scholarly journals A Crystal Ball for Forests?: Analyzing the Social-Ecological Impacts of Forest Conservation and Management over the Long Term

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Miller ◽  
Pushpendra Rana ◽  
Catherine Benson Wahlén
Keyword(s):  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Crystal Ball ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservation And Management

scholarly journals A Novel ICT Framework for Sustainable Development Goals

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivera Kostoska ◽  
Ljupco Kocarev
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Goals

Sustainable development is critical to ensure the future of humanity. Therefore, the assessment and governance of sustainability becomes a central challenge our society is facing. This paper provides a novel ICT framework for addressing sustainable development goals. It is characterized by both local and global considerations, in the context of economic, ecological, and social aspects of sustainable development. The framework consists of three modules: data module, sustainability module, and governance module. Data module integrates data from several sources, processes data, infers knowledge, and transforms data into understandable information and knowledge. The second module implements SDGs at the level of municipality/city, ensures ranking of locally transformed SDGs to arrange them in line with the values and needs of the local communities, and proposes an integrated approach in modeling the social-ecological systems. By implementing governance theories, the governance module permits an effective citizen engagement in governance of SDGs. The ICT framework addresses short-term and long-term SDGs and allows for the vertical and horizontal linkages among diverse stakeholders, as well as for their contributions to the nested rule structures employed at operational, collective, and constitutional levels. Thus, the framework we provide here ensures a paradigm shift in approaching SDGs for the advancement of our society.

Methodological approaches to optimization of agroecosystems

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Laura Z. Khalishkhova ◽  
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Inga R. Guchapsheva ◽  
Anzhela Kh. Temrokova ◽  
Viktoriya V. Kalitskaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Analysis ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Specific Weight ◽  
Ecological Capacity ◽  
Energy Assessment ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Closed Structure ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Within the framework of the article, the methodology of the energy assessment of the functioning of the social ecological-economic system is considered, using the example of a specific agroecosystem as a self-organizing, operationally closed structure; its energy analysis is carried out. A model for the development of the studied agroecosystem was formed, suggesting three options, taking into account the characteristics of land use. The index of sustainability of the agro-ecosystem was calculated; guidelines for the transformation of the structure of the agroecosystem are proposed.; The parameters of the ecological capacity of the soil of the agroecosystem were investigated; revealed the specific weight of ecologically stabilizing lands in the group of lands “arable land-forest-meadows and pastures-water”. The prospects for the development of the agroecosystem on the basis of the formation of a comprehensive technical and technological long-term plan for the functioning and development of the agroecosystem are assessed.

scholarly journals Sustainable Architecture for Future High Density Cities: An Applied Design Approach

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chitraj Bissoonauth ◽  
Christiane M. Herr ◽  
Thomas Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
High Density ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Applied Design

This paper presents a series of speculative, research-driven architectural design proposals addressing sustainability in the high-density urban contexts of Shanghai and Hong Kong. The projects each address specific urban problems arising from the site contexts while also developing and utilising innovative ideas generated from architectural and technological considerations. Design results include speculative mid-rise buildings that employ innovative sustainable design approaches ranging from the social to the material dimension. While findings confirm the general notion that an integrated architectural approach must address social, ecological and economic issues to ensure sustainability and viability, this paper further informs researchers as well as practitioners in the creative disciplines with regards to the short- and long-term priorities we have established amongst these issues through the discussed investigation.

Close to a Tipping Point? The Amazon and the Challenge of Sustainable Development under Growing Climate Pressures

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-494
Author(s):  
Joana C. Pereira ◽  
Eduardo Viola
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Diplomacy ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change

AbstractThis commentary examines the challenge of sustainable development in the Amazon, arguing that global efforts to mitigate climate change and current Amazonian policies are clearly inadequate to prevent global warming and deforestation from tipping the forest into a savanna. It analyses the growing climate pressures jeopardising the Amazon's resilience; the erratic Brazilian, Bolivian, Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian governance of the forest; and the failure of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) to establish long-term forest conservation policies in the region. The research demonstrates that the ‘savannisation hypothesis’ is potentially closer to reality than most debates in the social sciences assume and should be considered seriously. The commentary concludes by suggesting possible pathways for preventing the dieback of the Amazon. These are based on three strategic axes: the strengthening of the ACTO, the promotion of a technological revolution in the forest, and a progressive environmental diplomacy by the Amazonian countries.

