Human Overpopulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1724-1734
Author(s):  
Shivani Uniyal ◽  
Rashmi Paliwal ◽  
Bhumija Kaphaliya ◽  
R. K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
International Level ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Increased Pressure

Overpopulation has recognized as a global environmental problem since few decades, as it has caused a number of adverse effects on environment. Modern medical facilities and illiteracy in some interior regions of developing countries are the major reasons for development of this inverted pyramid demographic structure. Overpopulation has resulted in a series of catastrophic consequences by causing increased pressure on existing natural resources. Deforestation, effect on welfare, climate change, decline in biocapacity, urban sprawl, food security, increase in energy demand and effect on marine ecosystem are amongst most severe impacts of overpopulation. Concrete steps need to be taken on national and international level to combat the adverse effects of overpopulation, so that sustainability of natural resources can be ensured for future generations.

Human Overpopulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivani Uniyal ◽  
Rashmi Paliwal ◽  
Bhumija Kaphaliya ◽  
R. K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
International Level ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Increased Pressure

Overpopulation has recognized as a global environmental problem since few decades, as it has caused a number of adverse effects on environment. Modern medical facilities and illiteracy in some interior regions of developing countries are the major reasons for development of this inverted pyramid demographic structure. Overpopulation has resulted in a series of catastrophic consequences by causing increased pressure on existing natural resources. Deforestation, effect on welfare, climate change, decline in biocapacity, urban sprawl, food security, increase in energy demand and effect on marine ecosystem are amongst most severe impacts of overpopulation. Concrete steps need to be taken on national and international level to combat the adverse effects of overpopulation, so that sustainability of natural resources can be ensured for future generations.

Human Overpopulation

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Shivani Uniyal ◽  
Rashmi Paliwal ◽  
Bhumija Kaphaliya ◽  
R. K. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
International Level ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Increased Pressure

Overpopulation has recognized as a global environmental problem since few decades, as it has caused a number of adverse effects on environment. Modern medical facilities and illiteracy in some interior regions of developing countries are the major reasons for development of this inverted pyramid demographic structure. Overpopulation has resulted in a series of catastrophic consequences by causing increased pressure on existing natural resources. Deforestation, effect on welfare, climate change, decline in biocapacity, urban sprawl, food security, increase in energy demand and effect on marine ecosystem are amongst most severe impacts of overpopulation. Concrete steps need to be taken on national and international level to combat the adverse effects of overpopulation, so that sustainability of natural resources can be ensured for future generations.

Cosmopolitan Justice, Rights and Global Climate Change

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 255-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Caney
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Normative Argument ◽  
Climate Change Damages

The paper has the following structure. In Section I, I introduce some important methodological preliminaries by asking: How should one reason about global environmental justice in general and global climate change in particular? Section II introduces the key normative argument; it argues that global climate change damages some fundamental human interests and results in a state of affairs in which the rights of many are unprotected: as such it is unjust. Section III addresses the complexities that arise from the fact that some of the ill effects of global climate change will fall on the members of future generations. Section IV shows that some prevailing approaches are unable to deal satisfactorily with the challenges posed by global climate change. If the argument of this paper is correct, it follows that those who contribute to global climate change through high emissions are guilty of human rights violations and they should be condemned as such.

scholarly journals Insurance Law Principles in an International Context: Compensating Losses Caused by Climate Change

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Brown ◽  
Sara Seck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Insurance Fund ◽  
International Level ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
International Context ◽  
Insurance Law ◽  
The Future

This article examines the challenges of paying for loss caused by climate change. It discusses how weather-related harms might become uninsurable by private companies in the future as the adverse effects of climate change increase in severity. Additionally, this article recognizes the difficulty in imposing civil liability on wrongdoers for climate-related harms, and explores options for state-sponsored or state-subsidized insurance. Finally, the authors examine possibilities for an international insurance fund, but eventually conclude that such a fund would unlikely be endorsed at the international level and would not benefit Canadians.

Tales of the Apocalypse: The Child’s Right to a Secure Climate

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne McGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
Intergenerational Equity ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right

All rights of children equate with the right to a life-sustaining biosphere. Climate change disproportionately harms children and profoundly threatens their future. Dystopian futures portrayed in cli-fi films illustrate the dangers but also may contribute to paralysis in the face of rapidly increasing global warming. Intergenerational equity frames our duty to future generations. A child-led lawsuit, if successful, will hold the state to its duty to safeguard natural resources. A new corporate paradigm is essential. Central to all strategies is hearing the child.

Concepts of Future Generations

Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 363-379
Author(s):  
Julia Nordblad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Identity Problem ◽  
Climate Economics ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Brundtland Report

This chapter examines how the relationship between present and future generations has been articulated and envisaged in four discussions on climate change and global environmental crises from the late 1980s onward. Nordblad exemplifies how the very concept of future generations harbours disparate and sometimes conflicting views over the extent future generations can be known, and the political, economic, and ethical complexities embedded in constructions of the relationship between present and future generations. She explores climate economics with its presumptions about substitutable and transgenerational values; Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, which describes future generations as a call for moral regeneration; the Brundtland Report, which emphasizes solidarity in the allocation of common resources; and the academic discussion on the non-identity problem, posing our relation to future generations as a moral and political enigma.

People’s Perception in relation to Climate Change and its Adverse Effects in Rural Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karimon Nesha ◽  
◽  
Atiq Rahman ◽  
Khalid Hasan ◽  
Ziauddin Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Rural Bangladesh ◽  
People’S Perception

Gender and belief factors on attitude towards Social and Environmental Accounting (SEA)

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Salina Abdullah ◽  
Ern Chen Loo
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Sustain Ability ◽  
The Relationship

Research on social and environmental accounting (SEA) has mainly concentrated on disclosure of SEA by corporate bodies, where investigations on ones attitude towards SEA are rarely discussed. SEA is a medium that develops relationships between business and society, community and nature. In addition, SEA involves a concept of sustain ability; where natural resources need to be sustained for the needs of future generations (Alhabshi et al., 2003). SEA also tries to recognise the role of accounting in sustainable development and the use of environmental resources. There are arguments that the young generations today are not fully aware of preserving these natural resources as well as handling social and environmental issues wisely. This perhaps link closely to their belief and cultural background. Hence, this paper examines the influence of gender and belief factors on the undergraduate students’ attitude towards SEA. Four dimensions of belief (fixed ability, quick learning, simple knowledge and certain knowledge) proposed by Schommer (2005) were adapted to analyse how belief factors have influence on their attitude towards SEA. An independent sample t-test was used to examine the relationship between gender and students’ attitude towards SEA. Spearmen’s correlation was employed to show the relationship between belief and attitude towards SEA. The results revealed that gender differences did not show influences on their attitude towards SEA. It was found that there is a significant relationship between belief and students’ attitude towards SEA. Students who believe on the importance of SEA tend to report positive attitude towards SEA. Perhaps findings of this study may provide some information on the SEA education and further be incorporated in the syllabus.

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