scholarly journals Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Lopes Duarte ◽  
Cézar Henrique Barra Rocha ◽  
Johnny de Souza Dias
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
Main Effects ◽  
Aquatic Contaminants ◽  
Different Parts

The emergence of the new coronavirus resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic, which led several countries to adopt restrictive measures, such as the lockdown. As a consequence, several changes were observed in social, commercial, industrial and environmental dynamics. Thus, the present study aimed to make a brief review of some of the main effects of the Pandemic on the environment, in different parts of the world, gathering this information in a single document. To this end, a qualitative method was adopted, in which bibliographical surveys from scientific articles were carried out, as well from articles, news and reports from reliable sources. According to the sources consulted, the impacts observed in the air were mostly positive, resulting in the reduction of the concentrations of most of the atmospheric contaminants. With regard to water resources, positive effects were detected, such as the improvement in water quality in several places in the world, as well as negative effects, portrayed in the increase of the insertion of new aquatic contaminants, of difficult synthesis, in addition to the increase of residues, harmful to the marine fauna. The increase in the volume of waste, due to the new consumption habits imposed by the Pandemic, has also shown to influence soil properties. Finally, it is possible to conclude that the health crisis is linked to the cultural habits of a society that should seek to establish more harmonious relationships with the environment.

scholarly journals Meaning-Making Through Creativity During COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hansika Kapoor ◽  
James C. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Response ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Personal Community

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change in routines and livelihoods all around the world. This public health crisis amplified a number of systemic inequalities that led to populations needing to grapple with universally difficult truths. Yet some individuals, firms, and countries displayed resilient and creative responses in coping with pressing demands on healthcare and basic sanity. Past work has suggested that engaging in creative acts can be an adaptive response to a changing environment. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to describe how entities at the personal, community, and national levels cultivated and expressed creativity in an effort to make meaning during COVID-19. By overlaying the Four C model of creativity on such responses, we aim to (a) to connect mini, little, Pro, and Big creative behaviors with our attempts to make meaning of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and (b) to suggest how engaging in creative expression can be used to guard against the adverse consequences of this outbreak. Acknowledging that this time has been and continues to be distressing and filled with uncertainty, we propose some ways of making sense of current events by applying original thinking across domains. Further, we propose how engaging in creativity can serve to buffer against the negative effects of living through the pandemic.

scholarly journals Narcissism in sport organizationsSpor örgütlerinde narsisizm

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1736
Author(s):  
Onur Mutlu Yaşar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Sport Organizations ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Self Confidence

There are many definitions of narcissism. In terms of common points of definitions, it is possible to define narcissism as appreciation at the higher level that people feel towards themselves. The purpose of the study was to reveal the positive and negative effects of the concept of narcissism in sports organizations. In this research, methodological qualitative method called "descriptive", "field scanning", documentary or "documentary work" has been used. The concept of narcissism has been examined in the historical process and evaluated in the context of sports. There are many successful sports people in sports organizations who work in any position and show narcissism behaviors. In the literature, it has been determined that the occurrence of narcissism is generally investigated with negative effects, but positive effects of the occurrence of narcissism in sports organizations are more likely to be benefited from these positive effects than other organizations. As a result, it has been stated that the existence of controllable narcissism in the sports environment has an effect on giving some opportunities, especially taking advantage of the positive effects that can bring about narcissism in the sports environment where self-confidence can be regarded as an important skill.Extended English abstract is in the end of PDF (TURKISH) file.  ÖzetNarsisizm kavramı ile ilgili birçok tanım yapılmıştır. Tanımların ortak noktaları doğrultusunda narsisizmi kişilerin kendilerine karşı hissettikleri yüksek seviyede beğeni olarak tanımlamak mümkündür. Yapılan çalışmanın amacını narsisizm kavramının spor örgütleri içerisindeki değerlendirmek, aynı zamanda olumlu ve olumsuz etkilerini ortaya koymak oluşturmuştur. Spor örgütleri içerisinde herhangi bir pozisyonda görev yapan ve narsisizm olgusu ile ilişkilendirilebilecek davranışları sergilemekten kaçınmayan birçok başarılı spor insanı bulunmaktadır. Literatürde narsisizm olgusu genel olarak olumsuz etkileri ile incelenmiş olsa da diğer örgütlere kıyasla spor örgütleri içerisinde narsisizm olgusunun olumlu etkilerinin daha fazla olabileceği ve bu olumlu etkilerden yararlanmanın mümkün olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak spor ortamı içerisinde kontrol edilebilir bir narsisizm olgusunun bazı fırsatları doğurma noktasında etkisi olduğu, özellikle risk almanın ve özgüvenin önemli bir beceri olarak değerlendirilebileceği spor ortamında narsisizmin ortaya çıkarabileceği olumlu etkilerden yararlanmanın insan kaynaklarından maksimum verimi alma noktasında etkili olacağı belirtilmiştir.

