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AEA Technology Environment

@inproceedings{Crosbie2001AEATE,
  title={AEA Technology Environment},
  author={Angela Crosbie and Fiona Davies},
  year={2001}
}
This paper describes the general reasons for, and aims of the “National Inspection Projects” (NIPs) run by OSD over the past few years. The findings and conclusions are summarised from NIPs on the management and control of: noise, hazardous substances, asbestos, dermatitis, vibration and food hygiene. The findings were useful for considering best practices and in providing lessons for feedback to duty holders. The latter can include both strengths and weaknesses, so that the former can be built… 
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The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change
The effects of global climate change from greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) are diverse and potentially very large, and probably constitute the most serious long-term environmental issue currently…
An economic way of reducing health, environmental, and other pressures of urban traffic: a decision analysis on trip aggregation
TLDR
It is shown that in an urban area with one million inhabitants, trip aggregation could reduce the health, environmental, and other detrimental impacts of car traffic typically by 50–70%, and if implemented could attract about half of the car passengers, and within a broad operational range would require no public subsidies.
Modelling of tropospheric ozone formation

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