Forestry Research in Mine Reclamation in India: Past, Present and Future

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Sanjay Singh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Ecosystem Restoration ◽  
Mine Reclamation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Forestry Research

Minerals greatly influence the economic growth of any country. However, extensive mining can adversely affect the natural environment in the form of loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, contamination of surface and ground water. Therefore, restoration and reclamation of mined sites become priority areas of intervention. This review paper deals with history, current status and priorities of forestry research in the area of mine reclamation in India. The foresters need to align their activities in line with the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration during 2021-2030.

Review on Ferrites and its Application for Environmental Remediation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VII) ◽  
pp. 887-891
Author(s):  
Tooba Jehan
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Energy Devices

During the recent couple of years, there has been an increased level of interest in ferrites. The attractive electrical, optical and different properties of ferrites made them center of attraction because of their utilization in different day to day applications, for example, energy devices like supercapacitors and batteries, water treatment, sun based energy gadgets and attractive liquids. This is the review paper about the ferrites, their current status and development of ferrite technology which is used in various day to day applications.

Water and sanitation in Africa: current status, trends, challenges and opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kararach ◽  
Tito Yepes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Water Security ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Hydrological Variability ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Africa faces difficult water/sanitation legacies in the form of high hydrological variability and a multiplicity of transboundary river basins alongside poor sanitation. These challenges impeded the continent’s economic growth. Balanced investments in water resource and sanitation infrastructure and institutions are needed to increase productive uses of water, to mitigate the effect of recurrent floods and droughts, and to achieve basic water security as a platform for Africa’s economic growth. Priority should be given to investments that (a) focus on growth, (b) reduce rural poverty, (c) build climate resilience and adaptation, and (d) foster cooperation in international river basins. Because most African countries have low stocks of hydraulic infrastructure, emphasizing investments in infrastructure is appropriate for them. However, institution building and reform, improvements in water/sanitation management and operations, and strengthening of water information systems must complement growth in infrastructure. Development of institutions should be advanced in parallel with infrastructure investment.

scholarly journals Hydrogen Peroxide in Ecological and Environmental Chemistry

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Duca
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Catalytic Oxidation ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Environmental Chemistry ◽  
Oxidation Reactions ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Structure Properties

This review paper is focused on the detailed consideration of the structure, properties and reactions of H2O2. The paper highlights the importance of revealing these processes’ mechanisms, since they have been insufficiently studied so far, or the related data have a fragmentary and incomplete character. A special attention is given to catalytic oxidation reactions, formation and properties of intermediates, their role in the natural environment.

Ecological Selves and Organizational Leadership Values that Matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina S. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

One striking feature in the sweep of history is the extent to which humans have manipulated the natural environment to serve our needs and our desires. In the early written record, there are tales of deforestation and soil erosion (Plato, 360 BCE). As early as the seventeenth century, natural historians compared the grasslands around villages to inhabited areas and speculated on the consequences of human activity on natural systems ( Goudie, 2006 , p. 3). The onset of the industrial revolution in Western Europe combined with a growing understanding and knowledge base of science has rendered a circumstance of uncontrolled manipulation of the ecosystems and ever finer ways to measure these consequences. This article is an invitation to challenge us as scholars and practitioners to seek understanding as companies and other organizations take up their roles in a world that we are transforming irrevocably. Why does it matter, after all, that we seek to build a body of knowledge around corporate functioning? It is my intention that this article helps us ponder and reflect on that question.

Millennium Development Goals

2014 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
P. Raj Devasagayam ◽  
Nicholas R. Stark ◽  
Nitin David
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Development Goals

This chapter introduces the business audience to Millennium Development Goals (MDG) proposed by the United Nations in 2000 that were accepted as policy markers by nations on all continents. Current status of achievements in the MDG is summarized to draw attention to the current needs in each of the eight MDGs. Further, the theory of creative capitalism is used to draw connections between MDG and business strategies. It is suggested that businesses are in a unique position to help achieve the MDG while strengthening their market base and behaving in a socially responsible and responsive manner. The research concludes by providing a possible roadmap for achieving the MDG by the target year 2015 based on a mutually beneficial alliance between the corporate sector and the state. The study will be of interest to scholars, educators, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Leadership in Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Rowlands ◽  
Matthew Wayne Knox ◽  
Tessa Campbell ◽  
Anna Cui ◽  
Luke DeJesus
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

