scholarly journals Founding Editorial — Atmospheric Systems and TheScientificWorld

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 235-238
Author(s):  
Peter Brimblecombe ◽  
John G. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Global Science ◽  
Atmospheric Systems ◽  
The Way

There is a satisfying logic to the Greek choice of air, water, and earth as elements. Today we see this logic reflected in the way that that global science is subdivided into the categories of air, land, and water. Thus, the relevance of a science of global issues is not merely of academic interest. The tide of environmental concern, a vision of limits to growth, and a desire for sustainability have fostered an unprecedented interest in global sciences.

On the Way to Econstruction

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Way ◽  
Guiding Questions ◽  
At Home

This chapter discusses eco-deconstruction. It highlights two guiding questions: (1) Might not an econstruction—a living, developing, and materially informed deconstruction—find itself quite at home thinking through the quandaries of environmental concern? (2) Might not environmentalism provoke a certain materialistic mutation within deconstruction? This can be argued both ways—that environmentalism finds itself in an often problematic and aporetic space of posthumanistic displacement where deconstruction is particularly well equipped to offer guidance. Equally, environmental concerns can embolden deconstruction to embrace what can be called a strategic materialism, or the essential interruptibility of any and every idealization. Moreover, deconstruction's critique of presence leads effortlessly to the strange temporalities of environmentalism. The dangers people currently face are from the accumulated impacts of past practices.

Managing the Environment in a Sea Change Community: Impacts and Issues on the Capricorn Coast

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Danaher
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Community Impacts ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
The Way

In 2004, the National Sea Change Taskforce (NSCT) was established in response to the way in which accelerated growth and development in sea change communities is negatively impacting on those areas' ecology, society and economy. The NSCT is a collective of more than 68 council planners from around Australia charged with working collaboratively with state and federal tiers of government to develop policies that will protect the coastal environment and establish sustainable limits to growth.

Trade and Environment: Looking beneath the Sands of Doha?

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Halle
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Trade And Environment ◽  
Appellate Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regular Work ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article offers a rapid history of environmental concern in the GATT and WTO systems. It focuses in particular on the environmental issues that are currently under negotiation in the Doha Round, and then reviews how key environmental issues are at play in other areas of negotiation. It looks also at the way in which environment has been taken into account in the regular work of the WTO, and especially by the Appellate Body. Finally, it suggests that recent political shifts in the WTO may provide greater scope for considering environmental perspectives in future.

2. Looming Tragedy

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Global Action

Ecologists have applied the concept of “carrying capacity”, the population of a species that an ecosystem can support, to human populations. Ecological limits to growth in population and the economy dominated environmental concern in the 1970s and beyond. More recently they have been supplanted by the idea of planetary boundaries, based on the stresses that the earth system is capable of absorbing, several of which (including biosphere integrity and climate change) have already been transgressed, suggesting the system is in grave peril. This chapter also considers the points of critics of the idea that there can be limits, then analyzes the political implications of limits and boundaries, from the authoritarianism associated with some 1970s thinkers to the need for cooperative global action to the more democratic possibilities that could be associated with degrowth and planetary boundaries.

Translating Memories: Reshaping Spatial Patterns on Ephemeral Urban Dwelling

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Jaime E. Gómez M.
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
The Way

Vernacular transformations of underused places give shape to Ephemeral Urban Dwellings (EUD). By reading the spatial patterns of use of three of these buildings, this paper demonstrates that EUD replicate the way activities and ideas of privacy are related to space in the previous and permanent homes left behind by its inhabitants. The case studies are located in central areas of Bogotá and, although ephemeral, they have stayed for years. Personal interviews and mental maps drawn by the interviewees as well as on site drawings and photography by the author are the main sources of this study. The paper recalls the processes of cultural appropriation that take place when people adjust to new cultural contexts. In the case of the dwellings studied, these processes give clues on how the ideas that shape the way people use space are translated into new places. The paper's conclusion calls for further research on EUD as an object of academic interest.

