scholarly journals Embalses de retención y canales verdes: herramientas para el control de inundaciones y la planificación urbana. Caso de estudio: municipio de Turbaco, Bolívar

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Milton Guerrero Pájaro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Storm Drainage ◽  
New Challenges

Resumen: La rapidez en el crecimiento de nuestras ciudades y municipios, y el aumento vertiginoso en la demanda de suelo urbanizable, ha originado la impermeabilización del suelo urbanizado, lo que ha producido un aumento en los caudales de escorrentía. Por otro lado, el cambio climático impone nuevos desafíos en materia de gestión del drenaje pluvial para nuestras ciudades y municipios. El municipio de Turbaco vive una problemática en materia de drenaje pluvial, por causa del aumento en la demanda de suelo urbanizable y por la impermeabilización del suelo urbanizado. Los embalses de retención y las canales verdes surgen como una alternativa para la gestión de las aguas pluviales. Estos sistemas son de fácil adaptación al medio y son soluciones que van en favor del medio ambiente, al tiempo que constituyen parte del paisaje urbano. ___Palabras clave: Inundaciones, embalses, canales verdes, análisis hidrológico, planificación urbana. ___Abstract: The rapid growth of our cities and municipalities, and the rapid increase in the demand for urbanizable land, has led to the waterproofing of urbanized land, which has led to an increase in runoff flows. On the other hand, climate change imposes new challenges in the management of storm drainage for our cities and municipalities. The municipality of Turbaco lives a problem in the matter of rainwater drainage, due to the increase in the demand of urbanizable land and the waterproofing of the urbanized land. Retention reservoirs and green channels emerge as an alternative to stormwater management. These systems are easy to adapt to the environment and are solutions that are in favor of the environment, while being part of the urban landscape. ___Keywords: Floods, reservoirs, green channels, hydrological analysis, urban planning. ___Recibido: 13 abril 2016. Aceptado: 19 de mayo de 2016.

Strategies to overcome barriers and to effectively achieve sustainable urban stormwater management: A review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaí Floriano Vasconcelos ◽  
Ademir Paceli Barbassa
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Stormwater ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Common Barriers

Sustainable urban stormwater management (SUSM) is essential to urban sustainability. However, barriers to adopting it are observed even in places where SUSM is more widespread. Recent studies have evaluated strategies for overcoming some types of barriers. However, any study has systematically analyzed the strategies available for overcoming the most common barriers, contributing to widely adopting SUSM. Thus, this article aimed to provide a literature review on these strategies. Sixty-six documents were evaluated, resulting in eight solution strategies, detailed by 81 implementation measures, which were critically analyzed. The interrelationships among the solution strategies and their applicability to overcome the SUSM-related barriers were evaluated. This analysis showed that the solution strategies are interdependent, so it would be inefficient to adopt the strategies in isolation. On the other hand, adopting a strategy can help overcome several barriers, also enhancing other strategies, and consequently contributing to the global scenario of effective SUSM adoption. The availability of this systematized information helps break through common barriers and optimizing efforts to adopt SUSM where it is incipient.

International Law Obligations Arising in relation to Nationally Determined Contributions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Nationally Determined Contributions ◽  
The One

AbstractThis article analyzes the international law obligations that arise in relation to nationally determined contributions (NDCs). It argues that distinct and concurrent obligations arise from two separate sources. On the one hand, treaty obligations arise under the Paris Agreement, which imposes an obligation of conduct on parties: they must take adequate measures towards the realization of the mitigation targets contained in their NDCs. On the other hand, communications such as NDCs may constitute unilateral declarations that also create legal obligations. These unilateral declarations impose obligations of various types, which may extend beyond mitigation. For example, they may specify measures of implementation or demand the achievement of a particular result. The potential ‘double-bindingness’ of NDCs should be a central consideration in the interpretation of international law obligations regarding climate change.

The Effects of Industry 4.0 on Labor Force Attributes and New Challenges

2020 ◽  
pp. 431-454
Author(s):  
Mehmet Saim Aşçı
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The Other ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Challenges

Unmanned factories became a topic of discussion after the concept of Industry 4.0 was first introduced in the Hannover Fair in 2001, and increasing the computerization level in business life and supporting the production processes with advanced technology were determined as targets. In this regard, artificial intelligence and increased automation are expected to create new kinds of jobs in the coming years; however, a significant problem is predicted considering that these changes will invalidate a high number of job types exist today. Thus, the workforce will face a severe unemployment threat. As a result of all of this, radical changes in the work methods, along with means of seeking employment, are now considered. The qualities of the work and the workforce are being transformed along with the organization methods of the production. While on the other hand, it becomes evident that education also has to adapt to this transformation. In this study, the issues the labor might have to face during this period will be discussed, along with what could be done to solve these problems.

“Every Act of Preservation is an Act of Creation”: Paul Schrader’s Eco-theology in First Reformed

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Tatiana Prorokova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Current State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The One

This chapter scrutinizes the complex relationship between climate change and theology, as represented in First Reformed, as well as Paul Schrader’s understanding of humanity’s major problems today. Analyzing the issue of ecological decline through the prism of religion, Schrader outlines the ideology that presumably might help humanity survive at the age of global warming. Through the complex discussions of such issues as despair, anxiety, and hope, Schrader deduces the formula of survival in which preservation is the key component. Equating humans to God, Schrader, on the one hand, censures those actions that led to progress but destroyed the environment, yet, on the other hand, he foregrounds the fact that humans can also save the planet now. Schrader portrays both humans and Earth as living organisms created by God. He draws explicit parallels between the current state of our planet and the problems that we experience – from political ones, including war, to more personal ones like health issues.

