Considering the Case for Diversity in Natural Resources

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (8) ◽  
pp. 708-718
Author(s):  
Chelsea Batavia ◽  
Brooke E Penaluna ◽  
Thea Rose Lemberger ◽  
Michael Paul Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Clear Thinking ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Diversity Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Coding

Abstract Although there is widespread support for diversity in natural resources, diversity is valued for different reasons. It is important to understand and critically examine these reasons, to ensure diversity efforts express clear thinking and appropriate motivations. We compiled recent (2000–2019) diversity literature in fisheries, forestry, range, and wildlife, and used a qualitative coding procedure to identify reasons articulated in support of diversity. We developed a subset of these reasons into formal arguments to assess their underlying beliefs and assumptions. Our analysis reveals a high frequency of instrumental arguments emphasizing the benefits of diversity for natural resources. Drawing on the large body of interdisciplinary diversity scholarship outside natural resources, we discuss the challenges and potential risks of predicating the case for diversity largely on instrumental arguments. We encourage natural resources communities to expand the diversity discourse by engaging with themes developed in interdisciplinary diversity literatures, including equity, social justice, and intersectionality.

scholarly journals The current demand for the insurability of liability for damage to the natural environment

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
E. Vávrová
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Solvency Ii ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Enterprise Risk ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Potential Damage

Since 2004, the basic document which has governed liability for damage to the natural environment in the European Union is the Environmental Liability Directive No. 2004/35/EC, as amended by the subsequent regulation No. 2006/21/EC. The main purpose of the legislation was to ensure that the entity responsible for the damage pays all costs for rectifying its consequences. If it concerns damage to natural environment, the operator must undertake measures for rehabilitation, replacement and regeneration of the damaged natural resources. The primary replacement, which returns the damaged natural resources to their original state, may be differentiated from complementary replacement as compensation in the case in which the primary replacement has not provided an adequate reparation, and finally compensatory replacement – compensation for the temporary loss of natural conditions. This paper aims at an analysis of the possible means for eliminating risks due to the liability for environmental damage caused by the actions of an operator whose activities potentially threaten natural environment and may cause the biodiversity damage. Risks are assessed with regard to the risk insurability criteria for potential damage to the natural environment. The importance of risk management is stressed in the sophisticated form known as the Enterprise Risk Management. Risk management is becoming increasingly important as a part of the Solvency II concept, currently in preparation, whose first and second pillars accentuate risk management in financial institutions and the consistent quantification of the obvious, hidden and potential risks.

Assessing Commonality in Liquidity: Evidence from an Emerging Market’s Index Stocks

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092094290
Author(s):  
Gaurav Kumar ◽  
Arun Kumar Misra ◽  
Abhay Pant ◽  
Molla Ramizur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Stock Liquidity ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Liquidity Measures ◽  
Key Industries ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the degree to which movements in stock liquidity is determined by common underlying factors in a large emerging market, India. This degree is called commonality. Commonality has been measured for NIFTY50 stocks using high frequency data across a variety of liquidity measures. This study empirically verifies the relative strength of market- and industry-wide liquidity in explaining commonality. Furthermore, the study analyses the impact of industry-wide liquidity on the liquidity of individual stocks belonging to the key industries of Indian economy, viz. consumer goods and pharma, energy, financial services, infrastructure, information technology (IT) and telecom, manufacturing and natural resources. Among all the sectors studied infrastructure, IT and telecom, manufacturing and natural resources sectors possess higher degree of Industry-wide commonality. This means fund managers find it difficult in altering a portfolio having greater exposure to these sectors. Studying the behaviour of commonality will also assist regulators in monitoring abnormal market fluctuations. The study contributes to the understanding of commonality on an emerging order driven market like India.

scholarly journals Sleep disorders in cerebellar ataxias

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (2a) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Pedroso ◽  
Pedro Braga-Neto ◽  
André C. Felício ◽  
Camila C.H. Aquino ◽  
Lucila B. Fernandes do Prado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder ◽  
Behavior Disorder ◽  
Spinocerebellar Ataxias ◽  
Sleep Behavior ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cerebellar Ataxias ◽  
Non Motor Symptoms

