Greenpeace and the Dumping of Waste at Sea: A Case of Non-State Actors' Intervention in International Affairs

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
International Policy ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
State Actors ◽  
First Time

AbstractWhen Greenpeace proposed for the first time that nuclear and chemical industries should stop taking ships out to sea to dump or burn their waste, these industries claimed that these environmental requirements were impossible to meet. Twenty years later, what Greenpeace proposed then has become international policy. The emergence of NGOs in international affairs is one of the novelties of the last couple of decades. But while intergovernmental fora where environmental issues are discussed have proliferated considerably in the last decade, NGOs still have limited resources. They cannot be present everywhere and at all times.

Library directors’ concerns and attitudes towards going green and sustainability in China: An unexplored area

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Kang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Library Directors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
First Time

Environmental issues are one of today’s growing concerns. Numerous associations, organizations and individuals are waging an active world preservation campaign. The purpose of this pilot study is to examine an important aspect of library directors’ attitudes towards environmental protection and the level of their concerns and green practices regarding sustainable development that has generally been overlooked in the literature. Multiple means of data collection (interviews, observation and document analysis) involving 14 libraries in China were conducted between March and May 2015; seven main thematic areas emerged from the data, such as: levels of awareness and commitment to sustainability issues in Chinese libraries are relatively low, and the current efficiency of facilities and operations have been seriously wasted. These findings indicate that the main priority of the library has been to attain economic and social development rather than environmental sustainability, while ignoring the energy costs and serious waste to some extent in the rapid development process of the Chinese library. The author notes just from observation of daily practices that there is definitely room for improvement to minimize the negative impact of their activities on the environment. This paper discusses for the first time the library directors’ concerns and attitudes towards “going green” and sustainability. The ideas are expected to inform and improve library directors’ environmental consciousness and sustainable practices, as well as open new vistas for research into the economic, social and environmental sustainability of library information services. How to achieve the social, economic and environmental requirements of present and future generations from libraries, especially library environmental sustainability is discussed intensively.

Integrating Environmental Requirements into Vietnamese Sectoral Laws – Roles and Recommendations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mai Thanh Dung ◽  
Nguyen Minh Khoa ◽  
Phan Thi Thu Huong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Environmental Considerations

The need for sustainable development underscores the role and importance of integrating environmental concerns in non-environmental policies because it is evident that environmental regulations only are insufficient to manage all environmental issues. Law enforcement on environmental protection in Vietnam clearly demonstrates this situation. Vietnam’s legal system of environmental protection is incompatible or overlapped with other sectoral laws and in fact many environmental matters have been implemented in accordance with sectoral laws while disregarding environmental considerations due to the lack of specific and explicit environmental provisions or requirements in sectoral laws and regulations. From that situation, the paper emphasizes the need to integrate environmental protection requirements into the sectoral laws of Vietnam and proposes some fundamental criteria and procedures to integrate environmental requirements into sectoral laws.

scholarly journals Comparison Between the Action of Nano-Oxides and Conventional EP Additives in Boundary Lubrication

Lubricants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Valdicleide Silva Mello ◽  
Marinalva Ferreira Trajano ◽  
Ana Emilia Diniz Silva Guedes ◽  
Salete Martins Alves
Keyword(s):  
Friction Coefficient ◽  
Boundary Lubrication ◽  
Friction And Wear ◽  
Film Formation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Protective Film ◽  
Extreme Pressure ◽  
Extreme Pressure Additives ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Lubrication Conditions

Additives are essential in lubricant development, improving their performance by the formation of a protective film, thus reducing friction and wear. Some such additives are extreme pressure additives. However, due to environmental issues, their use has been questioned because their composition includes sulfur, chlorine, and phosphorus. Nanoparticles have been demonstrated to be a suitable substitute for those additives. This paper aims to make a comparison of the tribological performance of conventional EP additives and oxides nanoparticles (copper and zinc) under boundary lubrication conditions. The additives (nanoparticles, ZDDP, and sulfur) were added to mineral and synthetic oils. The lubricant tribological properties were analyzed in the tribometer HFRR (high frequency reciprocating rig), and during the test, the friction coefficient and percentual of film formation were measured. The wear was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. The results showed that the conventional EP additives have a good performance owing to their anti-wear and small friction coefficient in both lubricant bases. The oxides nanoparticles, when used as additives, can reduce the friction more effectively than conventional additives, and displayed similar behavior to the extreme pressure additives. Thus, the oxide nanoparticles are more environmentally suitable, and they can replace EP additives adapting the lubricant to current environmental requirements.