scholarly journals States and Local Legal Cultures in Medieval Islam: A comparative study of Akbar’s Mughal Rule and Sultan Agung’s Mataram in 16th and 17th Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Noor Achmad ◽  
Nanang Nurcholis
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Local Dynamics ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Dynamic Relations ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Different Parts

This study seeks to expand the horizon of existing literatures on the dialectic of religion, legal culture and local dynamics by comparing two great Muslim rulers in two different parts of the world in the first Islamic millennium: Mughal Emperor Akbar and Mataram’s Sultan Agung. It specifically aims to analyze historical accounts on the dynamic relations between Islamic norms and local culture with corresponding results of distinctive ways of ruling by these two great rulers. While both rulers Akbar and Sultan Agung shared similar concerns in political imagination, their difference was particularly shown in the representation of religion in the courts’ political and legal culture, with the latter was heavily determined by different challenges they faced during their rule. This paper argues that a comparative overview of these two great figures, who ruled in different parts of the world and at rather successive periods, would be beneficial for the studies of religion-culture relations in flagging the variation and extent of manifestation of Islamic global norms in local legal cultures which heavily determined by their corresponding local dynamics. As a literary or library research, it uses eclectic, blended, with qualitative method in content analysis.[Studi ini berupaya memperluas horison literatur-literatur yang ada tentang dialektika agama, budaya hukum dan dinamika lokal dengan membandingkan dua penguasa besar Muslim di dua belahan dunia yang berbeda pada millennia Islam pertama yaitu Raja Akbar dari Dinasti Mughal dan Sultan Agung Kerajaan Mataram. Secara spesifik, studi ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa catatan-catatan historis relasi dinamis antara norma Islam dengan budaya lokal dengan hasil temuan yang menunjukkan cara berkuasa/memerintah yang berbeda diantara dua penguasa tersebut. Sementara keduanya (Akbar dan Agung) memiliki kemiripan dalam imajinasi politik, di sisi lain, perbedaan mereka ditunjukkan dalam hal representasi agama dalam budaya hukum dan politik terutama ditentukan oleh perbedaan tantangan yang mereka hadapi ketika mereka berkuasa. Studi ini membuktikan bahwa dengan membandingkan dua figur yang memerintah di belahan dunia yang berbeda pada masa yang berurutan, akan memberikan manfaaat terhadap studi relasi agama dan budaya dalam mewarnai variasi dan lingkup manifestasi norma-norma global Islam dalam budaya hukum lokal yang banyak ditentukan oleh dinamika lokal yang bersesuaian. Sebagai penelitian kepustakaan (literer), studi ini menggunakan pendekatan eklektik dengan metode kualitatif dalam analisis ini (content analysis)].

