scholarly journals Theorising mobility justice

Tempo Social ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Climate Crisis

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day, when the entire world faces the urgent question of how to make the transition to more environmentally sustainable and socially just mobilities. All around the planet urban, regional, and international governing bodies are grappling with a series of crises related to how we move: an urban crisis of pollution and congestion, a global refugee crisis of borders and humanitarianism, and a climate crisis of global warming and decarbonisation. This article seeks to think across these crises showing how each is part of a wider disturbance in prevailing institutions concerned with the management of mobilities and immobilities. Mobility justice offers a new way to think across the micro and macro scale of transitioning toward more just mobilities.  

scholarly journals Management of changes in the insurance industry in the conditions of climate crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 13006
Author(s):  
Nelia Nagaichuk ◽  
Olena Shabanova ◽  
Natalia Tretiak ◽  
Anatoliy Marenych ◽  
Hanna Chepeliuk
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Global Climate Changes ◽  
Theoretical Generalization ◽  
Scientific Task ◽  
Natural Climate ◽  
Climate Crisis

The insurance industry is rather effective in overcoming consequences of natural disasters. Insurance companies play a key role in financing natural disasters consequences, at the same time they sustain record losses and are in difficult financial conditions. Taking into account the above said, the issues of management of insurers risks is up-today and is connected with climate change. In article the content of “climate risk” as risk is specified, the emergence of which is caused by human activity, which leads to pollution, resulting from industrial activity and other sources that greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) which are capable to absorb a range of infrared radiation generate and, as a result, predetermine warming of the global atmosphere that brings to change of structure of the world atmosphere and adds natural climate instability during the certain periods of time. The most destructive dangers threatening to mankind owing to global warming are systematized. Types of risks and their sphere of manifestation in Ukraine are outlined. The directions of adaptation of the insurance industry to changes, caused by climatic crisis are defined. Due to results of the research, the theoretical generalization and author’s solutions of a scientific task are offered, which appear in the development of scientific and methodical approaches and justification of practical recommendations about modernization of activity of insurance companies and reinsurers in the conditions of risks, generated by global climate changes. Scientific novelty of the research: specifying the role of the insurance industry regarding the prevention of risks connected with global warming.

Green Computing

2013 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabindra Ku Jena ◽  
D. G. Dey
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Green Computing ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Consciousness ◽  
Climate Crisis

Information technology (IT) is playing an increasingly important role in both business and individuals’ private lives. It is also consuming ever greater amounts of energy; therefore, it is a significant source of CO2 emissions. Thus, environmental and energy conservation issues have gained attention in recent years. The reality of rising energy costs and their impact on international affairs coupled with the increased concern over the global warming climate crisis and other environmental issues have shifted the social and economic consciousness of modern society. This paper discusses different aspects of green computing and its impact in India.

Bio-Farming as the Basis of Environmentally-Sustainable Arable Farming at the Time of Global Warming

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
Olga Pasko ◽  
Natalia Staurskaya ◽  
Alexandr Zakharchenko ◽  
Valeriy Zharnikov ◽  
Yuriy Larionov
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Arable Farming ◽  
Special Programs

The concept of environmentally sustainable farming, in which the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is compensated by the accumulation of organic carbon in the arable horizon and deposited in the subsoil, is substantiated. The rationale for agrotechnical methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is given. Authors discuss new approaches to the management of soil fertility, plant productivity, and resistance of agrocenoses, based on the principles of bio-farming, the laws of soil fertility, root-circulation, and the management of edaphy and epiphytic processes. Their use allows one to improve soil fertility and purposefully increase the potential and effective resource of agricultural production. The large-scale implementation of the principles of bio-farming in agricultural production during the global warming requires the elaboration of special programs for the development of the agro-industrial complex, its geo-information support, including monitoring of land fertility using GIS technologies.

