scholarly journals Preventing environmental disasters from grounding accidents: A case study of tugboat positioning along the Norwegian coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 1773-1792
Author(s):  
Brice Assimizele ◽  
Johannes O. Royset ◽  
Robin T. Bye ◽  
Johan Oppen
Keyword(s):  
Norwegian Coast ◽  
Environmental Disasters

scholarly journals Sustainable business digital technology-based model: BikePoa case study as an example

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Gabriel Roberto Dellacasa Levrini ◽  
Walter Meucci Nique
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Google Docs ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable ◽  
Bicycle Sharing System ◽  
Business Technology

Environmental disasters attributed to global warming, strong media pressures towards an ecologically sustainable consumption, give path to alternative forms of green and sustainable consumption, like the sharing economy, a rising pattern in consumption behavior, based on accessing and reusing products to utilize idle capacity. The sharing economy holds the potential to bring effectiveness toward widespread sustainable business practices.The research objective is to propose a sustainable business technology-based model using technology as mediator among the shared economy agents under the lens of Actor Network Theory (ANT). We have chosen, as a sample, BikePoa bicycle sharing system has 40 stations and more than 2,000 bikes, throughout the city of Porto Alegre, in Brazil. The research methodology followed Kozinets’s (2006) participant-observational netnography. It was done 23 personal interviews with users and 7 with employees’ provider, and later through Google Docs 251 questionaries’ were selected. Findings point for two different factors consumers’ inductors and providers ‘connection factors.

scholarly journals Paesaggi d’acqua in territori fragili

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Maria Biddau ◽  
Gianfranco Sanna ◽  
Silvia Serreli
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Climate Events

Environmental disasters and the high degree of exposure of cities to these risks are well known. What is evident is the close relationship between these disasters and urban transformations generated by sectoral approaches to landscape design that have made territories more vulnerable to extreme weather and climate events. With the aim of creating an open and sustainable spatial plan, the case study outlined in this article is intended as an approach to climate adaptation, even though in Sardinia the connection between climate change and flood risk has not been studied in depth and the evidence of this connection has not yet emerged.

Developing Public-Private Partnership Framework for Managing Adverse Health Effects of Environmental Disaster (A case study of Lake Urmia -Iran)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojatolah Gharaee ◽  
Ramin Rezapour ◽  
Naser Derakhshani ◽  
Morteza Ghojazadeh ◽  
Saber Azami-Aghdash
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Lake Urmia ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Adverse Health ◽  
Private Sector Participation

Abstract Background Due to the limited resources of the public sector, the presence of the private sector as an auxiliary to the health sector, to mitigate adverse health effects (AHEs) caused by environmental disasters, seems necessary. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) framework for managing AHE of environmental disasters (case study of Lake Urmia-Iran). Methods This is a qualitative study with grounded theory approach, conducted in 2019. Required data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 experts selected through purposive sampling, and analyzed using Content-Analysis. To formulate the initial framework, an experts’ panel, composed of 12 experts, was formed. Delphi method was used to determine the validity of the framework. Results Most participants found the private sector participation in this field, essential and useful. The most important infrastructure for the private sector participation was designing a legal framework and providing adequate resources and facilities. Pollutant assessment and education of families for disease prevention are among the most important areas that the private sector can participate. To evaluate the performance of the private sector, periodic and short-term reports together with documentation should be used, and the evaluation tool should be the checklists agreed by two sectors. Payments to the private sector should be for periodic objectives, based on performance, and after performance confirmation, in the form of combination of fee for services, per capita and performance-based system. Preventing waste of resources, improving service coverage, greater efficiency and attracting public participation were the most important benefits of the private sector participation. Conclusions PPP can be considered by policy makers as an effective policy for reducing the AHE of environmental disasters (especially drying lakes). To this end, the framework presented in this study can be used as an action guide by national and local authorities and policymakers.

scholarly journals O ROMPIMENTO DA BARRAGEM DE FUNDÃO EM MARIANA/MG E A PROTEÇÃO DOS DESLOCADOS AMBIENTAIS: UMA ANÁLISE POR MEIO DE PESQUISA DE CAMPO

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Leonardo Da Rocha de SOUZA ◽  
Carolina PAAZ
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Brazilian History

RESUMO Este texto aborda uma das maiores tragédias ambientais da história do Brasil, o rompimento da barragem da Samarco em Mariana/MG, sob a ótica dos deslocamentos ambientais, tendo elementos conceituais e técnicos para abordar o problema. Procura-se analisar os conceitos polêmicos dos termos utilizados que designam pessoas atingidas por desastres ambientais, a falta de terminologia adequada para os deslocados ambientais, bem como analisar quais são os instrumentos que garantem os direitos básicos dessa população deslocada. Para isso, sob olhar epistemológico hermenêutico-dialético, utiliza-se o método do estudo de caso com a técnica da pesquisa de campo realizada com pessoas atingidas pelo rompimento da barragem, tendo com linha condutora um roteiro com questões abertas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Desastre ambiental; Deslocados ambientais; Barragem de Fundão; Mariana/MG; Democracia deliberativa. ABSTRACTThis text addresses one of the greatest environmental tragedies in Brazilian history, the rupture of the Samarco dam in Mariana / MG, from the point of view of environmental dislocations, with conceptual and technical elements to address the problem. It seeks to analyze the controversial concepts of terms used to describe people affected by environmental disasters, the lack of adequate terminology for environmental displaced persons, and to analyze which are the instruments that guarantee the basic rights of this displaced population. For this, under the hermeneutic-dialectic epistemological approach, the case study method is used with the field research technique performed with people affected by the rupture of the dam, with a line with a script with open questions. KEYWORDS: Environmental disaster; Environmental Displacement; Fundão dam; Mariana/MG; Deliberative democracy.