scholarly journals COVID-19 as a challenge to the Economics, society and Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
A. N. Kuriukin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Asset Class ◽  
Restrictive Measures ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: to consider in detail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the modern world, in relation to three dimensions – the economy, society. Politics, to outline the most problematic points of negative effects generation, to propose directions for the restoration of the world system within the framework of the formation of a new post-COVID-19 ”normality”.Methods: includes the principles of systemic, theoretical-cognitive, institutional, instrumental and interdisciplinary approaches, mediated by the accepted in social science ideas about the relationship and interaction of subjective and objective factors in social processes with relative independence of the subject.Results: today, the world around us and human civilization, together with the impressive process of globalization, has entered the stage of the emergence of new challenges that were not previously presented to it or were not manifested so powerfully. The first of these challenges of the current 21st century is undoubtedly the COVID-19 pandemic. Today it is stated that, according to the most optimistic estimates, the fall of the world economy may exceed the crisis of 2008–2009. In terms of social practices and communications, COVID-19 is already forcing us to design a new “normality” that will become a reality in the post-COVID-19 era. In the field of politics, it is stated that in authoritarian and authoritarian regimes, a more effective public response to restrictive measures was ensured.Conclusions and Relevance: at the present stage, the market and the signals it gives, by asset class, recession and recovery patterns, should be closely monitored not only by economists, but also by sociologists. political scientists, politicians and public figures. Urgent and decisive political action is needed not only to contain the pandemic and save lives, but also to protect the most vulnerable in our society from economic collapse and to maintain economic growth and financial stability.

scholarly journals The Two Faces of Diversity: The Relationships between Religious Polarization, Religious Fractionalization, and Self-rated Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Yun Lu ◽  
Xiaozhao Y. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Polarization

A dominant discourse in the social sciences theorizes that religious diversity puts individuals’ health at risk via interreligious hostility. However, this discourse overlooks the different subtypes of religious diversity and the moderation of political institutions. To better understand the issue of diversity and health, in this study, we distinguish between two subtypes of religious diversity—polarization and fractionalization—and argue that their impacts on health are heterogeneous. Using a sample of 67,399 individuals from 51 societies drawn from the 2010–2014 wave of the World Values Survey, our multilevel analyses show that religious polarization is negatively associated with individual health, whereas the health effects of religious fractionalization are positive. Moreover, the associations between religious polarization/fractionalization and individual health are found to depend on the democratic level of the state. In more democratic countries, the negative effects of polarization on health are mitigated, and the positive effects of fractionalization are stronger.

scholarly journals DAMPAK PERNIKAHAN BEDA AGAMA TERHADAP KETERLIBATAN HIDUP MENGGEREJA SEBAGAI UMAT BERIMAN KRISTIANI

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Hendri Kusnadi ◽  
Albert I Ketut Deni Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mixed Marriage ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Interfaith Marriage ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

Marriage is a partnership between man and woman who have been baptized. It is monogamous and inseverable in nature. Dealing with the characteristic of catholic marriage, the church forbids the mixed marriage to occur. The prohibition is an attempt of the church to protect the Catholics’ faith from the risk of mixed marriage. In the other hands, the church creates a policy which is in the form of permission for mixed marriage. Further, this kind of marriage has impacts towards the church life. One of the impacts is causing intolerance in which the Catholics become inactive in the church life. Regarding the effect of interfaith marriage towards the involvement of church life as Christians, some problems are formulated such as : 1) what is the definition of interfaith marriage? 2) how is the church life of the people who commit interfaith marriage as Christians3) What are the effects of interfaith marriage towards their church life? In this research, Qualitative method is applied. Mean while, the method of interviewing (structural) is used to collect the data. The direct interviews are conducted privately between the parties. Moreover, the respondents of this research are the Catholics who undertake a mixed marriage at chapelry of Saint Vincentius A Paulo Jenangan. Based on the result of the research, there are three things which are found. First, people have lack of understanding about interfaith marriage. They are unable to differentiate between mixed marriage of different religion or church. Besides, they do not really understand the process of gaining permission to undertake the marriage. Second, people are not active in doing the activities in the church. They said that they only involved in 2 fields out of 5 church duties. Furthermore, there are negative effects of interfaith marriage, that is the intolerance of a party who is not catholic. In the case, the intolerance itself is the different opinion which causes anger and always be brought up. However, there are also some positive effects which appears from interfaith marriage. One of them is the tolerance of a non-Catholic party who always reminds his or her partner to go to the church.

