scholarly journals Environmental Aspects of the European Experience in Landscape Planning

2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-310
Author(s):  
Bao Yu ◽  
◽  
Jianmei Wang ◽  
Ya Li ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
Potential Customers

Understanding all the possibilities of environmentally oriented landscape planning will contribute to the effective environmental planning of the territory and nature management in general. Accordingly, the purpose of the study was to investigate the experience of the European countries towards the introduction of an effective system of environmentally oriented landscape planning and improvement of territories, as well as their protection. For this purpose, it is necessary to comprehensively study the strengths and weaknesses of existing developments in the field of environmentally oriented landscape planning in Europe. An analysis of the best practices of environmentally oriented landscape planning in such countries as Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc. has been conducted. The findings allowed to state that the effectiveness of development and implementation of substantial planning for landscape design depends not only on the volume and depth of research, but to a very large extent from their reasonable and productive organisation. The paper summarises that in environmentally oriented landscape planning, it is first necessary to determine the reasons for planning. Before choosing the object and territory of planning, it is necessary to find out: who are the potential customers and investors – their goals and motivation; what are the problem situations and conflicts in nature management in the area; what is the practical use of the results of landscape planning; the purpose of the territory, including cartographic; the availability of source information, and more. And then make decisions regarding the stages of landscape planning, taking into account the environmental component and, accordingly, the implementation of the idea of landscape planning.

Service failures as triggers of superior brand evaluations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Hutzinger ◽  
Wolfgang Weitzl
Keyword(s):  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Service Failure ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Electronic Word Of Mouth ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Brand Evaluations ◽  
Service Failures ◽  
Complaint Handling ◽  
The Right ◽  
Potential Customers

In pursuit of better purchasing decisions (e.g., choosing the right restaurant or hotel), prospective customers increasingly turn to social media, such as Facebook, to source information about new products, services and brands. On Facebook, a brand’s former, current and potential customers are not only exposed to marketer-created brand postings, but also to other customers’ subjective evaluations, personal thoughts and feelings regarding their consumption experiences (Hennig-Thurau et al., 2010). Research has shown that consumers strive for multifaceted goals when sharing consumption-related postings online. For instance, some satisfied customers want to help the company by posting favorable statements about a positive brand experiences, known as positive electronic word of mouth or PeWOM (Hennig-Thurau et al., 2004), while others want to help their fellow shoppers by giving a neutral description of a regular brand experience (ReWOM). However, many dissatisfied customers also use Facebook brand-pages as a public platform to express their unfavorable thoughts and negative emotions (e.g., anger) after a service failure by means of an online complaint or negative electronic word of mouth (NeWOM; Ward & Ostrom, 2006; Weitzl et al., 2018). Consumers that are directly affected by the service failure and involved in the recovery process are referred to as complainants. The reasons why customers spread NeWOM are diverse. They range from venting (i.e., lessening his/her frustration and reduce anger), via revenge (i.e., intentionally sabotaging and harming the company; Grégoire et al., 2009), warning others (Willemsen et al., 2011), to advice seeking (to acquire new skills/information to better use and/or repair the product; Willemsen et al, 2013). Earlier research demonstrates that online complaints can have strong and diverse detrimental effects, particularly on a brand’s potential customers (so-called online complaint bystanders), including unfavorable attitudes and an increased willingness to criticize the involved brand to others (e.g., Chevalier & Mayzlin, 2006; Sen & Lerman, 2007). However, evidence also exists that ‘webcare’, which is company’s online complaint handling response to a public complaint can repair negative reactions of these bystanders to some extent (e.g., Weitzl & Hutzinger, 2017). It remains, nevertheless, unclear how far such positive reactions can be stimulated with webcare among NeWOM bystanders.

Digital Mechanisms of Management System Optimization in the Forest Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-198
Author(s):  
Yulia Vertakova ◽  
Saniyat Agamagomedova ◽  
Irina Sergeeva ◽  
Andrey Tarasov ◽  
Svetlana Morkovina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Digital Management ◽  
Automated Information System

This chapter discusses digital mechanisms for optimizing the management system in the forest industry, which includes organizational, legal, socio-economic, and environmental aspects. Efficient forest management is considered as an integral part of efficient nature management and includes the use of forest resources, their protection, and reproduction of forests. Digital management mechanisms in forest management in general and in the forest industry in particular are based on platform solutions. Platform solutions are based on the formation and processing of data on the basis of a single automated information system, which acts as the foundation for the development of digitalization in forestry. Such a digital platform is designed to provide informational, analytical, consulting, and other support to the activities of all subjects of relations in the field of use, conservation, protection, and reproduction of forest resources.