13. International ethics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shapcott
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Just War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
Moral Duties

This chapter examines how we should think about ethics, starting with three framing questions: Do states and their citizens have significant moral duties to the members of other countries? Should states and their militaries be morally constrained in the conduct of war? Who is morally responsible for the alleviation of global poverty? The chapter proceeds by defining ethics and considering three significant and difficult ethical issues entailed by globalization: cosmopolitanism, statism, and realist ethics. It concludes by examining the ethical dimensions of global poverty and just war. Two case studies are presented, one dealing with the ethics of global warming and the other with the use of drones to carry out targeted assassinations. There is also an Opposing Opinions box that asks whether states should be morally free to reject as many immigrants, including refugees, as they choose.

Rolling Back Climate Regulation: Trump’s Assault on the Planet

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Corporate Crime ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Climate Regulation ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Trump Administration

The Donald Trump administration has engaged in a number of crimes related to climate change. This article examines these climate crimes, in particular, the administration’s organized denial of global warming and its political omissions concerning the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions that result in the rollback of existing regulatory policies related to the climate crisis. This criminality is explored through the lens of the concept of state–corporate crime, a concept utilized by a number of green criminologists to analyze environmental harms. The Trump administration’s rollback of climate change regulations is first located within its historical, political, and social contexts. Then, the specific actions and political omissions that constitute these rollbacks are described and analyzed as state–corporate environmental crimes.

Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary: 'The War on Global Warming'

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (69) ◽  
pp. 144-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dibley ◽  
Brett Neilson
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Crisis

The Future of Conservation in Polynesia

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Ehrlich ◽  
H. F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Conservation Biology ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Tropical Storms ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments

Polynesia is a part of the world where tourism, especially focused on rich coral reefs, is an important part of the economy. But from the viewpoint of both tourism and conservation biology, it is one of the most threatened areas of the world. Here the ethical issues are somewhat different. How long can this dependence continue and at what cost? What is the ethical planning course for the Region?s national governments, not just in Polynesia, but throughout the Pacific? Like the general activities on the islands, tourism is heavily dependent on petroleum, both for bringing tourists and supplies and for maintaining them. Thus, the very industry that contributes so importantly to Polynesia?s economic viability also contributes significantly to human-induced global warming. As a region, Polynesia is particularly threatened by the accelerating impacts of global warming. Virtually all the islands are threatened by sea level rise, the atolls by inundation, and the high islands by flooding of infrastructure that is concentrated in low coastal areas. There are also the risks of increased and more intense tropical storms, as well as the risks to ocean ecosystems from rising temperatures and the increased acidification of ocean waters.

scholarly journals Exploring Acceptance Towards Environmental Sustainability of Distance Education in Malaysia

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Haslina Md Harizan ◽  
Mohd. Faiz Hilmi ◽  
Hanafi Atan
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Distance Learners ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Educational Field

Abstract Global warming has been among the important focus in higher educational sector worldwide. However, distance education has not been gaining sufficient attention in environmental sustainability studies of higher educational field. The overlooked dimension of sustainability in delivering courses through distance education mode has triggered a need for further understanding, in the way distance education could be acknowledged as an environmentally sustainable learning option by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The study attempted to explore the acceptance of distance education as environmentally sustainable option among distance learners who were currently enrolled in distance education programmes in public universities located within the northern region of Malaysia. The results found that the students expressed their acceptance in the favourable manner from cognitive, affective, and conative aspects. The findings are expected to broaden the sustainability attributes of distance education and to benefit higher educational policy makers, universities’ administrators, and public at large by providing evidences for environmental sustainability of distance education.

scholarly journals Climate change, environmental sustainability and health care quality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans C Ossebaard ◽  
Peter Lachman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Climate Crisis

Abstract The challenges for health care continue to grow and in the 21st century healthcare policymakers and providers will need to respond to the developing impact of global warming and the environmental impact of healthcare service delivery. This cannot be viewed apart from the current Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which is likely to be linked to the climate crisis.

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