Natural Resources Research Publications on Resourcing Future Generations, and Introduction of Papers in this Special Issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel John M. Carranza
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Publications

Gender and belief factors on attitude towards Social and Environmental Accounting (SEA)

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Salina Abdullah ◽  
Ern Chen Loo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Sustain Ability ◽  
The Relationship

Research on social and environmental accounting (SEA) has mainly concentrated on disclosure of SEA by corporate bodies, where investigations on ones attitude towards SEA are rarely discussed. SEA is a medium that develops relationships between business and society, community and nature. In addition, SEA involves a concept of sustain ability; where natural resources need to be sustained for the needs of future generations (Alhabshi et al., 2003). SEA also tries to recognise the role of accounting in sustainable development and the use of environmental resources. There are arguments that the young generations today are not fully aware of preserving these natural resources as well as handling social and environmental issues wisely. This perhaps link closely to their belief and cultural background. Hence, this paper examines the influence of gender and belief factors on the undergraduate students’ attitude towards SEA. Four dimensions of belief (fixed ability, quick learning, simple knowledge and certain knowledge) proposed by Schommer (2005) were adapted to analyse how belief factors have influence on their attitude towards SEA. An independent sample t-test was used to examine the relationship between gender and students’ attitude towards SEA. Spearmen’s correlation was employed to show the relationship between belief and attitude towards SEA. The results revealed that gender differences did not show influences on their attitude towards SEA. It was found that there is a significant relationship between belief and students’ attitude towards SEA. Students who believe on the importance of SEA tend to report positive attitude towards SEA. Perhaps findings of this study may provide some information on the SEA education and further be incorporated in the syllabus.

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ACCESS TO NATURAL RESOURCES, ESPECIALLY WATER

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-406
Author(s):  
Suheir Ibrahim Hachim NKHELA
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Environmental Human Rights ◽  
Groundwater Basins

Environmental hazards are not considered a national problem that stops at the state’s borders only, but has become a regional and global issue that poses a direct threat to human survival all over the world as a whole. It requires the global community to provide environmental human rights and all the ingredients for sustainable development, especially clean air, clean fresh water, healthy food, and preserving natural resources for future generations. The water problem topped the list of environmental threats, as most countries of the world suffer from a severe shortage of water levels, diminishing the share of each person in the limited quantities of water, and today the world's countries and governments fear unending regional wars due to water, and the conflict over its sources, and the sources of rivers. Therefore, the issue of water has taken on a global character, and the complete conviction that water is the first problem that will face our future generations. he water war between the riparian states is a real war, and it will continue and happen inevitably. In the World Water Forum held in Istanbul in 2009, which showed that 260 water basins are shared by two or more countries, around which 40% of the world's population live, and there are hundreds of shared groundwater basins, for example there are fourteen countries that share a river The European Danube, eleven countries share each of the Nile and Niger rivers, nine countries share the Amazon River, and four countries share the Tigris and Euphrates, and the same is the Jordan River. Differences arose between the participating countries over the sources and the distribution of water between them for a long time, and sometimes reached the stage of acute conflicts and crises, and their intensity increased day after day. Dozens of international treaties have not resolved these differences, as disputes have not stopped after the conclusion of approximately 145 international treaties, and the reason for this is the absence of cooperation between these countries, the scarcity of rainwater, and the thinking of each country in isolation from the interests and peoples of other countries with which they share river water.

Justice Between Coexisting Generations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Bidadanure
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics

The field of intergenerational ethics has been largely centered on the question of what we owe those who are temporally distant. This interest was prompted by the growing awareness that many natural resources were nonrenewable and that future generations risked being disadvantaged or harmed in a variety of central respects. This understandable emphasis on temporal distance should, however, not lead one to disregard matters of justice between contemporary generations (between baby boomers and millennials, for instance) as straightforward or uninteresting. Inequalities between young and old crystallize significant and complex political and economic tensions in the sphere of employment, pensions, healthcare, housing, and political representation. This chapter introduces and responds to significant philosophical puzzles about the fair distribution of resources between individuals at different stages of their lives. The author provides a conceptual framework to approach matters of both age group and birth cohort justice and looks at how one of the chief values of distributive justice—equality—plays out in the field of justice between coexisting generations.

Romanian Rural Tourism in the Context of Sustainable Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 138-160
Author(s):  
Marian Zaharia ◽  
Rodica-Manuela Gogonea ◽  
Daniela Enachescu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Statistical Indicators

Tourism, in all its activities, is dependent on the environment, and by exploiting its resources, products are created, creating a significant added value. But all this must take into account the rational use of natural resources with risk of depletion or degradation and the ability to achieve a decent standard of living for future generations, with an equitable distribution of general or specific revenue. Based on these considerations, the aim of this chapter is to assess the evolution of touristic infrastructure both in time and in terms of regional distribution. To estimate the tourism supply of Romanian rural tourism accommodation, the main statistical indicators used were the number of agro tourist boarding houses, the existing accommodation capacity, and the accommodation capacity in operation, their territorial concentration, and the way in which the results are strategic levers in the regional development of Romania.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Strategic Management: A Theoretical Review of the Evolution of Management Perception

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szymczyk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Environmental Interests

The article discusses issues related to the evolution of the concept of strategic management towards sustainable strategic management. In the literature, the idea of strategic management refers basically to the functioning of the organization and its activity in the economy. Currently, there is also an emphasis put on integrating environmental issues into the organization’s activities and taking care of the interests of the society, so the strategic management should combine economic aspects with ecological and social care in mind of future generations. A change of an approach from strategic management to sustainable strategic management assumes implementation of management strategies that will protect natural resources, reduce the harmful activity of enterprises on the environment and take care of current and future populations. Just as the business environment and the perception of environmental interests change, so the strategic management itself does, as a concept itself and as a guideline for the business’ functioning. Organizations following the idea of sustainable development, based on environmentally and socially friendly strategies, and aware of the consequences of their actions, here and now, are considered more productive and attractive, as well as stronger and more competitive. The evolution of general assumptions and approaches of strategic management changing within years towards the concept of sustainable strategic management enriched with the crucial environmental issues are discussed in this paper.

Initial conservation outcomes of the Tetepare Island Protected Area

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 173 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Read ◽  
D. Argument ◽  
K. E. Moseby
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Field Station ◽  
The Core ◽  
South Pacific Ocean ◽  
Trochus Niloticus

Tetepare Island, the largest uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean, is an icon of Solomon Islands biodiversity and conservation management. In response to destructive logging threats, displaced landowners formed the Tetepare Descendants? Association with the core objective of conserving natural resources for the use of future generations. Local rangers enforce marine and terrestrial protected areas and monitor the response of key resource species. Within the first few years of protection, Coconut Crab Birgus latro and Trochus Trochus niloticus tended to be larger at protected sites than at sites where traditional artisanal, or subsistence-based, harvesting continued. Because larger crabs and gastropods are known to deposit more eggs than smaller conspecifics, these data confirmed to resource owners the value of prohibiting harvesting from regions to improve productivity of adjacent harvested regions. Tetepare Island is a valuable research location equipped with a field station, ecolodge, trained guides, and supported by regular environmental monitoring that can assist in the interpretation of monitoring results and fine-tuning of management.

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