scholarly journals Design for Discovery: Helping Australian Farmers Explore their Options in a Government Sustainability Program Through User Centred Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1173-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara A. Stitzlein ◽  
Martijn Mooij
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Sustainability Program ◽  
Farm Business ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Digital Prototype ◽  
Design Challenges

With growing recognition that greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced, there exists exciting design challenges to support industries’ efforts to meet sustainability targets. In this paper, we report on a User Centered Design (UCD) approach for addressing the need to combat rising emissions levels with a focus on agriculture, both relatively new areas for UCD work. We report on our team’s experience using the approach in context of trying to support farmers’ discovery and exploration of options in Australia’s national carbon scheme. In evaluation of a digital prototype, seven farmers and farm business advisors provided feedback on the tool’s usability and on whether insights provided by the tool assisted their decision to participate in the government scheme. Our experiences demonstrate how UCD helps determine the prototype’s usability and usefulness, as well as inform us about contextual issues that make a concerted response of reducing emissions complex. The generalizability of this research and future work is discussed.

Power shortage will mean prolonged disruption in China

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Coal Production ◽  
Energy Prices ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Supply Chain Disruptions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government

Significance Coal production and imports have fallen and prices have soared as the government implemented policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Now it is having to reverse course. Impacts Companies relying on components and raw materials from China will face longer delays. Wholesalers and retailers expecting household goods will also face delays. Higher energy prices and supply chain disruptions will exacerbate existing inflationary trends.

scholarly journals Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sustainability in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofo A Aderogba
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
The Government

Abstract The enhancement of the greenhouse effect in driving increases in temperature and many other changes associated with climate have become great concern to research. The objective of this paper is to estimate the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in Lagos Metropolis. Literatures on road and air travels were read; and also journal articles on pollution and greenhouse gases, global warming and climate change. Newspaper cuttings, magazines, and electronic media sources of data and information were used. Trends in the growth and development of railway locomotives, marine activities, vehicular movements and air travels in the metropolis were studied and correlated with the estimated greenhouse gases emitted. There is positive correlation. Vehicular movements and air travels have increased by over 50% in the last twenty years. Greenhouse gases are increasing by the day. There must be deliberate checks on gas emission from automobiles, plants and machineries and in the aviation industry.  The world is not at rest to arrest the effects of climate change and global warming.  Nigeria and Nigerians and particularly Lagosian, the government and research institutions should be parts of the efforts.   Key words: Greenhouse Gas, Emissions, Predicaments, Economic Value, Lagos Metropolis.

Governance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek ◽  
Richard B. Norgaard ◽  
David Schlosberg
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emission ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Stratospheric Aerosol ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Trading Scheme ◽  
National Boundaries

It is all very well to contemplate what policies are likely to prove effective and just, as we did in Chapters 4 and 5, but that assumes we have some effective authority to put them into practice. So comparisons of (for example) emissions trading schemes against carbon taxes as ways of achieving greenhouse gas emissions reduction need some kind of body to craft the policy and implement it effectively. Sometimes that body will be a sovereign government, but sometimes the government is missing altogether or has only partial jurisdiction—for example, if a carbon trading scheme can extend across national boundaries. When government is missing we can however still speak of processes of governance— notably at the global level. “Governance” is a broader concept that allows for more fluid, informal, and transnational arrangements, though it can also include government as conventionally defined. Global inaction on greenhouse gas emission reduction and inadequate national policies are sometimes blamed simply on an absence of political will. But a big part of the story is that if we can’t get the structure and process of governance right, we are not going to get the policies right. So it remains remarkable that some high-profile proposals either ignore the governance question altogether, or treat it in simplistic terms. For an example of ignoring governance altogether (doubly remarkable in that the person doing it is a political scientist) consider the policy proposals ranked by a group of experts assembled by Bjørn Lomborg under the auspices of his Copenhagen Consensus Center (Lomborg, 2010). Using cost–benefit analysis plus expert judgment, the top three solutions were: 1. Marine cloud whitening research 2. Energy research and development 3. Stratospheric aerosol insertion research The first of these would require creating mists from sea water to create clouds that better reflect sunlight, the third injecting tiny particles into the atmosphere to simulate the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions. Though cast in terms of “research” the reason for this ranking is the anticipated net benefit of the anticipated policy (policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions came bottom).

scholarly journals Assessing the Impact of Environmental Regulation on Livestock Manure Waste Recycling: Empirical Evidence from Households in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5737
Author(s):  
Si ◽  
Pan ◽  
Yuan ◽  
Lu ◽  
Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Livestock Manure ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Livestock manure waste (LMW) has turned into an important source of greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock manure waste recycling (LMWR) has great significance for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the LMW management process. For a long time, the government has mainly adopted environmental regulation to accelerate LMWR, but the recycling degree is still low. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of environmental regulation on LMWR. Empirical evidence was obtained through methods of in-depth measures and questionnaire investigation from 465 households engaged in breeding pigs in Hebei, Henan, and Hubei, China. The double hurdle model was employed to empirically assess the impact of environmental regulation on household LMWR behavior, and the moderating effects of guiding regulation were further verified. The results were that (1) 62.30% of the households in the sample were willing to implement LMWR behavior, but the recycling degree was only 42.50% of the LMW emission amount. (2) Environmental regulation was found to positively impact household LMWR behavior, while the effects were mainly contributed by imperative and guiding regulation. (3) Guiding regulation was shown to positively moderate the influences of imperative and incentive regulation on household LMWR behavior. (4) The impact of environmental regulation on different scales of household LMWR behavior was found to be heterogeneous. Finally, some recommendations, such as improving subsidy standards, classifying to promote LMWR technology, as well as increasing the matched proportions of planting and breeding, were proposed.

Low-Carbon Russia: Prospects after the Crisis

2009 ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bashmakov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Potential Energy ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Scenario Approach

On the eve of the worldwide negotiations of a new climate agreement in December 2009 in Copenhagen it is important to clearly understand what Russia can do to mitigate energy-related greenhouse gas emissions in the medium (until 2020) and in the long term (until 2050). The paper investigates this issue using modeling tools and scenario approach. It concludes that transition to the "Low-Carbon Russia" scenarios must be accomplished in 2020—2030 or sooner, not only to mitigate emissions, but to block potential energy shortages and its costliness which can hinder economic growth.

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