepts of understanding where negative environmental impacts occur in the process and devising management plans to improve performance, minimising impacts and seeking continuous improvement are sound and equally adaptable to a more informal approach such as that adopted by EMA.…”

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ChemCatChem: Cluster Issue on Chemoenzymatic Synthesis

Gröger

2011

ChemCatChem

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A permanent challenge that chemists in the field of (stereoselective) organic synthesis face, is the search for the ideal type of (catalytic) reaction and catalyst for their desired transformation. At this stage, often the fields of biocatalysis and chemocatalysis/"classic" chemical synthesis are considered as "competitors". Besides this question of which is the better choice for a specific synthetic task it is, however, important to state that both fields represent attractive and widely applied technologies, thus making valuable solutions for challenging organic synthetic transformations (and technical-scale processes) possible. Accordingly, rather than looking at the clear differences that separate these fields, it might be a promising alternative to focus on what unifies them. The combination of chemocatalysis and biocatalysis in multistep organic synthetic processes has turned out to be of high interest, and, for example, running these processes without isolation of an intermediate as an one-pot process can also further contribute to the development of more sustainable synthetic methods, as time-and capacity-consuming steps, as well as waste-producing steps, can be minimized. Based on the tremendous contributions made already in the field of chemoenzymatic synthesis, this field offers exciting perspectives for the future development of both highly efficient and sustainable synthetic processes. Also an increased number of technical scale operations of such concepts can certainly be expected in the future. This cluster issue about chemoenzymatic syntheses presents the current progress in this exciting field.A Minireview from the group of Park and Kim reflects the impressive state of art in dynamic kinetic resolution of amines and amino acids by means of a combination of metal-catalyzed racemization and enzymatic resolution. Furthermore, the same group reports new results of an efficient Ru complex for racemization of chiral secondary alcohols and the extension of Discover this journal online at:

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“…The software offers a unique approach to agri-environmental protection synthesizing the concepts of formal environmental management systems, such as ISO14001, with the principles of Integrated Crop Management (ICM). The formalised standards adopted by other industries are not sympathetic to the current stressed agricultural industry 4 being very prescriptive and labour intensive. However, their basic concepts of understanding where negative environmental impacts occur in the process and devising management plans to improve performance, minimising impacts and seeking continuous improvement are sound and equally adaptable to a more informal approach such as that adopted by EMA.…”

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The role of the EMA software in integrated crop management and its commercial uptake

Lewis

Tzilivakis

2000

Pest Manag. Sci.

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Integrated crop management (ICM) balances the issues of pro®tability and sustainability with the need for concern for the environmental as a whole. As such, it requires sound decision-making based on detailed knowledge of the integrated nature of farming and how any single activity can impact on the business viability (short-and long-term) and on the environment. This paper reports the development and use of a practical software package, Environmental Management for Agriculture (EMA), designed to support farmers, advisers and others in developing ICM practices. An exercise in technology transfer, the package uses a simple, but effective, technique relying on input data and information readily available on farm or stored in the system's databases. The paper explains how EMA can support ICM, provides an analysis of the identi®ed user-groups and an insight into how the package is being used by these different groups. It also discusses advantages and disadvantages of using software tools in ICM decision making.

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Options for Informal Environmental Management: The Agricultural Industry Highlighted

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Environmental management in the vegetable sector of Mexico

Environmental management in the vegetable sector of Mexico

ChemCatChem: Cluster Issue on Chemoenzymatic Synthesis

The role of the EMA software in integrated crop management and its commercial uptake

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