scholarly journals Environmental issues on covid-19 medical waste: review from policy perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 905 (1) ◽  
pp. 012108
Author(s):  
R A Nugroho ◽  
A W Kumar ◽  
A T Kartinawanty ◽  
S G Prakoso ◽  
K Setyowati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Work Limitations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Two Sides

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic brings two sides to the environment. On one side, it reduces air pollution due to travel and work limitations but on the other hand, medical waste increases. This contradictory situation on the environment has been studied by research all around the world. This study is trying to map the concern of experts on environmental issues during Covid-19. This paper conducts a systematic literature review from prominent databases to portray the environmental issues that emerged during the Covid-19 Pandemic from a policy perspective. Unique keywords that combine environment, covid-19, and policy filtered the literature available in the research database. No less than 152 literature were collected and extracted using PRISMA approach. The result indicates very limited policy issued by the government to protect the environment for the post-covid era.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Two Sides

Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have a lot in common. Both fields explore the positive and negative aspects of human modifications of the world. Both question the limits of technology in relation to natural environments, animals, plants, and food. Both examine if human making and doing is compatible with nature or wholly different from it. And both examine the difference between what is considered to be natural and artificial. Technology and the environment further intersect in a number of issues, such as climate change, sustainability, geo-engineering, and agriculture. The reason for the overlap is fundamental: Environmental issues inevitably involve technology, and technologies inevitably have environmental impacts. Technology and the environment are like two sides of the same coin: Each is fully understood only in relation to the other. Yet, despite the ample overlap of questions concerning technology and the environment, the two philosophical fields have developed in relative isolation from each other. Even when philosophers in each field address themselves to similar concerns, the research tends to be parallel rather than intersecting, and the literatures remain foreign to one another. These divergent paths are unfortunate. Philosophers from each field have a lot to contribute to the other....

scholarly journals Comparing climate change indices between a northern (arid) and a southern (humid) basin in Mexico during the last decades

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 231-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martín José Montero-Martínez ◽  
Julio Sergio Santana-Sepúlveda ◽  
Naydú Isabel Pérez-Ortiz ◽  
Óscar Pita-Díaz ◽  
Salvador Castillo-Liñan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Humid Area ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract. It is a matter of current study to determine potential climate changes in different parts of the world, especially in regions like a basin which has the potential to affect socioeconomic and environmental issues in a defined area. This study provides a comparison between several climate change indices trends of two very different basins in Mexico, one located in the northern arid region (the Conchos River basin) and the other in the southern humid area (the Usumacinta River basin). First, quality control, homogenization, and completion of the missing data were applied before calculating the climate change indices and their respective trends for the combined period 1961–1994. A clear warming signal was found for the two basins in addition to an increment in the DTR, in agreement with other studies in Mexico. Also, the Conchos River basin was found to be more humid and the Usumacinta River basin drier, in accordance to a supposed seesaw behavior indicated in previous analysis.

scholarly journals Parents as Agents: Engaging Children in Environmental Literacy in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6605
Author(s):  
Janina Iwaniec ◽  
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Toxic Emissions ◽  
Chinese Parents ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

China, one of the most polluting countries in the world, is facing tremendous challenges in dealing with environmental problems. Although the government has implemented various regulations and introduced strong enforcement to reduce toxic emissions and encourage recycling, little is known about how parents in China socialise their children into environmentally responsible individuals. This article reports on what 267 Chinese parents do, as agents of environmental protection, to raise their children’s awareness of environmental issues, and how their environmental literacy affects these children’s attitudes and behaviours. A survey was developed to measure how parents engage their children in environmental literacy, how confident parents feel in their own environmental awareness, and whether this has an effect on their engagement with children. The participants were found to play an agentive socialisation role in their engagement with children on pro-environmentalism in terms of shaping their behaviours and attitudes and developing their knowledge and skills. Furthermore, the correlational analysis results reveal that engagement in some aspects of environmental literacy is related to parents’ socio-economic status (SES) and their age; namely, the lower the SES or age, the higher the engagement. The study serves as a baseline for parents’ engagement with environmental literacy in China and has important implications for a concerted action by schools, the government, and environmental organisations to empower parents to be true agents of environmental literacy.

scholarly journals Problem of Statelessness in Nepal

NUTA Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Rameshwor Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Universal Principle ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Government ◽  
International Instruments

This paper highlighted Nepalese statelessness issue from Nationality perspective. Nationality is one of the major human rights concerns of the citizens. In fact, citizenship is one of the major fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution. According to the universal principle related to the statelessness, no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his or her nationality. In this connection, on one hand, this paper traced out the international legal obligations created by the conventions to the state parties in which state must bear the responsibility for making national laws to comply with the international instruments. On the other hand, this paper also appraised statelessness related lacunae and shortcomings seen in Municipal laws as well as gender discriminatory laws that has been supporting citizens to become statelessness. By virtue being a one of the modern democratic states in the world, it is the responsibility of the government to protect and promote human rights of the citizens including women and children. Finally, this paper suggests government to take necessary initiation to change and repeal the discriminatory provisions related to citizenship which are seen in the constitution and other statutory laws.

