scholarly journals Zoneamento ambiental do polo de desenvolvimento agroindustrial do Alto Piranhas, Estado da Paraíba

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
J. S. Almeida ◽  
J. M. Costa ◽  
P. X. Pamplona ◽  
P. B. Maracajá ◽  
W. F. Melo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Map Algebra ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Environmental Vulnerability ◽  
Semiarid Environment ◽  
Environmental Deterioration

<p>Este trabalho teve como objetivo zonear os níveis de deterioração ambiental na paisagem entre os anos de 2001 e 2012, adotando os critérios da ecodinâmica nos municípios que compõe o polo de desenvolvimento agroindustrial do Alto Piranhas. Foram realizadas análises envolvendo a dinâmica da paisagem e da vulnerabilidade ambiental. A metodologia utilizada na pesquisa foi baseada em localizações pontuais, que inclui o processo de selecionar e combinar, através de procedimento de álgebra de mapas disponíveis em um SIG, cada variável geográfica contém diferenciação espacial e a combinação entre elas promove a subdivisão do espaço geográfico em regiões equiproblemáticas. Tomando-se por base as superposições dos mapas geológico, geomorfológico e pedológico foi efetuado o mapa de zoneamento ambiental, com informações que permitiram identificar as condições do meio natural e suas aptidões. Esses fatores foram comparados entre si, conforme a importância atribuída a elas. Os resultados indicaram que as áreas centrais concentram as classes com maiores riscos ambientais, como as instáveis (risco ambiental entre 60 e 80%), e as de instabilidade emergente (risco maior que 80. Já nas áreas distribuídas em toda a área de estudo encontra-se as áreas com risco ambiental entre 40 e 60% (instabilidade moderada). Com base na análise, percebe-se que a área de estudo possui um tênue equilíbrio por estar localizado em ambiente semiárido que pode ser rompido com facilidade com a intensificação das atividades agroindustriais.</p><p align="center"><strong><em>Environmental zoning polo agro industry development of Alto Piranhas, </em></strong><strong>Paraíba State</strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><p class="HOLOS-ResumoeAbstract"><strong>Abstract</strong><strong>: </strong>This study aimed to zone the levels of environmental deterioration in the landscape between the years 2001 and 2012, adopting the criteria of ecodynamics municipalities that make up the hub of agro-industrial development of the Alto Piranhas. Analyzes involving the dynamics of landscape and environmental vulnerability were performed. The methodology used in this research was based on specific locations, including the process of selecting, combining, through map algebra available in a GIS procedure, each geographical variable contains spatial differentiation, and the combination between them promotes the geographical subdivision of space equiproblemáticas regions. Taking as a basis the superimposition of geological, geomorphological and pedological maps was made environmental zoning map, with information that allowed the identification of the conditions of the natural environment and their skills. These factors were compared according to the importance assigned to them. The results indicated that the central areas concentrate the classes with larger environmental hazards such as unstable (environmental risk between 60 and 80%), and the emerging instability (greater than 80 risk. Already on distributed throughout the area of study areas located the areas with environmental risk between 40 and 60% (moderate unrest). Based on the analysis, it is noticed that the study area has a fine balance to be located in semiarid environment that can be broken easily with the intensification of agribusiness activities.</p>

THE RELEVANCE OF RISK ASSESSMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVALS AND DECISION MAKING

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.T. Stoklosa
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Ecological Risk Assessment ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Assessment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Decision Makers

The relevance of ecological risk assessment is the principal subject of this paper. The petroleum industry has demonstrated expertise in characterising process safety risk, and can confidently analyse the circumstances of accidental or routine emissions to the environment. However, the task of characterising the effects of environmental hazards on ecological systems has until recently been the domain of a select group of research scientists and theoreticians.As environmental risk assessment practices evolve, they, of course, gain the attention of decision-makers that must consider the possible consequences of industrial development in potentially sensitive settings. There would appear to be an opportunity for advancing risk assessment techniques and methodologies to fill this demand. It might seem appropriate for the petroleum industry to exercise leadership in this endeavour, applying new technology in ecological risk assessment and setting new standards of performance.But what would be the purpose of refining the petroleum industry's approach to environmental risk assessment if decision makers and the public do not wish to embrace the ideology of more perfect scientific expressions of the risk of development to the environment? Decision makers seek to obtain the best possible scientific advice on which to base decisions. However, the criteria for decision-making is understandably weighted in favour of consultation with stakeholders on issues of high social significance.In order for risk assessment to constructively influence debate and decision-making on environmental issues, it is essential to recognise the features of the environment at risk that have both biological and societal relevance. Even so, the scientific practice of ecological risk assessment can only serve to highlight the issues at hand and communicate the strategy for managing risk. It does not stand to be regarded by decision-makers as the panacea for justifying industrial development in the foreseeable future.A methodology for applying the practice of risk assessment in environmental approvals and decision making is proposed. A strategy of early government participation ensures that the major scientific and social issues can be incorporated explicitly in the risk assessment process. The criteria for interpreting the acceptability of risk must be stated unambiguously at the outset to foster credibility in the results. To be a successful and relevant practice, risk must be communicated to stakeholders with both an explanation of the uncertainty in the results, and a comparison of the risk of industrial development to naturally occurring and anthropogenic environmental hazards.

