Browsing 5. Pollution Prevention, Inherent Safety, and Sustainable Development by Author "Ashford, Nicholas A."
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Achieving Global Climate and Environmental Goals by Governmental Regulatory Targeting
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Hall, R.P. (Ecological Economics, 2018-01-08)Strategic niche management and transition management have been promoted as useful avenues to pursue in order to achieve both specific product or process changes and system transformation by focusing on technology development ... -
Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and Towards Sustainability
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Hall, Ralph; Arango-Quiroga, Johan; Metaxas, Kyriakos; Showalter, Amy (2020-07-03)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of lives across the world and has revealed and worsened the social and economic inequalities that have emerged over the past several decades. As governments consider public health ... -
The Art Of The Possible: The Feasibility of Recycling Standards for Packaging
Stone, R.F.; Ashford, Nicholas A.; Lomax, G. (1991-02) -
Assessing and rationalizing the management of a portfolio of clean technologies: experience from a French environmental fund and a World Bank Cleaner Production demonstration project in China.
Peltier, Nicolas P.; Ashford, Nicholas A. (Journal of Cleaner Production, 1998) -
Commentary on "The Degrowth Initiative"
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Great Transition Initiative, 2015) -
Covid-19 Could Be an Opportunity to Combat Inequality
Hall, Ralph; Ashford, Nicholas A. (Tribune Magazine, 2020-08-04) -
The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Hall, Ralph; Ashford, Robert (Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2012)This paper argues that a sustainable industrial system depends not only on good environmental and public health outcomes, but also on sustainable employment and earning capacity in a sustainable economic system. These ... -
De-[Constructing] Growth
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Sustainability, 2016)“De-[Constructing] Growth” is offered as a more nuanced conceptualization that avoids the negative connotations of, and resistance to, “degrowth” by decoupling profit from unsustainable consumption, production, and inequality. -
De-[Constructing] Growth: Decoupling Profits from Unsustainable Production
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Degrowth Newsletter, 2017-01-12)De-[Constructing] Growth” is offered as a more nuanced conceptualization that avoids the negative connotations of, and resistance to, “degrowth” by decoupling profit from unsustainable consumption, production, and inequality. -
De-[Constructing] Growth: Decoupling Profits from Unsustainable Production
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Degrowth, 2017-01-12) -
The Design of Programs to Encourage Hazardous Waste Reduction: An Incentives Analysis
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Cazakos, A.; Stone, R. F.; Wessel, K. (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 1988-10-21) -
Designing the Sustainable Enterprise: Research Needs and Policy Implications for a Sustainable Future
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Meima, R. (ERP Environment, 1993-11) -
Don’t Be Surprised by the Explosion Near Houston. We’ve Cut Corners on Chemical Safety for Years.
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Fortune, 2017-09-05) -
The Encouragement of Technological Change for Preventing Chemical Accidents: Moving Firms from Secondary Prevention and Mitigation to Primary Prevention
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Gobbell, James; Lachman, Judith; Matthiesen, Mary; Minzner, Ann; e.a. (1993) -
Encouraging Inherently Safer Production in European Firms: A Report from the Field
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Zwetsloot, Gerard (2000)It is now generally recognized that in order to make significant advances in accident prevention, the focus of industrial firms must shift from assessing the risks of existing production and manufacturing systems to ... -
Encouraging the Use of Pollution Prevention in Enforcement Settlements
Becker, Monica M.; Ashford, Nicholas A. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995-05) -
Evaluation of the Relevance for Worker Health and Safety of Existing Environmental Technology Data-bases for Cleaner and Inherently Safer Technologies: A Report to the European Commission
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Banoutsos, I.; Christiansen, K.; Hummelmose, B.; Stratikopoulos, D. (Ergonomia Ltd., 1996-04) -
Exploiting Opportunities for Pollution Prevention in EPA Enforcement Agreements
Becker, Monica; Ashford, Nicholas A. (Environmental Science & Technology, 1995) -
A Framework for Examining the Effects of Industrial Funding on Academic Freedom and the Integrity of the University
Ashford, Nicholas A. (Science, Technology & Human Values, 1984-04) -
Government and Innovation in Europe and North America
Ashford, Nicholas A. (American Behavioral Scientist, 2002)This article challenges certain tenets of the theories of reflexive law and ecological modernization. While far-sighted prevention-oriented and structural changes are needed, some proponents of these theories argue that ...