Harmony policy

One of the conclusions from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (the Earth Summit) was the urgent need to find a more sustainable way of life, based on careful use of resources and a reduction in environmental emissions. There was also a call to move towards a model in which environmental enhancement is fully integrated with economic development. The consequences of this summit have been far-reaching not least by the fact that, in Europe and elsewhere, environmental protection requirements are now integrated into many policies rather than being separate pieces of legislation. Indeed Article 2 of the EC treaty states that the Community shall. .. promote throughout the Community harmonious, balanced and sustainable development of economic activities This may be viewed as the first step towards... 

The separation process is in harmony with Brazil s National Solid Waste Policy, established by Law 12,305 of 2010. The residual material is sent to the cement plant. 

Thus, given diverse legal and economic frameworks, efforts to achieve harmony on major policies and procedures depend upon the various parties reaching accord on their basic goals. 

The opposite of harmony is disharmony. An example of disharmony is the need to repeat tests using rabbits for pyrogen where testing for bacterial endotoxin is otherwise prescribed. This represents the most extreme disharmony of methods. But there is even a greater disharmony, and that would be to reach different eonelusions as to pass/fail the speeimen. In this ease, the quality control professionals must make a judgment as to whether or not this material can be sold in one or more regions. Functionally equivalent to harmonization is the absence of disharmony. Because of a difference in policy, pharmacopoeias may not differ on adoption of a test at all. If certain tests are eonsidered neeessary by one pharmacopeia in order to protect the consumer, it is appropriate for that pharmacopeia to adopt the test without reference to any other region. 

The goal of harmonization is to bring the policies, standards, monograph specifications, analytical methods, and acceptance criteria of pharmacopoeias into agreement. Such imity may, however, not always be achievable. Where imity cannot be achieved, harmonization means agreement based upon objective comparability and a clear statement of any differences. The goal, therefore, is harmony, not imison. 

The objective of this act is to declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality. (NEPA)... 

All this reflects the truth that it is necessary to find ways for civilization to develop and to substantiate an ecological policy that lives in harmony with the NSS. The solution of this problem will require unprecedented co-operative efforts between experts from the fields of environmental science and social science. 

Walther Rathenau, Von kommenden Dingen (1916), quoted in Maier, "Between Taylorism and Technocracy, p. 47. Maier notes that the apparent harmony of capital and labor in wartime Germany was achieved at the cost of an eventually ruinous policy of inflation (p. 46). 

However, it became clear that in order to better implement for policy purposes the impressive amount of data and results originated from European projects in FP5 and FP6, a targeted action at the science-policy interface would be necessary. The effort first put in place by the HARMONI-CA project, and later by SPI-WATER, led to the establishment of the research portal of the Water Information System for Europe, WISE-RTD, but additional effort is needed to make this interface work at its best and exploit all the existing potential of EC-funded research. 

In the United States the concept of sustainable development imphcitly originated with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), one of the first major federal laws estabhshing a broad framework for the protection of the environment. It declared as a tenet of national poHcy the need to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony and fulfill the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations. However, the embryonic sustainable development approach described by NEPA in 1969 did not contain clear details that could be apphed in practice. 

Policy. The Federal Government shall use all practical means and measures. . . to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfil the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans. NEPA Section 101(a)... 

The NEPA of 1969, in an idealized view, systematized and provided a conceptual and structural framework for how the Federal government would deal comprehensively with environmental pollution in America and what would be expected of Federal agencies in implementing regulatory policies. Among its many provisions, NEPA contained several key ones it sets a national policy to ... encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment taking proactive stances to prevent environmental harm in the first place was another mandate. 

Search for local trends and attitudes and maintain harmony with them. One good way of doing so is by utilizing as few foreigners as possible in the factory. Foreigners are often considered intruders. When they are brought in, they should always have a local adviser on hand to make sure that consistency with local thought and traditions are maintained. The Japanese follow this policy when they install a factory in the United States, an environment with which they are familiar. 

Safety engineers are now encouraged to use fault prevention techniques (e.g. through the publication of [MOD 91]), in particular the use of formal methods to the development of safety-critical software. To maximise the benefit of this approach the safety engineer would be wise to adopt the security principles of the "reference monitor concept" and security policy modelling. However, as in the case of security, the safety engineer would also be wise to utilise the more traditional safety engineering approach of fault tolerance in harmony with the new fault preventative approach. 

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