Processi di trasformazione territoriale e nuove forme di partecipazione

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Spallino
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
System Efficiency ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
General Perspective

- In 2007 the Region of Lombardy adopted the principles set by the Ĺrhus convention on involving civil society in environmental issues and increasing awareness of them, advocating the use of new technologies to that end in a general perspective of system efficiency. Nevertheless the change from the administration of procedures to the administration of results, within which the decision of the Region of Lombardy was set, does not seem to have been fully perceived by local administrations. Apart from a few exceptions, the ‘Strategic Environmental Assessments' set in motion by the latter show a generally ineffective use of the technologies adopted to implement regional provisions on participation.

INDUSTRY-DRIVEN AND CIVIL SOCIETY-DRIVEN STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN THE IRON MINING AND SMELTING COMPLEX OF CORUMBÁ, BRAZIL

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450010 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA CECI MOTA ◽  
EMILIO LÈBRE LA ROVERE ◽  
ALBERTO FONSECA
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Iron Mining ◽  
Society Committee ◽  
Mining And Smelting ◽  
Smelting Complex

Historical records of socio-environmental impacts related to large-scale iron ore development in Brazil are driving different planning approaches in the burgeoning iron mining and smelting complex of Corumbá, located at the border of the Pantanal ecosystem in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Among the most relevant efforts are two strategic environmental assessments (SEA): one was led by a mining company and the other by a civil society committee. This paper assesses to what extent these SEAs can contribute to the mitigation of negative socio-environmental impacts of the Corumbá Complex. It also evaluates if the SEA methodologies meet a number of SEA Performance Criteria. The analyses, which were based on literature reviews and content analysis of the SEA documents, reveal that the two SEAs represent an important effort to incorporate environmental variables into more strategic levels of the Pantanal region's planning. Nonetheless, both SEAs have serious limitations, given that they are not formally nested in governmental policies, plans and programmes.

The Rise of Digital Repression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Feldstein
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The World ◽  
Dna Collection ◽  
Opposition Movements ◽  
Mass Surveillance

This book documents the rise of digital repression—how governments are deploying new technologies to counter dissent, maintain political control, and ensure regime survival. The emergence of varied digital technologies is bringing new dimensions to political repression. At its core, the expanding use of digital repression reflects a fairly simple motivation: states are seeking and finding new ways to control, manipulate, surveil, or disrupt real or perceived threats. This book investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of digital repression. It presents case studies in Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, highlighting how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, leadership, state capacity, and technological development. But a basic political motive—how to preserve and sustain political incumbency—remains a principal explanation for their use. The international community is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of repression look like, such as in China, where authorities have brought together mass surveillance, online censorship, DNA collection, and artificial intelligence to enforce their rule in Xinjiang. Many of these trends are going global. This has major implications for democratic governments and civil society activists around the world. The book also presents innovative ideas and strategies for civil society and opposition movements to respond to the digital autocratic wave.

Prioritization of Farming Process by Considering Sustainability as Major Issue

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchismita Satapathy ◽  
Debesh Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Modern Farming

Agriculture assumes an imperative role in the development of Indian economy, and it additionally contributes around 15% to the nation's GDP, offering work chances to around half of its population. Diverse devices and supplies implied for farming machines are utilized in farming processes which are either manually or mechanically operated. In spite of the fact that there have been advancements in new technologies, sustainability is the most important issue in farming. Modern farming process and advanced machineries have solved OHS (occupational health and safety) problems of farming. But modern equipment's smoke, dust, chemicals, and fertilizers both in manual-driven farming and modern farming are major environmental issues. So in this chapter, sustainability issues in farming are prioritized such that the policies, equipment, and process must be modified.

Stronger Voices?

2010 ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Claire Buré
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Civil Society Organization ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gain Access

This case study focuses on a civil society organization called Radio Viva in Asunción, Paraguay. It was found that the interactive use of ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ technologies in locally innovative ways was able to meet community needs through the creation of two local products. Specifically, when radio and telephony were integrated with telecentre services (including internet access), new physical and virtual communication spaces were opened up for civic participation. Second, ICT interactivity was found to lead to the creation of locally relevant content production, helping Paraguayan communities to gain access to useful and contextualized information while also turning local ‘information recipients’ into ‘knowledge users’.