Complexities in Human Rights Protection: Actors and Rights Involved in the Ogoni Conflict in Nigeria

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrun I. Skogly
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Business ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Environmental Ngos ◽  
The Government

The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other environmental and human rights activists in Nigeria in November 1995, represented flagrant violations of human rights. What was exceptional about this case was that the uprising, which ultimately lead to the executions, was not primarily aimed at the Government, but rather at one of the large transnational corporations, Shell Oil. The article analyses the composition of the actors and the various human rights involved in this conflict. It argues that the complexity of the conflict is shown through the wide variety of environmental NGOs, human rights NGOs, international business and organisations that were implicated in it. The article points to the interrelatedness of various human rights - and the interlinkedness to environmental issues, claiming that environmental organisations were forced’ to use rights language, while human rights organisations needed to address environmental issues. And ultimately, the business actor has publicly stated intent to observe a human rights accountability.

Extract from A Wrack Behind

1999 ◽  
Vol 103 (1022) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Norton Lord Kings
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come ◽  
Aeronautical Science ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Aircraft Production

In 1943, with the world still at war, a great discussion on the future of aeronautical education was held by the Royal Aeronautical Society. Not only would the war years, however many were still to come, demand more well-qualified aeronautical engineers, but the longed for peace years, with engineers turning swords into ploughshares, would want more. The discussion was in two parts. One took place on 25 June and the other on 23 July. Many of the leading figures in British aeronautics took part and in the chair on both occasions was Dr Roxbee Cox, a vice-president of the society. The discussion culminated in a resolution based on a proposal by Marcus Langley. That resolution and the discussion which led to it resulted in the recommendation by the Aeronautical Research Committee that a post-graduate college of aeronautical science should be established. This was followed by governmental action. Sir Stafford Cripps, then the minister responsible for aircraft production, set up a committee presided over by Sir Roy Fedden to make specific proposals, and the committee recommended in its 1944 report that such a college should be a new and independent establishment. In 1945 the government created the College of Aeronautics board of governors under the chairmanship of Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt to bring the college into existence and govern it. The first meeting of this board took place on 28 June 1945 and there were present: Sir Edgar Ludlow Hewitt, Dr W. Abbot, Mr Hugh Burroughs, Sir Roy Fedden, Mr J. Ferguson, Sir Harold Hartley, Sir William Hil-dred, Sir Melvill Jones, Dr E.B. Moullin, Mr J.D. North, Sir Frederick Handley Page, Mr E.F. Relf, Dr H. Roxbee Cox, Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sovley, Rear Admiral S.H. Troubridge and Mr W.E.P. Ward. Sir William Stanier, who had been appointed, was not present.

scholarly journals Marginalized centre: Wana people and the geography of power

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Giorgio Scalici
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The West ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of

The Wana of Morowali (Indonesia) are nowadays a small endangered community marginalized by the Indonesian government, world religions and the other communities in the area but, according to their own mythology, they are not the periphery of the world, but the real centre of it. Their cosmogonic myth tells how the Wana land (Tana Taa) was the first land placed on the primordial waters and it was full of mythical power, a power that, when the land was spread around the world to create the continents, abandoned the Wana to donate wealth and power to the edge of the world: the West. This myth has a pivotal role in the Wana worldview, their categorization of the world and the power relationships in it. The Wana reverse the traditional relationship between centre and periphery, placing themselves in a powerless centre (the village or the Tana Taa) that gave all its power to a periphery (the jungle or the West) that must be explored to obtain power and knowledge. This relationship not only expresses a clear agency in shaping the relationship of power with forces way stronger than the Wana (Government and world religions) but also creates internal hierarchies based on the access to this knowledge; granted to men and partially precluded to women due to the cultural characterizations of these genders. Indeed, the majority of shamans, called tau walia (human-spirit), are men, and they are the only one that can travel between the human and the spiritual world, obtaining a spiritual and social power. In this article, we will see how Wana categorise the world and use religion, rituality and gender to express their agency to cope with the marginalization by the government, the world religions and the other community in the area.

