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A new approach to the teaching and learning of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) course had been developed for undergraduate students from multi-disciplinary background to be well-versed with HSE components and current affairs related to green issues, climate change and also societal issues related to civilization, history and politics, process safety, green energy and waste management. This gave...
Scientific advances over the past century have improved most people's lives, in both developed and developing worlds. But increasingly we recognize that many of these benefits have not been produced in a sustainable way, particularly as human populations continue to grow. Here I focus on some of the consequent problems of sustainability, on some of the possible technical advances that might alleviate...
Considerable environmental damage occurred during the socialist era as a consequence of the rapid rate of economic growth with low priority for the quality of life. High levels of air and water pollution impacted negatively on human health as well as the physical environment. The rural areas did not escape because of soil and forest degradation, while open pit mining and associated tipping devastated...
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