scholarly journals Ecocriticism in Taiwan

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Huang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Press ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Phd Program

Key words: sustainable development, globalization, environmental justice, environmental disasters This brief article provides an overview of the recently established chapter of ASLE-Taiwan, the result of efforts and contributions made by scholars from leading universities interested in environmental issues and specializing in ecocriticism and environmental literature for more than a decade. Worthy of my special mentioning is the contributions made by the English Department of Tamkang University, one of the leading institutions focusing on ecocriticism in its PhD program. Tamkang University has held four international conferences on ecocriticism since 2000. The fifth international conference is scheduled to be held in December 2010. Many world-renowned ecocritics have been invited to attend the conferences and their papers are published in the Tamkang Review. Moreover, I’ll introduce some of the prominent ecocritics in Taiwan and their achievements in ecocriticism. Finally, I’ll deal with the impact of globalization on Taiwan and the conflict between a sustainable economy and a market-oriented economy currently confronting Taiwan. Many eco-scholars call attention to the devastating effects of the long-time pursuit of a market economy on the environment and try to push for the adoption of sustainable development as an alternative. In the wake of the tragic disaster caused by Typhoon Morakot in 2009, environmental issues are being taken more seriously in the press and are more widely debated in Taiwanese society in general. Environmental justice thus is beginning to play a more important role in ecocriticism in Taiwan right now.   Palabras clave: desarrollo sostenible, globalización, justicia medioambiental, desastres medioambientales Este breve artículo proporciona una visión general del grupo de ASLE Taiwán creado recientemente, resultado de esfuerzos y contribuciones de investigadores de universidades punteras, interesados en cuestiones medioambientales y especializados en ecocrítica y literatura medioambiental desde hace mas de una década. Merecen mención especial las contribuciones del departamento de inglés de la Universidad de Tamkang, una de las instituciones punteras que centran sus programas de doctorado en la ecocrítica. La Universidad de Tamkang ha organizado cuatro congresos internacionales de ecocrítica desde el año 2000. El quinto congreso internacional tendrá lugar en diciembre del 2010. Se ha invitado a muchos ecocríticos reconocidos mundialmente a participar y sus ponencias se publicarán en el Tamkang Review. Además, presentaré a algunos de los ecocríticos más importantes en Taiwan y sus logros en ecocrítica. Finalmente, trataré del impacto de la globalización en Taiwán y del conflicto entre una economía sostenible y una economía de mercado que Taiwán está afrontando actualmente. Muchos eco investigadores están llamando la atención sobre los efectos devastadores de la extensa búsqueda de una economía de mercado como alternativa. Tras el trágico desastre causado por el tifón Morakot en 2009, las cuestiones medioambientales están siendo tomadas más en serio en la prensa y se están debatiendo más ampliamente en la sociedad taiwanesa en general. Así, la justicia medioambiental está comenzando a representar un papel más importante en la ecocrítica de Taiwán en estos momentos. 

scholarly journals GESTÃO DA COMUNICAÇÃO EM DESASTRES AMBIENTAIS: conflitos de interesse, de práticas e de discursos

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Wilson Da Costa Bueno
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sobre Todo