Including animals in sociology

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110654
Author(s):  
Yasmin Koop-Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
Interspecies Relations

How do we include animals in sociology? Although sociology’s initial avoidance of the nonhuman world may have been necessary to the field’s development, recent scholarship – within mainstream sociology, environmental sociology and animal-centred research – is helping expand the field’s horizons. With a focus on variety, this article reviews four key paths that researchers are taking to include animals in their research: (1) studying interspecies relations, (2) theorizing animals as an oppressed group, (3) investigating the social and ecological impacts of animal agriculture and (4) analysing social-ecological networks. This review shows how applying – and innovating – existing social theories and research methods allows researchers to include animals in their analyses and will be relevant to a variety of scholars, including mainstream and environmental sociologists, animal-focused researchers and social network analysts, to name a few.

School bullying: its nature and ecology

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy L. Espelage ◽  
Lisa De La Rue
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Short And Long Term

Abstract Background: Recent youth suicides only highlight a persistent problem in schools – bullying and sustained peer victimization. Being a target or victim of bullying has long been recognized has having short- and long-term psychological effects on children and adolescents across the world today. School bullying is one of the most significant public health concerns facing children and adolescents. Objective: Involvement in the social phenomena of school bullying is often explained as emerging from a wide range of risk and protective factors within the social-ecology of youth. The social-ecological model posits that bullying behaviors are shaped by various interrelated contexts including individual characteristics, family, peers and the school environment. Methods: Research is reviewed to highlight the correlates of bullying involvement across these context using social-ecological and social-learning frameworks. Meta-analytic studies are reviewed on the short- and long-term impact of bullying involvement and efficacy of bullying prevention programs. Specific recommendations for prevention planning and future research efforts are provided. Conclusions: Bullying is a multi-faceted issue, which is best understood in the larger social context in which it occurs. Individual characteristics of students contribute to bullying involve­ment when students have families that promote violence, teachers that ignore or dismiss bullying, schools that have negative climates and students who socialize with friends who bully. These social contexts need to be targeted in bully prevention programs to reduce bullying and peer victimization in schools.

Approaches to Freshwater Ecology and Conservation

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-47
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Tharme ◽  
David Tickner ◽  
Jocelyne M.R. Hughes ◽  
John Conallin ◽  
Lauren Zielinski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Freshwater Ecology ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Freshwater Conservation ◽  
Applied Ecology ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Considerations ◽  
Conservation And Management

Since the emergence of freshwater ecology and conservation as a discipline in the twentieth century, the advances in science, policy, and practice have been considerable, particularly in the areas of applied ecology and the social sciences. Freshwater systems continue to face considerable challenges to their sustainability in the Anthropocene. Most of these challenges, however, are driven by their broader and dynamically changing social-ecological context. Approaches are needed that recognise that people are at the centre of successful freshwater conservation and management, and which are strategically targeted, policy relevant, innovative, and inclusive of social, political, and economic considerations. As this chapter describes, a rich and continually evolving suite of approaches to freshwater conservation already exists worldwide on which to draw, as does the knowledge and experience to support their effective application.

scholarly journals Financing for Development and Socio-Ecological Transitions: A Review of Chinese Investments in Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Antony Kamakia ◽  
Shi Guoqing ◽  
Mohammad Zaman ◽  
Zhou Junbi
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Guidelines And Standards ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Kenya has adopted a comprehensive development path to accelerate and create suitable conditions for sustainable development as outlined in the “Vision 2030.” A key strategy is the catalytic role of bilateral loans and finances which have increased in manifolds over the years. However, a growing and critical discourse has emerged about the social-ecological sustainability in the Chinese-financed development projects, within the context of China-Africa engagement policy. China is playing significant role in the economic growth of developing countries and in particular, critical investments in productive sectors. This paper examines the development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) framework and explores the social-ecological impacts and outcomes of some selected Chinese-financed projects in Kenya. The paper also examines the various social-ecological guidelines and standards issued by Chinese authorities over-time, for their overseas investments and operations. It concludes that contemporary Chinese-financed development and investments in Kenya are resulting in increasing, improving and sustainable social-ecological outcomes.

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