Cerebellar ataxias comprise a wide range of etiologies leading to central nervous system-related motor and non-motor symptoms. Recently, a large body of evidence has demonstrated a high frequency of non-motor manifestations in cerebellar ataxias, specially in autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA). Among these non-motor dysfunctions, sleep disorders have been recognized, although still under or even misdiagnosed. In this review, we highlight the main sleep disorders related to cerebellar ataxias focusing on REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), restless legs syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement in sleep (PLMS), excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), insomnia and sleep apnea.

Analysis about the Effect on the Design of the Diffusers

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2016-2019
Author(s):  
Hui Yu Chen ◽  
Jing Gong
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Absorption Coefficient ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Groove Depth ◽  
The Body ◽  
Frequency Sound ◽  
High Absorption Coefficient ◽  
High Absorption

In order to study the effect of the diffusers,there has been designed a variety of diffusers.If groove depth is large , the diffuser will become a high absorption coefficient, low-frequency sounds will reduce significantly. So we have spread the body size nested within each other, a small has been nested in a large body .The smaller parts expand of high-frequency sound, the larger parts for low-frequency sound, so over a wide frequency band can been spreading.

scholarly journals Access to Environmental Justice

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity Millner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Policy Impact ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Impacts Of Human Activity

Environmental justice is an important aspect of social justice. Regulation of the environment and decisions about development and environmental policy impact upon our quality of life by influencing and affecting our health, as well as that of our urban and natural environments, and the availability of and access to natural resources. Disadvantaged members of society typically bear the brunt of the environmental impacts of human activity. Therefore, an essential part of attaining social justice is enabling the members of the community who will be adversely affected by these impacts to participate in and have rights of review in relation to the making of environmental laws, decisions about land use and development and enforcement of environmental laws.

scholarly journals Pentingnya Penerapan Kurikulum Berbasis Penguatan Pendidikan Karakter bagi Terciptanya Generasi Emas Indonesia Tahun 2045

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Ramses Simanjuntak
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Economics Education ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Republic

Indonesia is a country that is so big, rich in natural resources and has cultural traditions that have been deeply rooted since time immemorial. In the age of 73 years, there have been many advancements that have been made by this country, be it progress in the fields of economics, education, welfare, health and the progress of other facilities / infrastructure. Indeed, it is undeniable that there are still many unreached and underdeveloped areas that we see, but we believe that someday all regions will feel evenly distributed social justice, where poverty, underdevelopment and ignorance will not be seen in all regions of our beloved country this. As citizens of the Republic of Indonesia, who live on this beloved earth, all elements of society should support every government program to improve the quality of Indonesian people by improving character education, so that it becomes a complete curriculum for the creation of a strong and future generation based on Pancasila. Abstrak: Indonesia adalah negara yang begitu besar, kaya akan sumber daya alam dan memiliki adat budaya yang mengakar kuat sejak dahulu kala. Dalam usianya yang sudah menginjak 73 tahun banyak kemajuan yang telah dirasakaan oleh negeri ini, baik itu kemajuan dalam bidang ekonomi, pendidikan, kesejahteraan, kesehatan dan kemajuan sarana/prasarana lainnya. Memang tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa masih banyak daerah-daerah yang belum terjangkau dan tertinggal yang kita lihat, tapi kita percaya bahwa suatu hari nanti semua daerah akan merasakan keadilan sosial yang merata, dimana tidak akan terlihat lagi kemiskinan, ketertinggalan dan kebodohan di seluruh wilayah negeri tercinta ini. Sebagai warga negara Republik Indonesia, yang tinggal di bumi pertiwi tercinta ini, sudah seharusnyalah semua elemen masyarakat mendukung setiap program pemerintah untuk meningkatkan mutu manusia Indonesia dengan cara meningkatkan pendidikan karakter, sehingga menjadi satu kurikulum yang utuh bagi terciptanya generasi penerus bangsa yang kuat dan berazaskan Pancasila.

