The Impact of Visitor Behavior on the Environmental Protection of Tourist Farms in Guangdong

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Law ◽  
Jo Ting
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
The Impact

The Consequences of Excessive Chemicalization on Fruits Quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 1303-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Alexandru Gitea ◽  
Simona Bungau ◽  
Daniela Gitea ◽  
Lavinia Purza ◽  
Sebastian Nemeth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Pesticide Residues ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Fruit Trees ◽  
Pesticide Treatment ◽  
Intensive Intervention ◽  
Optimal Efficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intensive System

Chemistry in agriculture has been considered for several decades a formula synonymous with progress and development, as chemical engineering, mechanization, irrigation, modern agro-technical processes have contributed to a substantial increase in production. At present, the use of pesticides to increase agricultural productivity is considered to be a global hazard to the environment. This study examines changes in tree tolerance for major diseases and pests, disease and pest behavior, and the changes that occur in the recommended pesticide treatment. The researches were carried out on different species of fruit trees (apple, plum, and almond), cultivated in an intensive system, in five orchards located in Bihor county. The behavior of each species, as well as the behavior of different varieties with respect to tolerance to major diseases and pests, have been observed over the last 5 years (2013-2017). In addition, pesticide residues were monitored from all crops of apple, plum and almond. During 2015-2017, from March to May, the diseases were more virulent, requiring intensive intervention with systemic and contact fungicide combinations to achieve optimal efficiency; this fact has been correlated with the increase in the number of samples containing pesticide residues. This perspective allows an ecological remodeling of current progress in orchard development, including all aspects of environmental protection and the impact on population2 s health.

scholarly journals Corporate Environmental Performance in China: The Moderating Effects of the Media versus the Approach of Local Governments

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Zhiru Guo ◽  
Chao Lu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Random Effect Model ◽  
Corporate Environmental Performance ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance and examines the impacts of local government environmental protection and property nature on that relationship. Results are as follow: (1) Media attention can significantly affect a company’s environmental performance. The higher the media attention, the greater the company’s supervision and the better its environmental performance. (2) In areas where the government pays less attention to environmental protection, the impact of media on corporate environmental performance is more obvious, but in other areas, the impact of media on environmental performance cannot be reflected; (3) The media attention is very significant for the environmental performance improvement of state-owned enterprises, and it is not obvious in non-state-owned enterprises. (4) A further breakdown of the study found that the role of media attention in corporate environmental performance is only significant in the sample of local governments that have low environmental protection and are state-owned enterprises. This research incorporates the local government’s emphasis on environmental protection into the research field of vision, expands the research scope of media and corporate environmental performance, and also provides new clues and evidence for promoting the active fulfillment of environmental protection responsibilities by companies and local governments.

scholarly journals Social media reveal ecoregional variation in how weather influences visitor behavior in U.S. National Park Service units

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Wilkins ◽  
Peter D. Howe ◽  
Jordan W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Daily Maximum Temperature ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
Daily Weather ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
Park Service ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDaily weather affects total visitation to parks and protected areas, as well as visitors’ experiences. However, it is unknown if and how visitors change their spatial behavior within a park due to daily weather conditions. We investigated the impact of daily maximum temperature and precipitation on summer visitation patterns within 110 U.S. National Park Service units. We connected 489,061 geotagged Flickr photos to daily weather, as well as visitors’ elevation and distance to amenities (i.e., roads, waterbodies, parking areas, and buildings). We compared visitor behavior on cold, average, and hot days, and on days with precipitation compared to days without precipitation, across fourteen ecoregions within the continental U.S. Our results suggest daily weather impacts where visitors go within parks, and the effect of weather differs substantially by ecoregion. In most ecoregions, visitors stayed closer to infrastructure on rainy days. Temperature also affects visitors’ spatial behavior within parks, but there was not a consistent trend across ecoregions. Importantly, parks in some ecoregions contain more microclimates than others, which may allow visitors to adapt to unfavorable conditions. These findings suggest visitors’ spatial behavior in parks may change in the future due to the increasing frequency of hot summer days.

scholarly journals Association of temporary Environmental Protection Agency regulation suspension with industrial economic viability and local air quality in California, United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Chang ◽  
Kenneth Zhang ◽  
Margaret Paczkowski ◽  
Sara Kohler ◽  
Marco Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Treatment Control ◽  
Oil Refineries ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background This study seeks to answer two questions about the impacts of the 2020 Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement regulation rollbacks: is this suspension bolstering the economic viability of industries as oil and manufacturing executives claim they will and are these regulations upholding the agency’s mission of protecting the environment? Results To answer the former question, we utilized 6 months of state employment level data from California, United States, as a method of gauging the economic health of agency-regulated industries. We implemented a machine learning model to predict weekly employment data and a t-test to indicate any significant changes in employment. We found that, following California's state-issued stay-at-home order and the agency’s regulation suspension, oil and certain manufacturing industries had statistically significant lower employment values. To answer the latter question, we used 10 years of PM2.5 levels in California, United States, as a metric for local air quality and treatment–control county pairs to isolate the impact of regulation rollbacks from the impacts of the state lockdown. Using the agency’s data, we performed a t-test to determine whether treatment–control county pairs experienced a significant change in PM2.5 levels. Even with the statewide lockdown—a measure we hypothesized would correlate with decreased mobility and pollution levels—in place, counties with oil refineries experienced the same air pollution levels when compared to historical data averaged from the years 2009 to 2019. Conclusions In contrast to the expectation that the suspension would improve the financial health of the oil and manufacturing industry, we can conclude that these industries are not witnessing economic growth with the suspension and state shutdown in place. Additionally, counties with oil refineries could be taking advantage of these rollbacks to continue emitting the same amount of PM2.5, in spite of state lockdowns. For these reasons, we ask international policymakers to reconsider the suspension of enforcement regulations as these actions do not fulfill their initial expectations. We recommend the creation and maintenance of pollution control and prevention programs that develop emission baselines, mandate the construction of pollution databases, and update records of pollution emissions.