scholarly journals The role of diversity and tolerance in economic development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Witold Kwasnicki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Long Run

AbstractThis paper presents an evolutionary model of industry development, and uses simulations to investigation the role of diversity and heterogeneity in firms’ behaviour, and hence industrial development. The simulations suggest that economic growth is increased with greater variety, in the sense of the evolutionary process approaching the equilibrium faster and also, in the long run, moving faster from one equilibrium to a new, more advanced, equilibrium. This occurs due to higher variety caused by a more tolerant environment, and due to the higher probability of emergence of radical innovations.

Evaluation of industry tendencies in Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radjabov Bunyod Abduhalilovich
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Industry Development

The article proposes a method for assessing trends in industrial development in Uzbekistan. The least-squares method of the regression model was used to estimate industry development trends. Development trends are assessed based on the index of change in the final and theoretical values of industrial production.

scholarly journals The sublime attraction of active volcanoes: An exploration of tourists’ experiences during a long-distance hiking route in Iceland

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Þórhildur Heimisdóttir ◽  
Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir ◽  
Guðrún Gísladóttir
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

This article attempts to understand the value and meaning of a hazardous natural environment for tourists. It focuses on the attraction of volcanic sites in the eyes of sensation-seeking hikers. The research is based on a participatory observation study and in-depth interviews with 11 hikers on the Laugavegur hiking trail, in the Highlands of Iceland. The research questions addressed in this article are, do hikers experience a threat from the natural environment, and does a hazardous environment contribute to a feeling of the sublime? In support of the theories put forth in the article about sensation seekers, risk perception, its heuristic traps and sublime feeling, the article argues that tourists perceive risks in the hazardous environment in a positive way, as something spectacular, unique and sublime. Thus, their positive risk perception of existing potential environmental hazards encourages tourists to ignore signs of risks and hazards and subsequently puts them in unnecessary danger.

WHAT STATE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WILL WE LEAVE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS? REVIEW OF THE CAUSES OF THE CURRENT ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND THE DEFINITION OF ECO-CRIMINOLOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDRA NOWAK
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Global Population

The article provides an overview of the causes of the current environmental crisis, with three main sources being identifi ed: industrial development and large-scale agriculture, a rapidly growing global population, and environmental crime.The most serious environmental problems, such as global warming, air and soil pollution have also been characterised. The author briefl y charac-terises the defi nitions related to eco-criminology. The international commu-nity, governments, and NGOs are involved in improving the effectiveness of police cooperation in the fi ght against eco-crime, but it is still not effective enough.Environmental protection is currently one of the most important issues that humanity must address. The quality of our lives and maybe our surviv-al depend on it.

scholarly journals A new paradigm of development as a modern challenge in agriculture

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 460-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Czyżewski ◽  
Bazyli Czyżewski
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Public Character ◽  
Development Paradigm

Summary The authors of the paper propose a thesis of a necessary change of an industrial development paradigm of agriculture to a socially sustainable one. They present the mechanism of functioning of the first one proving that by stimulating the growth of production of agricultural raw materials it leads to a decreasing marginal productivity and, as a result, to lower incomes of farmers in the conditions of incomplete internalisation of costs. The pressure on natural environment leads to the deterioration of the natural environment welfare. Therefore, the change of that paradigm to the socially sustainable one is necessary. The effects of that model, which exceed the productive and economic sphere, were presented. They take into account the fact that agriculture is also a supplier of public goods. In that case a new concept of a land rent was included, assuming that the agricultural land independently creates a part of a land utility which is subject to market or institutional valorisation if it is limited to some extent of intensity of agricultural economics. However, there must be a declaration of a social demand for that utility of a public character. That process has already started and it determines the evolutionary change of the paradigm of the agricultural development.

scholarly journals Assessment of Spatial Diversity of the Potential of the Natural Environment in the Context of Sustainable Development of Poviats in Poland

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 6027
Author(s):  
Paweł Dziekański ◽  
Piotr Prus ◽  
Mansoor Maitah ◽  
Magdalena Wrońska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
Policy Optimization

