Climate Change and Environmental Concerns

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Concerns

The Historiography of Environmental History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the emergence of environmental history, which developed in the context of the environmental concerns that began in the 1960s with worries about local industrial pollution, but which has since evolved into a full-scale global crisis of climate change. Environmental history is ‘the history of the relationship between human societies and the rest of nature’. It includes three chief areas of inquiry: the study of material environmental history, political and policy-related environmental history, and a form of environmental history which concerns what humans have thought, believed, written, and more rarely, painted, sculpted, sung, or danced that deals with the relationship between society and nature. Since 1980, environmental history has come to flourish in many corners of the world, and scholars everywhere have found models, approaches, and perspectives rather different from those developed for the US context.

scholarly journals Mitigation/Adaptation and Health: Health Policymaking in the Global Response to Climate Change and Implications for other Upstream Determinants

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay F. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Health ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
World Health ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Development Objectives

In coming decades, enhanced global health governance will be crucial to achieving international health and development objectives in the face of a number of challenges; this article focuses on one of them. Climate change, which is now widely recognized as the defining challenge of the 21st century, will make the work of ensuring the conditions in which people can be healthy more difficult in a myriad of ways. Scientists from both the health and climate communities have been highlighting the significant interaction between climate and health for decades and have made significant strides in integrating health and environmental research. Those of us in the law and policy community have been a bit slow to catch up, and have only just begun to call for better integration of our responses to health and environmental concerns. Environmental health specialists at the World Health Organization have recently pointed to a mandate for better integration of health and environmental concerns within the United Nations system. The Millennium Development Goals interweave health, environmental, and development concerns.

scholarly journals Out of the Depths: Engineering, Submersibles and Assemblages

2015 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
John Reader
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
Human World ◽  
Engineering Practices

Environmental concerns about the state of the world’s oceans have been growing over recent years, particularly as acidification, overfishing and the limited capacity of the oceans to absorb CO2 from climate change have come to the fore. Engineering practices and innovations in a number of forms are of direct relevance to this, notably through a concern to develop engineering in such a way as to be for the benefit of all, including the non-human world. This article argues that assemblage theory offers an alternative way of understanding how culture is always already a part of nature, and that human autonomy has to be seen as constrained and limited if the worst effects of pollution and climate change are to be addressed.

ARTlines: three walking artists in Iceland

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti Lean
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Art History ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Film Maker ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Rich

Artist Patti Lean gives an account in this chapter of a walking and camping tour of Iceland in the company of two other artists. The three artists, in sharing the experience of close contact with the sublime landscape of the island, each responded in their own way to produce art work. Lean’s art practice focussed on this compelling landscape, but all three artists also engaged with the rich Icelandic culture and the chapter includes discussion of writer Halldór Laxness, film maker Benedikt Erlingsson and artist Louisa Matthíasdóttir. The challenge for Lean is to reconcile her training in Art History and the associated narrative of the sublime, with the environmental concerns that she met during this tour, for example the failure of breeding for arctic terns as climate change has left too little food in the surrounding sea.

Effects of psychological distance perception and psychological factors on pro-environmental behaviors in Taiwan: Application of construal level theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Fang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Distance Perception ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Construal Level Theory ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Environmental Behaviors

This study applied construal level theory (CLT) to the perceived psychological distance of climate change to investigate Taiwanese people’s psychological distance perception of climate change. It also considered how this psychological distance perception of climate change and other crucial psychological factors (i.e., values, ecological worldviews, and environmental concerns) may influence people’s pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). A national self-administered questionnaire survey was performed in Taiwan and 733 responses were analyzed empirically. Structural equation modeling analysis indicated that an individual’s altruistic values are positively related to his or her ecological worldviews. An individual’s ecological worldviews are positively related to his or her psychological distance perception of climate change and environmental concerns regarding the negative consequences of climate change. Such environmental concerns positively motivate engagement in PEBs. However, an individual’s psychological distance perception of climate change does not positively relate to his or her PEBs.

Global Science, Local Practice: Anthropological Dimensions Of Climate Variability

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Roncoli ◽  
John Magistro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Global Science ◽  
Development Politics

Environmental concerns during the 1990s were dominated by the question of global warming, which may indeed become the central theme in development politics in the coming millennium. As we are going to press, more than 100 developed and developing countries are involved in rounds of talks surrounding the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement reached in 1997 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seeking to avert or reduce global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The upcoming United States presidential elections will bear heavily on this process. Vice-President Al Gore played a key role in bringing the issue to the attention of the American public and in the negotiations that led to the agreement (but in election times his environmental enthusiasm is being tempered by other pressures, such as from mineworkers and autoworkers unions). Texas' Governor G.W. Bush and the oil, highway, and car manufacturing lobbies oppose the agreement, as has also done the Republican Congress which partly explains why three years have gone by without it being ratified, let alone implemented.

scholarly journals Climate Change, Catholic Social Teaching, and Human Rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Richard W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Climate Stability

Abstract The development of human rights thinking in the United Nations and the Catholic Church has operated on a separate track from the development of thinking regarding environmental concerns. This paper traces this historical divergence and some factors contributing to this divergence. It argues that climate stability is the most pressing earth system problem and not only should not be neglected by human rights thinkers (as in Catholic circles) or actively resisted in human rights circles (as argued by a prominent academic human rights lawyer); rather, a stable climate system should be considered a basic human right.

scholarly journals Economic, social and environmental impacts attained by the use of the effluents generated within a small-scale biorefinery concept

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Tiago F. Lopes ◽  
Rafał M. Łukasik
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Lignocellulosic Biomass ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Biomass Valorisation ◽  
Social And Environmental Impacts

Biorefineries are emerging as the proper route to defeat climate change and other social, socio-economic and environmental concerns. So far, no residual lignocellulosic biomass-based biorefineries have been yet industrially implemented, mainly due to its economic viability. This article exposes some elements that may help overcome the bottlenecks associated to its social, economic and environmental sustainability: small-scale approaches, biomass valorisation through added-value products and near-zero effluent.

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