The Green Room: Underlying Causes of Environmental Problems

2013 ◽  
Vol 080 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Beckrich
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
M. Londres ◽  
A.M. Larson ◽  
J.P. Sarmiento Barletti

This paper examines the Green Municipalities Program (Programa Municípios Verdes – PMV) – a major multi-stakeholder forum designed to combat deforestation – in Pará state in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. We qualitatively analyzed in-depth interviews with 39 people with different perspectives: respondents with deep knowledge of the context but no direct involvement in the program, organizers of the program, diverse program participants, and diverse non-participants. We interrogated the PMV's strategy to address deforestation by collaborating directly with the powerful sectors that are driving it, while excluding indigenous and grassroots organizations from the process. The results reinforce the critique of 'anti-politics' approaches that prioritize technical solutions that focus on the consequences of environmental problems (such as deforestation) without addressing their underlying causes. The research highlights the risks of multi-stakeholder processes in highly unequal contexts that do not question the power of elites, and questions the legitimacy of initiatives that gain wide acclaim but are perceived locally as unjust.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Oliver ◽  
Kimberly Mccoy ◽  
William Barber ◽  
Scott Cohn

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeong Min Lee ◽  
Hyo Sung Kwak ◽  
Young Min Han ◽  
Yang Keun Lee ◽  
Hyeun Young Han ◽  
...  

In construction production, the safety of constructing buildings and structures is achieved by ensuring the required quality as a result of systematic construction control based on the implementation of a complex of technical, economic and organizational measures at all stages of the object's life cycle. The article deals with the actual problem of improving the quality of construction products-buildings and structures in conjunction with the activities of construction control bodies. The article presents the advanced foreign and domestic experience of ensuring the quality control at the construction sites, providing for the prevention of the underlying causes of defects and increasing the interest of the contractors directly. On the basis of the analysis of the current situation with quality control at the construction market, ways to improve its efficiency by developing a unified system of technological implementation of relevant requirements for the quality of construction products, determining the rational number and business load of construction control engineers, as well as the active activities of self-regulatory organizations in this area are offered.


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