scholarly journals KEADILAN SOSIAL DALAM PERLINDUNGAN KEPENTINGAN NASIONAL PADA PENANAMAN MODAL ASING BIDANG SUMBER DAYA ALAM

Yuridika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Widhayani Dian Pawestri
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Investment Policy ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Economic Constitution ◽  
The Social

Prioritizing the social justice to protect national interests based on constitution becomes one of the problems in our economic development, especially in foreign direct investment of natural resources. UUD NRI 1945 as the economic constitution is the fundamental basis to make a foreign direct investment policy. Similar to embodying justice, State has to prioritize social justice and stand on the national interests so that state can achieve its purpose through foreign direct investement.

Toward Socialist Environmentalism? Scientists and Environmental Change in Modern Hungary

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor Pál
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Permit System

This article discusses state-socialist Hungary’s approach towards environmental protection from theoretical, institutional and practical perspectives. It discusses the genesis of a holistic and complex scientific approach to the environment in the 1950s and 1960s and its impact on the formation of the country’s environmental protection system (including environmental legal framework; environmental institutional system; and daily practices of environmental protection). Its aim is to find out why the teachings of the holistic and complex school of environmentalism were implemented only vaguely in Hungary; instead, beginning from the 1960s, the government turned away from Soviet science and gradually implemented Western methods of environmental protection (pollution levy fees; discharge permit system; subsidies for energy saving products; and end-of-pipe solutions). The article asserts that, although a large body of environmentally focused social sciences research suggests the opposite, state-socialist Hungary developed its own school of environmental thinking, partly based on Soviet environmentalism, in which humanity and nature are interconnected and interdependent. That scientific approach was developed by some of the leading environmental scientists of Hungary – Dénes Börzsöny, Ede Kertai, Imre Dégen, András Madas, István Oroszlány and József Mantuánó – who understood natural resources as the primary actor and determiner for the human condition and who focused on finding the equilibrium between society’s needs and natural resources via attentive and complex planning.

An Investigation on High Frequency Permeability of Polycrystalline Ferrities

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Janis Jankovskis ◽  
Nikolajs Ponomarenko ◽  
Pavels Narica
Keyword(s):  
Eddy Current ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Magnetic Loss ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Total Loss ◽  
Complex Permeability ◽  
Actual Structure ◽  
Important Progress

The problem under examination is the magnetic loss of polycrystalline ferrites. Their total loss include: hysteresis, eddy current and anomalous (AN) or excess ones. The mentioned first two losses more or less adequately are covered by modified Steinmetz equation whereas AN loss is less well understood. Conceptually this loss is defined by the components of complex permeability spectra of ferrites which as a rule are experimentally obtained. Large body of these experimental spectra shows a great variety of forms and specific features. This variety is the main reason why there still is not adequate analytic presentation of AN loss. It is shown in the research that important progress is possible to achieve in analytic presentation of AN loss on the basis of realistic account of microstructure of polycrystalline ferrites and dividing the variety of all samples into subgroups according to their actual structure.

Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse

2011 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN HABER ◽  
VICTOR MENALDO
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Resource Curse ◽  
Omitted Variable Bias ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Variable Bias ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Time Invariant ◽  
Country Specific

A large body of scholarship finds a negative relationship between natural resources and democracy. Extant cross-country regressions, however, assume random effects and are run on panel datasets with relatively short time dimensions. Because natural resource reliance is not an exogenous variable, this is not an effective strategy for uncovering causal relationships. Numerous sources of bias may be driving the results, the most serious of which is omitted variable bias induced by unobserved country-specific and time-invariant heterogeneity. To address these problems, we develop unique historical datasets, employ time-series centric techniques, and operationalize explicitly specified counterfactuals. We test to see if there is a long-run relationship between resource reliance and regime type within countries over time, both on a country-by-country basis and across several different panels. We find that increases in resource reliance are not associated with authoritarianism. In fact, in many specifications we generate results that suggest a resource blessing.

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