scholarly journals Application of DPSIR framework to access environmental impact of white limestone mining and processing in Luc Yen, Yen Bai province

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 235-239
Author(s):  
Thi Cuc Nguyen ◽  
Phuong Nguyen ◽  
Quoc Phi Nguyen ◽  
Thi Mai Hoa Phan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Dpsir Framework ◽  
Doi Moi

Application of DPSIR framework (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses) aims to assess the current impact of the environment through a process starting with “driving forces” through “pressures” to “states” and “impacts” eventually leading to political “responses” in mineral mining in Luc Yen district. Research results show that the main drivers in Luc Yen are resources consumption (Wi = 3.675), the demand for industrial development (Wi = 3.575), followed by diversification and size of mines (Wi = 3.250). The environmental pressures are solid (Wi = 4.025), dust (Wi = 3.900) and wastewater (Wi = 3.625). The current state of environment is the most affected by air (Wi = 3.400). The soil and water are almost unaffected. The current environmental impacts have positive and negative social, economic and environmental impacts. Specifically, the positive impacts are employment opportunities, income (Wi = 3.325) and an increase in state budget (Wi = 3.000). There are no positive improvements of the environment related to mining activities, such as negative impacts on ecological landscape (Wi = 3.050) and infrastructure (Wi = 3.075). Improving environmental quality and mitigating environmental impacts have been applied, including innovative technology (Wi = 3.175), pollution monitoring and environmental quality monitoring (Wi = 3.400). Communication activities to enhance community participation in Luc Yen area were also highly appreciated by people (Wi = 3.375). Việc ứng dụng mô hình DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses) nhằm mục đích đánh giá tác động môi trường theo một quá trình từ động lực, áp lực, hiện trạng và tác động đến đáp ứng để giải quyết vấn đề môi trường liên quan đến hoạt động khai thác khoáng sản tại huyện Lục Yên. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy động lực dẫn tới hoạt động khai thác đá vôi trắng tại huyện Lục Yên là nhu cầu sử dụng tài nguyên (Wi = 3,675), nhu cầu phát triển hoạt động công nghiệp (Wi = 3,575), tiếp đến là sự đa dạng, quy mô các mỏ khoáng (Wi = 3,250). Áp lực môi trường là chất thải rắn (Wi = 4,025), tiếp đến là bụi (Wi = 3,900) và nước thải (Wi = 3,625). Hiện trạng môi trường tự nhiên hiện nay tại khu vực Lục Yên chịu ảnh hưởng mạnh nhất là không khí (trọng số Wi = 3,400), môi trường đất và nước gần như chưa bị tác động. Tác động môi trường hiện nay tại huyện Lục Yên thể hiện qua tác động đến môi trường xã hội và môi trường tự nhiên. Cụ thể, tác động giải quyết việc làm, tăng thu nhập (Wi = 3,325) và tăng ngân sách nhà nước (Wi = 3,000). Tác động tiêu cực tới cảnh quan sinh thái (Wi = 3,050) và cơ sở hạ tầng (Wi = 3,075). Các giải pháp cải thiện và giảm thiểu tác động môi trường đã áp dụng hiện nay là đổi mới công nghệ khai thác theo hướng tiên tiến (Wi = 3,175), giám sát ô nhiễm và quan trắc chất lượng môi trường (Wi = 3,400). Giải pháp truyền thông tăng cường sự tham gia của cộng đồng tại khu vực Lục Yên cũng được người dân đánh giá cao với trọng số (Wi = 3,375).

Green Innovation in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 648-674
Author(s):  
Ping Huang ◽  
Rasmus Lema
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth

China’s rapid economic growth combined with its large population has created substantial environmental pressures, not least the need for efficient and sustainable energy provision. This chapter addresses the problem of transition to sustainable energy sources. It shows how the Chinese response to the sustainability challenge has depended on both “hard” (technological) and “soft” (institutional) innovations. The chapter also shows how the sustainability challenge has presented a window of opportunity for industrial development and competitiveness in the green economy. Finally, it discusses the wider global implication of China’s mounting innovation capacities in green technologies.

Role and importance of mineral resource complex in national economies: solid minerals

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
A. L. Dergachev
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resource ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Mineral Raw Materials ◽  
Economy Growth ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Mineral Rents ◽  
Multiplicative Effects

As the economy growth it gets unfeasible for emerging economies to maintain high and stable rates of economic growth predominantly owing to increase of mining production, expansion of mineral export and recovery of mineral rents. However, while direct contribution of mining and processing of mineral materials to national economy is reduced, mineral resource complex acquires a new function — supplying related industries with mineral raw materials, remains important factor of further accelerated industrial development, contributes to state budget, helps to solve employment problem and secures important multiplicative effects in national economies.

