Social and Environmental Impacts in the North: Methods in Evaluation of Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Mining and Energy Production in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic

2003 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The North ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

scholarly journals Mapping Environmental Impacts of Rapid Urbanisation and Deriving Relationship between NDVI, NDBI and Surface Temperature: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 940 (1) ◽  
pp. 012005
Author(s):  
V Saini
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Landsat Data ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The North ◽  
Hybrid Classification ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
North Western ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Urbanisation is a complex global phenomenon driven by unorganised expansion, increased immigration, and population explosion. Changes in land cover are one of the most critical components for managing natural resources and monitoring environmental impacts in this context. In the present study, a hybrid classification approach was applied to Landsat data to get insight into the urbanisation of the Chandigarh capital region from 2000 to 2020. The results demonstrate an increasing urbanisation tendency on the city’s outskirts, particularly in the north-western and southern directions. The most considerable alterations were seen in the class vegetation as it swiftly transformed to built-up regions. Two indices, namely NDVI and NDBI and surface temperature images, were also derived from studying their inter-relationships. The paper suggests a positive linear relationship between surface temperature and NDBI while a negative correlation between NDVI and NDBI. Such studies may help city planners to take timely and appropriate efforts to reduce the environmental consequences of urbanisation.

scholarly journals "Yes, nós temos bananas!" Praias, condomínios fechados, Resorts e problemas sócio-ambientais

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Limonad
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
The North ◽  
Littoral Area ◽  
Specific Part ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

A proliferação de condomínios, resorts e clubes turísticos na orla do litoral brasileiro, e o aumento do turismo internacional, contribuíram para converter em objeto de consumo várias partes da costa brasileira, acarretando uma expansão geográfica indiscriminada das atividades de turismo e veraneio, que colocam em risco a diversidade de um dos mais ricos conjuntos de ecossistemas costeiros tropicais do mundo. A intenção deste ensaio é levantar a extensão e as características da ocupação costeira relacionadas à multiplicação de condomínios, resorts e aglomerados urbanos em um trecho específico da orla litorânea do Nordeste do Brasil: a Costa dos Coqueiros ao norte da região metropolitana de Salvador na Bahia, com a meta de fazer algumas breves considerações sobre os impactos sócio-ambientais resultantes, bem como propor elementos que subsidiem ações integradas de planejamento e desenvolvimento regional para a área. Abstract The proliferation of gated communities, resorts and tourism clubs on Brazil's coastline area, besides the international tourism increase, had contributed to convert many seaside places into consumption objects, bringing along an indiscriminate geographicexpansion of tourism activities, jeopardizing the diversity of one of the world's richest tropical coastal ecosystems. This paper intends to verify the extension and characteristics of the coastal occupation related to gated communities concerning the multiplication of condominiums, resorts and urban agglomerations in a specific part of Brazil's northeastern littoral area: the "Coconut Coast" on the north of  Salvador metropolitan area, in Bahia, with goal to make some brief remarks on the ensuing social and environmental impacts, as well to consider ways to subsidize regional development and integrated planning actions on this area.

"Yes, nós temos bananas!" Praias, condomínios fechados, Resorts e problemas sócio-ambientais

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ester Limonad
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
International Tourism ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
The North ◽  
Littoral Area ◽  
Specific Part ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

A proliferação de condomínios, resorts e clubes turísticos na orla do litoral brasileiro, e o aumento do turismo internacional, contribuíram para converter em objeto de consumo várias partes da costa brasileira, acarretando uma expansão geográfica indiscriminada das atividades de turismo e veraneio, que colocam em risco a diversidade de um dos mais ricos conjuntos de ecossistemas costeiros tropicais do mundo. A intenção deste ensaio é levantar a extensão e as características da ocupação costeira relacionadas à multiplicação de condomínios, resorts e aglomerados urbanos em um trecho específico da orla litorânea do Nordeste do Brasil: a Costa dos Coqueiros ao norte da região metropolitana de Salvador na Bahia, com a meta de fazer algumas breves considerações sobre os impactos sócio-ambientais resultantes, bem como propor elementos que subsidiem ações integradas de planejamento e desenvolvimento regional para a área. Abstract The proliferation of gated communities, resorts and tourism clubs on Brazil's coastline area, besides the international tourism increase, had contributed to convert many seaside places into consumption objects, bringing along an indiscriminate geographicexpansion of tourism activities, jeopardizing the diversity of one of the world's richest tropical coastal ecosystems. This paper intends to verify the extension and characteristics of the coastal occupation related to gated communities concerning the multiplication of condominiums, resorts and urban agglomerations in a specific part of Brazil's northeastern littoral area: the "Coconut Coast" on the north of  Salvador metropolitan area, in Bahia, with goal to make some brief remarks on the ensuing social and environmental impacts, as well to consider ways to subsidize regional development and integrated planning actions on this area.

