scholarly journals A Survey of the Environmental Conservation Costs by Local Authorities in Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Nicholas Muthuma Mutua ◽  
Samuel Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Conservation Costs

<p>This study investigates the environmental conservation costs of the local authorities in Kenya by analyzing the data collected from 90 of these local authorities. The population of the study is the 175 local authorities in Kenya. A sample of 90 local authorities has been used. Both statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 and Excel have been used to determine the level of environmental conservation costs in the studied local authorities. The results indicated that there was a wide use of environmental conservation costs among the local authorities. The study provides preliminary evidence on environmental conservation costs used by local authorities in Kenya. Further research is suggested to explore the possible motivating factors among different local authorities’ degree of application and level of environmental costs in different activities.</p>

scholarly journals A Survey of the Environmental Conservation Costs by Local Authorities in Kenya

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Nicholas Muthuma Mutua ◽  
Samuel Kakui Kilika
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Conservation Costs

This study investigates the environmental conservation costs of the local authorities in Kenya by analyzing the data collected from 90 of these local authorities. The population of the study is the 175 local authorities in Kenya. A sample of 90 local authorities has been used. Both statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 and Excel have been used to determine the level of environmental conservation costs in the studied local authorities. The results indicated that there was a wide use of environmental conservation costs among the local authorities. The study provides preliminary evidence on environmental conservation costs used by local authorities in Kenya. Further research is suggested to explore the possible motivating factors among different local authorities’ degree of application and level of environmental costs in different activities.

scholarly journals THE CRITIQUES TO POSITIVISM DIRECTION OF INQUIRY IN COMPREHENDING THE COMPLEXITY OF GOVERNANCE IN MANAGING CITIES COMPETITIVENESS

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faizul Abdullah ◽  
Fatimah Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Bureaucratic Efficiency ◽  
Realist Ontology

The complexities in managing cities are real in the ethos of global cities competition and indeed, the governance of urban complexities are further compounded by the discoveries of new tangible and intangible determinants, vehemently contributed by the increased structural changes on a global scale ceased to be the main axes and reference points in societal organization. Whilst deterministic about deploying competitive cities interventions, the initiatives have always exposed local authorities to other related issues in the governance of complexity, which usually infers to their organizing capacity in attaining organizations competitiveness. For most modernists’ scholars, they tend to agreed that learning is associated with efficiency and thus, it exposed organizations to learn new impositions of social artefacts. Exaggerated from realist ontology definitive foundation of structural functionalism, it clearly underlined Weberian positivism bureaucratic efficiency, which echoed local authorities in attaining the balancing act between ‘de jure’ and ‘de facto’ that constitutionally empowered in managing cities in the ethos of globalization. On the contrary, the realism in local authorities suggested otherwise, which perhaps lead to epistemological debates on the governmentality. Apparently, local authorities are facing dramatic challenges not only reframing to achieving global interventions on cities competitiveness and urban sustainability interventions -de jure; but also intensely faced-off with severe ignorance, resentment and dissonance from the entire workforce itself - de facto. As such, it warrants this paper to explore the validity on the dominant used of positivism direction of inquiry among social sciences researchers’ on organizational bureaucratic efficiency, when most positivism line of inquiry researchers suggested that local authorities are learning organization entities, or is it so?

scholarly journals MOTIVATING FACTORS FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN LATVIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 879-882
Author(s):  
Justīne Vīķe
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Communication Models ◽  
Public Demand

There is a public demand for communication of scientific findings that account for fragmentary expression of activities included in different science communication models. This study identifies factors facilitating the involvement of the scientific community in science communication. The primary data were obtained by a qualitative method of in-depth, semi-structured, expert interviews involving ten representatives of the Latvian scientific community relating to exact sciences, life sciences, and humanities and social sciences. The study distinguishes two categories for engaging the scientific community in science communication: a formally recognized approach and one involving a third party for organizing the communication.

scholarly journals TURISMO, GESTÃO HOTELEIRA E O DESENVOLVIMENTO SOCIOECONÔMICO NOS PAÍSES EM DESENVOLVIMENTO: MUNICIPIO DE INHAMBANE, MOÇAMBIQUE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Miguel Pestana Alcobia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
Operational Practices

This article aims to analyze the hotel units’ operational practices in Inhambane, assesses their socio-economic impacts into the local community and proposes hotel operations qualitative measures to promote sustainable socio-economic development. Follow the Quivy and Campenhoudt methodological model for social sciences and has the hotel units and their workers as objects of study. Presents the following dimensions: hotel operations multiplier effect, the employability quality generated by them, their contribution to the welfare infrastructures and their environmental policies. Remarks that the implemented hotel development model is based on a neoliberal matrix, mostly in result of foreign or multinational investments, not guaranteeing a significant multiplier effect in the local economy, its job offer quality is often precarious, unable to have a significant contribution to the local "welfare" infrastructures improvement and sometimes producing undesirable environmental costs. Concludes that it is pressing to rethink the whole model of tourism development in Inhambane, retaining in its territory the economic benefits of the touristic activities and transforming the local community in its main beneficiary.

