scholarly journals Micro/nanoplastics: an emerging environmental concern for the future decade

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Vikram Singh ◽  
Heike Sigloch ◽  
Peter Laux ◽  
Andreas Luch ◽  
Sandra Wagener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Future

Introduction. what is environmental politics?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The Introduction outlines the structure of this VSI. It begins by looking at the origins of environmental concern and asks why we should care about the environment at all. It considers the ideas that lie behind environmental politics and some of the disputes that take place within it. It then looks at the practice of environmental politics, the movement and the parties that enact it, and the policy tools that governments use. The history of the movement is also discussed, as well as the question of the different forms it takes, and how unified it is before concluding by looking to the future of environmental politics.

scholarly journals Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Potts
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post Industrial

This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term ‘futurism’ was coined in the publication of the ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominent theme in pronouncements on the future is technological progress, first in relation to industrial technology, later in the context of post-industrial or information technology. A turning-point in this discourse can be isolated around 1973, when ideas of technological progress begin to be challenged in the public sphere; from that date, environmental concern becomes increasingly significant in discussions of the future.

Political Theory and the Environment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
The Future

This article examines the relation between political theory and environmental policy. It describes characteristics that seem to distinguish contemporary environmental political theory and evaluates how the project of environmental political theory might be usefully construed in the future. It suggests that the work of contemporary environmental political theory is to grapple with the relative merits of a wide variety of potential strategies for reconciling forms of democracy and environmentalism. It explains that the question of democracy's relationship to environmental concern is a multifaceted one that has no easy, self-congratulatory answers.

Intertemporal Ethics

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
World View ◽  
Guerilla Warfare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Political Clout ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hit And Run ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Political Actions

“What good is a world view, anyway?” we might well ask, if environmentalists are allowed to put them on and take them off like hats. This is serious business; after all—it’s no fashion show—the future of the planet is at stake. We have noted that environmentalists lack a fully developed world view, a complete conceptual, theoretical, and evaluative framework for interpreting the world. Environmentalists have generally, as David did in facing Goliath, gone into battle against the powerful forces of exploitation, which are well armed with a reductionistic world view, with just slingshots and pebbles. But environmentalists have done remarkably well, given the apparently uneven distribution of intellectual armaments. The hit-and-run tactics of guerilla warfare have obvious benefits. Playing fast and loose with metaphysical and moral principles, environmentalists have gained considerable political clout by employing that value which seems particularly appropriate for a given issue, or by emphasizing a particular world view that will be effective in reaching a coveted constituency. But guerilla warfare has important costs as well. Environmentalists can appear to outsiders as disorganized and fractious, especially if one listens to their rhetoric, rather than observing their political actions. Further, the fragmentation of environmentalists’ world views has real costs internal to the movement because it results in failures of communication and mistrust, even among individuals and groups that are pursuing identical or nearly identical policies. For example, while committees formed by the Group of Ten could reach a detailed consensus on policy in all areas of environmental concern, they were unable to present the document as endorsed by their respective organizations because some organizations wished not to be publicly associated with others because of differing attitudes toward hunting. The most important cost of world view fragmentation among environmentalists, however, exists not in the past or in the present, but in the future. Environmentalists have failed to articulate a positive vision for the future; they cannot explain in terms comprehensible to each other or to the public at large what is their positive dream. As is sometimes said, environmentalists are always “against something.”

scholarly journals Tomorrow's Citizens: The Differing Concerns of Girls and Boys

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Cathie Holden
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The visions that young people hold for their personal futures and the concerns they have for their community and the wider world are indicators of the values held by today's boys and girls. By documenting such concerns we can begin to understand the kind of society young people wish for and are prepared to work towards for the next century. This article describes recent work with children aged 7,11,14 and 18. It looks at their hopes and fears for the future, the kind of future they envisage for themselves and for the world, and the action they take towards creating a better future. Its specific focus is the differences in response between boys and girls which were most evident in relation to environmental concern, political awareness, social and family relationships and the advent of new technology.

scholarly journals The Lack of the Environmental Concern in Indonesia’s Bilateral Investment Treaties

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ngurah Parikesit Widiatedja ◽  
I Gusti Ngurah Wairocana
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Bilateral Investment Treaties ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
The Future ◽  
Investment Treaties ◽  
Modern Era

In the modern era, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are relatively effective to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI). Many countries then eagerly concluded BITs, including Indonesia. Considering the adverse impact of FDI on the environment, most countries then start putting the environmental concern in their BITs, assisting them to prevent and mitigate any adverse impact of FDI on the environment. Indonesia, however, did not follow this measure. This paper then shows the lack of the current Indonesia’s BITs in putting the environmental concern in their provisions. The fact that Indonesia has terminated some BITs becomes a right momentum to start putting the environmental concern in the updated and modified Indonesia BITs in the future. From other countries’ practices, there is evidence to suggest that BITs can and do contain provisions aimed at ameliorating environmental damage caused as a result of FDI within host countries’ territories.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

Some Structural Features of Metaphase Chromosomes of Mice and Men

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Godfrey C. Hoskins ◽  
Betty B. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Of Mice And Men ◽  
Mouse Cells ◽  
Human And Mouse

Metaphase chromosomes from human and mouse cells in vitro are isolated by micrurgy, fixed, and placed on grids for electron microscopy. Interpretations of electron micrographs by current methods indicate the following structural features.Chromosomal spindle fibrils about 200Å thick form fascicles about 600Å thick, wrapped by dense spiraling fibrils (DSF) less than 100Å thick as they near the kinomere. Such a fascicle joins the future daughter kinomere of each metaphase chromatid with those of adjacent non-homologous chromatids to either side. Thus, four fascicles (SF, 1-4) attach to each metaphase kinomere (K). It is thought that fascicles extend from the kinomere poleward, fray out to let chromosomal fibrils act as traction fibrils against polar fibrils, then regroup to join the adjacent kinomere.

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