Advection and retention as life trait modulators of capelin larvae—A case study from the Norwegian coast and the Barents Sea

2009 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.P. Pedersen ◽  
K.S. Tande ◽  
T. Pedersen ◽  
D. Slagstad
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Norwegian Coast ◽  
The Barents Sea

Using the Courts to Protect the Environment in Argentina: Accountability Pitfalls When Judges Have the Last Word

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Teresa Kramarz
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The Supreme Court

In July 2006, 17 neighbors and health professionals living in the basin of one of the most polluted rivers in the world—the Matanza-Riachuelo—brought a case before the Supreme Court of Argentina. They claimed extensive health damages due to the level of contamination of the basin. The lawsuit was filed against the federal, provincial, and city governments, as well as 44 private companies [1]. This case study introduces readers to the growing pattern of judicialization of environmental policies. This trend was initially celebrated by many activists since a Supreme Court responsive to people’s demands and focused on protecting the environment could address long-standing policy failures of the executive and legislative branches of government. However, this case study examines two main ways in which judicialization may generate an accountability crisis for communities affected by environmental disasters. First, it raises a theoretical argument that a Court that takes on managerial functions beyond its adjudicative role distorts the normal horizontal accountability functions that are part of the division of powers between the three branches of government. Second, it empirically demonstrates that a Court’s involvement in policy formulation does not guarantee effectiveness and precludes vertical accountability, since citizens cannot vote judges out of office. The case suggests that judicializing environmental politics is fraught with risks to democratic accountability. These must be considered carefully before embracing the judiciary as a band-aid remedy to an executive branch that fails to protect people and the environment.

scholarly journals Do Socioeconomic Factors Influence Who Is Most Likely to Relocate after Environmental Disasters? A Case Study in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6228
Author(s):  
Kate Burrows ◽  
Ji-Young Son ◽  
Michelle L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Residential Moves ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Reported Data

Environmental mobility (residential moves influenced by environmental factors) is increasingly recognized as an important issue, both today and under future conditions of climate change. Those who experience climate- and weather-related disasters rarely respond as a homogenous group of migrants, yet relatively limited studies have specifically examined individual-level heterogeneities across those exposed. In this paper, we used self-reported data to investigate differences in sociodemographics (age, marital status, sex, and education) between those who relocated after environmental disruptions in Indonesia and those who did not relocate. Individuals with 12 years of education at the time of an environmental exposure were 3.93 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.38, 11.20) times more likely to move for environmental reasons than those with <12 years of education. Assuming education as a proxy for socioeconomic status, these findings suggest that those in the mid-range socioeconomic brackets may be most likely to migrate after environmental disruptions, while the poorest are less likely to move. This may reflect that the costs of relocation are prohibitively high for those with lower socioeconomic status. Collectively, these results add to an inconsistent body of literature on environmental mobility and indicate that further site- and context-specific research on climate- and weather-related relocation is needed.

scholarly journals Planning and co-creation of Quadrilatero Ferrifero cultural landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Mourão Moura ◽  
Christian Rezende Freitas ◽  
Camila Fernandes Morais ◽  
Ítalo Sousa Sena ◽  
Pedro Benedito Casagrande
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Web Map ◽  
Iron Quadrangle ◽  
Quadrilátero Ferrífero ◽  
To Receive

The article presents results about Geodesign studies of the Iron Quadrangle (Quadrilátero Ferrífero – QF) that are under development since 2016, based on economic, environmental, and social approaches, with the goal to promote cultural landscape planning based on shared process, giving support to collective and individual opinion making. This paper has the goal do present the Brazilian Geodesign platform, called “GISColab”, that was first tested in QF case study. The QF area is characterized by conflicts of interests due to mining activities, urban growth, cultural heritage landscapes and the presence of areas of environmental protection. QF is especially important as part of the economic structure of the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil) but became globally known due to a couple of environmental disasters that caused the death of almost 300 people. In the first studies we used Steinitz´s framework (2012), but some difficulties in the process were observed, what led to the proposal of a new platform and framework, more adapted to inequalities related to access and use of information, so that people could really act as participants of all the steps. The new web-platform is based on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), which receives a considerable amount of data and is open to receive further information via Web Map Service (WMS), which guarantees the users will construct, by themselves, judgments about these areas. It presents a shared process of decision making by digital dialogues, as by voting based on Delphi method. The platform and process are based on geovisualization, interoperability and the co-creation of ideas based on geo-collaboration.

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