A gestão da comunicação durante a ocorrência  de  desastres  ambientais deve incorporar um conjunto significativo de ações e estratégias que contemplem não apenas os fatos e as circunstâncias que definem estas situações críticas. Ela deve neutralizar a interferência de interesses políticos e empresariais,  combater a espetacularização da cobertura pela mídia, e, sobretudo,  favorecer a mobilização das comunidades atingidas para atenuar o impacto dos desastres. Neste artigo, analisamos um caso emblemático: a gestão da comunicação associada ao rompimento da barragem do Fundão, em Mariana, no Brasil, com atenção especial às ações e discursos da empresa (Samarco) e a reação da imprensa, das organizações e da opinião pública de maneira geral.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Comunicação ambiental; Desastres ambientais; A percepção de risco.     ABSTRACT The management of communication management during the occurrence of environmental disasters should incorporate a significant set of actions and strategies that address not only the facts and circumstances that define these critical situations. It must neutralize the interference of political and business interests, counteract spectacular media coverage and, above all, mobilize affected communities to mitigate the impact of disasters. In this article, we analyze an emblematic case: the management of communication associated with the rupture of the Fundão dam, in Mariana, Brazil, with special attention to the actions and speeches of the company (Samarco), and the reaction of the press, organizations and public opinion in general.   KEYWORDS: Environmental communication/ environmental disasters; Perception of risks.     RESUMEN La gestión de la comunicación durante la ocurrencia de desastres ambientales debe incorporar un número significativo de acciones y estrategias que aborden no sólo los hechos y circunstancias que definen estas situaciones críticas. Se debe neutralizar la interferencia de intereses políticos y empresariales, contrarrestar la espectacularizión medática, y, sobre todo, facilitar la movilización de las comunidades afectadas para mitigar el impacto de los desastres. En este artículo, se analiza un caso emblemático: la gestión de la comunicación asociada con la rutura de una presa en Mariana, Brasil, con especial atención a las acciones y discursos de la empresa (Samarco) y la reacción de la prensa,  las organizaciones y la opinión pública de manera general.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Comunicación ambiental; Desastres ambientales; La percepción de riesgos.

scholarly journals EDUCACIÓN AMBIENTAL Y LA PRÁCTICA DE VALORES DE LOS ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Emma Yolanda Mendoza Vargas ◽  
Jhon Alejandro Boza Valle ◽  
Harold Escobar Terán
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State Technical ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

La educación ambiental es fundamental en la vida del ser humano, permite desarrollar hábitos que conllevan al desarrollo sostenible de la sociedad y la toma de conciencia sobre el medio natural del cual dependemos para la existencia de la vida como la conocemos. Los reglamentos que se establezcan en un país no son los que van a mejorar los conocimientos y actitudes ambientales; sino la educación constante de cada miembro de la sociedad; porque son las acciones individuales que sumadas en forma colectiva tienen el efecto de cambiar los hábitos y cultura de una comunidad. Ante esta situación, los docentes de las instituciones educativas deben ser pioneros en los temas medioambientales. Aún existe falta de consciencia ambiental, a causa de aquello ya se ha llegado a hechos irreversibles en el medio como perdida de áreas verdes y extinción de especies, entre otras consecuencias que seguirán sumándose si no actuamos ahora. Esta investigación se realizó en las instalaciones de la Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, con el propósito de valorar la incidencia que la educación ambiental tiene sobre sus alumnos y la práctica de valores que este tema deriva. Los métodos utilizados en la investigación son analítico, descriptivo y deductivo; los resultados encontrados revelan que al menos la mitad de los estudiantes, ocasionalmente aplican valores de educación ambiental en sus días cotidianos para el cuidado del medio ambiente; mientras que la mayoría de los estudiantes está de acuerdo en que la poca práctica en educación ambiental conlleva a la contaminación de los ecosistemas. PALABRAS CLAVE: medioambiente; educación ambiental; valores medioambientales; sostenibilidad; sustentabilidad. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE OF VALUES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABSTRACTEnvironmental education is fundamental in the life of the human being, allows developing habits that lead to the sustainable development of society and awareness of the natural environment on which we depend for the existence of life as we know it. The regulations that are established in a country are not those that will improve environmental knowledge and attitudes; but the constant education of each member of society; because they are the individual actions that added together collectively have the effect of changing the habits and culture of a community. Faced with this situation, teachers of educational institutions must be pioneers in environmental issues. There is still a lack of environmental awareness, because of that irreversible events have already occurred in the environment such as the loss of green areas and the extinction of species, among other consequences that will continue to be added if we do not act now. This research was carried out in the facilities of the State Technical University of Quevedo, with the purpose of assessing the impact that environmental education has on its students and the practice of values ​​derived from this topic. The methods used in the research are analytical, descriptive and deductive; the results show that at least half of the students occasionally apply values ​​of environmental education in their daily days for the care of the environment; while the majority of students agree that the little practice in environmental education leads to the contamination of ecosystems. KEYWORDS: environment; environmental education; environmental values; sustainability; sustainability.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF ECOLOGICAL FACTORS ON TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN KVEMO KARTLI REGION

