scholarly journals How bountiful is the ocean? Participatory valuation of human–nature relationships in Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoi Sugimoto ◽  
Hiroaki Sugino ◽  
Juri Hori
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Ishigaki Island ◽  
Valuation Process ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Marine Culture

AbstractValuations of nature are vital for effective conservation planning, and discussions are underway globally on improving the valuation process. Plural valuations of human–nature relationships are the key for better, more inclusive decision-making, which is demonstrated in this research using a case study on human–ocean relationships on Ishigaki Island, a part of the Yaeyama archipelago, Japan. We applied a network analysis to text data obtained from answers on questionnaires with open-ended questions to quantify the importance of values with respect to the pluralities among local people. Therefore, five core elements encompassing the values of the human–ocean relationships on Ishigaki Island were proposed as follows: “Livelihood,” “Attachment and inspiration,” “Local marine culture,” “Respect and fear for nature,” and “Anthropocene environmental problems.” The “Anthropocene environmental problems” element included social and environmental problems caused by various human activities including excessive tourism development, and the data collected through tourism market value analysis implied that past ecosystem service assessments may have over-valued or even triggered this issue. The “Respect and fear for nature” element was found to be important as a potentially unique value in these regions, but this is currently understudied within the literature related to ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people. This study is among the first works to extract and visualize place-based human–ocean relations in an Asian country. We hope that our methods and findings will be applied to other areas, especially to the local communities of understudied countries and regions, to drive the transformative change of coral reef governance in the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Anthropo(bio)centrism and relations with the environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Jelena Djuric
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Kind

The text deals with some problems that facing research of the environment. Beside conceptual issues adherent to Serbian language, solving of real environmental problems in general, should resolve the dichotomy anthropocentrism vs. biocentrism which stems from the conflicting human nature and appears just unsustainable in ecology. Among other topics, the meaning of the argument of ?ecology as a new great narrative? which enables continued progress and mutual legitimization of science and democracy is being examined from the point of view of their universal relevance. It also deals with effectiveness of theories that implicate the irrelevance of human kind for its own liberation from anthropocentric worldview which narrows the prospects of survival.

Framing fracking

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Musi ◽  
Mark Aakhus
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Automatic Retrieval ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Semantic Frames ◽  
The Many ◽  
Communicative Context

Abstract This article offers a first large scale analysis of argumentative polylogues in the fracking controversy. It provides an empirical methodology (macroscope) that identifies, from large quantities of text data through semantic frame analysis, the many players, positions and places presumed relevant to argumentation in a controversy. It goes beyond the usual study of framing in communication research because it considers that a controversy’s communicative context is shaped, and in turn conditions, the making and defending of standpoints. To achieve these novels aims, theoretical insights from frame semantics, knowledge driven argument mining, and argumentative polylogues are combined. The macroscope is implemented using the Semafor parser to retrieve all the semantic frames present in a large corpus about fracking and then observing the distribution of those frames that semantically presuppose argumentative features of polylogue (meta-argumentative indicators). The prominent indicators are Taking_sides (indicator of “having an argument”), Evidence and Reasoning (indicators of “making an argument”). The automatic retrieval of the words associated with the core elements of the semantic frame enables the mapping of how different players, positions, and discussion venues are assembled around what is treated as disagreeable in the controversy. This knowledge driven approach to argument mining reveals prototypical traits of polylogues related to environmental issues. Moreover, it addresses a problem in conventional frame analysis common in environmental communication that focuses on the way individual arguments are presented without effective consideration of the argumentative relevance the semantics and pragmatics of certain frames operating across discourses.

An Introduction to Catholic Economics: General Welfare, Competing Perspectives, and Human Nature

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Binder
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Teaching ◽  
Jel Classifications

Catholic economics is the interdisciplinary pursuit of joining Church teaching with economic science. The Church and its leaders, the Pope and Bishops, are primarily concerned with the salvation of souls and their general welfare, or the common good, and as such govern and guide the faithful to that end. Catholic scholars seeking to apply those teachings are free to and do debate the merits of particular policies or institutions. Catholic economists also question particular economic theories that contrast with Church teaching, especially with regard to human nature. This article examines these core elements of the Catholic Economics school of thought. JEL Classifications: A12, I31, Z12

scholarly journals Gratitude to Nature: Presenting a Theory of its Conceptualization, Measurement, and Effects on Pro-Environmental Behavior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim-Pong Tam
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Connectedness To Nature ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Nature Connectedness ◽  
Trait Gratitude