The disclosure of environmental conservation costs and its relation to eco-efficiency

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keun-Hyo Yook ◽  
Hakjoon Song ◽  
Dennis M. Patten ◽  
Il-Woon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Controls ◽  
Conservation Costs ◽  
Carbon Based

Purpose This paper aims to examine whether the amount of costs disclosed as relating to environmental controls is associated with environmental performance in terms of carbon-based eco-efficiency, and whether any relation supports voluntary disclosure theory or legitimacy theory arguments. Further, this paper attempts to determine whether the relations differ across the initial Kyoto Protocol period. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the focus was on Japanese firms over the period from 2002 to 2012. Disclosed environmental control costs (capital expenditures and operating costs) were identified and eco-efficiency measures based on carbon emissions were calculated. Relations were tested for using regression models controlling for other potential impact factors. Findings This study’s results indicate a negative relation between disclosed levels of environmental control costs and eco-efficiency performance measures, and, for two of our three eco-efficiency metrics, this is more pronounced over the Kyoto Protocol period. Research limitations/implications These results support a legitimacy theory (as opposed to voluntary disclosure theory) explanation for the relation between the levels of disclosed environmental control costs and carbon-based eco-efficiency. Originality/value This study is the first to explore how flexibility in cost classification may be used by companies to foster a disclosure strategy.

scholarly journals Análise dos custos ambientais relacionados com a gestão de resíduos em indústrias químicas

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-522
Author(s):  
Margareth Aparecida Moraes ◽  
Vanessa Theis ◽  
Margarete Blume Vier ◽  
Dusan Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Environmental Economics ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Proper Disposal

Resumo Com a existência de um limite entre o esgotamento dos recursos naturais e do crescimento econômico, evidencia-se a necessidade de encontrar meios para compatibilizar a conservação ambiental e o crescimento econômico. Nesse cenário, desponta a gestão ambiental, que visa reduzir os impactos causados ao meio ambiente advindos das atividades econômicas das empresas. Cumpre destacar que a geração de resíduos se apresenta como aspecto indissociável do processo industrial, que demanda investimentos para a sua adequada destinação final. Nesse contexto, o objetivo com este trabalho foi analisar os custos ambientais relacionados com a gestão de resíduos em indústrias químicas localizadas na região metropolitana de Porto Alegre. Os dados foram coletados por meio de uma pesquisa survey com gestores de 36 empresas da unidade de análise. As evidências coletadas facultaram a constatação de que os resíduos representam a maior parte dos passivos ambientais nas empresas investigadas. Além disso, grande parte dos respondentes declarou que nas empresas que desenvolvem suas atividades, os passivos são tratados por meio da comercialização dos resíduos gerados pelo processo produtivo, a fim de obter receita adicional. De acordo com 24 respondentes, os resíduos sólidos gerados em um processo produtivo são reaproveitados na produção de outro produto, e os gestores que responderam que não conseguem sequer gerar receita adicional, via comercialização de resíduos, tampouco aproveitar resíduos na fabricação de outro produto, alegaram dificuldade operacional para viabilizar o referido modelo, ou falta de organização interna para mapear os resíduos sólidos gerados no processo.Palavras-chave: Gestão de resíduos. Custos ambientais. Indústria química. Abstract With the existence of a limit between the exhaustion of natural resources and the economic growth, it is highlighted the need to find ways to reconcile environmental conservation and economic growth. In this scenario, comes up environmental management, which aims to reduce the impacts to the environment arising from the economic activities of enterprises. It should be noted that the generation of waste is presented as an inseparable aspect from the manufacturing process, which requires investments for its proper disposal. In this context, the aim of this study was to analyze the environmental costs related to waste management in chemical industries located in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre. The data were collected through a survey research with managers of 36 companies unit analysis. Evidence collected provided the realization that the waste represent most of the environmental damage in the investigated companies. In addition, most respondents stated that in companies that develop their activities, liabilities are treated through the marketing of waste generated by the production process in order to obtain additional revenue. According to 24 respondents, the solid waste generated in a production process are reused in the production of another product, and the managers who responded that they cannot even generate additional revenue via marketing waste, either take advantage of waste in the manufacture of another product, alleged operational difficulty to enable that model, or lack of internal organization to map the solid waste generated in the process.Keywords: Wastes. Environmental economics. Chemical industry.

