A Preliminary Study of Relationship between Chinese Elegant Ideology and Environmental Mobilization

This study investigated the relationship between “Chinese elegant ideology" and environmental mobilization to explore a new possibility of consciousness awakening for environmental protection. The author considered the life posture of scholar-emits in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It conveyed a demand for the inheritance of ideas and civilizations as well as elegant and sustainable life orientation. The study will further identify the ideological and spiritual guidance and practical demonstration of cultural ideology for environmental movements by considering the causes and influential factors of environmental mobilization in modern society. It is supposed to get a trade-off between natural integration and social integration. The given elegant life dynamics of the Tang and Song Dynasty will construct an interaction between nature and mainstream human social behavior, which dramatically reduces the segregation and contradiction between social and natural integration. This study will advocate a sustainable and contracted "new form" that appeals to human spirits by studying the selection of the scholar-emits in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Growing the Green Giant: Ecological Threats, Political Threats, and U.S. Membership in Sierra Club, 1892-Present

A growing body of research examines questions related to the emergence of environmental organizations and the growth of the environmental organizational field in the United States, but we need to know more about why particular environmental organizations grow or decline in terms of membership size over time. In this article, we draw on both qualitative and quantitative data to assess factors contributing to the growth of the Sierra Club, one of the United States’ oldest and largest environmental organizations. First, through an analytic narrative that synthesizes insights from secondary accounts of the history of the Sierra Club, we identify a variety of ecological and political threats that have led to growth in the Sierra Club from its founding in 1892 to the present day. Then, through time-series analyses of quantitative data, we show that two particular types of environmental and political threats—growth in carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of Republican Presidents—have led to growth in the Sierra Club from 1960 (when it began mass recruitment of members) to 2016. We contextualize these findings within the broader social scientific literature on neoliberalism and its consequences for environmental degradation and environmental mobilization. Overall, our findings provide support for threat-based models of mobilization and hold significant implications for research on environmental organizations.

Narratives of Socioecological Transition

This article explores narratives and characteristics of sociological transitions displayed by members of the Transition Network (TN) in Portugal. It is informed by scholarly work on grassroots innovations, sociological transition narratives, and environmental engagement in Portugal. It furthers this research in three ways: (1) it analyzes an original case study—the Portuguese TN; (2) it identifies and defines the various socioecological narratives conveyed by its participants; and (3) it interprets the TN’s sociopolitical appeal as a grassroots innovation in the context of environmental mobilization in Portugal. Drawing on 20 semistructured interviews with current and former members of the Portuguese TN, three narratives of sociological transition were identified—utopianism, inevitability, and pessimism—as well as seven characteristics that motivated interviewees’ engagement with the TN.

Perspectives on Sustainable Pesticide Control in Brazil

If the current policy explores the utilization of active ingredients in use quickly and to the maximum, the same does not occur with the ban on the registration of products highly dangerous to both health and the environment. The current policy does not aim at reducing pesticide toxicity and ecotoxicity, required to reduce environmental contamination and human exposure. To this end, it is essential to adjust scientific evaluation parameters concerning lower concentration tolerance limits to modernity standards, in addition to banning products for which there is scientific evidence of carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic actions. In ecotoxicology, reducing the applicable concentration limits is paramount for preserving bees, birds, and other forms of domestic and wildlife. When evaluating active ingredients, it is imperative to prioritize more biodegradable molecules with low potential for environmental mobilization through volatilization and leaching, preserving both air and water quality. Another goal, among others, is a program for the generalized reduction of successfully implemented in several countries. Brazil, a tropical agriculture leader, should stand out by incorporating sustainability while preserving both health and the environment.

