Geological and Bioregional Assessments: assessing direct and indirect impacts using causal networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 485
Author(s):  
Luk J. M. Peeters ◽  
Kate Holland ◽  
Cameron R. Huddlestone-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Assessment Methodology ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Coal Gas ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Causal Networks ◽  
Impact Assessment Methodology ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts

The Geological and Bioregional Assessment (GBA) Program assesses the potential impacts of shale, tight and deep coal gas development on water and the environment. The cause-and-effect relationships that allow unconventional gas resource development activities to lead to an impact on environmental values are often interrelated, leading to both direct and indirect impacts. The GBA Program developed an impact assessment methodology based on causal networks that explicitly map out these cause-and-effect relationships, including all direct and indirect impacts. This network approach is coupled with a spatially explicit, systematic evaluation of the likelihood, consequence, control and mitigation strategy for each cause-and-effect relationship. Combining these evaluations based on the network structures identifies which activities could lead to potential impacts. The assessment identifies where more detailed local-scale assessments, management and monitoring should focus, as well as where impacts are unlikely to occur.

Comparative Study Of Green Practices In Haryana State Universities

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1008-1016
Author(s):  
Priyanka ◽  
Ms Ipshita Bansal
Keyword(s):  
State Universities ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Size Population ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Complex Activities

Universities in the state are regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect impacts on the environment. The current study focuses on the green practices in state universities of Haryana. The comparative analysis has been done between the multiple case studies and find out the best green practices being adopted in universities for moving towards making the green campus and recommend the area of improvement for making environment sustainable campus.

scholarly journals Impact of Entrepreneurship Extracurricular Activities and Inspiration on Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediator and Moderator Effect

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110321
Author(s):  
Thuy Thu Nguyen ◽  
Linh Thi Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Hoa Thi Thanh Phan ◽  
Anh Trong Vu
Keyword(s):  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Moderator Effect ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
The Impact

This empirical study proposed a comprehensive model testing the direct and indirect impacts of entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration on students’ entrepreneurial intention. With the sample consisting of 640 students from 11 universities in Vietnam, the study used structural equation modeling analysis approach. The results revealed that entrepreneurship extracurricular activities and entrepreneurship inspiration are significantly related to students’ entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurship self-efficacy partially mediates these relations. The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention differs across the field of study. Technical students generally get more benefits from entrepreneurship educational activities than business and economics students do. The research findings recommended some implications for fostering graduates’ entrepreneurship in emerging countries.

scholarly journals Group Facilitation on Societal Disruption and Collapse: Insights from Deep Adaptation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6280
Author(s):  
Jem Bendell ◽  
Katie Carr
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Group Facilitation ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Difficult Conversations ◽  
Radical Uncertainty ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts

This article synthesises the practice and rationale behind ways of facilitating gatherings on topics of societal disruption and collapse, which is argued to be useful for lessening damaging responses. The authors draw on first-person inquiry as facilitators of gatherings, both online and in person, in the post-sustainability field of ‘Deep Adaptation,’ particularly since 2018. This term describes an agenda and framework for people who believe in the probable, inevitable or unfolding collapse of industrial consumer societies, due to the direct and indirect impacts of human-caused climate change and environmental degradation. Some of the principles of Deep Adaptation facilitation are summarised, such as containment, to enable co-responsibility for a safe enough space for difficult conversations. Another key principle is welcoming radical uncertainty in response to the anxieties that people feel from their anticipation of collapse. A third principle is making space for difficult emotions, which are welcomed as a natural and ongoing response to our predicament. A fourth aspect is a curiosity about processes of othering and separation. This paper provides a review of the theories that a reason for environmental destruction is the process of othering people and nature as being less significant or meaningful. One particular modality called Deep Relating is outlined.

scholarly journals A Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS)—A Novel Methodology to Measure the Holistic Operational Performance of Signalized Urban Intersections

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1018-1038
Author(s):  
Wesam Emad Saba ◽  
Salwa M. Beheiry ◽  
Ghassan Abu-Lebdeh ◽  
Mustafa S. AL-Tekreeti
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Community Wellbeing ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts

Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, and thus their physical and operational designs have traditionally aimed at maximizing traffic throughput subject to constraints dictated by vehicular safety requirements and pedestrian crossing needs. Seen from a holistic viewpoint, urban intersections are hubs or effective centers of community activities of which traffic flow is only one. Those hubs have direct and indirect impacts on the overlapping traffic functionalities, the environment, public health, community wellbeing, and the local economy. This study proposes a new rating system, the Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS), aimed at appraising signalized intersections from a more inclusive viewpoint. This appraisal covers traffic functionality, sustainability, and public health and community wellbeing. This rating system can be used as a guide to conceive, plan, or design new intersections or revamp existing ones. HIRS rates signalized urban intersections based on the level of use of relevant enabling technologies, and the physical and operational designs that allow those intersections to operate holistically, thus leading to a more human-centric and sustainable operational performance. HIRS was validated using a panel of experts in construction, transportation, and public health. The Relative Importance Index (RII) method was used to weigh the HIRS features. The rating system was piloted on a sample of 20 intersections in different cities in the UAE. The results revealed glaring gaps in services to or the consideration of pedestrians, cyclists, and nearby households. The sample intersections scored a mean of 32% on the public health and community wellbeing section, 37% on the pedestrian subsection, and 15% on the cyclist subsection. Such relatively low scores serve as indicators of areas for improvements, and if mapped to their specific features and their relative weights, specific physical and operations designs and technology integration can be identified as actionable items for inclusion in plans and/or designs.

