scholarly journals Promoting interdisciplinary approaches to solving the complexity of environmental problems in Indonesia problems in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Monk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

As an ecologist, I believe we are now seeing the maturing of what we could call the Age of Ecology. An Age in which we finally develop that coherent and essential mainstream narrative for our future; one in which we tackle the interdependencies of nature loss, the climate emergency, and unsustainable production and consumption.The challenge has always been to recognise that the world is our bank account, and we live sustainably only by using its interest, not digging into our capital. If we do withdraw more capital, we must then find ways of investing more, to increase our capital. You can hear this language finally gaining much more traction today as politicians, managers and the public use the phrases natural and social capital, as well as the financial and manufactured capital, and recognise our dependencies on the natural environment.As such, I fully support the holistic, interdisciplinary sentiments and recommendations of Purwanto et al. (2020) in their introduction to the first issue of the Indonesian Journal of Applied Environmental Studies (InJAST).  I have promoted interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex environmental problems throughout my career and worked with other academics and practitioners to support the realisation of the societal and economic impact of their research. We have increasingly recognised research impact institutionally and financially, but one main weakness persists and that is the availability of academic journals for publishing such interdisciplinary work. This journal can offer such a space for researchers and encourage the recognition and promotion of evidence to policy and practice communications.  Most of all, this journal can foster the culture and confidence to ask the right questions to support the development of evidence-based decision making in policy and operational activities.  I have spent a lot of time working with researchers who are doing excellent research but not asking the best questions to help improve management and utilisation of natural resources.  Providing a forum in which students and early career researchers can confidently explore the rough answers to the right questions rather than the precise answers to the wrong questions, to paraphrase John Tukey (1915–2000), would be a wonderful role for InJAST.I am delighted to be asked to share my environmental experiences and perspectives in this guest editorial for the second issue of InJAST, reflecting for me a long association with Indonesia and Indonesian environmental managers, conservationists and foresters. I have worked around the world, especially in the tropics, firstly as part of scientific expeditions and then leading increasingly complex research and development programmes and institutions. Since returning to the UK, I have been involved in enhancing the quality and impact of scientific and interdisciplinary research and supporting the application and institutionalisation of the ecosystem approach and ecosystem services assessments. Here, I will focus on three major tropical environmental management programmes, two in Indonesia and one in Guyana, South America.These were complemented by subsequent involvement in the UK Government’s environmental management system. All reflect the evolution of environmental management and the emergence of the ecosystem approach, now being institutionalised slowly but surely around the world.

scholarly journals OC 8259 THE VALIDATE NETWORK: EXPLOITING SYNERGIES BETWEEN COMPLEX INTRACELLULAR NEGLECTED PATHOGENS TO EXPEDITE VACCINE R&D FOR TUBERCULOSIS, LEISHMANIASIS, LEPROSY AND MELIOIDOSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (Suppl 3) ◽  
pp. A3.1-A3
Author(s):  
Samantha Vermaak ◽  
Helen Fletcher ◽  
Helen McShane
Keyword(s):  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Early Career ◽  
London School ◽  
Time Sharing ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Data Analyst ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
The Uk

BackgroundThe VALIDATE ‘VAccine deveLopment for complex Intracellular neglecteD pAThogEns’ Network is a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network, funded by the UK MRC and BBSRC and led by the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It aims to accelerate vaccine development for four intracellular pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Leishmania spp, Mycobacterium leprae and Burkholderia pseudomallei, by creating a network of scientists from around the world in an interactive community, sharing information, learning from synergies and differences, and forming new collaborations promoting cross-disciplinary, cross-pathogen, and cross-continent research.MembershipCurrently VALIDATE has 125 members from 66 institutes in 28 countries, including world leading scientists, post-doctoral researchers, postgraduate students, and interested lay members from academia, governmental agencies, industry, and non-profits.ActivitiesVALIDATE has four activity streams: 1) providing funding to its members, including pump-priming grants for excellent research, training grants for early career researchers, and fellowships to transition post-doctoral researchers to independence, 2) a members’ data-sharing portal, to encourage real-time sharing of data, catalysing the application of insights from one field into another, with an in-house Research Data Analyst working on cross-pathogen applications, 3) providing CPD opportunities for our members, including workshops, seminars and a mentoring scheme, and 4) speeding the „dissemination of useful and relevant information via a hub website (www.validate-network.org) and social media (@NetworkValidate) where our members can easily find information about new research, relevant funding calls, events, and training, mentoring and other opportunities. Interested parties can read about our funded work, while a searchable directory of members on our website and a free annual meeting facilitates the formation of new collaborations.VALIDATE is free to join and has an inclusive membership. This network would be of interest to researchers at the EDCTP Forum working on vaccine development for tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, leprosy and melioidosis.