This chapter proposes to discuss the application of authentic leadership as the ‘vehicle' forward for tourism. Specifically, how authentic leaders in the tourism industry can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and why they are important to the Tasmanian tourism industry. As such, the authors propose the research question: How can authentic leadership enable the sustainable development of tourism in Tasmania? This chapter commences by exploring tourism in Tasmania and the related leadership gap found in the industry, followed by a brief explanation of our critical review method. The literature review then examines how tourism, a diverse industry, has the potential to contribute to the United Nation's SDGs. The authors aim to demonstrate how sound authentic leadership behaviours among tourist vendors facilitate ethical employment practices and economic growth in Tasmania. Finally, the chapter explores the possible implications of a synthesis of authentic leadership and sustainable development in the context of Tasmania.

Invisible Hand or Ecological Footprint? Comparing Social Versus Environmental Impacts of Recent Economic Growth

2019 ◽  
pp. 108602661988511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory M. Mikkelson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Key Indicators

This study examines changes in some key indicators among 66 countries on six continents over a 56-year period, to compare the power of economic growth to improve human health and income distribution with its tendency to degrade the natural environment. The results indicate that growth depletes and pollutes nature far more than it benefits society. This suggests that public policy should shift toward enhancement of individual and social well-being in ways more direct and effective, and less ecologically damaging, than reliance on overall growth in gross domestic product. I illustrate this implication with a degrowth scenario for the United States to 2050 that draws on the empirical results for the period 1961 to 2016. And I consider certain reforms in the management and governance of organizations to implement such a scenario.

A Review of Surface Texture of Tribological Interfaces

2010 ◽  
Vol 37-38 ◽  
pp. 41-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Wei Wang ◽  
Mei Wei Chen ◽  
Jian Wei Wu ◽  
Hai Hui Zheng ◽  
Xiao Feng Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Surface Texture ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Tribological Performance ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Lubrication Performance ◽  
Mechanical Components ◽  
Friction And Lubrication

Surface texture of tribological interfaces has the potential to improve friction and lubrication performance of various mechanical components. This review paper emphasizes on the current status of the research of surface texture, including the features, the effects on tribological performance, the forming techniques, and the modeling and simulation of surface texture. It is intended to help readers to gain a more comprehensive view on surface texture of tribological interfaces.

Alternative production systems to reduce nitrates in ground water

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert I. Papendick ◽  
Lloyd F. Elliott ◽  
James F. Power
Keyword(s):  
Ground Water ◽  
Nitrogen Fertilizer ◽  
Cover Crops ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Root Zone ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Water Protection ◽  
Fertilizer Use ◽  
Nitrate Concentrations

AbstractEvidence indicates a strong positive relationship between increases in nitrogen fertilizer use on cropland and nitrate concentrations in shallow ground water. This raises concern about the fate and efficiency of nitrogen fertilizer with current farming practices. Approximately 50 percent of the nitrogen fertilizer applied may be recovered by agronomic crops and 35 percent or less removed in the harvested grain of a crop such as corn. The residual nitrogen is subject to loss by several processes, one being leaching from the crop root zone. Alternative production systems that provide ground water protection must give attention to improved management of nitrogen fertilizer and to practices that minimize the need for nitrogen fertilizer and reduce soil nitrate concentrations. Most important in nitrogen fertilizer management is to more closely match nitrogen availability in the soil with crop needs and to avoid over-fertilization. Nitrogen fertilizer use can be reduced by alternate cropping of low and high nitrogen-demanding crops, use of legumes in the crop rotation to fix nitrogen, and proper use of manures, crop residues, and other organic wastes. Residual nitrates in soil can be reduced by use of cover crops, nitrogen-scavenging crops in the rotation, and alternating shallow and deep-rooted crops. Conservation tillage alone as used with many conventional cropping systems will probably not change the current status of nitrate leaching. Practices used by organic farmers should be carefully studied as possible approaches for ground water protection and adaptation into conservation tillage systems for conserving soil and water resources.

United Nations Ground Water Software

Ground Water ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasminko Karanjac
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Ground Water
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