scholarly journals La participació dels espais rurals en la sostenibilitat ambiental. Anàlisi dels discursos d’iniciatives productives en el context rural de Castelló

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Vicent A. Querol ◽  
Xavier Ginés Sànchez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Els espais rurals han estat cridats a jugar un paper central en la lluita per pal· liar els efectes del canvi climàtic. La categorització exògena que ha dividit i separat la natura de la societat i la cultura ha tingut efectes negatius sobre la relació entre les poblacions rurals i les institucions que han de vetlar per la sostenibilitat ambiental. Aquest article es planteja l’anàlisi d’iniciatives productives que, des de les àrees rurals de Castelló, hem identificat amb el concepte de Nova Ruralitat i de quina manera els seus discursos harmonitzen amb la sostenibilitat ambiental. L’enfocament teòric revisa un marc on s’exposen les accions del conservacionisme propi de les àrees protegides i del desenvolupament rural, com també les noves concepcions que reforcen els enfocaments que donen veu i valor a les mirades des del rural. I això sense perdre de vista un context institucional supralocal que concentra serveis i infraestructures a les ciutats al temps que genera normatives que segueixen desequilibrant el territori valencià. El bastiment d’una ciutadania rural conscient del canvi climàtic alhora que esperonada a la participació en els processos institucionals esdevé una de les claus d’una sostenibilitat ambiental que ha de recolzar-se sobre una altra sostenibilitat: la social al rural. | Rural areas have been called to play a central role in the fight to mitigate the effects of climate change. The exogenous categorization that has divided and separated nature from society and culture had negative effects on the relation between rural dwellers and the Institutions that supposed to look after environmental sustainability.

Contributions of Urban Agro Ecological Agriculture to Ecosystem Services

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández ◽  
Olga E. Domené-Painenao
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social

This paper has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urban agro ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.

scholarly journals Portuguese agriculture and its role in multifunctional rural development

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Maria Raquel Ventura-Lucas ◽  
Carlos Marques ◽  
Maria De Belém Martins ◽  
Rui Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Portuguese Population ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Safe Food

AsinEurope,agricultureinPortugalissupposedtofulfill a multiplicity of roles. It should contribute to supply Portuguese population with quality and safe food, to be viable in a global, competitive, dynamic and aggressive market, to preserve precious cultural landscapes across country through sustainable land management, to assist rural areastobeattractiveandfeasibleandtosupportemployment and social cohesion. Nevertheless, adjustments are expected to adapt to new environmental conditions, mainly climate change, to minimize weaknesses, to hold new opportunities and face new challenges. Otherwise, increases on human desertification, rural areas abandonment and consequent negative effects on territory are predictable.

scholarly journals Land Reform in the Era of Global Warming—Can Land Reforms Help Agriculture Be Climate-Smart?

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 471
Author(s):  
Alexis Rampa ◽  
Yiorgos Gadanakis ◽  
Gillian Rose
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Land Reforms ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Equity And Efficiency

In an era of global warming, long-standing challenges for rural populations, including land inequality, poverty and food insecurity, risk being exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Innovative and effective approaches, such as Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), are required to alleviate these environmental pressures without hampering efficiency. In countries with unequal distribution of land, where issues of access to and use of land rank high on the policy agenda, policymakers are confronted with the challenge of implementing interventions such as land reforms, whilst endeavouring to ensure that sustainable agriculture approaches be adopted by farm-households. The aim of this study is to investigate how land reforms can provide an opportunity for policymakers, particularly in lower-income countries, to enhance not only equity and efficiency but also environmental sustainability. In particular, this study builds on an extensive review of the theoretical and empirical literature and employs a conceptual framework analysis method to develop and describe a framework that explores how land reforms can be associated with the CSA approach. The resultant “Climate Smart Land Reform” (CSLR) framework contains four driving pillars, namely land redistribution, tenure reform, rural advisory services and markets and infrastructure. The framework disentangles relevant channels through which land reform, via its four pillars, can foster CSA adoption and thus contribute to the attainment of sustainable increases in agricultural productivity, climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. The framework also includes relevant channels through which more ‘traditional’ objectives of land reformers, including economic, social and political objectives, can be achieved. In turn, the (partial) attainment of such objectives would lead to improvements in agroecological and socioeconomic conditions of rural areas and populations. These improvements are considered within the framework as the ‘ultimate’ objective of land reformers. The CSLR framework represents an innovative way of conceptualising how land reforms can generate beneficial effects not only in terms of equity and efficiency but also of environmental sustainability.

Transition of Ecosystem Services Based on Urban Agroecology

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-391
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social

This chapter has the aim to analyze the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc., and analyses the principles, methods and some practices that supports the transition to urban agro ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial oriented agriculture towards more urban agro ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.

scholarly journals The Sustainable Relationship between Navigation of Arctic Passages, Arctic Resources, and the Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Chunjuan Wang ◽  
Dahai Liu ◽  
Meng Xu ◽  
Ying Yu ◽  
Xiaoxuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Effects ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Arctic Sea Ice ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Arctic Sea

<p>The Arctic passages are economically important waterways connecting North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. Global climate change is melting the Arctic sea ice and will improve the navigability of the Arctic passages. The opening of the Arctic route will facilitate the exploration and development of Arctic resources, which can alleviate the energy crisis, but it may ignite a worldwide “Arctic resource war”. Besides, the navigation of the Arctic passages will also burden the Arctic eco-environment and trigger a wave of eco-environmental effects in the Arctic region include exacerbating environmental pollution, threatening survival of life, intensifying climate change, changing local production and lives, even worldwide. On this basis, this study uses a system dynamics analysis of positive and negative effects to review the resource and environmental effects due to opening the Arctic passages and proposes the measures to ensure the resource and environmental sustainability.</p>