Compulsory Voting: A Defence

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1307-1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan M Umbers
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Compulsory Voting ◽  
The World ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Established Democracies

AbstractTurnout is in decline in established democracies around the world. Where, in the mid-1800s, 70–80 percent of eligible voters regularly participated in US Presidential elections, turnout has averaged just 53.7 percent since 1972. Average turnout in general elections in the UK has fallen from 76.6 percent during the period 1945–92, to 64.7 percent since 1997. Average turnout in Canadian federal elections has fallen from 74.5 percent during the period 1940–79, to 62.5 percent since 2000. For most democrats, these numbers are a cause for alarm. Compulsory voting is amongst the most effective means of raising turnout. However, compulsory voting is also controversial. Most of us think that coercion may only be employed against the citizenry if it is backed by a justification of the right kind. Opponents of compulsory voting charge that no such justification is available. This article resists this line of argument in two ways. First, I offer an argument from free-riding which, though gestured towards by others, and widely criticized, has yet to be defended in any depth. Second, I consider a range of objections to compulsory voting as such, arguing that none succeeds.

Problems and Stakeholder Responsibilities in Island Tourism: The Case of Tioman Island in Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Ann Ho ◽  
Kei Wei Chia ◽  
Siew Imm Ng ◽  
Sridar Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Residents

Tioman Island in Malaysia was once voted one of the most beautiful islands in the world. However, this ranking has gradually slipped, due to development and poor environmental management of the island. The authors employ the stakeholder theory in examining the perceptions of four stakeholder groups (tourists, local residents, government agencies, and business operators) on the environmental problems faced on the island and to identify the parties jointly responsible for solving these problems. A total of 15 problems were identified from 46 exploratory interviews conducted prior to the questionnaire survey. A questionnaire was constructed based on the interview data, and 320 questionnaires were collected from the four stakeholder groups. The results provide support that different stakeholder groups identify different problems and they perceived responsibility for solving these problems. The findings also indicated that problems related to limited road access, neglect of local community, limited phone and internet access, and dirty beaches needed immediate attention.

scholarly journals Economic effectiveness of urban railway infrastructure investments in the light of globalization and regional development. Study on example of Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 79-93
Author(s):  
Stanisław Miecznikowski ◽  
Tomasz Radzikowski
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Blue Book ◽  
Railway Construction ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

The myth of a borderless world pillars of open markets – the USA and the UK – are wobbling, and China is positioning itself as globalization staunchest defender. But is a mass retreat from globalization really the right approach for companies in these uncertain times? Or short of packing up and returning home, should they focus on localization – that is producing or even innovating where they sell-as the strategy of choice? Recall that as recently as a decade ago, business leaders and politicians believed that the world and that global companies, unconstrained by countries borders, would soon dominate the world economy. Today’s turmoil calls for a more subtle reworking of multinationals’ strategies organizational structures, and approaches to societal engagement. Poland has already been a beneficent of EU funds. Actually Polish internal indebtedness is increasing and Poland will not be able to use EU funds in the future.   The authors would like to present the Polish issue of planning investments financed by EU funds, e.g. the project of the Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway. Construction of this railroad is the first successful project in Poland to build a new railroad since the transformation of the state system in 1989. The project was financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The decision to build the line and award the grant was made on the basis of a feasibility study. A key element of this document was the CBA analysis, which was carried out on the basis of the Blue Book for railway transport.   A narrow look at the economic aspects and the earlier underestimated costs of the investment caused that the investment is unfinished. The question should be asked is whether use of another method of economic analysis would help to complete this investment without the need for over a dozen years of staging investment expenditures? Difficulties with the economic efficiency account are similar to the barriers to the development of globalization.

scholarly journals An Issue on Identities and Art

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. iv-vi
Author(s):  
Gerda Wielander ◽  
Heather Inwood
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Other ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Chinese Identity ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Career Researcher ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk

This issue falls into two thematic sections, one on the politics of Chinese identities, the other on art and collections. The first part deals with possibly the most pertinent topic in Chinese studies at present, and that is the question of Chinese identity, how it relates to China in the narrow sense of the PRC on the one hand and to alternative identity categories on the other. The question is of particular pertinence in the context of the surge of racism against Chinese and other East and Southeast Asian communities since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK and across the world. We alert you to our call for papers on Chinese Identity in an Age of Anti-Asian Racism and #StopAsianHate with a deadline of 15 August. The four articles engaging with the question of identity in this issue address the problematic in different timeframes and with different conceptualisations. The second half of this issue features three articles which each deal with differing aspects of art, aesthetics, and media in the contemporary PRC; it includes the prize-winning essay of the 2020 Early Career Researcher Prize by Angela Becher. We conclude with an elegy on a Hui Muslim mosque.  Image @ Zhang Xiaotao

scholarly journals Unfounded Accusations against Russia with «High Probability» in the Skripal Case as a Gross Violation of the Supremacy of Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
V A Jilkin
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
British Military ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Consequences

