This work is important for the company to move toward a socially positive entity, creating an environment capable of minimising negative impact for its workforce and progressing towards bringing value and benefit to the wider community and individuals outside the workspace.
Academia at its best is perpetually curious and it should embrace the challenge of providing rigorous models and frameworks to help organisations to identify and minimise negative impacts and optimise positive impacts.
In this respect, stakeholders do not only observe that using wood for energy entails "no more impacts than any other forestry work" (Spain: practitioner group) but also that planning of forestry interventions may minimise negative impacts on forest ES while increasing the positive effects (Spain: economy group).
In this way it can be seen that diversion and alternatives are essential elements of a child rights-based justice system which aims to minimise negative impacts and maximise opportunities for positive input into children's development.
Thus, during the development of the TEPHA approach, it is necessary to find out the best material for the shape in order to fulfil its function and at the same time to minimise negative environmental impacts.
Carbon positive seeks to maximise the positive influence of our editorial content and commercial products in areas such as climate change and the use of limited resources, while minimising the negative impacts of our operations and business activities.
GNM's carbon positive ambition is based on the recognition that whilst we should concentrate on minimising the negative impacts of our operations, the most important step we can take is to positively influence readers, businesses, institutions and politicians through our editorial content.
In June 2005, Sustainable Aviation; a joint initiative involving a number of UK airlines, airports, manufacturers and the air traffic service provider NATS, was launched with a vision statement relating to environmental issues of "…removing or minimising any negative impacts on the local and global environment…".
The identification of a flexible water sensitive adaptation response is based on change propagation; i.e. the response's ability to minimise negative or maximise positive impacts in urban systems.
These advantages depend, however, on high-quality urban design and effective city management to minimise the negative impacts of overcrowding, stress and pollution.
