scholarly journals La imagen de la Bicicleta en la comunicación publicitaria: movilidad sostenible, smartcity y cambio climático

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-149
Author(s):  
Gerardo Pedrós-Pérez ◽  
Pilar Martínez Jiménez ◽  
Pilar Aparicio Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Electric Mobility ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Energy Point ◽  
Zero Emissions Vehicle

Active mobility has been described as a healthy action, it also contributes to diminish climate change and improvethe air quality. Research the advertisements in the roles of mobility from anenvironmental and energy point of view is highly relevant. In this analysis the bicycle appears as an added element, from company campaigns to institutional advertising, and also of specific advertisements where bicycles are directly marketed. This study had as objective to provide a novel analysis of adverting regarding bicycle and mobility. A quantitative and qualitative analysis has been carried out based on diverse publicizing documents spread during the last twenty years. Based on the analysis, the results showed how the role of the bicycle presented in publicity not related about mobility seems to be equal better communication between people, transport, fun and healthy element good and bad practices identified and analyzed in both corporate and institutional campaigns. Also, some bicycle advertisements reuse the slogans for automobiles, focusing on gadgets or design. Based on the analysis, it would be wise to insist on the development of communication guides that focus on the bicycle as an element of the smart city, electric mobility, zero emissions vehicle and healthy transport, both from individual and collectivebeneficial perspective.

Climate change catastrophes and social intersections

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the consequences of climate change from the point of view of disasters and their consequences for specific interest and population groups. A key focus is the social intersections that become apparent in such events. For example, the climatic and weather events that form the backdrop to present conflicts in places such as Syria are discussed, as are the gendered vulnerabilities evident in disaster situations such as cyclones and tsunami. Social conflicts stemming from climate change are then elaborated as a more general and increasingly likely scenario. In response to real and perceived threats and risk linked to climate change, issues of security are already generating angst among policy-makers and military planners. Indeed, the securitisation of natural resources, to the detriment of others, is emerging as an important climate-related issue, especially in regard to food, water, land, and air quality.

scholarly journals Human Responses and Adaptation in a Changing Climate: A Framework Integrating Biological, Psychological and Behavioural Aspects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Cianconi ◽  
Batul Hanife ◽  
Francesco Grillo ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Luigi Janiri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mass Effect ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
Behavioural Aspects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Emergent Behaviours

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. Its impact on human populations is not yet completely understood. Many studies have focused on single aspects with contradictory observations. However, climate change is a complex phoenomenon that cannot be adequately addressed from a single discipline's perspective. Hence, we propose a comprehensive conceptual framework on the relationships between climate change and human responses. This framework includes biological, psychological and behavioural aspects, and provides a multidisciplinary overview and critical information for focused interventions. The role of tipping points and regime shifts is explored, and a historical perspective is presented to describe the relationship between climate evolution and socio-cultural crisis. Vulnerability, resilience and adaptation are analyzed from an individual and a community point of view. Finally, emergent behaviours and mass effect phenomena are examined that account for mental maladjustment and conflicts.

scholarly journals Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
pp. 32709-32933 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Monks ◽  
A. T. Archibald ◽  
A. Colette ◽  
O. Cooper ◽  
M. Coyle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Tropospheric Ozone ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Background Ozone ◽  
Oxidation Chemistry ◽  
Change Mitigation

Abstract. Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere, central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as well as being an important greenhouse gas. It is not emitted into the atmosphere but is a by-product of the very oxidation chemistry it largely initiates. Much effort is focussed on the reduction of surface levels of ozone owing to its health impacts but recent efforts to achieve reductions in exposure at a country scale have proved difficult to achieve due to increases in background ozone at the zonal hemispheric scale. There is also a growing realisation that the role of ozone as a short-lived climate pollutant could be important in integrated air quality climate-change mitigation. This review examines current understanding of the processes regulating tropospheric ozone at global to local scales from both measurements and models. It takes the view that knowledge across the scales is important for dealing with air quality and climate change in a synergistic manner.

scholarly journals Rethinking Air Quality and Climate Change after COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ching ◽  
Mizuo Kajino
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Climate System ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Short Article ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Relationship

The world is currently shadowed by the pandemic of COVID-19. Confirmed cases and the death toll has reached more than 12 million and more than 550,000 respectively as of 10 July 2020. In the unsettling pandemic of COVID-19, the whole Earth has been on an unprecedented lockdown. Social distancing among people, interrupted international and domestic air traffic and suspended industrial productions and economic activities have various far-reaching and undetermined implications on air quality and the climate system. Improvement in air quality has been reported in many cities during lockdown, while the death rate of COVID-19 has been found to be higher in more polluted cities. The relationship between the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and air quality is under investigation. In addition, the battle against COVID-19 could bring short-lived and long-lasting and positive and negative impacts to the warming climate. The impacts on the climate system and the role of the climate in modulating the COVID-19 pandemic are the foci of scientific inquiry. The intertwined relationship among environment, climate change and public health is exemplified in the pandemic of COVID-19. Further investigation of the relationship is imperative in the Anthropocene, in particular, in enhancing disaster preparedness. This short article intends to give an up-to-date glimpse of the pandemic from air quality and climate perspectives and calls for a follow-up discussion.

