Environmental Issue: What the World Needs Now?

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Graeme D. Buchan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issue ◽  
The World

RESPONSABILIDADE AMBIENTAL DA PESQUISA MINERAL COM FINS ACADÊMICOS E CIENTÍFICOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2020) (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Milson Xavier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Mineral Industry ◽  
Mineral Research ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Security

he Coronavirus pandemic that spread around the world in the first half of 2020 brought impacts to society that will be registered for an extended period. In this paper, the effects showed an impossibility to maintain the progress of mineral research made by professionals in the academic and scientific areas. In an attempt to find justifications in the legal order of the mineral industry, to continue the work, it was faced with imposing environmental legislation that made a claim even more difficult. It was found that the Mining Code in place no longer regulates the activities of extraction of mineral specimens for museums, educational establishments and other scientific purposes. This left the legal security tied only to the interpretation of legal provisions in articles of the code and its regulation, as well as procedure manuals for environmental inspection bodies, and therefore, subject to the consequences of legal disputes with final decisions in higher courts, given the claim of superiority of the environmental issue over mining. Keywords: Coronavirus, pandemic, environmental legislation, mining code

Climate change in the Cameroonian press: An analysis of its representations

2020 ◽  
pp. 096366252097601
Author(s):  
Nicole Kay ◽  
Sandrine Gaymard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Global Environmental Issue ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

Climate change is a global environmental issue and its outcome will affect societies around the world. In recent years, we have seen a growing literature on media coverage of climate change, but, to date, no study has assessed the situation in Cameroon, although it is considered to be one of the world’s most affected and vulnerable regions. This study attempted to address this deficit by analysing how climate change is represented in the Cameroonian media. A similarity analysis was performed on three newspapers published in 2013–2016. Results showed that climate coverage focused on politics and international involvement. It seems disconnected from local realities, potentially opening up a spatial and social psychological distance. The relationship between the representation of climate change and that of poverty is an area for further exploration.

scholarly journals THE ISSUE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A PRELIMINAR AND QUALITATIVE APPROACH

1970 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Fernanda Emanuelle Barbosa Laurentino ◽  
André Maia Gomes Lages ◽  
Alonso Barros da Silva Júnior ◽  
Felipe Fernando Pereira de Souza ◽  
Sandrine Cíntia Amorim de Barros White
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Events

This article seeks to analyze the global events on sustainable development sponsored by the UN and to articulate these movements with problems of global governance. In this sense, it tries to show that advances and/or setbacks divide the world between blocks of countries with different degrees of development. Thus, we tried to link the trajectories of events and their related agreements with the concept of institutional environment. The article highlights the need for progress with the environmental issue, given the level of degradation of natural resources. There is questioning about what development is. The type of research is descriptive and historical. The institutional environment is analyzed within a contradictory conceptual perspective, where the formal and the informal move with different accelerations. Effective institutional advances are weak, due to the inability to legitimize a new paradigm and the inability of behavioral change, both by the population and by public managers of large industrialized nations. This means that only a behavioral change can lead to further progress on this issue.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Adsorptive Characteristics of Cow Dung and Rice Husk Ash for Removal of Aqueous Glyphosate and Aminomethylphoshonic Acid

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamilu Garba ◽  
Wahid Abd Samsuri ◽  
Radziah Othman ◽  
Muhammad Saiful Ahmad Hamdani
Keyword(s):  
Rice Husk ◽  
Rice Husk Ash ◽  
Lower Surface ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Cow Dung ◽  
Sorption Coefficient ◽  
Strong Adsorption ◽  
The World ◽  
Continuous Application ◽  
Adsorption Desorption

AbstractGlyphosate (GLY) is a major herbicide used throughout the world, and its continuous application has become an environmental issue. Adsorption is an important mechanism for removing organic contaminant in water. The present study characterized cow dung (CD) and rice husk ash (RHA), and determined the adsorption-desorption of GLY and its metabolite, aminomethylphoshonic acid (AMPA), on to them. The results revealed that both CD and RHA were alkaline and had no or low content of arsenic, cadmium, chromium and lead. The CD had lower surface area (13.104 mg2g−1) than RHA (21.500 m2g−1). The CD contained amines, phenol, ethers and carboxylic functional groups, while in addition to carboxylic and ether, RHA contains siloxane. Both CD and RHA had high affinities for GLY and AMPA. The Freundlich sorption coefficient (Kf) on AMPA were 2.915 and 2.660 for CD and RHA, respectively, while the values on GLY were 1.168 and 1.166 (mg g−1) for CD and RHA, respectively. Desorption of GLY only occurred at lower concentrations, while no desorption of AMPA was recorded, indicating their strong adsorption on CD and RHA. Considering their availabilities and affordable prices, both CD and RHA can be recommended as economical adsorbent for the removal of GLY and AMPA.

