scholarly journals Long-Term Environmental Policy: Definition, Knowledge, Future Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Detlef F. Sprinz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Time Inconsistency ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Decentralized Governance ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Policy Problems

Considering the long-term is not new, yet we seem to be overwhelmed by the long-term nature of many of our environmental policy problems. Following a definition of long-term policy problems, this editorial introduces the contributions to this special issue of Global Environmental Politics and outlines three major challenges for future research, including the time inconsistency problem, the effect of democratic and decentralized governance on problem-solving, as well as institutional designs to prevent or recover from unwanted long-term policy outcomes.

scholarly journals Discourses of Resilience in the Climate Security Debate

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Ecosystem Integrity ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Contemporary Climate

The language of “resilience” features prominently in contemporary climate security debates. While a basic definition of resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances so as to retain its essential structures, processes, and feedbacks, I argue that resilience is currently articulated in four distinct ways in climate security discourse. These are strategic resilience, neoliberal resilience, social resilience, and ecological resilience. Most analyses of resilience-based security discourses have hitherto been informed by Foucauldian notions of governing populations at a distance to ensure compliance with neoliberal norms. However, in the climate security field, neoliberal resilience discourses have achieved relatively little salience, while Foucauldian accounts are largely overdetermined, thus obscuring the multiple ways in which resilience is currently articulated. In this article, I identify these disparate resilience discourses through an analysis of recent US and UK government, international organization, nongovernmental organization, and academic climate security literature. I then analyze these discourses in terms of their basic discursive structure and degree of institutionalization to clarify how dominant climate security narratives construct understandings of security and insecurity in contemporary global environmental politics. While strategic articulations are currently most conspicuous, I argue that only social and ecological resilience support long-term human flourishing and ecosystem integrity.

Memory Reconsolidation as a Common Change Process

2020 ◽  
pp. 328-360
Author(s):  
Rhonda Goldman ◽  
Alyssa Fredrick-Keniston
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Memory Model ◽  
Memory Reconsolidation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Therapeutic Modalities ◽  
Change Mechanisms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constituent Elements

Memory reconsolidation is considered as a common change process that exists across the major individual therapeutic modalities that are aimed at promoting and sustaining long- term, enduring change. The integrative memory model is reviewed in terms of how it may provide the field of psychotherapy integration with a description of a process that all individual therapies seek to achieve. First, the change mechanisms underlying each of the major therapeutic approaches including behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic and emotion-focused therapies are examined to determine the degree to which they describe a memory reconsolidation process. Next, some of the newer, modern integrative therapeutic approaches are reviewed to consider whether they too are promoting a memory reconsolidation process, although not necessarily naming it as such. The memory reconsolidation model and its constituent elements are then examined in depth to determine the degree to which the various therapy models promote and encourage relative aspects of the memory reconsolidation process. Finally, a potentially clarifying definition of terms is proposed and future research is suggested that would help the field determine the degree to which memory reconsolidation is a common change process and if so, how it can best be promoted.

It's Our Environment: Two Terms of SNP Environmental Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Hinde
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Scottish Government ◽  
The Government

Under the SNP, Scotland has sought to develop a reputation for itself as a renewables powerhouse and a counterweight to the perceived anti-green Conservative party in Westminster. From the ‘Saudi Arabia of Renewables’ to ‘the land of food and drink’, the last eight years have seen the development of a self-consciously Scottish environmental framework. This article is intended as a brief critique of the SNP's environmental record in government in both rhetorical and policy terms, looking not only at policy outcomes but the discursive limitations within which the Scottish Government has constrained itself. It argues that nationalist governance strategies are limited in their ability to fully deal with both local and global environmental challenges. It concludes that, although the SNP have a fair record on ‘shallow’ environmentalism, there is still no policy agenda present within the government to radically modernise Scotland in the way that is necessary to protect the environment and guarantee higher quality of life for its people in the long term.