Feeling grateful to nature for its bountiful benefits to humans and wanting to give thanks to nature is a familiar theme in personal stories and cultural rituals, but this emotional experience has rarely been understood scientifically. The present research fills this gap by presenting a theory of gratitude to nature. Findings from four correlational studies and one experiment robustly support its propositions. Gratitude to nature can be conceptualized as a form of benefit-triggered gratitude. The distinction between trait and state gratitude to nature was found to be valid, and both forms of gratitude can be reliably measured. Trait gratitude to nature was associated with interpersonal gratitude as well as a number of constructs relevant to the human-nature relationship (e.g., experience with nature, connectedness to nature, anthropomorphism). Also, gratitude to nature strongly and robustly motivated not only intention but also actual performance of pro-environmental behavior. The theory offers novel insights into the understanding of humans’ relations with nature and responses to environmental problems. It also suggests potential directions for environmental education and communication.

scholarly journals The Jurisprudential and Legal Principles of Environmental Protection

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Amanollah Alimoradi ◽  
Farideh Alirezaei
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Efficient Procedure ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Judicial Procedure

Environment is defined as the place where life continues to flow. The Quran and tradition, which are regarded as the principles of legislation and law-implementation, have emphasized the protection of such an asset. Hence, Islamic clerics have underscored the protection of environmental resources on behalf of the governments. Also, regarding this issue, strict rules and judiciary procedures have been codified and implemented in order to both protect and withstand the destruction of nature. Thereby, paying attention to the codification of jurisprudential and legal principles concerning environmental protection is the key issue in conserving it for people and governments and clarifies the importance and necessity of this issue. To this end, this study aims to establish an operational pattern as well as an efficient procedure for environmental protection. Besides, it exploits both a descriptive and an analytical method similar to library using different written and internet-based resources. The current research investigates the jurisprudential and legal principles regarding environmental protection. Hence, the formulated hypothesis in the current research emphasizes on the importance of the Quran, tradition, wisdom, custom, law, as well as judicial procedure in protecting and supporting our environment. The results of this study indicate that 'Fulfilling the Commandments of Allah and human nature' is the only way to solve the environmental problems in today's world.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v8i5.11857

scholarly journals A Review of Text Corpus-Based Tourism Big Data Mining

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin Li ◽  
Shaobo Li ◽  
Sen Zhang ◽  
Jie Hu ◽  
Jianjun Hu
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Big Data Applications

With the massive growth of the Internet, text data has become one of the main formats of tourism big data. As an effective expression means of tourists’ opinions, text mining of such data has big potential to inspire innovations for tourism practitioners. In the past decade, a variety of text mining techniques have been proposed and applied to tourism analysis to develop tourism value analysis models, build tourism recommendation systems, create tourist profiles, and make policies for supervising tourism markets. The successes of these techniques have been further boosted by the progress of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and deep learning. With the understanding of the complexity due to this diverse set of techniques and tourism text data sources, this work attempts to provide a detailed and up-to-date review of text mining techniques that have been, or have the potential to be, applied to modern tourism big data analysis. We summarize and discuss different text representation strategies, text-based NLP techniques for topic extraction, text classification, sentiment analysis, and text clustering in the context of tourism text mining, and their applications in tourist profiling, destination image analysis, market demand, etc. Our work also provides guidelines for constructing new tourism big data applications and outlines promising research areas in this field for incoming years.

The Rearguard of Modernity: Environmental Skepticism as a Struggle of Citizenship

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jacques
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Ethical Concern ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Global Environmental

Environmental skepticism denies the reality and importance of mainstream global environmental problems. However, its most important challenges are in its civic claims which receive much less attention. These civic claims defend the basis of ethical authority of the dominant social paradigm. The article explains how political values determine what skeptics count as a problem. One such value described is “deep anthropocentrism,” or the attempt to split human society from non-human nature and reject ecology as a legitimate field of ethical concern. This bias frames what skeptics consider legitimate knowledge. The paper then argues that the contemporary conservative countermovement has marshaled environmental skepticism to function as a rearguard for a maladaptive set of core values that resist public efforts to address global environmental sustainability. As such, the paper normatively argues that environmental skepticism is a significant threat to efforts to achieve sustainability faced by human societies in a globalizing world.

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