scholarly journals Land resources in the Alps and instruments supporting their sustainable management as a matter of regional environmental governance

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Marzelli
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
The Alps

scholarly journals Multi-Criteria Frameworks to Improve Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Environmental Governance in the Amazon

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Morales-Giner ◽  
Martina Laura Speranza ◽  
Marliz Arteaga ◽  
Andrea Baudoin Farah ◽  
Sinomar Ferreira da Fonseca Junior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
The Many ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

In the Amazon, environmental governance (EG) is an important multi-stakeholder approach to the sustainable management of natural resources. There is by now a large theoretical literature on the many requirements for effective EG. There is also extensive empirical literature on EG in the Amazon. While empirical work in the Amazon has advanced our understanding of EG, it also has important limitations. There remains a need to unpack the many requirements for effective EG to identify violations of governance criteria to explain cases where EG is ineffective. There is also a need for multi-case comparative analyses of EG across diverse parts of the Amazon to identify common explanations for ineffective EG. Therefore, we review multi-criteria frameworks for the evaluation of EG, noting their contributions and differences. We draw on three recent frameworks for evaluating EG to suggest an integrated framework that can be applied to multiple cases for comparative evaluation. We argue that the use of an integrated framework for the identification of violations of specific criteria for effective EG can guide targeted conservation action. We then briefly discuss five study cases in the Amazon to outline how we could apply the integrated framework to identify unmet criteria to account for ineffective EG. We identify commonly unmet criteria for ineffective EG across the five cases. The identification of common criteria violated across cases can provide a basis for broader conservation strategies to improve EG.

scholarly journals SOCIAL COMPONENT IN SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LAND RESOURCES

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy Bilan ◽  
Mykola Zos-Kior ◽  
Vitalii Nitsenko ◽  
Uladzimir Sinelnikau ◽  
Valerii Ilin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Social Component

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF WATER QUALITY USING POLLUTION INDEX IN CIMANUK WATERSHED, INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Wibawa Nurrohman ◽  
M. Widyastuti ◽  
Slamet Suprayogi
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Pollution Index ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
The Status

Land use is one of the macro parameters that affects water quality in a watershed. The Cimanuk watershed which is dominated by agricultural land use and settlements has encountered a decline in water quality. There are eight parameters including pH, TDS, TSS, Nitrate, Phosphate, Sulphate, BOD, and COD analyzed to evaluate water quality utilizing the Pollution Index (IP) method. This research has provided a clear understanding of the status of water quality in the Cimanuk watershed based on six monitoring points carried out at the start of the 2018 rainy season. Overall, the IP values obtained ranged from 2.05 to 5.96 with the lightly polluted category at points A, B, C, D, and E, while for point F it was in the moderately polluted category. The key parameters that have the most influence on water quality pollution are Nitrate, Phosphate, Sulphate from fertilization activities in agricultural land, while runoff from settlements contribute to increasing parameters of  BOD and COD. These results can be beneficial for sustainable management of water and land resources in the Cimanuk watershed.

scholarly journals Sustainable management of hill land

1993 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
A.D. Mackay ◽  
M.E. Wedderburn ◽  
M.G. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Biophysical Indicators ◽  
The Impact

One of the major environmental issues currently facing New Zealand is that of the sustainability of pastoral farming on North Island hill country. To be sustainable, a system must be resource conserving, environmentally compatible, socially supportive and commer-cially competitive. The Resource Management Act defines sustainable management as managing the use, development and protection of natural and physical resources in a way, or at a rate, which enables people and community to meet their needs without unduly compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Evidence shows that at present this is not so for some hill country, for reasons of on-site land degradation and soil loss, and off-site sediment loading. Socioeconomic sustainability is also in doubt through deterioration in rural infrastructure and social services and steadily decreasing average returns for produce. In the long term there is no conflict between environmental and economic sustainability. The major conflict arises in the short term when the environmental needs of the community can conflict severely with the economic survival of the individual land holder. Adoption of sustainable management will require a much greater understanding of the dynamic interaction between land resources and land use practices and improved matching of land uses with inherent soil and climatic properties. A quantitative understanding of the relationship between biophysical stability of our land resources and their productive capability is required. This paper attempts to: (i) examine how biophysical indicators could be used to quantify the impact of current land use on the productive capability of our hill land resource, and in so doing identify several critical issues facing hill country farmers, and (ii) discuss some of the possible solutions to what we see are currently unsustainable farming practices. It is our contention that the adoption of sustainable management practices will ensure the long-term viability of this sector of the pasture industry and not, as many suggest, its demise. Keywords: biophysical indicators, hill land, offsite effects, on-site effects, sustainability

scholarly journals New Environmental Regionalism and Sustainable Development in the European Alps

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Balsiger
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
International Governance ◽  
European Alps ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Mountain Ranges ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Binding Agreement

In the context of increasing fragmentation and functional differentiation in international governance, new environmental regionalism represents a recent trend involving initiatives that seek to territorialize environmental governance at the level of transboundary ecoregions, such as mountain ranges or river basins. This article examines the implications of this trend for sustainable development, which is defined here as a procedural norm for reconciling the tradeoffs between environmental, economic, and social dimensions of wellbeing. This article (1) traces arguments concerning the origins of functional differentiation to research on European state-making; (2) offers two complementary perspectives that generate insights into sustainable development at the transboundary level, one focusing on the intersection of multiple and overlapping functional spaces, and the other focusing on regionalization as the domestic manifestation of regional themes; and (3) illustrates the significance of these perspectives in the case of the European Alps. The article suggests that the Alps serve both as the bounded object of an international legally binding agreement asking its signatories to formalize sustainable development, and as the intersection of multiple overlapping functional spaces. It lends support to claims about the link between rescaling and functional differentiation, but demonstrates that a sympathetic critique of new environmental regionalism need not conclude that the phenomenon exacerbates the fragmentation of international governance.

scholarly journals Sustainable Management of the Electrical-Energy–Water–Food Nexus Using Robust Optimization

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Morteza Ahangari Hassas ◽  
Navid Taghizadegan Kalantari ◽  
Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo ◽  
Amin Safari
Keyword(s):  
Robust Optimization ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Food Resources ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
The North ◽  
The Future ◽  
Close Relationship

The significance of the security of electrical energy, water, and food resources in the future, which are inextricably connected, has led to increasing attention to this important issue in studies. This is an issue inattention to which can have irreparable consequences in the future. One of the sectors where electrical energy, water, and food are very closely associated is agriculture. Undoubtedly, the ability to properly manage electrical energy, hydropower, and food resources that have many uncertainties brings about the development of agriculture on the one hand and the optimal allocation of electrical energy, water, and land resources on the other. Thus, while reaching the highest economic profit, the greenhouse gas emissions reach the minimum possible value too. In this study, via robust optimization and by precisely considering the existing uncertainties, a model was developed for the optimal allocation of electrical energy, water, and land resources for a region in the north of China. In addition to acknowledging the close relationship between electrical energy, water, and food sources, the results show the method’s effectiveness for sustainable management in agriculture.

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