Not only the Pollution - The Evolution in Protecting Our Living Environment

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 4927-4930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Yang ◽  
Zhi Cheng Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Protective System

Abstract. As is known to all, environmental problem is one of the biggest problem in today‟s society. After three tremendous industrial revolution during 18 to 20 century, pollution becomes more and more serious. Global warming, natural resources lacking, and energy crisis were all amerces which nature has already warned us. Valid solutions are requested to enforce in our present living environment. Hence, we cannot ignore the joint efforts of environmentalists, scientists and economists all over the world that concentrates on protecting environment. We should be conciliative to see the protective system of entironment becomes more and more consummate.

scholarly journals Effects of climate change on environmental sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Manuela Tvaronavičienė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
The World

Adaptation strategies to the climate change include measures that can be taken to take account of the new climatic conditions. This paper aims at assessing the effects of climate change on environmental sustainability. This sustainability constitutes a major problem in many countries and regions around the world that experience industrial pollution, degradation of land as well as natural disasters caused by the global warming. The paper shows that adaptation strategies are often parallel strategies that can be integrated simultaneously with the management of natural resources. They can make resources more efficient and resilient to climate change. The paper shows that reducing the carbon footprint by more than 50 percent by 2030 and eliminating it by 2050 might be a viable solution how to tackle the climate change and support the environmental sustainability.

Industry 4.0 and Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Sibel Yildiz Çankaya ◽  
Bülent Sezen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Industrial Revolutions ◽  
New Business Models

Modern industry developed over several centuries and three industrial revolutions. Today, we experience the fourth era of the industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. The advance of industrialization brought along many problems, including environmental pollution, global warming, and depletion of natural resources. As a result, the concept of sustainability began to gain importance. Sustainability can be achieved through a balance between economic, social, and environmental processes. In order to establish such balance, businesses need new business models or insights. At this point, Industry 4.0 can be regarded as a new business mindset that will help businesses and communities move towards sustainable development. The technologies used by Industry 4.0 bear a strong promise to solve these problems, after all. Even though Industry 4.0 attracts a lot of attention lately, few works are available on its impact on sustainability. This chapter examines the impact of Industry 4.0 on sustainability.

Menggagas Dakwah Penyelamatan Lingkungan

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Fajar Hardoyono
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
Endangered Animals

Environment has important role for supporting human activity. Basically, Environment gives resources which ishelpful for human activity to increase prosperity by exploring natural resources. As far as now, environmental qualitydegradation occurs in many countries in the world especially in Indonesia. Indonesia, one of the greatest forest areas andthe richest natural resources has been occurring environment degradation caused by irresponsible activity of many people.In several regions in Indonesia, people have to be ready for coming of natural disaster such as flood in rainy season anddrought in wet season, caused by degradation of environmental quality. Illegal logging, unsolvable rubbish management,and global warming are our problem today because we aren’t still fully aware about environment quality surrounding us.However, our religion has been teaching us about awareness in environment such us for keeping cleanness, not wasting ofrubbish arbitrarily, and conserve endangered animals and plants. How to improve our environment? Let’s go to campaignfor saving our environment

River Pollution in International Law

1963 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 828-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
River Pollution ◽  
The World

While the world is experiencing its industrial revolution, demand for the efficient exploitation of global natural resources is making states increasingly interdependent.

1. What are renewables?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Nick Jelley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

‘What are renewables?’ defines renewable energy and provides a brief history of its use. It focuses on energy generated by solar, wind, and hydropower. These energy sources are renewable, in the sense that they are naturally replenished within days to decades. Only a few years ago, giving up our reliance on fossil fuels to tackle global warming would have been very difficult, as they are so enmeshed in our society and any alternative was very expensive. Nearly all of the sources of energy up to the 18th century were from renewables, after which time the world increasingly used fossil fuels. They powered the industrial revolution around the globe, and now provide most of our energy. But this dependence is unsustainable, because their use causes global warming, climate change, and pollution. Other than hydropower, which grew steadily during the 20th century and now provides almost a sixth of the world’s electricity demand, renewable energy was a neglected resource for power production for most of this period, being economically uncompetitive. But now, renewables are competitive, particularly through the support of feed-in tariffs and mass production, and governments are starting to pay more attention to clean energy, as the threat of climate change draws closer. Moving away from fossil fuels to renewables to supply both heat and electricity sustainably has become essential.

scholarly journals Keystone Links of Anthropogenic Environmental Problems and Emergence of Interconnected Man-made Environmental Crises

