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9 Environmental Ethics
will be further embraced to ensure that policies and programs lead to environmental
stewardship at individual, community, and national levels.
9.13.6 South America
Greener environmental policies pushing towards curbing global warming by engaging in ethical activities will become common. There will be more stringent
enforcement of regulations governing the Polluter Pays Principle and User Pays
Principle. This will be geared towards ensuring that users and polluters are ethically
responsible for their actions to reduce adverse harm to the environment.
9.14 Summary
• Environmental risk assessment helps in estimating the likelihood of human
activities harming the environment.
• Risk management is crucial for determining the risks associated with a specific
event. It has three main stages: preparation, implementing the assessment, and
application of its results.
• The six main stages involved in ERA are establishing the context, identifying
hazards, determining who will be harmed, assessing the risks, recording findings,
and reviewing the assessment.
• Environmental risk management undergoes various stages: identifying threats,
assessing the vulnerability of critical assets, determining the risk, identifying
ways for reducing those risks, and prioritizing risk reduction measures.
• Risk management techniques are categorized into avoidance, reduction, sharing,
and retention.
• The ethics of waste is about being ethical in waste management and generation.
• Intergenerational and intragenerational equity are major considerations in the
ethics of waste.
• The seven major principles of environmental management applicable to the
ethics of waste are: Polluter Pays Principle, User Pays Principle, Principle of
Proportionality, Principle of Participation, Principle of Responsibility, Principle
of Effectiveness and Efficiency, and Precautionary Principle
• Many Nigerian environmental policies are founded on the country’s 1999
Constitution.
• The major health and safety measures that can be adapted to prevent risks are
appointing someone, writing a health and safety policy, risk assessment, training
and information, providing workplace facilities, and fire safety.
• The major benefits of EIA are the provision of opportunities for raising environmental issues, creation of alternatives, mitigation of impacts, and monitoring and
collecting data.
9 Environmental Ethics
will be further embraced to ensure that policies and programs lead to environmental
stewardship at individual, community, and national levels.
9.13.6 South America
Greener environmental policies pushing towards curbing global warming by engaging in ethical activities will become common. There will be more stringent
enforcement of regulations governing the Polluter Pays Principle and User Pays
Principle. This will be geared towards ensuring that users and polluters are ethically
responsible for their actions to reduce adverse harm to the environment.
9.14 Summary
• Environmental risk assessment helps in estimating the likelihood of human
activities harming the environment.
• Risk management is crucial for determining the risks associated with a specific
event. It has three main stages: preparation, implementing the assessment, and
application of its results.
• The six main stages involved in ERA are establishing the context, identifying
hazards, determining who will be harmed, assessing the risks, recording findings,
and reviewing the assessment.
• Environmental risk management undergoes various stages: identifying threats,
assessing the vulnerability of critical assets, determining the risk, identifying
ways for reducing those risks, and prioritizing risk reduction measures.
• Risk management techniques are categorized into avoidance, reduction, sharing,
and retention.
• The ethics of waste is about being ethical in waste management and generation.
• Intergenerational and intragenerational equity are major considerations in the
ethics of waste.
• The seven major principles of environmental management applicable to the
ethics of waste are: Polluter Pays Principle, User Pays Principle, Principle of
Proportionality, Principle of Participation, Principle of Responsibility, Principle
of Effectiveness and Efficiency, and Precautionary Principle
• Many Nigerian environmental policies are founded on the country’s 1999
Constitution.
• The major health and safety measures that can be adapted to prevent risks are
appointing someone, writing a health and safety policy, risk assessment, training
and information, providing workplace facilities, and fire safety.
• The major benefits of EIA are the provision of opportunities for raising environmental issues, creation of alternatives, mitigation of impacts, and monitoring and
collecting data.