Sericulture For Sustainable Environment and Income Generation: The Case of the CHED-DMMMSU Sericulture Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristeta F. Gapuz ◽  
Francisco V. Gapuz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Cocoon Production

Abstract - This paper analyzed the role of sericulture as a tool for the socio-economic benefit of clients in the rural areas as well as its potential role for climate change adaptation as a result of the implementation of the CHED funded project entitled, Silk Technology Promotion and Commercialization: CHED-DMMMSU Strategy for Employment Generation of DMMMSU Graduates and Others as Agribusiness Entrepreneurs and in Support to RA 9242. The study was conducted in Bacnotan, Balaoan and San Gabriel, La Union. Descriptive analysis was used. Data was analyzed using frequency counts and percentages. Findings showed that most of the respondents were males, 33-59 years old, married with household size of 6, college graduate, main source of income is farming, owned and rented farms of less than a hectare to two hectares, and with the lands now planted with mulberry as previously unutilized and/or underutilized with some portions planted with camote, peanut, banana, rice or vegetables. Sericulture provided labor opportunities within the household for five to 75 years old. Labor generation for children of five to 24 years old is 41.18% while in support to Gender and Development, 30.77% of project cooperators are female, 38.1% of family members helping for silkworm rearing are female children while 30.3% are female adults, 33-53 years old. Income on cocoon production excluding other sericulture by products, amounting to P78,091 was generated by the farmer-sericulturist in 2009 with their income up to P12,390 and 117 ROI. In 2010, total income generated was P67,228 with highest income of P12,124. As of January 2011, the project produced a total of ( 1,038.05 (kg) ) fresh cocoons valued at P145,327, 105.46 kg raw silk yarn valued at P263,650 and ( 1,025.5(m) ) 100% silk fabric valued at P717,850. For environmental sustainability and natural resource management supportive to the Millennium Development Goals and on thrust on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, and RA 9729 (Phil. Climate Change Act), 3.3 hectares of unutilized and underutilized lands were made productive by planting mulberry trees. The total fresh biomass production of mulberry in the different project sites is ( 130,767.7 (kg) (about 28.57 tons/ha/yr). The 44,050 mulberry trees planted in the different areas has a total carbon dioxide sequestration of ( 172,977.5 (kg/yr) ) at a rate of 12,666kg/ha/yr (just one area with less than a year) to ( 53,998.65 (kg/ha/yr) ) in all other mulberry production areas. No occurrence of soil erosion was observed in all areas. Employing various strategies, the project was able to demonstrate the viability of sericulture for commercial cocoon production to 13 sericulture farmers surpassing its target by 30% integrating the conduct of research and extension and institutionalizing continuing support for the sericulture R & D/E activities. Sericulture is a good tool for climate change adaptation and mitigation manifested by its high rate of CO2 sequestration, prevention of erosion, use of marginal lands coupled with its income and labor generation potentials in almost all age levels. Thus, promotion of sericulture should be supported. Keywords - sericulture, climate change adaptation, income generation

Transition of Ecosystem Services Based on Urban Agro Ecology

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-33
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Social

This chapter analyzes the implications of the transition of ecosystem services based on urban agro-ecology. It advances on the debate over the negative effects of the traditional and industrial-oriented agricultural production on the ecosystem services, food systems, climate change, etc. and analyses the principles, methods, and some practices that support the transition to urban agro-ecology. The method employed is the analytical of the theoretical and empirical literature review. It concludes that a transition from traditional and industrial-oriented agriculture towards more urban agro-ecology is inevitable to improve the ecological and environmental services, the economic efficiency, the social equity and justice, and the environmental sustainability of cities.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of the Use of Indigenous Language in Disseminating Climate Change Information for Sustainable Environmental Development in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Adekunle Olatumile ◽  
Bola Tunde-Awe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Rural Dwellers ◽  
English Group

Climate change has undoubtedly brought with it many seemingly intractable challenges and is already having significant impacts in Nigeria, and these impacts are expected to increase in the future. Rural dwellers environmental behaviour is not all that positive, because the language used in disseminating environmental issues, is mostly English and not the indigenous language.  Information disseminated in English Language in most cases is not easily comprehended, because most of the rural dwellers are not literate in it. The instrument used is a self-constructed test.  The study adopted the quasi experimental method. Purposeful sample was used to select two groups, with twenty people in each group. The two groups were taught the causes and effects of climate change, one group was taught using English Language and the other group using Yoruba. A test was administered to each group to determine their level of comprehension. Data were analysed using mean and standard deviation. Yoruba group are more in-depth in their knowledge of climate change than English group. The use of mother tongue is germane in the dissemination of information regarding environmental sustainability, however climate change messages will be most effective if there is mix of English Language and Yoruba Language as there is no segment of the society that will be left out.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3376478  

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL LAND RESOURCES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodorina Turlakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Sustainability Criteria ◽  
The Impact

Agriculture is a sector where the impact of climate change leads to high risk and vulnerability in the activities of farmers. The negative effects are reflected in the direction of changes in agricultural land, decrease in productivity, soil erosion, salinization, deterioration of crop conditions and others. Solving such problems is a challenge for farmers trying to balance the need to produce enough food and the negative effects of using farmland in an environmentally sustainable way. The purpose of this report is to identify the main features of the concept of environmental sustainability in the use of land resources, to derive the basic sustainability criteria, and to analyze the state of land resources on the basis of substantiated criteria.

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