Strategically Informed, Environmentally Conscious Information Requirements for Accounting Information Systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell L. Brown ◽  
Jesse F. Dillard ◽  
R. Scott Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Information Matrix ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Business World ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Environmental Requirements

Accounting information systems (AIS) should provide the information firms need to manage organizational activities. Environmental considerations are increasingly important in the business world, so firms are attending more to environmental risks and activities. AIS must respond to these emerging environmental requirements. We develop an information matrix for identifying alternative management strategies for framing and responding to environmental issues. The proposed matrix provides a tool for identifying the information collected, stored, analyzed, and reported in environmentally attuned accounting information systems.

Climate Change Policy and Law in China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex L. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
International Climate ◽  
Change Response ◽  
First Time

This chapter outlines China’s developing climate change response. The nation is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the largest consumer of energy. China’s engagement in the international climate change negotiations can be divided into three phases: a ‘learning’ phase from 1989 to 1995; a shift toward more active participation between 1995 and 2007; and more comprehensive engagement on climate change domestically and internationally around the time of the UN Climate Conference in Bali in 2007. Shortly before the conference, Chinese authorities announced for the first time a comprehensive National Climate Change Program. It presented a range of existing policies created earlier to address other energy and environmental issues.

The durability of sulfate resisting mortar with partial replacement by cement kiln dust

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
Moayad M. Kassim
Keyword(s):  
Partial Replacement ◽  
Cement Kiln Dust ◽  
Cement Kiln ◽  
Saline Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
One Year ◽  
First Time ◽  
Kiln Dust

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to reuse cement kiln dust (CKD) in cement products and report the results of determining the long-term compression and flexural tensile strengths of mortars containing CKD as a partial replacement of sulfate-resistant cement (SRC). During the manufacturing of Portland cement, voluminous quantities of the byproduct dust are produced, which is commonly known as CKD. In the past decade, according to environmental requirements, many researchers have attempted to reuse CKD in cement products. Design/methodology/approach – The long-term compression and flexural tensile strengths of mortars containing CKD as a partial replacement of SRC were tested. The replacement ratios in this study were 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 per cent. The specimens were exposed to a highly saline environment after normal curing in water for a 28-day period. Findings – The results indicated a slight increase in the strength of CKD–SRC mortar containing 10 per cent CKD and moderate sulfate resistance when the CKD ratio reached 20 per cent, as compared to the reference mortar. In addition, CKD did not adversely affect the properties of SRC mortar subjected to sulfate exposure, even after one year. Originality/value – The tests were inducted for the first time on SRC, and the new results can be used to produce an environmental-friendly concrete.

Achieving ‘Sustainable Business’: A Study of Perceptions of Environmental Best Practice by SMEs in South Yorkshire

10.1068/c0219 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Taylor ◽  
Karen Barker ◽  
Mike Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Business Cost

This paper provides an account of a questionnaire-based study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their responses to the current requirements of environmental best practice. The study was based within South Yorkshire. We aim to explore the current relationship between SMEs and the environment and how this affects their concept of ‘sustainable business’. The main finding reported is that most manufacturing and service organisations surveyed believe environmental issues affect their business. However, meeting environmental requirements is seen as a business cost that is not transferable to customers in terms of added benefits and few organisations could show that it led to a competitive advantage. SMEs have only a generalist awareness of environmental legislation, and information provided by most local support services is not presented in a format that is efficient or effective. Our recommendations are that the assistance provided by local support agencies with regards to environmental best practice should be critically reviewed, and this review should seek to understand the reluctance and real difficulties faced by SMEs in comprehension and implementation of environmental legislation. This paper should therefore be used in conjunction with associated information when considering the best way to help prepare SMEs for greater involvement in environmental best practice and the achievement of sustainable business.

