... (from fields and plants). Grey component of the water footprint – The volume of polluted water that associates with the production of goods and services. It is quantified as the volume of water ... 14000 standards, and many others were in the process of doing so (Rondinelli and Vastag, 2000). Today, an increasing number of companies publish information on environmental impacts of their activities, ... directly and indirectly, to produce the goodsandservices delivered by that unit expressed in terms of the volume of freshwater use per year. The WF of a business is defined as the total volume of...
... a common classification ofgoodsandservices for the purposes of the registration of marks (hereinafterdesignated as “the Classification”).(2) The Classification consists of: (i) a list of ... CLASSIFICATION OF GOODSANDSERVICES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THEREGISTRATION OF MARKS of June 15, 1957, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and at Geneva on May 13, 1977, and asamended at Geneva ... functioning of ports and docks and thesalvaging of wrecked ships and their cargoes;– services connected with the functioning of airports;– services connected with the packaging and parcelling of goods...
... ownership of that registration, in respect of all or some of the Contracting Parties in whose territories the said registration has effect and in respect of all or some of the goodsandservices ... by Class 38). Leasing services are analogous to rental servicesand therefore should be classified in the same way. However, hire- or lease-purchase financing is classified in Class 36 as a ... buildings of metal; materials of metal for railway tracks; non-electric cables and wires of common metal; ironmongery, small items of metal hardware; pipes and tubes of metal; safes; goodsof common...
... related to waste handling, the collection and purchasing of waste and scrap, and the operation of recycling plants. The management of low-level nuclear waste is also included. In many of the countries ... products as well as agricultural products. It also includes services provided by ecosystems such as carbon sequestration, as well as human activities, such as wastewater activities, solid-waste ... Sewage services Refuse- disposal services Sanitation and similar services Cleaning services of exhaust gases Noise and vibration abatement Nature and landscape protection services...
... attracted by fear and hatred instead of by fun and enthusiasm. Eric Hoffer wrote The True Believer a profound study of fanaticism. In it he said: “Mass movements (of fanatics) can rise and move ... academia, trade associations, and governments. Reasons to manage by Personal Attractors The concept of Personal Attractors helps explain our own choices and commitments, and those of other people. ... get the sales and profits you plan for. Frank was a competent engineer, but as a CEO he was handicapped by engineering biases and by limited experience with selling. He made basic mistakes,...
... phenomenological measure of the value of the product is also intuitive in the absence of the S-model. The use of V±P as a measure of the drivingforce for demand was suggested independently by An-derson and ... (uses of less value) decrease as price is increased. As the price of water is increased, forexample, its marginal uses such as watering the lawn,washing the dog, etc. should become less and less ... price offered.Table 2. Explanation of attribute indicesH. E. Cook, A. Wu: On the valuation ofgoodsand selection of the best design alternative51 On the valuation ofgoodsand selection of...
... root of allowing some of the worst types of harassment and violence. Most of the attention of the government and donors has been on improving conditions for formal trade and better infrastructure ... agriculture and manufacturing.Too often services are overlooked as a source of export diversification and discussions and trade policies are inappropriately focused on manufactures. Exports ofservices ... exports of manufactures, such as those in East Asia, has yet to be exploited, and cross-border trade in services offers untapped opportunities for exports and better access for consumers and firms...
... Economic Processes include demand, production ofgoodsand services, trading, investment and consumption or use ofgoodsand services. Production ofgoodsandservices is broadly defined to ... use of public lands and passing legislation mandating that agencies increase opportunities for recreation. Uses of ecosystem goodsandservices often result in trade-offs between various goods ... the frame-work: ecosystem goodsand their extraction, tangible and intangible ecosystem servicesand their use and waste discharge and alterations of landforms and water flows. That “interface”...
... adopting as radical a measure as a general and absolute prohibition, the possibility of resorting to measures less restrictive of freedom of movement and not to reject them unless it was clearly ... services, therefore, it indeed seems more appropriate to treat safety issues as case -law- based justifications. This may explain why the ECJ has decided to treat safety issues as case -law- based ... high in the area of the free movement of goods. 22 All of these three aspects feature in the trio of spectacular cases on the use of goods, 23 which form the subject-matter of this 20....
... The Netherlands.4Erasmus Medical Centre,Department of Neurology, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, TheNetherlands.5School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, ... W:Costs of stroke and stroke services: Determinants of patient costs and acomparison of costs of regular care and care organised in stroke services. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2003, ... horizon of these findings complicates the for-mulation of clear recommendations on stroke services. The risks of disability associated with stroke can be high and the chances of new cardiovascular...