Factors influencing resident attitudes regarding the land application of biosolids

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Lindsay ◽  
Haojiang Zhou ◽  
John M. Halstead
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Land Application ◽  
Resident Attitudes ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Media ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Benefits And Costs

AbstractResidential household owners were surveyed in two different New Hampshire communities that varied in terms of population size, degree of rurality, and per capita income, each with no activities in land application of biosolids. Logit models were developed and logistic regression analyses were carried out for each community. The empirical results suggest that the perception by residents of the potential economic benefits and negative impacts from land application of biosolids can be very influential in achieving public acceptance. From a policymaker's viewpoint, this suggests the need for sound educational programs that explicitly describe the economic benefits, negative impacts, and potential risks that typically occur with land application of biosolids. Supportive studies are needed to complement the educational programs. These measures will allow residents to weigh the relative benefits and costs to determine their positions on this approach to management of biosolids and to discount emotional judgements and misinformation. The media needs to ensure that newspaper, magazine, and television reports are accurate and taken from reliable sources. Survey results suggest that the less volume of information presented by the media, the more supportive residents are of land application. Therefore, with such sensitivity by respondents to quantity of information, it is imperative that media outlets place high priority on the quality and accuracy of materials presented. Socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents did not influence attitudes toward acceptance or rejection of biosolids application, thus eliminating the difficulty that social stratification could cause in achieving acceptance.

The Benefits and Costs Of Decarbonizing Costa Rica's Economy: Informing the Implementation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Plan under Uncertainty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Groves ◽  
James Syme ◽  
Edmundo Molina-Perez ◽  
Carlos Calvo ◽  
Luis Víctor-Gallardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Livestock Productivity ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Given the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, global leaders are seeking solutions to re-activate their economies while preserving the climate and mitigating the risk of future environmental crises. Costa Ricas National Decarbonization Plan sets the ambitious goal to become carbon neutral by 2050 and lays out a series of actions that government officials, sectoral stakeholders, and more generally Costa Rican citizens would need to implement throughout the economy to decarbonize. The extent to which the implementation of the decarbonization plan can be part of an effort to restart the economy post covid depends on the costs and socioeconomic benefits it entails. In this study, we developed an integrated model that estimates the benefits and costs of implementing the decarbonization plan in all major sectors, informed by consultations with numerous government agencies, industries and non-governmental organizations. In our central scenario, decarbonization brings $41 billion in net benefits to Costa Rica between 2020 and 2050, using a 5 percent discount rate. In the land use sector, reducing emissions would lead to increased agricultural and livestock productivity, and increasing carbon sequestration by forests would lead to greater ecosystem services, such as renewable forestry products, water and soil benefits, and support for tourism and cultural heritage. In the transportation sector, the economic benefits from energy savings, fewer accidents, time saved from reduced congestion, and the reduced negative impacts of air pollution on health more than compensate for the initially higher upfront costs of switching to electric vehicles and building infrastructure for zero-emissions public transport. Energy savings in buildings, efficiency gains in industry, and the economic value of recycled materials and treated water complete our estimates.

FORMATION OF CORPORATE CULTURE OF MEDIA ENTERPRISES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Oleshko ◽  
◽  
Olena Basarab ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Media

The article identifies specific features and suggests areas for improving the corporate culture of media enterprises. Dynamic changes in the economy due to digitalization require a revision of existing organizational forms and methods of management and the formation of a qualitatively new corporate culture at all hierarchical levels. The difficulty of solving this problem is the need to eliminate the negative elements in the Ukrainian corporate culture while adapting the development strategies of organizations to new economic conditions. The specifics of the formation of corporate culture of the media company is its special role, which is to implement the information product in order to obtain economic benefits and meet the social and communication needs of different segments of society. The article proposes changes in the organizational structure of media companies by creating a department for internal corporate communications in order to form a corporate culture that can increase the competitiveness of the company and form its positive image in the media space. This will form a highquality information support for internal communication of the enterprise, increase employee motivation and effectiveness of control over their work. The formation of a qualitatively new corporate culture of media enterprises also involves the transformation of the management system taking into account the need to focus on the use of creative work, increasing the level of knowledge, digital competencies, skills and professionalism, observance of system values of society. Ultimately, the formation of an effective corporate culture will have a positive impact on the process of creating quality information products

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-567
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
Resource Exploration ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Michael A. Goldstein, Professor of Finance, Babson College reviews “Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold” by Heather A. Conley. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the economic benefits of an increasingly open Arctic region and the costs of exploring the riches of the American Arctic. Discusses Arctic frontiers; U.S. Arctic oil and gas development; Arctic mineral resource exploration; Arctic destination and trans-shipping; Arctic commercial fisheries; Arctic ecotourism; and Arctic infrastructure investment. Conley is Director and Senior Fellow of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.”

Towards a Broader Value Discourse: Understanding Sustainable and Public Value Potential

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joona Keränen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Current Value ◽  
Discourse Understanding ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The current value discourse tends to be characterized by economic benefits and costs. This may resonate with business actors, but customers and society are increasingly interested in environmental, social and public value as well. This article discusses why and how practitioners and scholars should take sustainable and public value potential into account, and move towards a broader value discourse that would resonate with both business and society.