PENERAPAN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DALAM PENGELOLAAN WAKAF PRODUKTIF

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masruchin Masruchin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

Corporate Social Responsibilityis a concept that a company has various forms of responsibility to all stakeholders including consumers, employees, shareholders, communities and the environment in all aspects of the company's operations that include economic, social, and environmental aspects. Therefore CSR is closely related to "sustainable development", in which a company, in carrying out its activities must base its decisions not only on the impact on economic aspects, such as the level of profits or dividends (profits), but also must consider the social and environmental impacts that arise from that decision, both for the short term and the longer term.Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor (PMDG), in managing its Productive Waqf by establishing business units which mostly involve workers from the local society around PMDG. They are employed according to their skills. This is a form of implementing CSR in order to help advance and improve the welfare of the local society. The existence of these various business units is one of the educational facilities and as a form of CSR application which is actually intended to educate in the fields of independence, entrepreneurship, sincerity and sacrifice.PMDG involvement in social activities that are useful for the local society such as infrastructure development and village facilities, regeneration of students who are from around PMDG to be able to get higher education with funding from the PMDG, doing guidance to the local society through various religious activities, educational and economic activities is a form of PMDG responsibility to the local society environment and also to all stakeholders such as students, Ustadz, employees, so as to provide social and environmental impacts for the short term and the longer term.Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibilityandproductive waqf.

To the issue of application of thermoplastic reinforced pipes for the construction of oil and gas pipelines in the Arctic

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
A. A. Tolmachev ◽  
V. A. Ivanov ◽  
T. G. Ponomareva
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
The North ◽  
Reinforcing Fibers ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Oil And Gas Companies ◽  
Reinforcing Layer

Ensuring the safety of oil and gas facilities and increasing their facility life are today one of the most important tasks. Emergencies related to rupture and damage of steel pipelines because of their wear and tear and external factors are still the most frequent cases of emergencies during the transportation of hydrocarbons. To expand the fuel and energy complex in the north, in the direction of the Arctic, alternative types of pipelines are needed that solve the problems of reducing energy and labor costs in oil and gas companies, reducing the risk of environmental disasters and depressurization of pipelines during hydrocarbon production. Fiber-reinforced thermoplastic pipes can be such an alternative. This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the materials of a composite system consisting of a thermoplastic pipe (inner layer) and reinforcing fibers (outer layer); we are discussing the design of the structural system consisting of polyethylene (inner layer) and aramid fibers (outer reinforcing layer).

Healthcare System in the Arctic Zone of Russia. Known and Emerging Issues and Solutions to Them

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
V.N. Leksin
Keyword(s):  
Metallurgical Industry ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Arctic Zone ◽  
Shift Workers ◽  
The North ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
The Impact

The impact on healthcare organization on the territory of Russian Arctic of unique natural and climatic, demographic, ethnic, settlement and professional factors of influencing the health of population, constantly or temporarily living on this territory is studied. The necessity is substantiated of various forms and resource provision with healthcare services such real and potential patients of Arctic medical institutions, as representatives of indigenous small peoples of the North, workers of mining and metallurgical industry, military personnel, sailors and shift workers. In this connection a correction of a number of All-Russian normative acts is proposed.

scholarly journals Holocene polynya dynamics and their interaction with oceanic heat transport in northernmost Baffin Bay

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jackson ◽  
Anna Bang Kvorning ◽  
Audrey Limoges ◽  
Eleanor Georgiadis ◽  
Steffen M. Olsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Atlantic Water ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Baffin Bay ◽  
The North ◽  
North Water ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ocean Conditions

AbstractBaffin Bay hosts the largest and most productive of the Arctic polynyas: the North Water (NOW). Despite its significance and active role in water mass formation, the history of the NOW beyond the observational era remains poorly known. We reconcile the previously unassessed relationship between long-term NOW dynamics and ocean conditions by applying a multiproxy approach to two marine sediment cores from the region that, together, span the Holocene. Declining influence of Atlantic Water in the NOW is coeval with regional records that indicate the inception of a strong and recurrent polynya from ~ 4400 yrs BP, in line with Neoglacial cooling. During warmer Holocene intervals such as the Roman Warm Period, a weaker NOW is evident, and its reduced capacity to influence bottom ocean conditions facilitated northward penetration of Atlantic Water. Future warming in the Arctic may have negative consequences for this vital biological oasis, with the potential knock-on effect of warm water penetration further north and intensified melt of the marine-terminating glaciers that flank the coast of northwest Greenland.

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