Transport and the environment in Italy (1950-2006)

2012 ◽  
pp. 219-244
Author(s):  
Federico Paolini
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Historians - and not only in Italy - have begun only in recent years to address in detail the environmental problems caused by transport. In recent years we have seen an attempt at creating a new interdisciplinary study sector (environmental mobility studies) with the aim of studying, from the environmental point of view, the many topics concerning mobility. This article aims at putting forward a brief survey of the development of transport in Italy (taking into consideration the time span between the end of the Second World War and the early part of the 21st century) with a perspective which stands between environmental history and environmental mobility studies. The chief objective of this paper is to analyze, and possibly assess the environmental impact of transport, utilizing indicators referring to the driving forces (extension of infrastructures, traffic volume) to environmental pressures (emissions of carbon dioxide, PM10, NOx, waste production per worker) and to environmental impacts (energy resources consumption). In particular, in the article the author uses the notion of virtual water, an easily applicable indicator for industrial production (it does not require the necessary complex calculations, used for example to assess the ecological footprint) useful for quantifying the environmental impact caused by the production and utilization of means of transport.

Co-Evolution of Technology and Institutions in Emerging Industries: Case from Electric Vehicles in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Jigang Sui ◽  
Ying Liu
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Growth Period ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Emerging Industries ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
The Relationship

Technology and institutions are important driving forces for industrial development, but the relationship between them has not yet reached a consensus due to different economic theories. On the basis of the evolutionary theory, this paper aims to study the roles co-evolution of technology and institutions played in the development of emerging industry. Taking electric vehicles in China as a case study and the five-year plans for the nodes of industrial development, this paper analyzes the co-evolutionary process of technology and institutions at different stages of industrial development, and concludes that it was institutions that promoted technology innovation during the industrial incubation and infancy periods, while during the growth period, it was technology that drove institutions’ innovation. In order to promote the development of electric vehicle industry, it is necessary to further strengthen institutional innovation for technological and industrial development.

scholarly journals Sublethal effects on seabirds after the Prestige oil-spill are mirrored in sexual signals

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristobal Pérez ◽  
Ignacio Munilla ◽  
Marta López-Alonso ◽  
Alberto Velando
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Sublethal Effects ◽  
Inorganic Phosphorus ◽  
Gamma Glutamyl Transferase ◽  
Sexual Signals ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Spot Area ◽  
Prestige Oil Spill ◽  
Glutamyl Transferase

It has been suggested that sexual signals may be a useful measure of environmental quality as they represent the sum of environmental pressures on the animal. Accordingly, it has been proposed that carotenoid-based coloration may be especially valuable in monitoring and detecting the sublethal effects of toxic pollutants in the environment. Here, we evaluate whether the carotenoid-based coloration in the bill of adult yellow-legged gulls reflects oil-induced sublethal effects in breeding colonies affected by the Prestige oil spill. In 2004, we took blood samples from 27 adult birds at four insular breeding colonies located in the pathway of the Prestige oil spill. We measured the size of the red bill spot area and analysed plasma biochemical parameters indicative of sublethal effects of oil contamination in gulls, including glucose, total protein, creatinine, inorganic phosphorus, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and gamma-glutamyl transferase. We showed that the size of their red bill spot area was positively related to body condition, while negatively related with AST levels, an enzyme that is commonly used as an indication of hepatic damage in birds. Hence, the present study provides support for the idea that carotenoid-based colour integuments may be a useful measure of environmental quality.

scholarly journals ROBOMINERS – Developing a bio-inspired modular robot-miner for difficult to access mineral deposits

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Luís Lopes ◽  
Balazs Bodo ◽  
Claudio Rossi ◽  
Stephen Henley ◽  
Gorazd Žibret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Modular Robot ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

Abstract. Within the ROBOMINERS project an innovative technology for the future exploitation of small and difficult to access mineral deposits is being studied. The project has two main objectives. First, the development of a bioinspired reconfigurable robotic miner prototype, able to navigate, explore and mine selectively with a certain degree of autonomy. The robot-miner will be able to work under different conditions, making the exploitation of many mineral deposits economically feasible, while reducing social and environmental impacts associated with conventional mining methods. The second objective is the creation of a vision of a new mining ecosystem, its function, parts, research roadmaps and visions for years 2030 and 2050, including creation of novel ideas from other sectors, particularly robotics. The robotic ecosystem concept will be tested in representative sites across Europe with simulations, showcasing the different mining environments and conditions where it can be applied.

scholarly journals Pesticides and Environmental Quality in Illinois

1975 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-10) ◽  
pp. 381-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Metcalf ◽  
James R. Sanborn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Model Ecosystem

Covers use of pesticides, monitoring, and reports test results for specific herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides in a model ecosystem.  Discuses biological effects, degrative products, and environmental impacts. 

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