Understanding the complex environmental management through a len of food-water-ecosystem nexus: Insights from an ecosystem restoration hotspot in dryland

2021 ◽  
Vol 783 ◽  
pp. 147029
Author(s):  
Yu Zhao ◽  
Chong Jiang ◽  
Xinling Dong ◽  
Zhiyuan Yang ◽  
Meili Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Water Ecosystem

Assessing 30 Years of Neoliberal Environmental Management in Chile

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javiera Barandiarán
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessments ◽  
Water Ecosystem ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Mutual Accountability

Neoliberal environmental policies operate through markets, including for carbon, water, ecosystem services, or—as in contemporary Chile—for environmental scientific knowledge. Chile illustrates how markets for science operate, such as for monitoring data or environmental impact assessments, and their negative impacts on public trust in science and on the state’s regulatory efforts. In a society governed by a market for science, environmental scientists cannot escape the suspicion that conflicts of interest compromise their independence and the credibility of their work. Chile’s neoliberal 1980 Constitution sustains this market for knowledge but will be reformed following national demonstrations in 2019. The health of Chile’s environment depends on a new constitution that democratizes both democracy and science. Rights of nature doctrines, as in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution, can provide the constitutional foundation for strong mutual accountability between science, the state, society, and nature.

scholarly journals COVID-19 – What is the Impact for Tourism as a Vehicle of SMME Development and Incentivizing Environmental Management in South Africa?

2021 ◽  
pp. 987-998
Author(s):  
Fonda Lewis ◽  
Michelle Browne ◽  
Joël Houdet
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
Causal Loop Diagram ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Degraded Ecosystems ◽  
The Impact

The tourism sector is regarded as a modern-day engine of growth and has significant potential to serve as a vehicle for socio-economic upliftment. Evidence also illustrates the potential that pro-poor tourism has for incentivising natural capital protection and ecosystem restoration. This paper explores the impact of the decline in global tourism, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, on incentivising environmental management. This is analysed in conjunction with emerging literature on the impact of environmental degradation on exacerbating risks of zoonotic diseases such as Covid-19. A causal loop diagram was developed to map the system and reflect its structure and functioning and capture interactions. The behaviour of the system was used to explore the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on SMME development. This informed the re-examination of the key constraints identified as currently limiting development and growth of pro-poor tourism SMMEs. The results re-emphasise the tourism sector’s vested interest in investing in the protection of natural capital and restoration of degraded ecosystems. It highlights the need for the sector to act collectively to support recovery from Covid-19, and build resilience by developing a strategic vision for tourism that is more sustainable and equitable, and balances the needs of people and the environment.

scholarly journals Reframing conservation physiology to be more inclusive, integrative, relevant and forward-looking: reflections and a horizon scan

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J Cooke ◽  
Christine L Madliger ◽  
Rebecca L Cramp ◽  
John Beardall ◽  
Gary Burness ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Predictive Models ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Conservation Physiology ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract Applying physiological tools, knowledge and concepts to understand conservation problems (i.e. conservation physiology) has become commonplace and confers an ability to understand mechanistic processes, develop predictive models and identify cause-and-effect relationships. Conservation physiology is making contributions to conservation solutions; the number of ‘success stories’ is growing, but there remain unexplored opportunities for which conservation physiology shows immense promise and has the potential to contribute to major advances in protecting and restoring biodiversity. Here, we consider how conservation physiology has evolved with a focus on reframing the discipline to be more inclusive and integrative. Using a ‘horizon scan’, we further explore ways in which conservation physiology can be more relevant to pressing conservation issues of today (e.g. addressing the Sustainable Development Goals; delivering science to support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration), as well as more forward-looking to inform emerging issues and policies for tomorrow. Our horizon scan provides evidence that, as the discipline of conservation physiology continues to mature, it provides a wealth of opportunities to promote integration, inclusivity and forward-thinking goals that contribute to achieving conservation gains. To advance environmental management and ecosystem restoration, we need to ensure that the underlying science (such as that generated by conservation physiology) is relevant with accompanying messaging that is straightforward and accessible to end users.

scholarly journals Brackish water ecosystem restoration based on integrated water system design

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-125
Author(s):  
Marijn Kuijper ◽  
Perry de Louw
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
System Design ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Water System ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Water Ecosystem

Brackish water ecosystem restoration based on integrated water system design Despite their current location within a primary agricultural area, most of the creek remnants in the Dutch clay polder areas have a high potential for recovery into healthy ecosystems. Like most areas in the Netherlands the clay polders are densely populated. Therefore multifunctional land use is encouraged and different types of land use coexist within small distances from each other. As a result water conflicts occur: agricultural land use requires deep groundwater levels and causes eutrophication by spreading nutrients into the water system, while existing ecosystems within and around the creek remnants need wetland conditions and low nutrient levels. Furthermore periods of high discharge cause flooding of arable land. Extreme measures like filling in ditches and increasing water levels are needed to achieve the water targets for wetlands around the creeks. On the other hand, the effects of these measures easily cause water logging in nearby agricultural areas. We introduce an integrated approach for the restoration of creek ecosystems. Both the complex interaction of groundwater, surface water and ecology and the limiting conditions imposed by adjacent agricultural land use, spatial developments and regulatory settings like the European Water Framework Directive are thereby taken into account. A highly integrated set of measures is proposed creating optimal conditions for both high agricultural production and flourishing creek ecosystems.

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