scholarly journals Analysis The Impact Of Buyers’ Demographics To Green Consumption In Hochiminh City

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Tô Thị Kim Hồng ◽  
Trần Thị Diễm Thúy
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Green Consumption ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, environmental protection is an urgent problem which raises top concerns. Besides, green consumption is a trend encouraged to be widely implemented in many countries in the world, including Vietnam. However, in the reality of Vietnam, changing green consumer behavior in choosing products has been negligible and insignificant. With a diversified and varied population structure, Ho Chi Minh City is selected to analyze the impacts of demography and other related factors on green consumption behavior in the market. The quantitative research method is mainly used with the analysis of multiple correlation and linear regression. The results retrieved from 312 survey samples show that regarding demography, educational level, and marital status influence green consumption behavior. Besides, the results also show and measure the impacts of other factors, namely attitudes, subjective standards, environmental concerns, unavailability of green products on the green consumption behavior of consumers in Ho Chi Minh city. With the aim at promoting green consumer behavior in Ho Chi Minh City, there is a need for a change requiring the cooperation of all the Government, Enterprises, and consumers in stepping up propaganda, raising public awareness; simultaneously, orienting economic development activities associated with sustainable environmental protection.

scholarly journals MODELLING OF THE INTEGRATED INDICATOR OF THE GENERAL LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF THE ENTERPRISE

2017 ◽  
pp. 182-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Radevych ◽  
Yuliya Nochovna ◽  
Nataliya Samburs'ka
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Mathematic Model ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
General Level ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Integral Coefficient ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. Effective stimulation of the activities of national enterprises in the direction of environmental protection, reduction of the negative impact of production on the environment, increase of innovation and investment attractiveness, environmental image and improvement of the ecological situation in Ukraine becomes possible on condition of the development and practical testing of the methodology for assessing the overall level of environmental safety of the enterprise. Purpose. The article aims to develop an integrated index of the overall level of environmental safety of the enterprise, to justify the possibility of using correlation and regression analysis to confirm the interrelationship between its components. Methodology. The fundamental aspects of the general economic theory, the economics of nature usage and environmental protection, statistics and econometrics have become the methodological basis of the article. The article uses correlation and regression analysis, comparative analysis, method of relative values, methods of economic and mathematic modelling etc. Results. In the article the formula for calculation the integral index of the general level of ecological safety of the enterprise is developed. It is based on three partial integral coefficients: the integral coefficient of environmental damage; integral coefficient of influence of economic factors; the integral factor of the impact of environmental and economic factors. The use of correlation and regression analysis has confirmed the adequacy of the developed economic and mathematic model, the reality of interconnections and interdependencies between its indicators.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE OF ENTERPRISES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
HONG ZHOU ◽  
JUN-GUO QIAO
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Forward Looking

The 11th Five-Year Plan of China has established obligatory targets for main pollutant emissions while the completion of the targets has been associated with the achievements of local officials. With the full implementation of this plan, many enterprises began to take forward-looking environmental protection strategies to cope with the increasingly stringent environmental regulations. Most of the existing literature have systematically studied the impact of environmental regulation from the perspective of industry or region, but they have not considered the dynamic response of enterprises to environmental regulation. The research on the economic consequences of enterprises adopting forward-looking environmental protection strategies for environmental protection investment at the micro level is relatively insufficient. This paper uses the data of China's listed manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2017 to study the effect of environmental protection investment on their business performance of enterprises. The results show that environmental protection investment has a positive cumulative effect on company’s business performance, especially in non-state-owned enterprises. Based on this conclusion, this paper puts forward relevant policy suggestions to promote enterprises to implement forward-looking environmental protection strategy and gain competitive advantage.

scholarly journals The Impact of Leadership Traits in Developing Organizational Citizenship Behavior - A Practical Study on The Staff of The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province-: أثر السمات القيادية في تنمية سلوك المواطنة التنظيمية: – دراسة ميدانية على موظفي الهيئة العامة للأرصاد وحماية البيئة بمحافظة جدة –

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sultan Ahmed Alamri, Hassan Abdulqadir Taibah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Leadership Traits ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Impact

This study came with several objectives, most notably to discuss the impact of leadership features in the development of organizational citizenship behavior, from the point of view of employees in The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher followed the descriptive analytical method, to conduct this study, in addition to using the questionnaire as a main tool to collect data from the study sample individuals. The study population consisted of 800 employees in The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province. A simple random sample of 260 employees from The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province. The study reached several important results, the most important of which were: There is a statistically significant effect at the level (α ≤ 0.05) of the traits (social- behavioral- personal- professional) of the leader individually, on developing organizational citizenship behavior in its various dimensions (Altruism, graces and sweetness, living conscience) of staff of the General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province, Where the coefficient of multiple correlation between the axis of leadership Traits in its different dimensions, and the axis of organizational citizenship behavior in its various dimensions 0.718. In light of the results of the study, the study reached several recommendations as follows: Increased interest in studying the results of the impact of leadership traits in developing organizational citizenship behavior In its various dimensions of staff of the General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection in Jeddah Province, and evaluated in order to allow the field to improve the career work within the authority, and these are a positive effect in reducing the rates of occupational leakage.

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