Sopravvivere al cancro: una rassegna sulla Qualitŕ di Vita nella cancer survivorship

2009 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Maria Antonietta Anunziata ◽  
Barbara Muzzatti ◽  
Katia Bianchet ◽  
Massimiliano Berretta ◽  
Emanuela Chimienti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Survivorship ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Point Model ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Practical Implications

- Thanks to substantial medical progress, today the number of cancer survivors constantly increases. Thus, ever more frequently, patients and healthy professionals must treat a new condition: the cancer survivorship. This condition is peculiar for both its somatic (e.g. the late and long term effects of the treatments) and psychosocial (e.g. psychological distress, fear for a relapse, perceived social support) implications. The present paper is a review of the recent international literature about cancer survivorship; a condition still less known in Italy. First the definition of cancer survivorship is discussed and then cancer survivorship is addressed through a four point model of the concept of Quality of Life. In the last section, the authors will examine the expectation for future research, as well as the possible limitations, together with the practical implications of this topic.

Regulating Under Constraints

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Ovodenko
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Global Regime ◽  
The Many

This chapter concludes the book by summarizing the validity of the hypotheses tested in the empirical chapters, assessing the overall explanatory power of the markets theory, identifying the theoretical and empirical contributions of the book, and outlining specific avenues for future research on international institutions and global environmental politics. It situates the theoretical and empirical contributions in the literatures on environmental regulation and collective action, reiterating the many impacts of market structures on global regime design. Scholars of global environmental politics should draw from research on American politics to understand institutional design and should focus on policy schemes that would mitigate pollution from competitive sectors, especially in developing countries.

scholarly journals Building a Sustainable Society: The Necessity to Change the Term 'Consumer'

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Chakori
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Consumption Culture ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Definition Of

The profit-seeking system leads to many negative environmental impacts. Within this economic system, consumption reflects an important relationship between humans and nature. However, despite the growing international attention to environmental sustainability, our society does not necessarily acknowledge consumerism as the cause of global environmental degradation. Deconstructing the consumption culture and redefining what determines well-being, this paper will attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing definition of people in the economic system. Many authors have defined our role in the economy; however, in terms of customer, citizen-consumer, and socially conscious consumer, most of the literature in this domain remains rooted in consumerism. Consumerism cannot be fixed with further consumerism; therefore this paper discusses the importance of reclaiming our identity and the need to define new terms for people in a new economic system. Any new terms should integrate interests and responsibilities that go beyond simple utility maximization. Moving beyond the term “consumer” will change our worldview. This cultural transformation may help facilitate long-term environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Brand addiction: conceptualization and scale development

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 1938-1960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Mrad ◽  
Charles Chi Cui
Keyword(s):  
Survey Study ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Brand Relationship ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

Purpose This paper aims to develop a definition of brand addiction and a valid brand addiction scale (BASCALE). Design/methodology/approach The authors used focus-group results to define brand addiction and generate items for the BASCALE and validated the BASCALE with survey data collected in the UK. Findings Based on the 11 brand-addiction features found from the focus groups, the authors define brand addition as an individual consumer’s psychological state that pertains to a self-brand relationship manifested in daily life and involving positive affectivity and gratification with a particular brand and constant urges for possessing the brand’s products/services. Based on the survey study, the authors have established a valid ten-item BASCALE. Research limitations/implications Due to the survey’s setting in the fashion context in the UK, the authors do not intend to generalize the results to other product types and countries. Future research should replicate the BASCALE in different product categories and different countries. Practical implications The BASCALE can serve marketers in the behavioral segmentation and assist brand managers to identify brand addict consumers and maintain long-term relationships with them. Originality/value The authors have developed a definition of brand addiction and a valid BASCALE, which one can use for a wide range of theoretical and empirical research in the marketing and psychology fields. The definition and BASCALE also serve to differentiate brand addiction from other consumer–brand relationships and addiction constructs (e.g. compulsive buying, brand love and brand trust).