scholarly journals Pandemic metaphors: bibliometric study of the COVID-19 (co)llateral effects

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e7809119636
Author(s):  
Priscilla Chantal Duarte Silva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
General Aspect ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The objective of this study is to analyze the (co)llateral effects of the pandemic in a general aspect, showing positive and negative effects. However, highlighting marked changes to the environment, given the time when the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere received a mandatory reduction as a result of social confinement. The methodological basis used is a systematic literature review, consulted in impact databases by the scientific community. We chose to search the Web of science, Science Direct and PubMed databases. The search keys were: pandemic, COVID-19, new coronavirus, effects of COVID-19. In addition, to analyze the presence of conceptual metaphors, opinion articles published in the world media, and published on the web during a pandemic were selected. The choice of texts is based on the theme of the new coronavirus and its impacts. The theoretical bias of Lakoff (1987; 2006) is adopted to explain metaphor on the cognitive plane, as a natural process of the human mind, that is, a way of thinking. This research is characterized in qualitative, bibliographic and analysis of content. The results show that the conceptual metaphors reveal an image of COVID-19 as the "savior" of the environment, for having forced man to stop as a need for carbon. It was concluded that the conceptual metaphors, being of a cognitive nature, appear in the form discourse, showing COVID-19 as agents of positive effects on the environment and business for the other areas of society.

Earnings Management in SMEs

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Andreia Sousa ◽  
Cristina Gonçalves Góis ◽  
Clara Viseu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The World

Although small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are represented on a large scale around the world, the literature on earnings management (EM) has focused mainly on listed firms. In this sense, this chapter provides important insights on the determinants and main incentives for EM in the context of Portuguese and Spanish SMEs, over a period of 10 years, also considering two relevant macroeconomic events (financial crisis and entry into force of harmonized accounting regulations). The results obtained are similar for both countries and are intended to underline the possible positive effects of reducing these practices after the entry into force of a harmonized accounting standard with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) standards and also to warn against the possible negative effects of managers' opportunistic behavior during a period of financial crisis. The close association between accounting and taxation, since the calculation of the tax income depends partly on the accounting income, remains an incentive to engage in EM practices.

scholarly journals Zimitsani Moto: Understanding the Malawi COVID-19 Response

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
James Tengatenga ◽  
Susan M. Tengatenga Duley ◽  
Cecil J. Tengatenga
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Concept ◽  
Restrictive Measures

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has unsettled societies and economies of people and countries all over the world. Malawi is no exception. As such, the COVID-19 pandemic is more than just a health crisis. Countries have responded by instituting lockdowns and other restrictive measures among the populace. These have, in turn, elicited negative responses and legal challenges; most of which are rights-based. The main challenge has been that of the restriction of individual and religious freedoms. It is, thus, no surprise that reactions against government decrees restricting religious gatherings in the wake of the pandemic have been challenged in the courts. We will explore the Malawian traditional religious concept of healing and wholeness, give a chronological outline of government decrees and the responses to the pandemic, and conclude with an analysis using some reflections on Ferdinand Tönnies concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and recollection of traditional religion and critique of the new evangelicalism leading to an understanding of the Malawian response to the pandemic.

scholarly journals Sustainable Tourism in APEC: A Region with UNWTO Members and Non-members

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Cuauhtemoc Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Economic Competitiveness ◽  
The World ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Poor Management

Tourism has become a source of income, employment and economic growth for the country members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). This paper analyses tourism as a regional economic activity that interacts with the environment, with positive effects such as improving economic competitiveness; and negative effects such as overcrowding and poor management that can destroy the touristic asset on which the activity depends. These issues put the membership of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) of some APEC economies at stake, as well as the future of their local, regional and global economic and tourism competitiveness.

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