What potential customers are telling us: Organizational buyer attitudes towards forest biomass

2011 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
John Nadeau ◽  
Kate Griese
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Biomass Energy ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Heating Systems ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Forestry Sector ◽  
Level Of Importance ◽  
Potential Customers ◽  
Key Words Biomass

This paper reports on a study of organizational buyer attitudes towards forest biomass energy for use in heating systems.This topic warrants discussion as global energy needs grow and the Canadian forestry sector experiences economic challenges.In particular, heating systems are an appropriate introductory application for solid forest biomass because it representsan efficient and sustainable fuel use. The attitudes of organizational buyers are assessed and compared against theperceived level of importance for attitudinal items and the views held toward fossil fuels. The results demonstrate that forestbiomass is viewed favourably on environmental aspects and on some other attitudinal items of high importance. Managerialsuggestions are forwarded to guide the burgeoning sector in its attempt to build awareness and strengthen its perceivedimage among organizational buyers. Key words: biomass, biomass fuel, attitudes of organizational buyers, biomass as an alternative heat and energy source

scholarly journals The concept of sustainable development environmental aspects and project approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 11027
Author(s):  
Natalia Kataeva ◽  
Alexey Sysolyatin ◽  
Oksana Feoktistova ◽  
Darya Starkova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Environmental Support ◽  
Environmental Component ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Environmental Projects ◽  
Stable Growth ◽  
The Impact

This article analyzes the environmental aspects of sustainable regional and macroeconomic development, as well as the impact of environmental factors and national environmental projects. The essence of the concept of sustainable development of economic entities in a broad sense is to ensure stable growth of indicators in the environmental, social and economic spheres in the long term. Based on the analysis of the list of indicators of sustainable development, the increasing role of the environmental component is shown. We have identified particularly acute environmental problems that hinder effective sustainable development both at the micro-level (of the organization) and at the macro-level in the whole country and the global community. Based on the calculation of the nature protection, socio-ecological and industrial-ecological indices, the consolidated environmental rating and the place of the Kirov region is determined in it. The analysis of the results of research and the opinions of the World Economic Forum experts on the problems of global threats showed the timeliness and relevance of the national project “Ecology” being implemented in Russia, as well as measures of environmental support and planned environmental projects in the Kirov region. The implementation of the planned measures will activate the catalysts of sustainable development and reduce the risks of negative impact on the environment.

scholarly journals Development of the legal framework of recreational nature management in Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
T. E. Isachenko ◽  
A. V. Kosarev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forest Lands

The article traces the history of the development of legal legislation related to the recreational development of the territory. Five stages of formation are considered. For each stage the types of recreational areas are characterized. These types are reflected in the regulatory legal acts of each time period. Recreational nature management takes a significant place in the structure of nature management in Russia. It's modern regulatory and legal framework is analyzed in particular. The study revealed the main problems of involving territories in the recreational sphere from the standpoint of the main normative documents — the codes of the Russian Federation: Land, Water, Forest and Town-planning and Federal laws supplementing them. The analysis of the current legislation and the terminology used in it provides the basis for the correlation of recreational nature management with five categories of land: forest lands, agricultural lands, water resources, build-up areas (settlements) and lands of specially protected areas and objects. The necessity of integration of the concepts of «cultural landscape», «landscape planning» and «landscape plan» in the legal field with the aim of streamlining the process of planning and design of recreational areas and synchronization of the legislation in the sphere of recreational nature management is suggested in the article.

scholarly journals Analysis of nature management conflicts as a basis for landscape planning of Homilshansky forestry

2014 ◽  
pp. 261-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiya Maksymenko ◽  
Olexandra Korysheva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Planning Procedure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Management Conflicts ◽  
Original Approach

The work is based on the original approach to landscape planning procedure not based on the administrative principle but on economic purpose of the area under research. The object of landscape planning serves the area of forestry. The results of the second phase of landscape planning, namely the detection and evaluation of nature management conflicts on the example of Gomilshansky forestry in Zmiivsky district have been presented in the article. On the basis of the developed conflicts matrix maps have been created that will allow to develop measures to optimize environmental management in forestry in the future. Key words: landscape planning, forestry, environmental management conflict, conflicts maps.

Approaching Scenario-Based Studies: Three Perceptions about the Future and Considerations for Landscape Planning

10.1068/b3116 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan W Shearer
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Basic Features

Scenario-based investigations of possible futures have been used since the middle of the 20th century to help decisionmakers cope with alternative courses of action and elements of uncertainty. Since the early 1970s, they have been increasingly used for landscape planning. Each scenario-based study is founded on assumptions of possible change. Often these beliefs are only implicit among scenario creators and scenario users. I discuss the beliefs and perceptions about the future of scenario creators and scenario users, and argue that they should be explicitly addressed before an investigation is undertaken in order to avoid methodological biases in the creation of the scenarios and misunderstanding of the results. As part of this discussion, the basic features of a scenario-based study are reviewed, and applications to landscape and environmental planning are considered, with examples drawn from two studies that were focused on the same concerns and in the same region but which employed different kinds of scenarios.

scholarly journals Geochemical aspect of landscape planning in forestry

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. Maksymenko ◽  
V. O. Voronin ◽  
N. I. Cherkashyna ◽  
S. P. Sonko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Total Content ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Geochemical Characteristics ◽  
Forest Sites ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
Work Assessment ◽  
Complete Survey ◽  
Landscape Map

