Global issues

The agricultural emissions of NjO have been recognized as contributors to a loss of fertilizer for many years, but only recently has the global signihcance of the agricultural NjO emission been treated as an important global issue. " ... 

Serves to advance the worldwide aspects of the chemical sciences and to contribute to the application of chemistry in the service of mankind. As a scientific, international, nongovernmental and objective body, lUPAC can address many global issues involving the chemical sciences. 

The last area addressed by the systems approach is concerned with global issues involving the influence of organizational factors on human error. The major issues in this area are discussed in Chapter 2, Section 7. The two major perspectives that need to be considered as part of an error reduction program are the creation of an appropriate safety culture and the inclusion of human error reduction within safety management policies. 

A Nonprofit Organization for Global Issues Requiring Global Solutions, and for Problems on the Frontiers of Science... 

Ting, J.Y. and Brown, A.F., Ciguatera poisoning a global issue with common management problems, Eur. J. Emerg. Med., 8, 4, 295, 2001. 

Cohen D. The impact of health economics on health policy, health services and decision-making. In Salek S, ed. Pharrmcoeconomics and Outcome Assessment - A Global Issue. Haslemere Euromed Communications Ltd, 1999. 

One of the foremost global issues regarding water quality is access to safe drinking water. Currently, one-sixth of the world s 6.1 billion people do not have access to a source of clean water, and 40% do not have adequate sanitation facilities. Polluted water is responsible for diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and dysentery. Three million people die annually due to the latter. The discovery that diseases were transmit-... 

Climate change and energy security, two challenging global issues for the 21st century, are intimately linked. There will be different sources of energy by the middle of the century. 

Chapter 30 Global Issues In Disaster Relief Nursing... 

Plastic waste is becoming a serious global issue, thanks to extensive plastic usage all over the world, the treatment of waste plastic has gained the utmost importance. Scientists and experts all over the world are concerned over this major environmental problem which is expected to attain mammoth proportions by the year 2010, with an expected annual increase of global plastic consumption crossing the 5.5% mark. 

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