Transforming Democracy through ICT

2008 ◽  
pp. 2441-2449
Author(s):  
Andy Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Do So

This article explores the potential of ICT to be used to transform the processes of citizen engagement such that a citizen-centred approach to e-democracy becomes both viable and desirable. It will do so by exploring three tensions relating to democracy and civil society: first that participation in traditional democracy is falling, yet new technologies are mobilising citizens on a global and local scale (such as antiglobalisation protests and electoral protests in the Philippines and Spain); second, ICT increases the technocracy of government but also offers citizens a chance to become closer to it; and third, that macro strategies for ICT access are not enough to remove localised exclusion.

scholarly journals New Challenges for the Canadian Thoracic Society

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-218
Author(s):  
Louis-Philippe Boulet
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Respiratory Health ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Support Research

I have been thinking for a while about what I would write in this editorial when I became president of the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS). I found that it was really an opportunity, although a demanding task to take this position in the year 2000 in a rapidly changing world that is not short of new but exciting challenges. The marked progress in communications, the increased public awareness of respiratory health and environmental issues, the development of new technologies, changes in traditional ways to support research and the increasing demand on practitioners to acquire new knowledge and abilities makes it an unprecedented environment that asks us to rethink the way we used to do research and practice medicine.

‘This is Our Way In’: The Civil Society of Environmental NGOs in South-West China

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
West China ◽  
The Public ◽  
Environmental Ngos ◽  
South West ◽  
Transitioning Countries

AbstractA growing number of Chinese environmental groups constitute not only an effective force in tackling environmental issues, but also a genuine civil society that is transforming state-society relations in China. This paper will consider how the environmental movement now taking shape among south-western China's environmental NGOs creates new civic freedoms and deals with existing constraints under the current Chinese political system. While this empowerment of local citizens will have a broadly positive influence on the protection of China's environment, precedent from other transitioning countries shows that environmental movements can be inextricably linked to important new freedoms for the public as well as jarring political change.

Ökologische Ethik

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Mierzwa
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
Climate Crisis

The coronavirus crisis has underlined that in dealing with the world’s environmental issues, in particular with the climate crisis, politicians have a greater sphere of influence than they previously revealed to society. This book therefore readdresses ethical motifs such as respect for life, sustainability and responsibility against this backdrop. Moreover, it comprehensively examines the trend towards ecological living in civil society and presents an outline of its overall nature and design. In order to preserve this movement’s energy and creativity, it requires a spiritual direction. In this book, Roland Mierzwa presents a concept with which this can be achieved.

scholarly journals Mobile Android APP Proposal Using an Inventor Platform Applied to Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 497-505
Author(s):  
Anderson De Jesus Lopes Castro ◽  
Fabiana Rocha Pinto ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Ricardo Silva Parente
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Expenditure ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Residential Unit ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Android App ◽  
Ease Of Access

This paper reports on the implementation of the efficient Manaus project, with the objective of developing a mobile application that expires on energy saving, related to environmental issues, since energy production, advanced natural resources. This application is designed to be used in a residential unit to provide residents with information on formula applications that explain the generation and energy expenditure of household electrical appliances, use or usage tests, and usage of the device. lowering values ​​and minimizing the use of environmental resources. Thus, through a process of raising awareness of the knowledge gained from research in recent years, as well as providing quality content and ease of access, use the Google platform "APP INVENTOR" as a framework for testing results. Therefore, compile information on the best use of energy from a variety of information, including the elaboration of a Quiz, which addresses questions such as: where does electricity come from; tariff flags; efficient equipment; and electricity security, implemented in the application where they were supported by tools such as cartridges, and information from the agencies that reference each of these themes. This mode generates positive expectations for the future, which can create numerous other applications with information that helps to understand products, processes, changes in the sustainability context, to minimize impacts by new technologies.

scholarly journals The adoption of environmental strategies in large Colombian businesses

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Fúquene Retamoso
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Industrial Symbiosis ◽  
Environmental Compliance ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmental Strategies ◽  
Global Environmental Issues

This research explains the adoption of environmental strategies of large companies in Colombia. Large companies play an important role in global environmental issues, aimed at controlling climate change and resource scarcity.They are increasingly expected to address these environmental issues. However, companies adopt different strategies; some companies focus primarily on environmental compliance, while others implement new technologies and adopt proactive strategies such as eco-design, cleaner production and industrial symbiosis for waste recycling and shared resources in green systems design.

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