scholarly journals Spatial and Functional Relations of Indigenous Farms Around La Cocha Lagoon in Southern Colombia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Ceballos
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Functional Relations ◽  
Indigenous Agriculture ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability

Regarding global environmental crisis, the effort of various institutions to reduce hunger have not yet been enough. The dominant model of extensive agro-industry reveals a serious problem of instability, due to the use of agrochemicals and the non-rotation of crops. In this context, the academic community is increasingly interested in alternative agricultural models such as indigenous agriculture. Indigenous communities from the Andes have inherited highly complex agroecological systems whose practices for stability could be replicated in other agricultural models around the world. This qualitative research focuses on the functional and / or spatial relations of the traditional indigenous farms of the Quillacinga ethnic group in southern Colombia and seeks to verify that their practices coincide with what is exposed in authority texts. These relations and their role in the stability of soil fertility are explained through diagrams. The information collected can be expanded and contrasted with other studies on other Andean ethnic groups. These studies would seek to make a contribution to reduce the instability of the extensive agro-industrial model and potentially contribute to reduce hunger in the world.

Development of Portable CO2 Monitoring System

2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 2547-2551
Author(s):  
Chilin Liu ◽  
Thammita A. S. Anuruddha ◽  
Atsushi Minato ◽  
Satoru Ozawa
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentration ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability

Recently, the concern for global environmental issues has risen all over the world. The increment in concentration of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases that causes global warming in earth’s atmosphere became a serious problem. The level of the sea rises by melting glaciers when global warming advances it. Forecasting the changes of carbon dioxide concentration is a major issue to maintain the stability of the Earth and its species. The measurement of carbon dioxide is also important for agriculture and local industrialization. The density of carbon dioxide varies depending on the environment. The development of a low cost device that detects carbon dioxide density is discusses in this paper. We developed some measurement systems of carbon dioxide for various purpose.

scholarly journals ABOUT THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE STATE OF THE TRANSPORT-ROAD COMPLEX OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 202-206
Author(s):  
Anna Berezina ◽  
Yuriy Katul'skiy
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Car Park ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Further Development

This article provides an overview of legislation in the field of regulation of emissions on the world stage, presents the data of the car Park of the Russian Federation. The analysis of the further development of the automotive industry.

scholarly journals Implementation of Indigenous environmental heritage rights: an experience with Laitu Khyeng Indigenous community, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Ranjan Datta
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Chittagong Hill Tracts ◽  
Environmental Management Practices ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
History Of

It is undeniable that the global environmental crisis disproportionally affects individuals and communities, particularly Indigenous communities are among those most deeply affected. The history of Chittagong Hill Tracts Bangladesh colonialism is a history of the dispossession of Indigenous peoples of the lands that they and their ancestors have inhabited and cared for and of the imposition on them of destructive “development” policies. This paper addresses the ongoing environmental heritage conflict between the Laitu Khyeng Indigenous community’s traditional environmental management practices and state development projects in Chittagong Hill Tract. Drawing from a relational research methodology, this study shows how the nation-state controls Indigenous land, water, and management practices through multinational agencies. This paper asks, “In CHT, why must Indigenous cultural heritage be connected to the past, present, and future to invoke state legal protection?” and “How can we move toward a more rights-based approach to heritage management?”

Climate Change and Social Conflicts

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-496
Author(s):  
Richard Sťahel
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Political System ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

This article outlines the role of globalized mass media in the perception of environmental and social threats and its reciprocal conditionality in the globalized society. It examines the reasons why the global environmental crisis will not lead to a world-wide environmental movement for change of the basic imperatives of the world economic-political system. Coherency between globalized mass media and wide-spreading of consumer lifestyle exists despite the fact that it deepens the devastation of environment and social conflicts. Globalized mass media owned by transnational corporations are not only a part of the current global economic-political system, but also the prerequisite of its creation and existence, as well as social contradictions and conflicts.

scholarly journals Basic Solutions to Waste Management Issues That Will Bring Clean Culture in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
Bharati Koot
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Solutions ◽  
Management Issues

The latest population of India is around 1.37 billion and India ranks number two by population in the world. With the increasing population, the obvious thing, the waste generated per day continues to increase. India generates around 65 million tonnes of waste every year and out of which most of the part is not collected, remains untreated at landfills or open areas. This is ruining the beauty of India. And this is already impacting largely on environment, climate, soil, water bodies, national health, and tourism. That also means the waste in India is heading to largely affect the national economy and the global environment. This paper attempts to go back to the basics of human nature and habits, needs and mechanisms for shifting them for the context of waste management and anti-littering to bring clean India forward and contribute to preventing the global environmental crisis.

scholarly journals Green Economy” or Green Utopia: The Salience of Reproductive Labor Post-Rio+20

2012 ◽  
pp. 141-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Green Economy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Major Class ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Means Of Production

Sociologists use the concept of class variously to explain and predict people's relation to the means of production, their earnings, living conditions, social standing, capacities, and political identification. With the rise of capitalist globalization, many sociologists focus on the transnational ruling class and new economic predicaments faced by industrial workers in the world-system (see, for example, Robinson and Harris 2000). Here I will argue that to understand and respond to the current global environmental crisis, another major class formation should be acknowledged - one defined by its materially regenerative activities under "relations of reproduction" (Salleh 2010).