The activities of the poviat are a combination of interrelated factors. The use of natural resources should be carried out in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. The aim of this research was to assess the spatial differentiation of development relationships, the natural environment, and ecology of poviats in Poland, using a synthetic measure. Empirical data were collected in the spatial terms of poviats in Poland. The choice of variables was conditioned by the availability of data of the Central Statistical Office for 2010–2019. The assessment of development of poviats indicates disproportions in terms of development variables, as well as the natural environment and ecology, and the existence of a weak impact of natural conditions for development. Poviats distinguished by a higher level of natural environment are not characterized by a higher measure of development. The reason for the low impact of non-financial conditions on the development of poviats is their dependence on transfer from the state budget and the amount of current expenditure. The results may constitute a source of information for local government authorities on the disproportions existing between units, on the determination of directions of development policy optimization in terms of the natural environment and ecology.

scholarly journals Current state and prospects of innovative industry development of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Mohammed Younus Hasan Alghadhywi
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Innovation Processes

Purpose. The purpose of the study is to analyse the development trends of Ukrainian industry and identify ways to solve existing problems based on the intensification of innovation processes. Methodology of research. During the research methods generally accepted in economic science were applied, in particular: statistical and graphic – for definition of Ukrainian industry development tendencies; comparative analysis – to compare the Ukrainian industry and the world; system generalization – in substantiating the directions of industry innovative development intensification. Findings. The current trends in the development of industrial production in Ukraine, which are characterized by falling production volumes and negative changes in the structure of the industry, are revealed. The reduction of industrial production is revealed, which occurs mainly due to the curtailment of the processing industry enterprises activity. Negative changes in the structure of the industry are revealed, among which the increase in the share of low-tech productions with a significant decrease in medium-tech and moderate –high-tech ones are highlighted. Based on the correlation between industrial production indicators and GDP dynamics, it is proved that industry forms the foundation of the country`s social and economic development. It was found that the Ukrainian economy lags far behind the development of the world`s leading countries in terms of its material, resource, and energy intensity. The article proves that the issue of industrial development based on the intensification of innovation processes in Ukraine needs radical changes in reforming the management mechanisms of innovation processes and relations between science, society, business, and government to intensify investment activities support the technological development of industry, the introduction of environmentally friendly production. Originality. The analysis of the state of Ukraine`s industry and substantiation of the need for its innovative development was further developed, in the context of which measures were proposed to intensify innovation processes, which, in addition to existing ones, provide for the formation of a managing mechanism for innovative industrial development; coordination of industrial sector development policy with the goals of sustainable and inclusive development; introduction of environmentally friendly industrial production; expansion of cross-border economic and environmental cooperation; development of the strategy of development of the industry of Ukraine taking into account the European experience. Practical value. The results of the study are the basis for solving practical problems of improving the situation and the transition to innovative industrial development in Ukraine. Key words: industry of Ukraine, processing industry, structure of industrial production, industry innovative development.

scholarly journals Economic-geographical assessment of the demographic situation and economic potential of the inter-capital Belarusian-Russian borderlands

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. Antipova ◽  
Aliaksei N. Shavel ◽  
Ilya I. Zaprudski ◽  
Andrei P. Bezruchonak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
Area Problem ◽  
Foreign Trade Turnover

Geographic research of the phenomenon of inter-capital space of the Belarusian-Russian border region is an actual research area problem for the socio-economic geography of Belarus and Russia. This is due to the objective need to develop mechanisms of overcoming the demographic and economic peripherality of the region and embedding regional economic systems of border regions into the system of local relations. The purpose of the research is to identify the current distinctive features of the demographic and economic development of the inter-capital space of the Belarusian-Russian border region with the establishment of its niche from the point of the central-peripheral approach. During the analysis of the demographic situation of the inter-capital space of the Belarusian-Russian borderlands, it was established that, generally, in 1999–2019, its main feature was peripherality with the three zones established – the central demographic periphery, the buffer demographic periphery and the demographic semi-periphery – with a predominance in the structure of the first zone. Geographically, the central periphery zone is formed mainly by the rural borderland areas. According to the results of the analysis of the industrial development level, it was discovered that the inter-capital space of the Belarusian-Russian borderlands is characterised by a high degree of spatial inequality due to the development of large industrial centers around the existing periphery. This research had established a spatial differentiation of the transportation accessibility (by the connectivity of administrative centers of the borderlands) and the productivity of road transportation. The economicgeographical analysis of the foreign trade had revealed the diversity of directions and intensity of foreign goods trade between the Belarusian-Russian borderlands, mainly expressed in the predominance of the export-oriented regions with the per capita foreign trade turnover estimated at up to 2000 US dollars.

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