2018 ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
NINO LETANDZE
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Anthropogenic Effects ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
The Impact

In this Article we discuss environmental issues necessary for safe and sustainable development of tourism as an integral part of economic relations. We focus to examine the impact of anthropogenic effects on the environment, which manifests itself in organizing recreational utilization of nature We refer here to the impact of ecological problems on human health in Kvemo Kartli region, which is very attractive tourist destination and has a great potential for tourism development as of its cultural and historic heritage.

The Royal Credit Bank Strategy and Transformation Program

2014 ◽  
pp. 1031-1045
Author(s):  
Khaled Hjouj
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Real ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Real Challenge

This case discusses a strategic planning issue related to unplanned radical change. The Royal Credit Bank is the leading and largest lending bank in the Middle East. The bank suffered for a long time from bureaucracy, inefficiency, lack of productivity and misalignment with customers' needs for added value services. The Royal Credit Bank was approaching a change program of a scale and depth that occurs once in most employees' lifetime. It would transform the bank's business and operating models, culture, and leadership, impacting virtually every part of the organization. This had profound implications across strategy, leadership, people, and systems. This case highlights the impact of implementing large programs in an outdated banking environment where the challenge is beyond finding the solution. The real challenge was to make the solution work given the environmental issues and challenges faced by the leadership team to make things happen.

The Royal Credit Bank Strategy and Transformation Program

2013 ◽  
pp. 316-336
Author(s):  
Khaled Hjouj
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Real ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Real Challenge

This case discusses a strategic planning issue related to unplanned radical change. The Royal Credit Bank is the leading and largest lending bank in the Middle East. The bank suffered for a long time from bureaucracy, inefficiency, lack of productivity and misalignment with customers' needs for added value services. The Royal Credit Bank was approaching a change program of a scale and depth that occurs once in most employees’ lifetime. It would transform the bank’s business and operating models, culture, and leadership, impacting virtually every part of the organization. This had profound implications across strategy, leadership, people, and systems. This case highlights the impact of implementing large programs in an outdated banking environment where the challenge is beyond finding the solution. The real challenge was to make the solution work given the environmental issues and challenges faced by the leadership team to make things happen.

scholarly journals Rights-based Approach: The Hub of Sustainable Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yesudas Choondassery
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Arduous Task ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Environmental Agency

AbstractA rights-based approach to the environmental issues has been gaining momentum since the United Nations’ Environmental Agency proposed a new rights-based agenda for sustainable development in the document,Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development(UN, 2015). Our moral responsibility toward the environment is essential to the project of sustainable development. The Kantian ethical tradition lays the foundations of a rights-based approach to human rights and sustainable development. Human rights are essential to the flourishing of all human beings regardless of their nationality or another status. Linking human rights to environmental justice has been an arduous task, but contemporary environmental ethicists argue that giving a human face to the environment that nurtures and sustains us is a precondition for sustainable development. The concept of sustainability addresses the issue of economic growth at present and how this impacts the future generations. This paper examines the rights-based environmental ethics, which has emerged in the context of a human rights-based approach to human development and forges a link between rights-based ethics and sustainable development that could establish a solid foundation for environmental justice.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence and the Green Transition for 2030

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
F. Javier Heredia Yzquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The Impact

