废物最少化审计中投入产出模型的建立及应用

根据“黑箱模型”原理,在工业废物最少化审计中建立并应用投入产出模型。本模型应用结果表明,它是工业废物最少化审计的有效工具,为分析工业生产物料流失原因,制订废物最少化方案提供科学依据,是推行清洁生产、实施工业废物最少化必要的技术方法之一。      

Effect of audits on the extent of compliance with wastewater discharge limits

This study explores the effect of environmental self-audits (“audits”), which represent an important type of environmental management system practice, on the extent of facilities’ compliance with wastewater discharge limits. Theoretically, audits may (1) improve compliance by enhancing the effectiveness of treatment technologies and pollution prevention methods, (2) undermine compliance by distracting facilities’ personnel with audit-related administrative burdens, or (3) not influence compliance because these effects neutralize each other. By examining the extent of compliance, our study’s results reflect both improvement toward and beyond compliance. By assessing compliance with multiple pollutants separately, our study examines whether audits influence the control of different pollutants uniformly. Lastly, we employ a dynamic panel estimator, which allows us to explore whether facilities adjust their discharges dynamically, while controlling for any inertia in facilities’ pollution control systems. Our study empirically examines the U.S. chemical manufacturing sector between 1999 and 2001 using survey and publicly available EPA data.