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sivakumaran Sivaramanan ◽  
Sarath Wimalabandara Kotagama
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Acid Rain ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Intensive Farming

Abstract Background: Environmental problems are on a hike. The study provides evidenceof the links between man-made environmental issues based on cause-and-effect relationship from real-world examples. For instance, man-made climate change is caused primarily by deforestation, draining of wetlands, intensive farming, and air pollution (greenhouse gas emission). Also, each of these problems, air pollution for instance, is caused by intensive farming, burning of fossil fuels (because of the global energy crisis), urbanization, and methane emission from solid waste dumps. Deforestation is mainly caused by increasedhuman population, poverty, overexploitation of natural resources, urbanization, mining minerals, intensive farming, the establishment of dams, wildfires during El Niño, acid rain, and global warming (cyclic as cause and effect). Besides, every man-made environmental problem may cause various other environmental problems, such as air pollution causes ocean acidification, ozone depletion, acid rain, disease, and visual pollution (smog). Similarly, deforestation causes biodiversity loss, land degradation, and human-animal conflict.Results: About 252 links were examined among 40 identified environmental issues. In this web, certain causative environmental problems were established as “keystone links”. Possible keystone environmental problems were identified from the concept map based on the criteria given by the following approach, when mitigating a man-made environmental problem, if it results in the permanent disappearance of one or more man-made environmental problems, then that mitigated problem can be considered as a possible keystone environmental problem in a hypothetical situation where human adaptability factors such as economic, social, and political factors are absent.Conclusions: Eight man-made environmental problems were found as keystones such as air pollution, deforestation, population explosion, overexploitation of natural resources, global energy crisis, intensive farming, water pollution-water scarcity, and urbanization-urban sprawl-settlements.

scholarly journals MEMBUDAYAKAN PERILAKU HIJAU DI KALANGAN PEKERJA: DARI SUDUT THE GREEN FIVE TAXONOMY

IQTISHODUNA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Muhamad Firdaus Abdull Razab ◽  
Zulkifli Mohamed Udin
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
The World

Green practices in the organization’s environment is seen as one way of educating the workers tocontinue this practices into their living environment. Environmental issues has become a buzzword in thepresent because the incident that occurred and give impact such as global warming, landslides, air pollutionas well as pollution of the river which is now happen throughout the world. Based on a content-based modelfor green behaviour among workers to ensure environmental behavior to keep the sustainability. This taxonomyconsists of five parts, namely: avoiding harm, conserving, working sustainability, influencing others andtaking initiative.

Industry 4.0 and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Sibel Yildiz Çankaya ◽  
Bülent Sezen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Industrial Revolutions ◽  
New Business Models

Modern industry developed over several centuries and three industrial revolutions. Today, we experience the fourth era of the industrial revolution, Industry 4.0. The advance of industrialization brought along many problems, including environmental pollution, global warming, and depletion of natural resources. As a result, the concept of sustainability began to gain importance. Sustainability can be achieved through a balance between economic, social, and environmental processes. In order to establish such balance, businesses need new business models or insights. At this point, Industry 4.0 can be regarded as a new business mindset that will help businesses and communities move towards sustainable development. The technologies used by Industry 4.0 bear a strong promise to solve these problems, after all. Even though Industry 4.0 attracts a lot of attention lately, few works are available on its impact on sustainability. This chapter examines the impact of Industry 4.0 on sustainability.

Drawing Lessons from Foreign Experiences and Levying Carbon Tax in China at the Proper Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 1044-1047
Author(s):  
De Fa Cai ◽  
Ting Xue
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Carbon Economy

Global warming is the top ten environmental problem of the world, and the greenhouse effect caused by a large number of CO2 emissions from human society is the root of climate change. Currently, the global warming becomes serious and has become the crisis and challenge of all the world. Low carbon economy is the best mode of coping with the global warming and realizing sustainable development of economy and society. In many policies to promote low carbon economic development, various related carbon tax policies and regulations are still the most dependent means of every country. The carbon tax levied by part of OECD countries is worthy of our reference.

What are we Doing about Climate Change?

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Helen M. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Future Climate Projections

Climate change is the most important contemporary environmental problem that the world faces, yet it is the subject of many misconceptions. Climate science has been used for political ends and distorted in the press, both intentionally and through ignorance. This article presents an overview of what is known about global warming and what is controversial, about future climate projections and their impacts, and about the emissions responsible for climate change and policies to limit them.

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