scholarly journals The conflict between agribusiness and indigenous peoples of Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-180
Author(s):  
M. Megre
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Agricultural Business ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The ongoing conflict between agribusiness and Brazilian indigenous peoples is one of the largest conflicts in contemporary Brazil. It combines territorial dispute with racial, ethnic, and environmental issues. On the one hand, as the Brazilian economy mainly relies on agriculture, agricultural business has consolidated power across the country, strongly supported by the government. On the other hand, indigenous communities have been fighting for decades to have their territory demarcated and to ensure their people‟s security and rights. Apart from unsettled issues between indigenous communities and agribusiness, confrontation is aggravated by social intolerance and the heritage of colonialism. Despite being one of the most violent and widespread conflicts in the country, it is often disregarded and silenced by the Brazilian media, and the Brazilian society is barely aware about it.

scholarly journals Wilayah Gerak Earth Hour Menjadi Sarana Pemerintah dan Swasta Meraih Dukungan Publik

ijd-demos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siva Yolla Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Peak Event

the purpose of Earth Hour and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) invite people around the world to continue to be a part of the social movement in the field of climate change with one of the energy-saving activities. In their campaign, Earth Hour proved to be a dominant force among other powers, associated with the three pillars of power, between political power and economic power. Environmental issues have become a global issue, a variety of damage that occurs on earth has become a serious concern by many. There are many organizations, communities and also mass movements that are concerned with environmental issues. Earth Hour is a global movement that initially campaigned energy savings with its peak event by turning off the electricity in 60 minutes at the end of March every year. Earth Hour movement spread over 153 countries around the world and 28 cities in Indonesia. The research was the focus in the area of motion Earth Hour; The Political environmental theory which was used in this research is Peterson’s theory, those are the government, the private sector and social movement itself. This type of research is a qualitative study using a descriptive study. The researcher obtained data by conducting in personal experience and study literature. Data analysis techniques include data reduction, data display, and conclusion. The Conclusion of this study is in Earth Hour has its own characteristics to do such as lobbying to local authorities, then how to lobbying with other people who have the capability to influence public opinion, cooperate with other NGOs and raise social issues in the community to lobby with the private sector. In this area of movement Earth Hour is used as best as possible by the government and private sector to achieve their interests outside environmental-related policy issues.Tujuan Earth Hour dan World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) mengundang orang di seluruh dunia untuk terus menjadi bagian dari gerakan sosial di bidang perubahan iklim dengan salah satu kegiatan penghematan energi. Dalam kampanye mereka, Earth Hour terbukti menjadi kekuatan dominan di antara kekuatankekuatan lain, yang terkait dengan tiga pilar kekuatan, antara kekuatan politik dan kekuatan ekonomi. Masalah lingkungan telah menjadi masalah global, berbagai kerusakan yang terjadi di bumi telah menjadi perhatian serius banyak orang. Ada banyak organisasi, komunitas dan juga gerakan massa yang peduli dengan masalah lingkungan. Earth Hour adalah gerakan global yang awalnya mengkampanyekan penyempurnaan energi dengan acara puncaknya dengan mematikan listrik dalam 60 menit pada akhir Maret setiap tahun. Gerakan Earth Hour tersebar di 153 negara di seluruh dunia dan 28 kota di Indonesia. Penelitian ini fokus di bidang gerak Earth Hour; Teori lingkungan politik yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori Peterson, yaitu pemerintah, sektor swasta dan gerakan sosial itu sendiri. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan penelitian deskriptif. Peneliti memperoleh data dengan melakukan pengalaman pribadi dan mempelajari literatur. Teknik analisis data meliputi reduksi data, tampilan data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah di Earth Hour memiliki karakteristik tersendiri untuk melakukan seperti melobi pihak berwenang setempat, kemudian bagaimana melobi dengan orang lain yang memiliki kemampuan untuk mempengaruhi opini publik, bekerja sama dengan LSM lain dan mengangkat masalah sosial di masyarakat untuk melobi dengan sektor swasta. Dalam bidang pergerakan ini Earth Hour digunakan sebaik mungkin oleh pemerintah dan sektor swasta untuk mencapai kepentingan mereka di luar masalah kebijakan terkait lingkungan 

scholarly journals Efficient E-Government Services, Constraints and Problems of Technical Applications and Software and the Transition to Smart Government

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasser A. Seleman
Keyword(s):  
Significant Proportion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Smart Government

  The e-governance is the concept and structure of the system and the functions and activities of all activities and processes in e-business on the one hand the level of e-government and business on the other.               Because the government sector as a significant proportion of the total economic sectors in most countries of the world, and the fact that dealing with the public sector is not limited to the class and not others, but prevail all citizens and residents, institutions and others, and the fact that this multi-dealing in quality, methods and how it is done and models for different procedures and steps implemented and locations between the corridors of government departments, the concept of e-government came as an ideal way for the government to enable them to take care of the interests of the public from individuals and institutions electronically using cutting-edge technology without the need for the applicant to move between government departments.  

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