scholarly journals COVID-19 pandemic: aggressive research, vaccination, testing, and environmental sustainability are the way forward

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveen Kumar Arora ◽  
Piyush Pandey ◽  
Dilfuza Egamberdieva ◽  
Tahmish Fatima
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
The Way

‘Imagine’: mapping sustainability indicators

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Bell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses how a systems method for sharing perspectives on and then agreeing sustainability indicators was conceived and then applied in a wide variety of places. Central to this method's evolution were the intentions of its initial creators and the contributions of the different project collaborators and participants in the related workshops. Central to the method's effectiveness are the way two diagram types were used to visualise, and make more relevant to specified communities, indicators of environmental sustainability. The chapter is also another example of the interplay between method and visualisation, both of the method and within the method, and that it can be difficult to say which is the chicken and which is the egg. They are complementary parts of a holistic and ongoing process, particularly where the main objective is action to improve people's lives rather than research on people's lived experiences.

Information Management in a Relational Context Innovation and Digitalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Cátia Sofia Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Relational Context ◽  
Port Management ◽  
Operational Costs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Digitalization is changing the way we live, work, our relationships, and it couldn't be otherwise if we talk about competitiveness in the maritime transport sector. The world faces considerable technological challenges; so does the maritime sector, turning information technologies into opportunities by using countless data inputs, thus allowing more control, better planning, and a reduction in operational costs while enhancing environmental sustainability. According to Carbone and Martino, ports have been naturally used for transhipment, consisting of the transference of cargo from one mean of transport to another, which has led to a series of new demands and challenges in port management concerns, since goods temporarily remain within the area under the influence of the port. Before its expedition, port activity faces diverse challenges in the management of storage, availableness, and handling, among other issues.

Environmental peacebuilding from below: customary approaches in Timor-Leste

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Tobias Ide ◽  
Lisa R Palmer ◽  
Jon Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding ◽  
The Way

Abstract Environmental peacebuilding is the integration of natural resource management into conflict prevention, resolution and recovery so as to support peace and environmental sustainability. Most studies have been of cases where there is significant involvement of external (usually international) actors. They thus provide implicit support for liberal peacebuilding practice, which is itself the subject of much critique. Conversely, documented examples of environmental peacebuilding from below are rare. We analyse an endogenously emerging environmental peacebuilding institution, the customary tara bandu process in Timor-Leste. We explain the way tara bandu is used bottom-up to promote the sustainable use of natural resources and more peaceful relations. Tara bandu proves to be a successful, locally diverse environmental peacebuilding institution. We further show how recent attempts by international peacebuilders and state institutions to employ tara bandu have somewhat ignored the way it is deeply interwoven with local social and spiritual relations, and in so doing have jeopardized its legitimacy and efficacy. This suggests that attempts from outside actors to facilitate environmental peacebuilding may be constrained by a mismatch between theorized norms of social and environmental relations (such as ‘shared interests’) and local cultural particularities.

scholarly journals Sustainable schools as 3D textbooks: Safeguards of environmental sustainability

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Brkovic ◽  
Predrag Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Building Design ◽  
School Design ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Sustainability Principles ◽  
Sustainable Schools ◽  
Contemporary School ◽  
The Way

At times when Serbia is planning to invest in improving the quality of learning environments up to a hundred million Euros through School Modernization Project 2010-2014, describing some of the trends in school buildings design in Western countries is regarded to be crucial. Schools are places where young members of our society are educated. School building design can have a direct influence on the way we assimilate, learn and integrate with other people, and can also affect the way we, as a society, integrate sustainability into our lives. A building is able to teach and convey new ways of materializing sustainable principles. Nowadays many experts claim that ?sustainable school is the most appropriate strategy for renovating educational processes and achieving quality education' [1]. Therefore, this paper deals with some of the aspects of school development in relation to environmental sustainability principles. Each aspect is supported by an example of a contemporary school that included one or more of those principles. Towards the end some of the benefits of approaching schools with environmental sustainability in mind are presented. It is hoped that the results of this article will act as an invitation and stimuli for architects and planners, especially in Serbia, to reconsider their previous practice and start observing school design through the prism of sustainable development.

scholarly journals The power of 4th industrial revolution in the fashion industry: what, why, and how has the industry changed?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoungho Ellie Jin ◽  
Daeun Chloe Shin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR henceforth) is fundamentally reshaping the way we live and work. Each industrial revolution has evolved to solve major problems in society. This study views unmatched demand and oversupply as the major problems in the fashion industry and posits that 4IR technologies are being deployed to solve these problems by addressing three prime goals—hyper-personalization, environmental sustainability, and productivity. Based on a literature review and analyses of global industry cases, this study examines what, why, and how the 4IR technologies address these three prime goals. By comparing successful cases that do not utilize the 4IR technologies with those that do, this study highlights that innovative business models that address the unmet needs of the consumers are more important than technology adoption per se. Drawn from ample global cases, the findings can offer strategic directions for fashion firms preparing for unforeseeable changes that are further being accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This study concludes with insights into how 4IR is shaping the fashion industry and raises thought-provoking questions for the industry and academia.

scholarly journals Evaluating diagramming as praxis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Influence Diagram ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, the author addresses failures with interventions addressing complex issues of sustainability and the need, at all levels, for evaluation of interventions. He notes the lack of adoption of new ideas in this area and the way that stakeholders are often talking past each other. He considers how diagramming can address this by making space for conversations (between thinking and practice) in disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research practice. Drawing on the ideas introduced in Chapter Two the chapter explains the use of a particular systems-based influence diagram the author has developed and adapted over the past 15 years, and discusses diagramming as both a means of praxis (the braiding of thinking and practice) generally, and more specifically, as a means for evaluating environmental sustainability as praxis.

scholarly journals Legal Analysis of Coal Mining in Efforts to Maintain The Environmental Sustainability

Humaniora ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Iwan Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
The Way

The goal of this article was to suggest the government to make the appropriate laws and policies in order to optimize the utilization of coal based on environmental sustainability. The research applied library research from several research results and the Act no. 4 of 2009. Data were analyzed qualitatively by the way of decomposition, connecting with the rules, and the legal experts’ opinion. It can be concluded that investors are not optimal in managing and conserving the coal mining and the government has not standaridized the environmental management. 

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

Peculiarity Parameters

1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
H. M. Maitzen
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Observational Evidence ◽  
Rotator Model ◽  
Peculiar Behaviour ◽  
Field Spectrum ◽  
Oblique Rotator ◽  
Ap Stars ◽  
The Way

Ap stars are peculiar in many aspects. During this century astronomers have been trying to collect data about these and have found a confusing variety of peculiar behaviour even from star to star that Struve stated in 1942 that at least we know that these phenomena are not supernatural. A real push to start deeper theoretical work on Ap stars was given by an additional observational evidence, namely the discovery of magnetic fields on these stars by Babcock (1947). This originated the concept that magnetic fields are the cause for spectroscopic and photometric peculiarities. Great leaps for the astronomical mankind were the Oblique Rotator model by Stibbs (1950) and Deutsch (1954), which by the way provided mathematical tools for the later handling pulsar geometries, anti the discovery of phase coincidence of the extrema of magnetic field, spectrum and photometric variations (e.g. Jarzebowski, 1960).

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