scholarly journals How can education help in climate management- A contemporary review

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Stern Review ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Climate Management

This paper demonstrates that, by enhancing learning, imparting values, encouraging convictions and moving dispositions, training has impressive energy to help people reexamine ecologically unsafe ways of life and conduct. In this way, training ought to frame part of the arrangements proposed from the COP. The fruition of more elevated amounts of instruction does not naturally interpret into more mindful conduct towards the earth. Be that as it may, as the persuasive Stern Review on environmental change noted: 'Instructing those as of now at school about environmental change will shape and manage future approach making, and an expansive open and worldwide level headed discussion will bolster today's strategy producers in making solid move now'.

Values Underlying Preferences for Adaptive Governance in a Chilean Small-Scale Fishing Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Ebel ◽  
Christine M. Beitl ◽  
Michael P. Torre
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
A Value ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Value Frames

Environmental change requires individuals and institutions to facilitate adaptive governance. However, facilitating adaptive governance may be difficult because resource users’ perceptions of desirable ways of life vary. These perceptions influence preferences related to environmental governance and may stem from the ways individuals subjectively value their work and their connections to their environment. This paper uses a value-based approach to examine individual and institutional preferences for adaptive governance in Carelmapu, Chile. We show that two groups had different value frames rooted in divergent ontologies which influenced their actions related to adaptive governance, creating conflict.

scholarly journals A Clear Past and a Murky Future: Life in the Anthropocene on the Pampana River, Sierra Leone

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Marcantonio ◽  
Agustin Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Sierra Leonean ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Complex Adaptive

The impacts of human activities on ecosystems are significantly increasing the rate of environmental change in the earth system, reshaping the global landscape. The rapid rate of environmental change is disrupting the ability of millions of people around the globe to live their everyday lives and maintain their human niche. Evidence suggests that we have entered (or created) a new epoch, the Anthropocene, which is defined as the period in which humans and human activities are the primary drivers of planetary change. The Anthropocene denotes a global shift, but it is the collective of local processes. This is our frame for investigating local accounts of human-caused disruptive environmental change in the Pampana River in Tonkolili District, Northern Province, Sierra Leone. Since the end of the Sierra Leonean civil war in 2002, the country has experienced a rapid increase in extractive industries, namely mining. We explored the effects of this development by working with communities along the Pampana River in Tonkolili, with a specific focus given to engaging local fishermen through ethnographic interviews (N = 21 fishermen and 33 non-fishermen), focus group discussions (N = 21 fishermen), and participant observation. We deployed theoretical and methodological frameworks from human niche construction theory, complex adaptive systems, and ethnography to track disruptive environmental change in and on the Pampana from upstream activities and the concomitant shifts in the local human niche. We highlight the value of integrating ethnographic methods with human evolutionary theory, produce important insights about local human coping processes with disruptive environmental change, and help to further account for and understand the ongoing global process of human modification of the earth system in the Anthropocene.

Environmental Security and Climate Change

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Dalby
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Growth Failure ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The Earth

Environmental security focuses on the ecological conditions necessary for sustainable development. It encompasses discussions of the relationships between environmental change and conflict as well as the larger global policy issues linking resources and international relations to the necessity for doing both development and security differently. Climate change has become an increasingly important part of the discussion as its consequences have become increasingly clear. What is not at all clear is in what circumstances climate change may turn out to be threat multiplier leading to conflict. Earth system science findings and the recognition of the scale of human transformations of nature in what is understood in the 21st century to be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, now require environmental security to be thought of in terms of preventing the worst dangers of fragile states being unable to cope with the stresses caused by rapid environmental change or perhaps the economic disruptions caused by necessary transitions to a post fossil fueled economic system. But so far, at least, this focus on avoiding the worst consequences of future climate change has not displaced traditional policies of energy security that primarily ensure supplies of fossil fuels to power economic growth. Failure to make this transition will lead to further rapid disruptions of climate and add impetus to proposals to artificially intervene in the earth system using geoengineering techniques, which might in turn generate further conflicts from states with different interests in how the earth system is shaped in future. While the Paris Agreement on Climate Change recognized the urgency of tackling climate change, the topic has not become security policy priority for most states, nor yet for the United Nations, despite numerous policy efforts to securitize climate change and instigate emergency responses to deal with the issue. More optimistic interpretations of the future suggest possibilities of using environmental actions to facilitate peace building and a more constructive approach to shaping earth’s future.

Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Dry Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Reptile Species ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Ways Of Life

Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction introduces the extraordinary diversity of reptiles that have walked the Earth, from the dinosaurs and other reptiles of the past to modern-day living species. It discusses the adaptations reptiles made to first leave the water and colonize dry land, which fitted them for their unique ways of life. Considering the variety of different living groups of reptiles today, from lizards and snakes to crocodiles and turtles, it explores their biology and behaviour. Finally, this VSI assesses the threat of extinction to modern-day reptile species due to over-exploitation, habitat destruction, and climate change, and considers what can be done.

How to Tell the Left From the Right

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-412
Author(s):  
John McMurtry
Keyword(s):  
Holy Grail ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Thomas Malory ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Vocabulary ◽  
Ways Of Life

“If thou go on the left hand, thou shalt in this way be soon essayed.”Words on the Cross to Sir Galahad, The Holy Grail, by Thomas Malory, Chapter XIIWords on the Cross to Sir Galahad,The Holy Grail, by Thomas Malory, Chapter XIIThough left and right are fundamental terms of our social and political vocabulary, perhaps indeed the ultimate dividing concepts of ways of life on the earth today, their meaning seems to be as obscure as their application is ubiquitous.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Diri Manusia Menjadi Sosok Berilmu Sebagai Pelita Moderasi Beragama di Era Media Baru 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-187
Author(s):  
Endro Tri Susdarwono
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Race ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Ways Of Life

The understanding of religious moderation must be understood contextually not textually, meaning that moderation in religion in Indonesia is not moderate Indonesia, but a moderate way of understanding in religion because Indonesia has many cultures and customs. This study aims to describe how human self-development becomes a knowledgeable figure as a torch or lamp of religious moderation in the era of new media 4.0. The approach in this study uses a descriptive approach. Without the goal of realizing maslahat, religious moderation will never exist. All religions, laws, and ways of life that exist, were actually born for the sake of realizing maslahat. It is because of this maslahat and this is the only reason, Allah sent down the holy books, sent messengers, and established the laws of the Shari'a. Also, due to this maslahat, the minds of all philosophers, experts and thinkers drain all the legacy of the vast human race. Islam strongly criticizes the attitude of neglecting efforts and the desire to seek benefit on the pretext of tawakal to Allah. In order to find the intended benefits, humans are highly demanded in mastering science and technology as the main prerequisites. Human history is full of various events and events which confirm that humans are always looking for common benefit. A knowledgeable human will be able to understand religious moderation very well. Knowledge that is beneficial to mankind is knowledge that can lead humans to a better life, closer to Allah and not cause damage to the earth.

scholarly journals Anthropocene Dynamics in the Prehistoric Pacific

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-146
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Leppard
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Physical Change ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
Land Surfaces ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Degree Of Heterogeneity

How will human societies evolve in the face of the massive changes humans themselves are driving in the earth systems? Currently, few data exist with which to address this question. I argue that archaeological datasets from islands provide useful models for understanding long-term socioecological responses to large-scale environmental change, by virtue of their longitudinal dimension and their relative insulation from broader biophysical systems. Reviewing how colonizing humans initiated biological and physical change in the insular Pacific, I show that varied adaptations to this dynamism caused diversification in social and subsistence systems. This diversification shows considerable path dependency related to the degree of heterogeneity/homogeneity in the distribution of food resources. This suggests that the extent to which the Anthropocene modifies agroeconomic land surfaces toward or away from patchiness will have profound sociopolitical implications.

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