A Faithful Friend

1955 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-43
Author(s):  
Jacques Maritain
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Life ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Scientific Rigor ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Ours was an old friendship: it was nearly thirty years ago that I met Waldemar Gurian for the first time in Bonn. At that time he was a brilliantly promising young man. He was expected to play an important role in the intellectual renovation which seemed to be underway in Germany. All that was stopped by the coming of the Nazis, which forced him to leave his country. Thanks to the facilities offered him by the University of Notre Dame, Waldemar Gurian resumed his activities as a scholar and a teacher with a courage that I admired. I would like to express also my admiration for his staunch dedication to the principles of freedom, and for his work as an historian of ideas, as a political philosopher and as an expert in international affairs—with regard to Russian bolshevism especially. He had many other interests. His understanding of spiritual life was remarkably broad. His profound Catholic faith made it possible for him to overcome many painful trials, and it was this background of anxiety and nostalgia which, from the very beginning of our association, aroused in me a feeling of affection for him. The founding of the Review of Politics, and its development into a most remarkable work of scholarship, of broad and living understanding of contemporary events, of human and philosophic value and of doctrinal soundness are also traceable to his Catholic faith, as well as to his very firm sense for intellectual and scientific rigor. The death of Waldemar Gurian means to me the loss of a faithful friend, and it is with deep emotion that I pay tribute to his memory

scholarly journals Environmental issues of the corporate social responsibility

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Misztal ◽  
Małgorzata Jasiulewicz-Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Corporate Social

Summary The article is dealing with the environmental corporate responsibility. Taking this research topic stems from a growing awareness of entrepreneurs in this area and is associated with the popularity of proving the social responsibility before a group of stakeholders. The article discussed past literature achievements relating to environmental management as one of the areas of corporate social responsibility. There were also presented current imperatives of this aspect, which became the subject of practical research to find effective ways of their compliance. Practical examples of solutions to grouped environmental requirements were described in the second part of the article.

scholarly journals Pemberdayaan Nelayan Lokal Indonesia Untuk Mengatasi Penyelundupan di Batam

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Kris Mada
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Security ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Illicit Trade ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Border City ◽  
Narcotic Trafficking ◽  
Trajec Tory ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
State Actors

AbstrakMengontrol laut berjuta kilometer persegi membuat Indonesia memiliki batas maritim besar. Dibutuhkan sumber daya yang sangat besar untuk mengontrol perbatasan maritim secara optimal. Pengawasan untuk memastikan perbatasan tidak digunakan sebagai lintasan perdagangan gelap, perdagangan narkotika, dan penyelundupan senjata. Sayangnya, Indonesia belum memiliki kekuatan pokok minimum untuk mengontrol batas-batasnya. Sumber daya yang terbatas tercermin dalam Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai (DJBC) Kantor Batam, Kepulauan Riau. Agen avant garde dalam pencegahan penyelundupan tidak memiliki cukup tenaga dan kapal untuk rutin berpatroli di sekitar Batam, kota per-batasan yang terletak di Indonesia, dan perbatasan Malaysia-Singapura. Akibatnya, Batam menjadi salah satu pintu masuk dan keluar dari berbagai selundupan. Oleh karena itu, keterlibatan aktor-aktor non-negara untuk menjadi salah satu alternatif untuk mengatasi penyelundupan. Salah satu aktor negara di Batam adalah pelaut Indonesia lokal yang memiliki lebih banyak orang dan kapal dari DJBC.Kata-kata kunci: penyelundupan, keamanan maritime, manajemen perbatasan, actor non Negara, pelaut local AbstractControl million of square kilometres ocean making Indonesia has enormous maritime boundaries. It takes enormous resources to control the maritime border optimally. Supervision, apropos, to ensure the border is not used as the trajec-tory of illicit trade, narcotic trafficking, and arms smuggling. Unfortunately, Indonesia hasn�t had minimum essential force to control her boundaries yet. Limited resources was reflected in Directorate General of Custom and Excise (DGCE) Office Batam, Riau Islands. Avant garde agent in smuggling prevention does not have enough personnel and ships to routinely patrol around Batam, border city located in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore boundaries. Conse-quently, Batam become one of the entrances and exits of various contraband. . Therefore, the involvement of non-state actors to be one alternative to overcome smuggling. One state actors in Batam is a local Indonesian seafarer who has more people and boats than DJBC.Keywords : smuggling, maritime security, boundaries management, non-state actors, local fisheries

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