Alternative management concept

Strategy tables and influence diagrams can also be important management methodologies for coherent as well as shared planning (53). Strategy tables hst alternative product concepts, design options, as well as technical and market alternatives. 

Brenner, R.J. (1997) Spatial analysis in precision targeting for integrated pest management concepts and processes. In 1997 Annual International Research Conference on Methyl Bromide Alternatives and Emissions Reductions, 3—5 November 1997, San Diego, California, USA, pp. 50.1-50.4. 

It seems that in most cases the initial ideas for waste management concepts have been selected without any open, formal and thorough safety evaluation of alternatives, though such evaluations have in some cases been made at the later stages of the concept development process. For instance, the choice of the basic concepts for disposal of LDLW have predominantly been based on national geological and environmental conditions and on experiences from other countries. 

It was disposal and burial of enormous quantities of radioactive waste that became the starting point to the development alternative operation waste management Concept with the main emphasis on technologies that make It possible to separate their non-radloactlve components and to decrease significantly the quantity of solidified radioactive waste [26]. 

RCRA was passed to manage nonhazardous and hazardous wastes and underground storage tanks, with an emphasis placed on the recovery of reusable materials as an alternative to their disposal. This act introduced the concept of the separate management of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes, and defined procedures to identify whether a waste is hazardous or nonhazardous. A waste exhibits the characteristic of toxicity, classified as a hazardous material, if the concentration of any of 39 selected analytes in the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) extract exceed regulatory action levels. 

Because it will take time for the SPS Agreement to have a significant impact, alternative ways of managing most of the residue problems currently present in international food trade are also being examined. They are based on different concepts including that of the temporary tolerance, the adoption of MRLs by reference, the categorization of residue incidents, and the response and pipeline clearance strategies. 

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