scholarly journals Interdisciplinary Foundations for Environmental and Sustainability Ethics: An Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dereniowska ◽  
Jason Matzke
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Value Conflict ◽  
Sustainability Ethics ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Environmental Inequalities

This article introduces the special issue for Ethics in Progress entitled Environment, ethics, and sustainability: Crossroads of our future. Despite four decades of intense development in the field of academic and professional environmental ethics, environmental problems pose ever increasing ethical challenges. The discipline continues to undergo a transition from focusing on theoretical questions such as what kinds of beings deserve moral standing toward greater inclusion of the multifaceted dimensions of sustainability and environmental issues and policy formation. In this introductory paper, we present the development, some of the key disciplinary debates, and the continuing and emerging challenges in environmentalism as it intersects with sustainability. We emphasize the importance of increasing the range of interdisciplinary perspectives brought to bear on practical ethics. The papers included in this special issue reflect both the challenges that arise as environmental ethics continues to expand and explore new issues at the intersection of ethics, sustainability, and environmental research, and the interdisciplinarity required in our search to better understand matters related to environmental history, environmental inequalities, social and environmental value conflict, inter-generational justice, and ethical components of the human relationship with the world.

scholarly journals Message from editor

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haluk Soran
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
World Journal ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Environmental Biology ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Environmental Informatics ◽  
Environmental Biophysics

<p>It is the great honor for us to publish fifth issue of World Journal of Environmental Research</p><p> </p><p>The scope of World Journal of Environmental Research includes, but is not limited to; the following major topics as Environmental agriculture, Environmental biology, Environmental biotechnology, Environmental engineering, Environmental health, Environmental nanotechnology, Environmental microbiology, Environmental toxicology, Environmental pollution and monitoring, Environmental zoology, Environmental ethics and biosciences, Environmental informatics, Environmental biochemistry, Environmental genetics, Environmental botany, Environmental issues related to biosciences, Environmental biophysics, Environmental geology, environmental education, environmental history  The major criteria in the review and the selection process concern the significance of the contribution to the area of  environment.</p><p> </p><p>Water sample, politics of greening, water quality, Hydrogeological modeling have been included into this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2015 Volume.</p><p> </p><p>A total of seven (10) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been rigor peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of two (4) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.</p><p> </p><p>We thank all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.</p><p> </p><p>Best regard</p>

tti2002: Introduction and Conference Overview

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Robson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Convention ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Selection Of

This special issue of Industry and Higher Education is devoted to a selection of papers and reports from tti2002, an international conference on technology transfer and innovation held at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, UK in July 2002. In this introductory paper, the author provides the context of the conference, summarizes the presentations given by invited speakers and offers personal reflections on the event.

Romance and Latin approaches to word structure features

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo ◽  
Isabel Pujol Payet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The interest in morphology and its interaction with the other grammatical components has increased in the last twenty years, with new approaches coming into stage so as to get more accurate analyses of the processes involved in morphological construal. This special issue is a valuable contribution to this field of study. It gathers a selection of five papers from the Morphology and Syntax workshop (University of Girona, July 2017) which, on the basis of Romance and Latin phenomena, discuss word structure and its decomposition into hierarchies of features. Even though the papers share a compositional view of lexical items, they adopt different formal theoretical approaches to the lexicon-syntax interface, thus showing the benefit of bearing in mind the possibilities that each framework provides. This introductory paper serves as a guide for the readers of this special collection and offers an overview of the topics dealt in each contribution.

scholarly journals The Governance of Transnational Environmental Harm: Addressing New Modes of Accountability/Responsibility

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mason
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Environmental Harm ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Environmental Politics ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Introductory Paper

Transboundary and global environmental harm present substantial challenges to state-centered (territorial) modalities of accountability and responsibility. The globalization of environmental degradation has triggered regulatory responses at various jurisdictional scales. These governance efforts, featuring various articulations of state and/or private authority, have struggled to address so-called “accountability deficits” in global environmental politics. Yet, it has also become clear that accountability and responsibility norms forged in domestic regulatory contexts cannot simply be transposed across borders. This special issue explores various conceptual perspectives on accountability and responsibility for transnational harm, and examines their application to different actor groups and environmental governance regimes. This introductory paper provides an overview of the major theoretical positions and examines some of the analytical challenges raised by the transnational (re)scaling of accountability and responsibility norms.

scholarly journals Special Issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics: Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol Special issue on... ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Molineaux ◽  
Bettelou Los ◽  
Martti Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Data Visualisation ◽  
Complex Materials ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Methodological Research ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Periods

International audience The advent of ever-larger and more diverse historical corpora for different historical periods and linguistic varieties has led to the impossibility of obtaining simple, direct-and yet balancedrepresentations of the core patterns in the data. In order to draw insights from heterogeneous and complex materials of this type, historical linguists have begun to reach for a growing number of data visualisation techniques, from the statistical, to the cartographical, the network-based and beyond. An exploration of the state of this art was the objective of a workshop at the 2018 International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, from whence most of the materials of this Special Issue are drawn. This brief introductory paper outlines the background and relevance of this line of methodological research and presents a summary of the individual papers that make up the collection.

Environmental Ethics in the Military

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Marina Malamud
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Operational Systems ◽  
The Military

Environmental security can be framed in environmental risks towards security, such as extreme climatic events that incite new conflicts in local populations, and the security impact on the environment as a result of human-induced damage to the ecosystem. As a result, the fact that climatic-related events can pose a threat to security and the environmental footprint can undermine peace has thus raised a concern in many militaries of democratic nations. This research article introduces the mainstream environmental security literature through the geopolitical, human security and biocentric perspectives and main social trends to analyze ethical issues in the relationship between ecology and the armed forces. It is argued that there are two major ethical challenges for the military: the securitization of the development agenda that can lead to a militarized conservation in conflict areas; and the search for a corporate sense of responsibility in terms of efficient and still ecologically sustainable operational systems that comply with international environmental agreements.

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Software Mathematical Models for Human Understanding

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1371-1374
Author(s):  
Iaakov Exman
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Introductory Paper

The unrelenting trend of larger and larger sizes of Software Systems and data has made software comprehensibility an increasingly difficult problem. However, a tacit consensus that human understanding of software is essential for most software related activities, stimulated software developers to embed comprehensibility in their systems’ design. On the other hand, recent empirical successes of Deep Learning neural networks, in several application areas, seem to challenge the tacit consensus: is software comprehensibility a necessity, or just superfluous? This introductory paper, to the 2020 special issue on Theoretical Software Engineering, offers reasons justifying our standpoint on the referred controversy. This paper also points out to specific techniques enabling Human Understanding of software systems relevant to this issue’s papers.

scholarly journals The concept of socio-environmental transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies in the Holocene: An introduction to the special issue

The Holocene ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1517-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Müller ◽  
Wiebke Kirleis
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Transformations of human societies and environments are closely interwoven. Due to improved possibilities of paleoecological reconstruction and archaeological methods, we are now in a position to empirically collect detailed data from a variety of records. The Collaborative Research Centre 1266 ‘Scales of Transformation’ has developed a concept in which both deductive and inductive transformation dimensions are compared on different temporal and spatial scales. This concept includes the connection between the environmental and social spheres, which are often inseparable. Accordingly, a holistic principle of socio-environmental research is developed, which is exemplified by the contributions to this special issue of The Holocene.

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