One of the modern methods of spatially estimating anthropogenic impact on a given territory is landscape planning, including the stage of assessment of the conditions of a natural complex . The results of such an evaluation are used in environmental management. The aim of the work is to assess the ecological conditions of the Vasyshchivsky forest area by means of landscape and environmental planning. The aim is achieved by performing the following stages of work: assessment of the distribution and intensity of contamination sources in the Vasyshchivsky forest area; drawing a scheme showing parts of the territory with probable conflicts; making a soil and geochemical survey of the forest area to assess acidity distribution and total content of carbonates in the soil as the consequences of pollution of the forest ecosystem ; specification of geochemical characteristics of soils on the forest sites in the established location of former fires; forecast of limits of afte-r fire areas based on the analysis of cartographic works developed by the authors. The geochemical characteristics of the soils in Vasyshchivsky forest have been studied to identify the areas affected by fire, and the results of this study are given in this paper. During the inventory phase of landscape and environmental planning, a complete survey of the forest territory was conducted and a landscape map was drawn. Based on the authors’ matrices filled with conflicts of natural use, the areas with low, medium and high levels of conflict have been marked within the study area. Landscape and environmental planning has been evaluated by soil sampling outside the test points on the network and their laboratory analysis. The results of the evaluation phase were maps illustrating the geochemical situation in the forest soil cover. The article presents cartographic models of the spatial distribution of carbonates in the forest soils, water and salt extraction pH. The results of the study are part of an environmental assessment of Vasyshchivsky forest area. In future they will be used in restoration of the forest ecosystems after fire.

Improvement of Institutional Radioactive Waste Management via Implementation of Environmental Management System

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Fabjan ◽  
Bojan Hertl ◽  
Metka Kralj ◽  
Jozˇe Rojc
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Iso 14001 ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Radioactive Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Objectives

Management of institutional radioactive waste in Slovenia is one of the main processes in the management system of Agency for Radwaste Management (ARAO). The management system integrates the quality management system ISO 9001 and the environmental management system that was certified according to the standard ISO 14001:2004 in October 2007. The certificate represents a permanent commitment of ARAO to improve the environmental management system and implement environmental planning. Environmental planning includes and maintains environmental objectives and targets in all ARAO’s activities, especially in managing the institutional radioactive waste that can have potential environmental impacts and is considered as a risky activity from the public view point. We defined a general ARAO’s register of environmental aspects with seven main groups of aspects. Each aspect was evaluated according to its impacts with the help of multiple criteria and only the aspects evaluated as significant are dealt with in further environmental planning. Environmental planning was implemented in the process of managing of institutional radioactive waste. Our methodology for evaluating the significance of environmental aspects showed three significant aspects. Appropriate environmental objectives and targets were defined for these aspects in a way that they were measurable, if applicable, consistent with the ARAO’s environmental policy. It was assured that they provided adequate environmental protection measures and protection of human health, compliance with national legal requirements and international directives dealing with radioactive waste management and that the production of radioactive waste was minimized. The environmental planning is carried out annually, and each year we are looking for opportunities to minimize potential environmental impacts of our service. In this paper, ARAO’s experience with environmental planning and the realization of the objectives and targets that have already been achieved, implemented and integrated in the process of managing of institutional radioactive waste are presented. The results and the successful completion of environmental programs contribute to optimization of the management system and the quality of ARAO’s process performance. Implementation of environmental management system according to ISO 14001 increased the satisfaction of producers of institutional radioactive waste management that come from medicine, research and industry. It is also part of confidence building by our stakeholders.

scholarly journals High Potential Source for Biomass Degradation Enzyme Discovery and Environmental Aspects Revealed through Metagenomics of Indian Buffalo Rumen

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Singh ◽  
Bhaskar Reddy ◽  
Dishita Patel ◽  
A. K. Patel ◽  
Nidhi Parmar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Cell Wall ◽  
Glycoside Hydrolases ◽  
Carbohydrate Binding ◽  
Metagenomic Sequencing ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Rumen Microbiome ◽  
Polysaccharide Lyases ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Plant Cell Wall Degradation ◽  
Buffalo Rumen

The complex microbiomes of the rumen functions as an effective system for plant cell wall degradation, and biomass utilization provide genetic resource for degrading microbial enzymes that could be used in the production of biofuel. Therefore the buffalo rumen microbiota was surveyed using shot gun sequencing. This metagenomic sequencing generated 3.9 GB of sequences and data were assembled into 137270 contiguous sequences (contigs). We identified potential 2614 contigs encoding biomass degrading enzymes including glycoside hydrolases (GH: 1943 contigs), carbohydrate binding module (CBM: 23 contigs), glycosyl transferase (GT: 373 contigs), carbohydrate esterases (CE: 259 contigs), and polysaccharide lyases (PE: 16 contigs). The hierarchical clustering of buffalo metagenomes demonstrated the similarities and dissimilarity in microbial community structures and functional capacity. This demonstrates that buffalo rumen microbiome was considerably enriched in functional genes involved in polysaccharide degradation with great prospects to obtain new molecules that may be applied in the biofuel industry.

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