Seven Compact Essays on Color

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-209
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Physical Experiments ◽  
Logical Geometry ◽  
The Relationship

The article is a group effort consisting of an introduction and seven compact essays. It is focused on the problem of color from the perspective of current philosophical discussions on the role of the Enlightenment and the relationship between light and dark. The introduction by Michael Kurtov presents a roadmap for navigating through the seven essays by referring to a schema of “color knowledge” which has four dimensions: luminosity, resolution, saturation, and hue. Each of the texts in the article (the introduction and seven essays) deals mostly with one of “color knowledge”, which are formed by combining three color dimensions. Roman Mikhailov explores the plastic-dynamic correlates of colors and the chromaticity of the text understood broadly both as the text of nature and as an abstract symbolic complex. Eugene Kuchinov offers a “haptic criticism of the Enlightenment,” which is an analysis of color phenomena from the point of view of the skin (not the eye): on the basis of the logic of sensation, color is “viewed” beyond the light, beyond the optics. Yoel Regev develops a hermeneutics of color applied to the Torah: color is interpreted as a deception which is opposed to another deception belonging to a “true enlightenment.” Michael Kurtov addresses a revision of Goethe’s theory of color based on new physical experiments and on the logical geometry of color and then arrives at a critique of contemporary chromo-ideology. Nataliya Tyshkevich reveals the modern political meaning of coloring in the context of the recent “renaissance of modernist aesthetics” in which dealing with form is replaced by dealing with surfaces. Gray Violet describes color and darkness as political functions that turn into each other in the middle of a non-place in the “smart city.” The final piece by Nikita Sazonov elaborates the procedure of colorization by examining noncolor - a resource beyond the colored and the uncolored, most readily manifested in the printed character as well as in modern hip-hop culture.

Monaco’s struggle to become a smart destination

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Fabry ◽  
Cyril Blanchet
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coverage Analysis ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose Monaco is a simultaneously a destination, a state and a city, which belongs to the long list of places that aims to become smart. The purpose of this paper is to present Monaco’s transformation strategy from October 2017 to May 2019. It will present Monaco’s smart urban ecosystem as a meeting point between the destination and the smart city. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop the methodology as an exploratory observation of the state transformations. The methodology relies on an understanding of smart cities policy from an insider perspective, as one of the co-authors participates in the “Matrice Smart-City Monaco” program (Season 1: Tourism), on a media coverage analysis and in a semi-directive interview with a stakeholder of the digital transformation in Monaco. Findings The paper empirically and theoretically explores the following three hypotheses: H1 – being a smart city/destination is less a status than a process; H2 – a permeable state city challenges the boundaries between the city and the smart destination; and H3 – the conceptualization of the smart city requires a broader definition of who its engaged stakeholders are. Research limitations/implications The case of Monaco helps us to understand the role of tourism in a smart city and to deepen the link between “smart city” and “smart destination” from a theoretical point of view. Monaco offers us the opportunity to reinforce our understanding of the relationship between the smart city and the smart destination. Originality/value The study concerns a micro-state that aims to become smart using a top–down strategy. However, for a city to become smart, stakeholders including citizens must be able to support the process.

scholarly journals Human Responses and Adaptation in a Changing Climate: A Framework Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Behavioural Aspects

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 895
Author(s):  
Paolo Cianconi ◽  
Batul Hanife ◽  
Francesco Grillo ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Luigi Janiri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mass Effect ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Tipping Points ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
Behavioural Aspects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Emergent Behaviours

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. Its impact on human populations is not yet completely understood. Many studies have focused on single aspects with contradictory observations. However, climate change is a complex phenomenon that cannot be adequately addressed from a single discipline’s perspective. Hence, we propose a comprehensive conceptual framework on the relationships between climate change and human responses. This framework includes biological, psychological, and behavioural aspects and provides a multidisciplinary overview and critical information for focused interventions. The role of tipping points and regime shifts is explored, and a historical perspective is presented to describe the relationship between climate evolution and socio-cultural crisis. Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation are analysed from an individual and a community point of view. Finally, emergent behaviours and mass effect phenomena are examined that account for mental maladjustment and conflicts.

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