Natural Capital

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Holland
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Policy Community ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Way

Interest in the concept of natural capital stems from the key role which this concept plays in certain attempts to elucidate the goal of sustainable development—a goal which currently preoccupies environmental policy-makers. My purpose in this paper is to examine the viability of what, adapting an expression of Bryan Norton's, may be termed the ‘social scientific approach’ to natural capital (Norton, 1992, p. 97). This approach largely determines the way in which environmental concern is currently being represented in the environmental policy community.

Certified product buying preferences under the influence of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
Eva Jaderna ◽  
Vasilii Ostin
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Modification ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Green Behavior ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
Final Consumer ◽  
The Way

Sustainability products became a “new normal” for the nowadays society. Different aspects of government, economical and socio-cultural issues affect the sustainability certificate perception by final consumers. The aim of this paper is to consider findings from marketing research and analyze the outputs. The survey monitored green behavior by the Czech consumers in time. The reason and motivation of this analysis was the academic interest in Czech buying behavior modification, caused by pandemic COVID-19. Sustainability products contribute different specifics related to the way of production, processing, and selling. All mentioned aspects reflect the final consumer buying decision which can fluctuate under the worldwide and local impacts.

Does Governmental Termination Exist?

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360
Author(s):  
J Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Practical Utility ◽  
Governmental Functions ◽  
The Way

Despite the cessation of a variety of governmental organisations, policies, and programmes throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the termination concept which emerged during the late 1970s remains heavily underused. This is attributed partly to the effects of the same incremental practices which termination was designed to solve; partly to the difficulties of distinguishing the categories of ‘termination’ from ‘succession’; and partly to Kaufman's assertion that organisational survival was a matter of chance, and therefore not fruitful to study. Academic interest in governmental cessations remains firmly rooted in the termination of organisations; much less attention has been paid to the ending of policies and programmes. Management science research can be used to challenge assertions about the lack of pattern in organisational survival, and the way in which political science has operationalised the concept of incrementalism, suggesting the applicability of semirationalist techniques in an incrementalist world. With a hierarchical reformulation of de Leon's 1978 categorisation of governmental functions, organisations, policies, and programmes it is here suggested that termination and succession are distinct. The aim is to demonstrate the practical utility of the termination concept, both for analysis and for practitioners whose interest is centred on the opportunity-cost savings which cessations can make available.

An African Perspective on Global Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kwasi Tieku ◽  
Linnéa Gelot
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
African Union ◽  
Global System ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the challenging idea of an African perspective on global governance. The extraordinary diversity of continental Africa in terms of religious beliefs, political institutions, social structures, and economic outlooks makes it a daunting task to discern a distinct African perspective. To avoid overgeneralization, homogenization, and essentialization of the different views that may exist, the chapter focuses on the African Union (AU) to represent a collective African position on global governance, arguing that global governance is thus viewed in relational terms. In this context, the steering capacity (i.e. governance) is the responsibility of the entire community and not the responsibility of a select few. This collectivist-driven conception of global governance is reflected in the way African states seek to exercise their agency on global issues and in the global system. The relational idea adds another dimension to the rationalistic ideas embedded in conventional narratives of global governance.

The way of Consumers’ Responsiveness to Green Advertising – an Indian Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Dr. B. KARTHIKEYAN ◽  
Dr. V. SITHARTHA SANKAR ◽  
Dr. G. LATHA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Advertising ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Willingness To Buy ◽  
Green Form ◽  
The Way

Green Advertising – the word is a new way to attract modern consumers with the features of a green form of communication for the sustainable development of any country. Green Advertising will help in detailing those features which consumers are eagerly looking for and in require. Public opinion towards the environment and the way our finicky way of life damages it has increased from the last few decades. Accordingly, consumers expressed their willingness to buy more products with a less harmful impact on the environment. Companies sought to take advantage of this trend by launching ‘green' products and by introducing environmental concern in their advertising campaign.  This paper has dealt with the general concepts of green advertising and consumers' responsiveness of green advertising.

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