Growing the Green Giant: Ecological Threats, Political Threats, and U.S. Membership in Sierra Club, 1892–Present

A growing body of research examines questions related to the emergence of environmental organizations and the growth of the environmental organizational field in the United States, but we need to know more about why particular environmental organizations grow or decline in terms of membership size over time. In this article, we draw on both qualitative and quantitative data to assess factors contributing to the growth of the Sierra Club, one of the United States’ oldest and largest environmental organizations. First, through an analytic narrative that synthesizes insights from secondary accounts of the history of the Sierra Club, we identify a variety of ecological and political threats that have led to growth in the Sierra Club from its founding in 1892 to the present day. Then, through time-series analyses of quantitative data, we show that two particular types of environmental and political threats—growth in carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of Republican Presidents—have led to growth in the Sierra Club from 1960 (when it began mass recruitment of members) to 2016. We contextualize these findings within the broader social scientific literature on neoliberalism and its consequences for environmental degradation and environmental mobilization. Overall, our findings provide support for threat-based models of mobilization and hold significant implications for research on environmental organizations.

Implementation Corporate Social Responsibility Of Regional Owned Business Agencies To Help Handling Covid-19 In Kendal

Improve the welfare of the community in the area around the company and corporate responsibility. This can happen because the community feels affected by the environment that comes from the company's operations. The improvement of conditions in the social environment is one way of fulfilling the responsibilities known as corporate social responsibility or CSR. The definition of economic democracy in the national economy is based on the principles of unity, equity, sustainability of function, environmental mobilization, independence, and in maintaining the balance of development and national economic unity, it is important to support the 'main economic institutions; to determine the welfare of the people. CSR activities for the community are a process of migration and are related to the existing resources in the community. Currently, Social Welfare is no longer voluntary in nature but it has become the responsibility of many companies to implement it, although so far there have been no serious sanctions imposed on non-CSR companies. Keywords: CSR; Corporate social responsibility; Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 40 of 2007; Community Welfare

Conflict mobilization communities in social media as a soft power tool: problematization environmental risks

The object of the study is the protest communication practices of conflict mobilization in 2012-2021 by environmental communities in Russian-language social networks. Civil society is a significant actor in environmental policy. Social media as a soft power tool plays an important role today in informing, educating society about the environment and shaping a protesting regional environmental agenda. The system-communicative approach explores the patterns of discursive problematisation of environmental risks within the framework of civic political participation. Authors describe the types of publications constituting the content of environmental mobilization communities; analyse thematic dominants to identify frequent environmental threats constructed by the addressants of the publications; identify and systematise the strategies, tactics and relevant language tools used to problematise fragments of environmental reality; examine regular means of creating and maintaining online solidarity in environmental communities of conflict mobilization.

Entre o “cuidado da casa comum” e a “psicose ambientalista”: disputas em torno da ecoteologia católica no Brasil / Between “Care of the Common House” and “Environmental Psychosis”: Disputes Around Catholic Ecotheology in Brazil

O artigo discute os conflitos de enquadramento e contraenquadramento desencadeados pela mobilização da Igreja Católica no Brasil em torno das questões ambientais. O primeiro passo consiste em mostrar como sacerdotes brasileiros manejaram, ao longo das últimas décadas, as molduras interpretativas estabelecidas pela ecoteologia católica oficial, elaborada no Vaticano. Em seguida, a análise se desloca para as principais características das contestações antiambientalistas encampadas pelo Instituto Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (IPCO), uma espécie de think tank do conservadorismo católico brasileiro. Por fim, são examinadas algumas das convergências entre os enquadramentos propostos pelo IPCO e pelo atual governo federal brasileiro.AbstractThe article aims to discuss the conflicts of framing and counter-framing raised by the environmental mobilization of the Catholic Church in Brazil. In the first part, it is presented how the Brazilian priests maneuvered, in the last decades, the frameworks established by the official Catholic ecotheology created in the Vatican. Then, the analysis proceeds to the main characteristics of the anti-environmentalist contests carried out by the Instituto Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (IPCO) [Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute], a kind of think tank of Brazilian Catholic conservatism. Finally, some convergences between the frames proposed by the IPCO and members of the current federal government in Brazil are examined.