The United Nations have developed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a global agreement aiming to eradicate extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice and leave no one behind. Agreed by world leaders at the UN in 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeed the well-known Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Parts of the Goals directly address environmental issues. Other do indirectly. In response to this growing awareness, the European Union has enacted a number of policies targeting environmental issues, including lowering carbon emissions and water conservation. It can be argued that the EU is at the forefront of addressing the environmental issues outlined in the SDGs. These policies are mentioned in this Paper and they are to be considered strategic. Artificial Intelligence has been having an impact in human activities for decades. Lately the impact is happening exponentially. The European Union is aware of such a fact and it implements policies towards increasing innovation in the public and private sector, including funding programmes and instruments to foster business development and efficiency in the Union and in the Member States. AI is also capable of having a profound impact in the environmental issues that the Agenda 2030 is bringing.

scholarly journals Holistic Transformation Leading to Sustainable Development in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15
Author(s):  
Chan Kei Thong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Biblical Worldview ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Witch Hunts ◽  
The Impact

Abstract China’s phenomenal economic development since 1979 has caught the attention and envy of the rest of the world. 500 million Chinese have been lifted out of poverty since then.1 Yet, it has come with a huge price which threatens not only China but the rest of the world. These challenges include corruption, environmental issues, social inequalities and a rapidly aging population. If China is not able to overcome any of these, then its development will not be sustainable and the impact will be immensely negative just as its development over the last three decades have been positive on the rest of the world. The purpose of this article is to show that there is a little-known transformation happening in China which may address the above issues. It is the thesis of the author that China’s present developmental challenges are fundamentally a problem of misplaced values, i.e. unsustainable priorities. And the little known transformation is that tens of millions of Chinese are quickly embracing a new set of values and accepting a biblical worldview.2 Rodney Stark, socialogist and popular author, has shown through his many works, such as For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery,3 that societies which have espoused the monotheistic belief system are able to successfully overcome similar social challenges and remain viable.

American Nature Writing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Elder
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
New England ◽  
Nature Writing ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The Impact

Nature has, like love, been an essential topic for authors in every language and every literary form. The first thing to acknowledge about the term nature writing is that it conventionally refers to a distinctive category of nonfiction, not to the entire spectrum of literature about the natural world. The present survey is further restricted to American nature writing, though the genre has also developed in many other countries. The American lineage of nature writing has been especially influenced by the work of Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), who combined journal-based descriptions of the New England landscape and knowledgeable appreciation of science with lyrical prose, receptiveness to nature’s human and transcendent meanings, and a highly personal voice. Thoreau’s own orientation to solitude, wildness, and the music of nature has also been complemented, however, and in some cases forcefully challenged, by subsequent writers focusing on urban landscapes; environmental justice; the impact of gender, class, and race on our visions of nature; environmental justice; food and agriculture; and material culture. Many literary scholars also now prefer to consider nature writing under the multi-genre and international rubric of “environmental literature.” Nevertheless, this particular form remains a vital model for integrating imaginative literature with close observation of natural phenomena. Today’s writers continue to find, with Thoreau, that books “with earth adhering to their roots” may blossom in the human spirit, revitalizing individual lives even as they also address the urgent environmental and cultural challenges we now confront.

scholarly journals Innovation for Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from the Bioeconomy Sector in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Sołtysik ◽  
Maria Urbaniec ◽  
Magdalena Wojnarowska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Entrepreneurial Discovery ◽  
Entrepreneurial Opportunities ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Analysis ◽  
Critical Literature

The growing importance of sustainable development, especially regarding environmental issues, contributes to shaping new trends at the level of enterprises. Sustainable development is perceived as a source of new entrepreneurial opportunities that serve to solve social and environmental problems. The main objective of this study is to identify factors supporting and hindering the development of enterprise innovativeness exemplified by the bioeconomy sector in Poland. A research analysis was based on the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) model. The study employed the method of critical literature analysis, as well as qualitative methods, such as individual direct interviews with experts and smart labs with 252 enterprises from the economic sector. The results of the research analysis show that the innovative activity of enterprises in the bioeconomy sector depends on external, as well as internal, factors. This is particularly important, owing to the impact of enterprises on the environment and on society, as they contribute to the creation and implementation of new, more sustainable production and consumption models.

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