NGO Influence in the Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Compliance, Flexibility Mechanisms, and Sinks

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars H. Gulbrandsen ◽  
Steinar Andresen
Keyword(s):  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Climate Regime ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
Environmental Ngos ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Protocol Compliance ◽  
Ngo Effectiveness

While most scholars agree that NGOs make a difference in global environmental politics, there has been little systematic work that looks at the actual influence NGOs have on policy outcomes. This paper looks to shed some new light on the question of NGO effectiveness through an evaluation of the role played by NGOs in climate negotiations. We begin with a brief sketch of different kinds of green NGOs, along with a review of the sorts of strategies and resources they employ. Next, we look to gauge the influence that NGOs have had on recent rounds of negotiations to do with compliance, flexibility mechanisms, and appropriate crediting rules for sinks. Our analysis is based on detailed interviews with members of some of the most prominent environmental NGOs involved in climate work. Finally, we suggest, based on our findings, some means by which NGOs may look to extend their influence in the development of the climate regime. Our analysis points to the crucial need for further “insider” capacity—that is, NGOs are likely to have the most far-reaching influence on future climate negotiations if they foster ways to work closely and collaboratively with key negotiators and governments.

scholarly journals Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Deanna Kemp ◽  
John R. Owen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Extractive Industries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Analytical Separation

Privately commissioned public inquiries in extractive industries are an enormously rich source of data for scholars of global environmental politics. This untapped arena comprises a series of unconventional inquiries in response to contentious socioenvironmental events and incidents, whereby large resource companies commission studies, relinquish control over the process, and publicly release findings. These inquiries are an episodic but persistent feature of the resource governance landscape in the global mining industry—one of the world’s most contentious, environmentally disruptive, and influential sectors. We argue that there is a certain independence or autonomy associated with these inquiries, justifying their analytical separation from internal corporate governance. Above all, these inquiries provide opportunities for scholars of global environmental politics to consolidate their activist roots and connect local realities to global debates. We offer a set of preliminary of research questions and describe points of access for future research.

GAVeCeLT-WoCoVA Consensus on subcutaneously anchored securement devices for the securement of venous catheters: Current evidence and recommendations for future research

2020 ◽  
pp. 112972982092456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fulvio Pinelli ◽  
Mauro Pittiruti ◽  
Ton Van Boxtel ◽  
Giovanni Barone ◽  
Roberto Biffi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Central Venous Access ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Venous Access ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Definition Of

Background: Subcutaneously anchored securement devices (or subcutaneous engineered securement devices) have been introduced recently into the clinical practice, but the number of published studies is still scarce. The Italian Group of Long-Term Central Venous Access Devices (GAVeCeLT)—in collaboration with WoCoVA (World Congress on Vascular Access)—has developed a Consensus about the effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of such devices. Methods: After the definition of a panel of experts, a systematic collection and review of the literature on subcutaneously anchored securement devices was performed. The panel has been divided in two working groups, one focusing on adult patients and the other on children and neonates. Results: Although the quality of evidence is generally poor, since it is based mainly on non-controlled prospective studies, the panel has concluded that subcutaneously anchored securement devices are overall effective in reducing the risk of dislodgment and they appear to be safe in all categories of patients, being associated only with rare and negligible local adverse effects; cost-effectiveness is demonstrated—or highly likely—in specific populations of patients with long-term venous access and/or at high risk of dislodgment. Conclusion: Subcutaneously anchored securement is a very promising strategy for avoiding dislodgment. Further studies are warranted, in particular for the purpose of defining (a) the best management of the anchoring device so to avoid local problems, (b) the patient populations in which it may be considered highly cost-effective and even mandatory, (c) the possible benefit in terms of reduction of other catheter-related complications such as venous thrombosis and/or infection, and—last but not least—(d) their impact on the workload and stress level of nurses taking care of the devices.

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