scholarly journals Mutualistic strategies minimize coextinction in plant–disperser networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1854) ◽  
pp. 20162302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan C. Fricke ◽  
Joshua J. Tewksbury ◽  
Elizabeth M. Wandrag ◽  
Haldre S. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Network Structure ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Mutualistic Interactions ◽  
Simulated Network ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Seed Dispersal Mutualism

The global decline of mutualists such as pollinators and seed dispersers may cause negative direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity. Mutualistic network models used to understand the stability of mutualistic systems indicate that species with low partner diversity are most vulnerable to coextinction following mutualism disruption. However, existing models have not considered how species vary in their dependence on mutualistic interactions for reproduction or survival, overlooking the potential influence of this variation on species' coextinction vulnerability and on network stability. Using global databases and field experiments focused on the seed dispersal mutualism, we found that plants and animals that depend heavily on mutualistic interactions have higher partner diversity. Under simulated network disruption, this empirical relationship strongly reduced coextinction because the species most likely to lose mutualists depend least on their mutualists. The pattern also reduced the importance of network structure for stability; nested network structure had little effect on coextinction after simulations incorporated the empirically derived relationship between partner diversity and mutualistic dependence. Our results highlight a previously unknown source of stability in mutualistic networks and suggest that differences among species in their mutualistic strategy, rather than network structure, primarily accounts for stability in mutualistic communities.

Corruption, Income and Piracy. An empirical analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Insaf Bekir
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Software Piracy ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Positive Direct ◽  
Lower Income Countries

AbstractThis paper subjects the piracy-corruption relationship to a detailed empirical examination. A distinction is drawn between the direct impact of corruption on piracy and the indirect impact which operates through corruption’s impact on per capita income and the resultant impact of income on piracy. Using data for 100 countries covering the period 1996–2010, both direct and indirect impacts of corruption on software piracy are estimated. Corruption is estimated to have a positive direct effect on the piracy rate. The indirect effect is found to be negative and smaller in absolute value than the direct effect for the majority of the sample income range. As a result, the total effect of corruption on software piracy is positive except for the lower income countries in the sample.

Direct and indirect impacts of wildfire on faunal communities of Mediterranean temporary ponds

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cunillera-Montcusí ◽  
Stéphanie Gascón ◽  
Irene Tornero ◽  
Jordi Sala ◽  
Núria Àvila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporary Ponds ◽  
Faunal Communities ◽  
Mediterranean Temporary Ponds ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts

scholarly journals The Impact of the Physical Environment on Intrapartum Maternity Care: Identification of Eight Crucial Building Spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Setola ◽  
Eletta Naldi ◽  
Grazia Giulia Cocina ◽  
Liv Bodil Eide ◽  
Laura Iannuzzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Maternity Care ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Room Size ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
The Impact

Objectives, Purpose, or Aim: This article investigates whether the physical environment in which childbirth occurs impacts the intrapartum intervention rates and how this might happen. The study explores the spatial physical characteristics that can support the design of spaces to promote the health and well-being of women, their supporters, and maternity care professionals. Background: Medical interventions during childbirth have consequences for the health of women and babies in the immediate and long term. The increase in interventions is multifactorial and may be influenced by the model of care adopted, the relationships between caregivers and the organizational culture, which is made up of many factors, including the built environment. In the field of birth architecture research, there is a gap in the description of the physical characteristics of birth environments that impact users’ health. Method: A scoping review on the topic was performed to understand the direct and indirect impacts of the physical environment on birth intervention rates. Results and Discussion: The findings are organized into three tables reporting the influence that the physical characteristics of a space might have on people’s behaviors, experiences, practices and birth health outcomes. Eight building spaces that require further investigation and research were highlighted: unit layout configuration, midwives’ hub/desk, social room, birth philosophy vectors, configuration of the birth room, size and shape of the birth room, filter, and sensory elements. Conclusions: The findings show the importance of considering the physical environment in maternity care and that further interdisciplinary studies focused on architectural design are needed to enrich the knowledge and evidence on this topic and to develop accurate recommendations for designers.

scholarly journals The Paradox of Public Space: Chapter 91 and Clean Water Act 303(d)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Adams ◽  
◽  
Marie Law Adams ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Clean Water Act ◽  
Amazon River ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
The Many

An increasing challenge for the design of public space is the expanding awareness of the many dimensions and networks throughwhichthepublicdomainisfullyglobalandunbounded while built architectural projects remain inherently discrete and locally bounded – a paradox of public space- for designers. For example- how we are increasingly aware that any local and privatized practice (like farming along the Amazon River) has both significant direct and indirect impacts on shared global resources (like Canadian fisheries) the world over.

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