The Emerging Paradigm

The period between 1984 and 1986 marks the beginning of the current P2 movement in the United States. Since that time, the pollution prevention idea has grown into a significant international movement. 

There are four major categories of pollution prevention (Fiksel, 1996)  

As Geiser stated (Geiser, 1998), the P2 movement differed dramatically and fundamentally from the conventional command and control, end-of-pipe, media-specific, compliance and enforcement system that was dominant in environmental protection policy during the 1980s. The P2 movement has been slow to develop the internal capacities that would promote the environmental successes that the pollution prevention concept offers. Geiser laid out five uncompleted tasks in the promotion of pollution prevention (Geiser, 1995). The current text seeks to address only one of these the chemical substitutes for existing chemicals. 

The key aim for the twenty-first century is sustainable development. Sustainable development seeks to reconcile environmental protection and development it means nothing more than using resources no faster than they can regenerate themselves, and 

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As noted above, the differentiated and more standards-oriented nature of the organic industry correlates well to some of the emerging paradigms that set the rules of the game. However, there are emerging aspects of the organics trade that pose specific challenges. 

Chakraborty, A.B., Carbon management The emerging paradigm for the oil industry, Proceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference, 2007, pp. 2410-2415. 

Capabilities include customer-management, procurement, productitMi, and fulfillment, as shown in Fig. 1.5. With respect to the emerging paradigms, new capabilities must be emphasized fund management and social cost in both healthcare and humanitarian relief rapid fulfillment in humanitarian relief infrastructure performance, and social norms in emerging economies and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in sustainability. 

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