On IoT and Its Integration With Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-64
Author(s):  
Iram Abrar ◽  
Sahil Nazir Pottoo ◽  
Faheem Syeed Masoodi ◽  
Alwi Bamhdi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Other Hand

Internet of things witnessed rapid growth in the last decade and is considered to be a promising field that plays an all-important role in every aspect of modern-day life. However, the growth of IoT is seriously hindered by factors like limited storage, communication capabilities, and computational power. On the other hand, cloud has the potential to support a large amount of data as it has massive storage capacity and can perform complex computations. Considering the tremendous potential of these two technologies and the manner in which they complement one another, they have been integrated to form what is commonly referred to as the cloud of things (CoT). This integration is beneficial as the resulting system is more robust, intelligent, powerful, and offers promising solutions to the users. However, the new paradigm (CoT) is faced with a significant number of challenges that need to be addressed. This chapter discusses in detail various challenges like reliability, latency, scalability, heterogeneity, power consumption, standardization, etc. faced by the cloud of things.

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bohman ◽  
Erik Glaas ◽  
Martin Karlson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
New Strategies

Climate change impacts, ageing infrastructure and the increasing imperviousness of cities all raise enormous challenges to and call for new ways of planning for sustainable urban stormwater management. Especially, closer collaboration among a diverse set of actors involved has been pointed to as critical to enable the development of holistic and flexible approaches. However, the shift towards inclusive forms of planning has been slow, and characterized by technical and institutional lock-ins. Against this background, this study scrutinizes the challenges and developments perceived as central for improving stormwater planning, and analyzes how formal and informal institutional change could contribute to enhancing sustainability in this sector. Building on an analysis of data from workshops, interviews and a survey with Swedish planners and water managers, we suggest new strategies for integrating stormwater concerns into planning processes, overcoming silo structures, fostering cocreation cultures, and securing the continuation and implementation of stormwater management through various planning stages.

Competing constraints in alternative dispute resolution

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Community Justice ◽  
Justice Program ◽  
The One

Despite rapid growth in the provision of alternative dispute resolution services by governments, little sociological attention has been paid to the emerging form these services take. In this paper I offer a preliminary analysis of mediations conducted by the Community Justice Program in Queensland. I focus on the interactional management of two competing constraints on the talk. On the one hand mediation services must provide an accountably standardised and recognisable process. This creates the need for formalisation of the mediation process. On the other hand, because of philosophical commitments to disputant control over the dispute and its outcome, Community Justice Program mediations must be conducted in such a way as to display this commitment to disputant control and authority in the proceedings. This creates a conflicting need for displays of informality. This paper focuses on some strategies which appear to be designed to achieve this mix of formality and informality in Community Justice Program mediations.

scholarly journals Mongolia in 2020

Asian Survey ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Morris Rossabi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Running Water ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Government

Mongolia in 2020 recorded no COVID-19 deaths, despite its proximity to China, the original hotbed of the outbreak. Yet GDP and exports decreased and unemployment, poverty, crime, and domestic abuse rose, in large part due to the disease. Facing desertification, climate change, overgrazing, and mining damage to pastureland, herders who could not eke out a living continued to migrate to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, and lived in tents, with no running water and poor sanitation. Elections for the Parliament were held, with the Mongolian People’s Party dominating, but corruption and accusations of money laundering prompted a lack of faith in the government. On the other hand, Mongolia maintained cordial relations with China and Russia, its neighbors, as well as with distant countries.

scholarly journals Climate Change in India: A Wakeup Call from Bollywood

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manvi Sharma ◽  
◽  
Ajay K. Chaubey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Climatic Condition ◽  
Drastic Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Masses ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Village

Amidst Bollywood’s romanticized landscapes and grandeur settings, depiction of the flora and fauna, roaring rivers and drought prone lands, is difficult to locate. But the new millennium has witnessed some new generation filmmakers, sensitized towards the ecological concerns, thus marking a shift from the illustration of idealised landscapes to the representation of nature’s wrath. Since, cinema in India, has a deep-rooted impact on the masses, these creators employ films as tools to sensitize the population towards the climate change threat which though as perilous as the COVID-19 crisis, is often ignored by a significant amount of population. Dawning upon themselves the responsibility of environmental awakening, Nila Madhab Panda and Abhishek Kapoor highlight in their movies, Kadvi Hawa(2017) and Kedarnath(2018), respectively, the horrors of human callousness, leading to drastic change in Climatic condition in India. Panda’s Kadavi Hawa, dealing with non-repayment of loans followed by suicides, portrays the heart-wrenching imagery of environmental degradation and Climate change that has rendered the Village of Mahua, arid and infertile. Kapoor’s Kedarnath on the other hand, appeals for action through horrifying imagery of the catastrophic floods that disrupted the holy town of Kedarnath, in 2013. Through a detailed analysis of the aforementioned visual portrayals, this article aims to emphasise as to how Films can play an important role in effectively addressing dealing with the issues related to Climate. Further, the rationale of this paper is to underscore the possibility of more such storylines, as a tool towards effective engagement and levitation of conscience.

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