The National Origins of International Environmental Policies and Practices: “My Country is in the World”

2014 ◽  
pp. 177-223
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Policies And Practices

Rice in an Interdependent World

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Vilma T Falck
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Mutual Dependency ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
The World ◽  
Rice Yields ◽  
Nutritional Needs ◽  
Essential Food ◽  
Made In ◽  
Policies And Practices

The purpose of this paper is to examine the outcome of the increasing need and dependence on rice as an essential food, and the potential hazards of this trajectory in an interdependent world, and to propose the need for a supranational system to guide decisions made in areas of mutual dependency among nations. All rice producing countries of the world should be responsible for assuring sufficient quantities and qualities of rice for the world's population. However, there are hazards related to emphasis on rice yields associated with the neglect of overall nutritional needs and also the potential for environmental impact given the need for sustainable development. Scientific measurement and data analyses of interdependent supranational variables are needed to guide policies and practices to insure conditions for life will be favorable for people everywhere.

Digital Watermarks and Palimpsest Steganography in Special Collections

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-208
Author(s):  
Jack Scott
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Additional Dimension ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Watermarks ◽  
Physical Materials ◽  
Policies And Practices

AbstractLibraries today face the same challenges that they always have faced, but with the additional dimension that the world of computers engenders. Policies and practices have been developed for deterring theft and for recovering stolen library materials in the analog world, but we are in an incunabula period for doing the same for digital documents-images and pictorial and sound materials. One means of protection for both kinds of materials is marking them indelibly. This can be done in a variety of ways for physical materials, but there is a new world of electronic marking that is in its infancy. This practice, called Steganography, creates digital watermarks that can be hidden, but they may also be detected and erased. This essay discusses attempts to create digital watermarks that resist tampering with.

Reflecting absence? Disaster recovery and the World Trade Center

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Policies And Practices

This chapter explores how policies and practices of disaster recovery frame the emergency as ongoing and dangerous, in subsequent months and years, through its disruption of urban architecture and its lingering presence in memory. Death is understood to live on, hidden within human memory, with destabilising effects for politics. Efforts to consolidate recovery use techniques which act upon trauma (such as counselling) and which efface the memory of death inherent within destroyed landscapes (such as memorialisation). This chapter argues that memorialisation is a security practice, contra mortality. The empirical focus of the chapter is the World Trade Center in Manhattan, where the Reflecting Absence memorial has been constructed to simulate disaster recovery and the mitigating of death on the site of 9/11.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Major Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tools

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshika Nishadhi Kuruppuarachchi ◽  
Ashok Kumar ◽  
Matthew Franchetti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Environmental Pollutant ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Burdens

The concept of Environmental Justice (EJ) has evolved in United Sates for more than 30 years. Since then most empirical studies have shown that low-income and minority neighborhoods are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards. Across the world, communities are struggling to protect their land, air, water, forests, and their livelihoods from damaging projects and activities with heavy environmental and social impacts. A Number of tools already exist to identify and map those areas with potential environmental justice concerns. This paper presents a comparison of the three major EJ tools; EJSCREEN (version 2016), CalEnviroScreen 2.0, EJ Atlas and their methodologies. There are some common parameters across these tools in presenting Environmental Justice and in identifying environmentally burdened communities, socially burdened communities, or both. Environmental burdens can include any environmental pollutant, hazard or disadvantage that compromises the health of a community. The tools are expected to help in understanding and studying the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, decision making for disadvantaged communities in certain areas and in setting up environmental policies and planning.

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