MOTIVASI PENGLIBATAN SISWA GURU DALAM AKTIVITI SUKARELAWAN MEMBANTU GOLONGAN ORANG KELAINAN UPAYA (OKU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
ANIS SYAFIQAH SHAFIE ◽  
NOR KAMILAH MAKHTAR
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disability Group ◽  
Volunteer Programs ◽  
The Value Function

Kajian bagi mengenal pasti penglibatan dan motivasi siswa guru di Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia (IPGM) dengan aktiviti-aktiviti berbentuk kesukarelawan terhadap golongan Orang Kelainan Upaya (OKU) amat diperlukan untuk penyediaan maklumat asas kepada pihak pentadbir IPGM dalam merangka program berbentuk kesukarelawanan untuk menarik minat siswa guru memberi sumbangan dalam bentuk khidmat masyarakat terutamanya kepada golongan OKU. Kajian deskriptif ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji motivasi penglibatan siswa guru dalam akiviti kesukarelawan membantu golongan OKU yang melibatkan 70 orang responden siswa guru dari Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Kota Bharu (IPG KKB). Instrumen kajian yang digunakan adalah berbentuk soal selidik adaptasi daripada Teori Fungsi Katz (1960) dan diubahsuai berdasarkan Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI). Analisis data dijalankan menggunakan perisian IBM SPSS Statistics (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) Version 19.0 bagi mendapatkan data peratus, kekerapan, min dan sisihan piawai. Kajian rintis dijalankan dan nilai Alpha Cronbach yang diperolehi adalah 0.92. Dapatan kajian mendapati fungsi nilai (min= 4.32) dan fungsi pemahaman (min=4.31) merupakan faktor motivasi tertinggi yang menyumbang kepada penglibatan siswa guru dalam aktiviti sukarelawan membantu golongan OKU. Hasil kajian juga mendapati faktor jantina tidak begitu mempengaruhi motivasi penglibatan siswa guru IPG KKB dalam aktiviti sukarelawan membantu OKU. Namun begitu, terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan antara siswa guru lelaki dan siswa guru perempuan bagi penglibatan yang bermotivasikan peningkatan (t=3.14, p<0.05), perlindungan (t=4.14, p<0.05) dan kerjaya (t=2.88, p<0.05). Dapatan kajian memberi implikasi terhadap keperluan perancangan program sukarelawan dan khidmat masyrakat terhadap golongan OKU oleh pihak pentadbir IPGM bagi memupuk semangat kesukarelawan yang positif dalam kalangan siswa guru.   Research on the identification of the involvement and motivation of pre service teachers at the Malaysian Teacher Education Institute (MTEI) with volunteerism activities for the Disabled is needed to provide basic information to MTEI administrators in designing volunteer programs to encourage pre service teachers to contribute in the community service activities especially to the disability group. This descriptive study aimed to identify the motivation of pre-service teachers’ involvement in volunteering activities to help the disabled and 70 respondents of pre-service teachers from the Kota Bharu Campus Teacher Education Institute (KBCTEI) were involved in this study. The instrument used was the adaptation questionnaire from the Katz Function Theory (1960) and was modified based on the Volunteer Function Inventory (VFI). Data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) Version 19.0 software for Windows to obtain standardized data of percentages, frequency, mean and standard deviation. A pilot study was conducted and found that the Alpha Cronbach's alpha was 0.92. The study found that the value function (mean=4.32) and comprehension function (mean=4.31) were the highest motivating factors contributing to the involvement of pre-service teachers in volunteering to assist the disabled. The study also found that gender factors did not significantly influence the involvement of KBCTEI pre-service teachers in volunteering to assist the disabled. However, there was a significant difference between male and female pre-service teachers for improving function (t=3.14, p<0.05), protection function (t=4.14, p<0.05) and career (t=2.88, p<0.05). The findings of the study provide implications for the needs of volunteer program planning and services for people with disabilities by MITE administrators to foster a positive volunteer spirit among pre-service teachers.

scholarly journals Methodology for environmental safety efficiency within environmental conservation activities in construction industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 06011
Author(s):  
Elena Voskresenskaya ◽  
Lybov Vorona-Slivinskaya ◽  
Sergey Panov
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
Conservation Costs ◽  
Conservation Activity

The article represents the analysis of environmental conservation activity in construction, aimed at ensuring the environmental effect, which is to prevent pollution of natural resources and, therefore, to improve the quality of building materials and products. There comes a need to correctly evaluate the damage that reduces the efficiency of construction production as a result of environmental pollution. Thus, it seems advisable to consider the methodology for evaluating such damage and to analyze the sufficiency of statistical information. The authors have developed a methodology for ecological and economic assessment of the efficiency of environmental conservation activities in construction. The economic efficiency of environmental conservation costs characterizes only a part of the overall social effectiveness of environmental activities. This, however, does not underestimate the role of such indicators, the analysis of which is necessary to choose the most rational activity, which is impossible without quantitative methods and estimates. Therefore, research should be carried out in this field in order to develop practical recommendations for such evaluations.

scholarly journals "BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION" IN BRAZILIAN SOCIAL SCIENCES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW FROM 1992 TO 2010

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAILA THOMAZ SANDRONI ◽  
MARIA JOSÉ TEIXEIRA CARNEIRO
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This article carries out a "state of the art" review of the scientific production in the ambit of social sciences, by focusing on works where the subject of biodiversity conservation takes centre stage. Having as a starting point a detailed literature review, we have identified some key concerns raised by authors in Brazilian journals in the areas of sociology, anthropology and political sciences, whilst acknowledging particularities of this discursive unit in the broader debate of environmental conservation. Against this backdrop, we have identified some trends in the bibliography, as well as gaps that deserve a more in-depth analysis.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document