The British accusing Russia of the use of the binary-type neuro-paralytic agent in «Skripal case» has resulted in publication by the British media of declassified materials and documents about the experiments on people in Porton Down secret laboratory from 1945, about the experiments in the 1960s on dispersal of bacteria in London Tube and in tunnels under Whitehall government buildings, as well as diffusion of military-destruction viruses and bacteria on the UK territory with the population of over one million people. The article analyzes the ethical and legal consequences of the British programme of biological and chemical warfare in the period between 1945 and 1989, on the basis of the declassified archives containing research materials on the biochemical weapons used over humans in Porton Down laboratory. The author refers to the materials of the hearings held at the British Parliament in 2005 and to the documented evidence of the victims of the secret military laboratory, as well as to the materials of experts in the sphere of medical ethics, British military experts and historians. The world faced the impunity on the part of the system of neglect of the international law, the international rules of conduct and the fundamentals of diplomacy. Accusing Russia of poisoning Russian citizens on the territory of the UK is considered as a violation of the principle of supremacy of law, of the right to fair trial, the presumption of innocence, which includes the right to collect evidence, access to primary and relevant evidence in accusation and inadmissibility of using unacceptable evidence.

The changing landscape of OSH regulation in the UK: Achieving the right balance in policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hollis ◽  
Stavroula Leka ◽  
Aditya Jain ◽  
Nicholas Andreou
Keyword(s):  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Peran Pengawasan Internal Dalam Menghindari Kutukan Sumber Daya Alam

Liquidity ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Andilo Tohom
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Rich Country ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Right

Indonesia is one of many countries in the world so called resource-rich country. Natural resources abundance needs to be managed in the right way in order to avoid dutch diseases and resources curses. These two phenomena generally happened in the country, which has abundant natural resources. Learned from Norwegian experiences, Indonesian Government need to focus its policy to prevent rent seeking activities. The literature study presented in this paper is aimed to provide important insight for government entities in focusing their policies and programs to avoid resources curse. From the internal audit perspective, this study is expected to improve internal audit’s role in assurance and consulting.

International Listening Post report summary: the world at the dawn of 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
Sandy Henderson ◽  
Ulrike Beland ◽  
Dimitrios Vonofakos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

On or around 9 January 2019, twenty-two Listening Posts were conducted in nineteen countries: Canada, Chile, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Germany (Frankfurt and Berlin), Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy (two in Milan and one in the South), Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the UK. This report synthesises the reports of those Listening Posts and organises the data yielded by them into common themes and patterns.

PENERAPAN PRINSIP PERSONA NON GRATA TERHADAP DUTA BESAR DITINJAU DARI PERSPEKTIF HUKUM INTERNASIONAL (STUDI KASUS PENGANIAYAAN TKI OLEH DUTA BESAR ARAB SAUDI DI JERMAN)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Devi Yusvitasari
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The World ◽  
Diplomatic Immunity ◽  
The Right

A country needs to make contact with each other based on the national interests of each country related to each other, including among others economic, social, cultural, legal, political, and so on. With constant and continuous association between the nations of the world, it is one of the conditions for the existence of the international community. One form of cooperation between countries in the world is in the form of international relations by placing diplomatic representation in various countries. These representatives have diplomatic immunity and diplomatic immunity privileges that are in accordance with the jurisdiction of the recipient country and civil and criminal immunity for witnesses. The writing of the article entitled "The Application of the Principle of Non-Grata Persona to the Ambassador Judging from the Perspective of International Law" describes how the law on the abuse of diplomatic immunity, how a country's actions against abuse of diplomatic immunity and how to analyze a case of abuse of diplomatic immunity. To answer the problem used normative juridical methods through the use of secondary data, such as books, laws, and research results related to this research topic. Based on the results of the study explained that cases of violations of diplomatic relations related to the personal immunity of diplomatic officials such as cases such as cases of persecution by the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Indonesian Workers in Germany are of serious concern. The existence of diplomatic immunity is considered as protection so that perpetrators are not punished. Actions against the abuse of recipient countries of diplomatic immunity may expel or non-grata persona to diplomatic officials, which is stipulated in the Vienna Convention in 1961, because of the right of immunity attached to each diplomatic representative.

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