Soil Degradation and Migrations in the Age of the Global Environmental Crisis: A Policy-Making Perspective

2017 ◽  
pp. 181-201
Author(s):  
Grammenos Mastrojeni
Keyword(s):  
Soil Degradation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Environmental

International Ethics and the Environmental Crisis

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Goodin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Environmental Deterioration ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hazardous Production

Environmental degradation can no longer be handled by means of traditional local remedies in the face of the current global environmental crisis. The author outlines specific ways to overcome the crisis through international means, obliging each individual nation to reduce its own hazardous production, while enjoining a collective effort to confront the challenge of global environmental deterioration. Only through policy-making based on the recognition of shared danger and international commitments to reduce damage can we achieve a shared moral responsibility for environmental protection.

scholarly journals Coastal wetlands can be saved from sea level rise by recreating past tidal regimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Sadat-Noori ◽  
Caleb Rankin ◽  
Duncan Rayner ◽  
Valentin Heimhuber ◽  
Troy Gaston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Wetlands ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ground Vegetation ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Tidal Regime ◽  
Vegetation Sampling ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Intertidal Ecosystems

AbstractClimate change driven Sea Level Rise (SLR) is creating a major global environmental crisis in coastal ecosystems, however, limited practical solutions are provided to prevent or mitigate the impacts. Here, we propose a novel eco-engineering solution to protect highly valued vegetated intertidal ecosystems. The new ‘Tidal Replicate Method’ involves the creation of a synthetic tidal regime that mimics the desired hydroperiod for intertidal wetlands. This synthetic tidal regime can then be applied via automated tidal control systems, “SmartGates”, at suitable locations. As a proof of concept study, this method was applied at an intertidal wetland with the aim of restabilising saltmarsh vegetation at a location representative of SLR. Results from aerial drone surveys and on-ground vegetation sampling indicated that the Tidal Replicate Method effectively established saltmarsh onsite over a 3-year period of post-restoration, showing the method is able to protect endangered intertidal ecosystems from submersion. If applied globally, this method can protect high value coastal wetlands with similar environmental settings, including over 1,184,000 ha of Ramsar coastal wetlands. This equates to a saving of US$230 billion in ecosystem services per year. This solution can play an important role in the global effort to conserve coastal wetlands under accelerating SLR.

The Convention on Biological Diversity: From Realism to Cosmopolitanism

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 335-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Maris
Keyword(s):  
Deleterious Effect ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Global Environmental

The decline of biodiversity is without a doubt one of the most important symptoms of what could be called a “global environmental crisis.” Our ability to stop this decline depends on the capacity to implement an effective, collective system of preservation on a global scale. In this paper, I will analyze the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the international agreement that aims at creating this type of global cooperation.While I consider that cosmopolitan governance is desirable, given the legitimacy of the preservation of global biological diversity, I will not attempt to directly argue for it here. Still, it is worth mentioning some of the reasons that might lead us to adopt this position. First, certain past conservation measures have been harshly criticized as imperialistic. For example, Project Tiger in India, which Western environmentalists often cited as a success, have had a deleterious effect on local populations.

The Business of More

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Big Box ◽  
Wasteful Consumption

This chapter pans out from the islands of the Pacific to analyze the forces of unsustainable production and consumption underlying the global sustainability crisis. It demonstrates how, everywhere, inequality is increasing, as is conspicuous, wasteful consumption as companies pursue more sales and more profits. The chapter highlights how advertisers manufacture desires and needs, how big-box retailers and brand manufacturers claiming to be responsible and sustainable are selling inexpensive, nondurable products, and how governments finance infrastructure (e.g., subsidizing roads and bridges) to stimulate even higher levels of consumption. States pursue more consumption in the name of economic growth; multinational corporations for more profits for owners and shareholders; and the world’s billionaires to amass even more wealth. One result, as this chapter documents, is extreme and rising inequality, with 1 percent of the world’s population now controlling approximately half of the world’s wealth. Other results include rising ecological footprints, overexploitation of natural resources, and an escalating global environmental crisis – the themes of the book’s next chapter.

Toward a Living Systems Framework for Unifying Technology and Knowledge Management, Organizational, Cultural and Economic Change

2010 ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Peter L. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Systems Framework

This chapter raises difficult questions regarding the validity and motive for prolonging current forms of economic development and competition in the face of the much heralded global environmental crisis threatened by humankind’s success as a species. In response, a living systems theoretical framework is introduced that provides many elements of a possible new paradigm of economic development one that closes the gap between the social and natural sciences. New forms of explanation for organization and culture are developed from the perspective of complexity science to produce a synthesis of knowledge management and new philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and, distinctively, biological perspectives of technology, which effectively reconciles the practices of technology, knowledge and cultural change management.

14. The Political Economy of the Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-412
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Environmental Institutions ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
Growth Production ◽  
International Environmental Regimes

This chapter assesses the global political economy of the environment. The growth of the world economy is transforming the Earth's environment. Nothing is particularly controversial about this statement. Yet, sharp disagreements arise over the nature of this transformation. Is the globalization of capitalism a force of progress and environmental solutions? Or is it a cause of the current global environmental crisis? The chapter addresses these questions by examining the debates around some of the most contentious issues at the core of economic globalization and the environment: economic growth, production, and consumption; trade; and transnational investment. It begins with a glance at the general arguments about how the global political economy affects the global environment. The chapter then traces the history of global environmentalism — in particular, the emergence of international environmental institutions with the norm of sustainable development. It also evaluates the effectiveness of North–South environmental financing and international environmental regimes.

Fear and Loathing in the Anthropocene: Grief, Compassion and the Benefits of Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Stephen Harris
Keyword(s):  
Reference Points ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Collective Emotions ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Semantic Reference

Abstract This essay considers the nexus between literature and compassion in relation to the well-reported global environmental crisis and the attendant range of emotions, as signalled by the terms ‘ecocide’, ‘extinction crisis’ and ‘eco-anxiety’. While the words ‘grief’ and ‘hope’ have come to represent a range of associated emotions and feelings, there are important affective inflections occurring between these two semantic reference points, which are in themselves significant, if less amenable to debate and conversion to meaningful action. The following essay considers the nuances of these same affective extremities and emotional complexities, with particular reference to collective emotions such as anger and fear, and the implications of sustained feelings of dread, despair and collective trauma. The essay concludes by arguing for the constructive role of literature in mediating collective feeling and redirecting negative public emotions.

Self-limitation as the basis of environmentally sustainable care of the self

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sťahel
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Individual

AbstractWhen we abandon the neoliberal fiction that one is independent on the grounds that it is a-historic and antisocial, we realize that everyone is dependent and interdependent. In a media-driven society the self-identity of the individual is formed within the framework of the culture-ideology of consumerism from early childhood. As a result, both the environmental and social destruction have intensified. In the global era, or in the era of the global environmental crisis, self-identity as a precondition for environmentally sustainable care of the self should be based on the culture-ideology of human rights and responsibilities, and on conscious self-limitation which realizes that one’s prosperity and security cannot come at the expense of others. Care of the self is about ensuring the habitability of the global environment as the primary interest of each individual.

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