The Perceived Impacts of Sport Tourism: An Urban Host Community Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hritz ◽  
Craig Ross
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Perceived Impacts ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Social Environmental

Sport tourism is one of the fastest growing market segments in the tourism industry and is receiving increased attention for its social, environmental, and economic impacts upon destinations. Prior research in tourism impacts has tended to focus exclusively on tourism as a whole and does not differentiate among the different types of tourism that may be present in a destination. The purpose of this study was to examine how residents of Indianapolis, Indiana perceived the impacts sport tourism has upon their city. A total of 347 surveys were returned in a mailed questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a four factor structure of social benefits, environmental benefits, economic benefits, and general negative impacts. Social and economic benefits were strong predictors for support for further sport tourism development revealing a strong identification with the advantages of sport tourism in their city such as an increased cultural identity and social interaction opportunities.

Risks to the Public

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Peter G. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Computer Systems ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Security And Reliability

Mini-editorial (PGN) 2020 was a crazy year, with all kinds of risks on display. As usual, many of the lessons noted in past issues of SEN and RISKS have been largely ignored, and failures continue to mirror events from the past that have long been discussed here. Issues such as safety, security, and reliability always seem to need more foresight than they receive. Y2K con- tinues to hit somewhere each New Year's Day, when short- term remediations that demanded periodic upgrading have been forgotten. (I suppose old COBOL code will still ex- ist in year 2100, when there may be ambiguities relating to dates that could be 21xx or 20xx (although 19xx is unlikely), and the narrow windowing xes will fail even more dramati- cally.) Election integrity continues to be a real concern, where we are caught in the crosshairs between computer systems and networks that are not meaningfully trustworthy or au- ditable, and the nontechnological risks are still pervasive from unbalanced redistricting, creative dysinformation, poli- tics, Citzens United, and foreign interference. We need non- partisan scrutiny and defense against would-be subverters to overcome potential attacks and inadvertent mistakes. In pres- ence of potential risks in every part of the process, a strong sense of risk-awareness is required by voters, election officials, and the media (both proactively and remedially, as needed).

scholarly journals MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

TEME ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Đorđević ◽  
Biljana Rakić
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Macroeconomic Impacts ◽  
Financing Infrastructure ◽  
Benefits And Costs

Public-private partnership (PPP) has been getting momentum in market economies since the 1990s. Originally, it was created as a way of financing infrastructure projects, but its application since then has covered areas such as education, healthcare, high technology and many others. As the bulk of research in the domain of PPP is on the microeconomic impact and the analysis of the success of concrete PPP projects, the aim of this paper is to integrate these findings into a broader framework depicting macroeconomic aspects of public-private partnership. The existing literature, although not as extensive, points to several aspects that may affect economic development on the local, regional, and national levels, with greater adoption of PPP projects and their implementation. The paper introduces explanations for the elements of risk sharing between public and private partners, economic benefits, and costs in PPP, as well as the specific PPP channels of influence on the national economy and the PPP system dynamic model. One of the objectives is the analysis of the existing concept for estimating macroeconomic impacts of PPP, which could be used for evaluating its potential contribution to the growth and development of the national economy. 

scholarly journals Media Literacy Education for Students During Learning Online the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-634
Author(s):  
Fadhil Pahlevi Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Media Literacy Education ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Media ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Basic Ability

One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is felt in the world of education, namely the Government's policy that all learning activities must be carried out from home online. With this policy, students tend to be affected by negative impacts during online learning due to the increasing consumption of the digital world. Therefore, media literacy education is needed for students so that it can become the basic ability of students to overcome negative and negative influences to improve understanding to build knowledge and have more critical thinking about information obtained from the media, especially for students who are currently learning from home online. This study uses a research method with a literature review with data collection techniques carried out through an in-depth study of various reference sources. The results of the analysis show that media literacy education for students during online learning during the covid-19 pandemic is a basic skill that is so important for a student to have, not only for online learning but also for learning in the 21st century as it is today. Media literacy education skills can be applied during online learning by applying skills such as access, select, understand, analyze, verify, evaluate, distribute, produce, participate and collaborate

scholarly journals Herd Homes: nutrient management and farmer perceptions of performance

2006 ◽  
pp. 309-313
Author(s):  
R.D.Longhurst J. Luo ◽  
M.B. O'Connor ◽  
T. Pow
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Management ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
Land Application ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Wood Shavings ◽  
Effective Option ◽  
The Media

The recent invention of Herd Homes has presented NZ dairy farmers with a flexible facility for feeding and standing-off stock especially during wet periods. Herd Homes are a combination of feeding platform, stand-off facility and animal shelter comprising a "greenhouse" type roof over slatted concrete floors with an underfloor manure bunker. The prototype Herd Home built in Northland for 230 cows was closely monitored during its initial year (2002/03). Different bunker media were evaluated for their ability to absorb and retain manure nutrients. The media tested were natural materials (soil, wood shavings and a combination of soil/wood shavings) that were all effective at capturing nutrients (N and S) from the bunker manure. Benefits of media amendments are greater nutrient enrichment of the final bunker manure making it more useful for subsequent land application. Use of soil as a bunker medium appears to be the most viable and cost effective option. In early 2006, manure samples were collected from Herd Home bunkers from four geographically diverse areas of NZ and analysed for nutrient content. Nutrient concentrations found reflected variability in cow numbers, usage and feed inputs. In November 2004, 10 existing Herd Home owners were surveyed as to their reasons for purchase. The farmers reported ease of farm management, "on-off" grazing, reduced pugging damage, and improved stock condition and production were some of the beneficial effects of Herd Homes. Keywords: Herd Homes, winter management, wintering system, stand off, feed pad, manure management, bunker manure

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