Environmental Degradation, a Threat to Environmental Security, Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa: A Case Study of Darfur

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musede Denis Jude
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Security

scholarly journals Self-Directed Education in Two Transformative Pro-Environmental Initiatives within the Eco-Schools Programme: A South African Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Initiatives ◽  
School Initiatives ◽  
Resource Poor ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Widespread Interest

The international Eco-Schools programme promotes Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through introducing and stimulating pro-environmental initiatives by school learners and staff. This enabled learners in the Eco-Clubs at a resource-poor primary school to identify and undertake transformative pro-environmental initiatives in 2011 and 2014 through Self-Directed Education (SDE). An educative approach encouraging critical thinking at the school provided the foundation that made this possible. In discussing and working through their strategies to undertake research and challenge authorities about noncompliance in regard to municipal responsibilities that led to environmental degradation, Eco-Club members liaised freely with teachers and other learners. This process, together with local support for the eco-school initiatives, stimulated widespread interest and generated hope among learners by showing that another way of being is possible.

scholarly journals Environment and security: The concept of ecological and environmental security

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Dejana Jovanovic-Popovic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
The Creation

The terms environmental and ecological security are often used interchangeably by both scientists and politicians, especially in Serbia. Whereas environmental security refers fundamentally to the threat of environmental degradation to political stability, ecological security refers to the creation of a condition where physical surroundings of a community provides for all its needs without diminishing natural resources. Accordingly, ecological security is embedded in the concept of sustainable development. Various trends in the development of security concept and environmental changes are presented in this paper. Finally, scientific explanations of the terms environmental and ecological security are given.

scholarly journals Eco-Innovation in Municipalities as an Element of Smaller Agglomerations Sustainable Development - Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Anna Zelga-Szmidla ◽  
Katarzyna Kapustka
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
State Of The Environment ◽  
Macroeconomic Management

Abstract Management in accordance with the principle of sustainable development is one of the basic aspects of environmental protection, and is nevertheless important in macroeconomic management (eco-innovations in national regulations) as well as in micro-regulations (municipal regulations). The municipalities authorities are obliged to preventing the negative effects of environmental degradation, preventing pollution, providing information on the state of the environment, cover the environmental policy, in order to ensure the land advancement in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. The implemented projects should mainly improve the living conditions of the inhabitants. That is why eco-innovative activities introduced in individual, small territorial areas (municipalities) are becoming more and more important. The paper is based on a case study as a recognized method of analyzing and discussing authentic situations used in management sciences.

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

LAND PLANNING AS A SUPPORT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF SLOVAK RURAL REGION

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Klauco ◽  
Bohuslava Gregorova ◽  
Peter Koleda ◽  
Ugljesa Stankov ◽  
Vladimir Markovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Planning ◽  
Rural Region
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