Global Environment Monitoring for Ecosystem health and Human Well Being: -

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
TE-Hsiu Ma
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environment Monitoring

scholarly journals Perspective: a healthy planet for healthy people

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ekins ◽  
Joyeeta Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Nations Environment

Non-technical abstract This perspective article from the co-chairs of the United Nations Environment Programme's Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) uses the assessment of the literature in the GEO-6 to show how a healthy planet and healthy people are linked together. It argues that the health of the planet is deteriorating and that this deteriorating ecosystem health has major direct and indirect impacts on human health and well-being. Direct impacts include the impacts of polluted air on the lungs of people, while indirect impacts include the impacts of land degradation on food security. Therefore, protecting the environment will also have major benefits for human health and well-being.

Towards a Sustainable Built Environment : Environmentally Concious Planning, Design and Construction

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norhayati Mahyuddin
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
Ultimate Outcome ◽  
Design And Construction

Cities, urban areas and other built-up areas must possess a good healthy living environment which contributes to the general well-being of the regional and global environment. This can be achieved if buildings and other man-made objects are planned and designed in an environmentally appropriate fashion to promote sustainability. This paper is directed towards the ultimate outcome of providing a better built-environment. It reviews how we can enhance environmentally-concious planning, design and construction in the built environment involving all building professionals.

scholarly journals Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichiro Asayama ◽  
Seita Emori ◽  
Masahiro Sugiyama ◽  
Fumiko Kasuga ◽  
Chiho Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Climate change and coronavirus pandemic are the twin crises in the Anthropocene, the era in which unsustainable growth of human activities has led to a significant change in the global environment. The two crises have also exposed a chronic social illness of our time—a deep, widespread inequality in society. Whilst the circumstances are unfortunate, the pandemic can provide an opportunity for sustainability scientists to focus more on human society and its inequalities, rather than a sole focus on the natural environment. It opens the way for a new normative commitment of science in a time of crises. We suggest three agendas for future climate and sustainability research after the pandemic: (1) focus on health and well-being, (2) moral engagement through empathy, and (3) science of loss for managing grief.

The development of international environmental law

1977 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Birnie
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
First Principle ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Stockholm Conference

The first principle adopted by the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 (hereafter referred to as UNCHE) proclaimed that “Man has the fundamental right to freedom, equality and adequate conditions of life, in an environment of quality which permits a life of dignity and well-being and bears a solemn responsibility to protect and improve the environment for present and future generations”.If international society sets as its objective the protection, preservation and even the enhancement of the existing global environment then the development of laws and standards ensuring the acceptance of the necessary obligations and their enforcement is the sine qua non of their achievement.

scholarly journals Mainstreaming the ‘Brown’ Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6660
Author(s):  
Pranita Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Environment And Development

‘Sustainable development’ is a term that came into use after the Brundtland Commission’s report on global environment and development in 1987. This term is also referred to as an ‘oxymoron’ as it comprises two words ‘sustainable’ and ‘development’ that are in many ways contradictory to each other—well illustrated by the clear divisions between the ‘green’ and the ‘brown’ agendas. This paper attempts to empirically represent this contradictory nature of the term through a specific case of ecological protection of a river versus human well-being of squatters within the context of a developing country in South Asia. The paper argues for the need to explicitly emphasize the justice aspect of sustainable development through mainstreaming the ‘brown’ agenda.

The Global Environment Monitoring System Water Web Site

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-167
Author(s):  
Kelly Hodgson ◽  
Andrew S. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
System Water
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