Unveiling the Theoretical Mistakes in the World Bank Formation and its Implication on Survival of Africa Monetary Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Olatunji Abdul Shobande ◽  
Kingsley Chinonso Mark
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Developed Nations

Abstract The quest for urgent solution to resolve the world liquidity problem has continued to generate enthusiastic debates among political economists, policy makers and the academia. The argument has focused on whether the World Bank Group was established to enhance the stability of international financial system or meant to enrich the developed nations. This study argues that the existing political interest of the World Bank Group in Africa may serve as lesson learned to other ambitious African Monetary Union.

INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY FOR TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE VIEWS AND OPINONSOF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THEIR INTERACTION WITH PUBLIC AUTHORITIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS DISTRICT)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Elena F. GLADUN ◽  
Gennady F. DETTER ◽  
Olga V. ZAKHAROVA ◽  
Sergei M. ZUEV ◽  
Lyubov G. VOZELOVA
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Autonomous District ◽  
Integrated Methodology ◽  
The World ◽  
Nenets Autonomous

Developing democracy institutions and citizen participation in state affairs, the world community focuses on postcolonial studies, which allow us to identify new perspectives, set new priorities in various areas, in law and public administration among others. In Arctic countries, postcolonial discourse has an impact on the methodology of research related to indigenous issues, and this makes possible to understand specific picture of the world and ideas about what is happening in the world. Moreover, the traditions of Russian state and governance are specific and interaction between indigenous peoples and public authorities should be studied with a special research methodology which would reflect the peculiarities of domestic public law and aimed at solving legal issue and enrich public policy. The objective of the paper is to present a new integrated methodology that includes a system of philosophical, anthropological, socio-psychological methods, as well as methods of comparative analysis and scenario development methods to involve peripheral communities into decision-making process of planning the socio-economic development in one of Russia’s Arctic regions — the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and to justify and further legislatively consolidate the optimal forms of interaction between public authorities and indigenous communities of the North. In 2020, the Arctic Research Center conducted a sociological survey in the Shuryshkararea of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, which seems to limit existing approaches to identifying public opinion about prospects for developing villages and organizing life of their residents. Our proposed methodology for taking into account the views of indigenous peoples can help to overcome the identified limitations.

scholarly journals Coastal wetlands can be saved from sea level rise by recreating past tidal regimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Sadat-Noori ◽  
Caleb Rankin ◽  
Duncan Rayner ◽  
Valentin Heimhuber ◽  
Troy Gaston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Coastal Wetlands ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ground Vegetation ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Tidal Regime ◽  
Vegetation Sampling ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Intertidal Ecosystems

AbstractClimate change driven Sea Level Rise (SLR) is creating a major global environmental crisis in coastal ecosystems, however, limited practical solutions are provided to prevent or mitigate the impacts. Here, we propose a novel eco-engineering solution to protect highly valued vegetated intertidal ecosystems. The new ‘Tidal Replicate Method’ involves the creation of a synthetic tidal regime that mimics the desired hydroperiod for intertidal wetlands. This synthetic tidal regime can then be applied via automated tidal control systems, “SmartGates”, at suitable locations. As a proof of concept study, this method was applied at an intertidal wetland with the aim of restabilising saltmarsh vegetation at a location representative of SLR. Results from aerial drone surveys and on-ground vegetation sampling indicated that the Tidal Replicate Method effectively established saltmarsh onsite over a 3-year period of post-restoration, showing the method is able to protect endangered intertidal ecosystems from submersion. If applied globally, this method can protect high value coastal wetlands with similar environmental settings, including over 1,184,000 ha of Ramsar coastal wetlands. This equates to a saving of US$230 billion in ecosystem services per year. This solution can play an important role in the global effort to conserve coastal wetlands under accelerating SLR.

scholarly journals Episodic construction of the early Andean Cordillera unravelled by zircon petrochronology

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Joaquín Jara ◽  
Fernando Barra ◽  
Martin Reich ◽  
Mathieu Leisen ◽  
Rurik Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Lithosphere ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Continental Arcs ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Andean Cordillera ◽  
Continental Arc ◽  
The World ◽  
Oceanic Plates ◽  
Orogenic Belts ◽  
Continental Growth

AbstractThe subduction of oceanic plates beneath continental lithosphere is responsible for continental growth and recycling of oceanic crust, promoting the formation of Cordilleran arcs. However, the processes that control the evolution of these Cordilleran orogenic belts, particularly during their early stages of formation, have not been fully investigated. Here we use a multi-proxy geochemical approach, based on zircon petrochronology and whole-rock analyses, to assess the early evolution of the Andes, one of the most remarkable continental arcs in the world. Our results show that magmatism in the early Andean Cordillera occurred over a period of ~120 million years with six distinct plutonic episodes between 215 and 94 Ma. Each episode is the result of a complex interplay between mantle, crust, slab and sediment contributions that can be traced using zircon chemistry. Overall, the magmatism evolved in response to changes in the tectonic configuration, from transtensional/extensional conditions (215–145 Ma) to a transtensional regime (138–94 Ma). We conclude that an external (tectonic) forcing model with mantle-derived inputs is responsible for the episodic plutonism in this extensional continental arc. This study highlights the use of zircon petrochronology in assessing the multimillion-year crustal scale evolution of Cordilleran arcs.

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