Turtles and Trade: The WTO's Acceptance of Environmental Trade Restrictions

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. DeSombre ◽  
J. Samuel Barkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
International Trade ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The sea turtle has become an icon ofenvironmentalist opposition to the World Trade Organization. Two decisions by the WTO in 1998 against a United States law intended to force other countries to adopt more turtle-friendly rules attracted widespread attention. A third decision in 2001 which supported the US law, however, went almost entirely unnoticed. A closer examination ofthe three decisions suggests that the WTO willingly accepts the idea ofenvironmental restrictions to international trade applied unilaterally by countries. But it requires that the restrictions be fairly applied and nondiscriminatory, show signs of being effective, and be accompanied by efforts to deal with the environmental issue cooperatively. These are all requirements that environmentalists should find unobjectionable. As such, the cause of more effective international environmental management might better be served ifenvironmental activists and NGOs worked with the WTO rather than reacting automatically against it.

scholarly journals The effect of mean pressure on the performance of a single-stage heat-driven thermoacoustic cooler

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-476
Author(s):  
Irna Farikhah
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Heating Temperature ◽  
Acoustic Power ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Thermoacoustic Engine ◽  
Limit Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Mean Pressure ◽  
Thermoacoustic Cooler

Abstract Waste heat is an environmental issue in the world. There are some technologies that can be used to recovery the waste heat, one of which is thermoacoustic cooler technology. Thermoacoustic technology can be divided into two parts: one is thermoacoustic engine and cooler. To design the cooler system having high efficiency and lower onset heating temperature, the effect of mean pressure is investigated. By increasing mean pressure from 0.5 to 3 MPa, the heating temperature generating acoustic power can be decreased from 831 to 580 K. Moreover, 15% of Thermodynamic upper limit value of the whole cooler system is achieved.

Copper nanoparticle interspersed MoS2 nanoflowers with enhanced efficiency for CO2 electrochemical reduction to fuel

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (32) ◽  
pp. 10569-10577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guodong Shi ◽  
Luo Yu ◽  
Xin Ba ◽  
Xiaoshu Zhang ◽  
Jianqing Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Electrochemical Reduction ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Copper Nanoparticle ◽  
The World ◽  
Ideal Method

Electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) has been considered as an ideal method to simultaneously solve the energy crisis and environmental issue around the world.

Environmental History in Schools: The Anthropocene and Us

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-469
Author(s):  
Salvatore Adorno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
International School ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
The Relationship

This essay uses history as a key to access the environmental issue and the Anthropocene as a concept on which to hinge the history of the relationship between humankind and the environment, proposing it be used in education. It begins by analysing how environmental themes are dealt with in international school textbooks. It then moves on to the Anthropocene, the new age in which man candidates himself as a geological agent, dwelling on the theme of climate change and on the co-evolutionary process between social orders and natural systems. It offers the most recent historical readings of the Anthropocene, elaborating its dating and the numerous visions of the world the Anthropocene opens up. The essay ends with considerations on methodology and with some suggestions for teaching environmental history.

scholarly journals Optimizing the role of the Ngudi Peni Waste Bank to improve environmental cleanliness

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1225-1235
Author(s):  
Tjut Afrieda Syahara ◽  
Galang Ardiansyah ◽  
Panji Alkhoroni ◽  
Siti Fatimah ◽  
Mulati Ningsih ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Waste Bank

The environmental issue that has received the most attention from the world in the last few decades is global warming. Global warming is directly related to the amount of waste produced by humans, so waste reduction must be carried out by all levels of society. The method of reducing waste using the 3R system (Reuse, Reduce and Recycle) has not had a significant impact. Another alternative that can be applied is to create a waste bank. One of them is the Ngudi Peni Waste bank in Gupitan Village, Candimulyo District, Magelang Regency. This method of saving with waste is expected to have an economic impact on the community. This service activity used several methods, namely socialization, training, and assistance for the management of the Ngudi Peni Waste Bank. The results obtained from this service activity include the formation of the Ngudi Peni Waste Bank organizational structure, the creation of a waste catalog and administrative steps for waste management. In addition, effective promotion and communication media are also produced through social media and Public service Advertisement.

Progress or Catastrophe: Whither Our World?

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Maurice F. Strong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Stockholm Conference ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
Principal Elements

It is my intention, in the following remarks, first to review briefly the present state of the environment as a world issue in relation to the other major issues which, today, bear upon the prospects for the human future. Secondly, I would like to advance the premise that it is possible to think positively about the human future and to point up some of the principal elements which I believe will be necessary to make that positive vision of the future a reality.The environmental issue has evolved rapidly in the less-than-three years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1972. Most notably—and largely as a result of what we nowadays commonly refer to simply as ‘Stockholm’—it has become a truly global issue in the sense that virtually all governments and peoples throughout the world have now acknowledged it as an issue of importance to themselves, and have taken at least the first steps to establish national environmental policies and machinery to carry them out. In the developing countries in particular, there has been a literal explosion of interest based primarily on the larger concept of environment and its relationship to development which emerged from the Stockholm Conference.

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