scholarly journals Development Of A Web Based Environmental Impact, Monitoring And Assessment Course

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Guensler ◽  
Christopher Conklin ◽  
Paul S. Chinowsky
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Impact Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Impact Monitoring

Italo Calvino’s Six Memos as ethical imperative in J.R. Carpenter’s The Gathering Cloud

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Thomas Henry Wright
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Italo Calvino ◽  
Electronic Literature ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Contemporary Media

Abstract In 1985, Italo Calvino wrote a series of lectures (later published as ‘memos’) in which he proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, ‘crystal’ exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. Though never a writer of electronic literature, Calvino has frequently been associated or referenced in relation to digital works. J.R. Carpenter’s web-based work The Gathering Cloud (2016) (hereafter TGC) exhibits Calvino’s values. TGC is informed by Howard’s 1803 Essay on the Modifications of Clouds. Howard’s ‘frontispiece’ and five ‘plates’ are used in Carpenter’s web-based work. Poetry is then superimposed on these repurposed illustrations. Situated ‘within’ the poetry, animated gif collages play. Where Calvino in his memos writes that he considers the virtues of the binary opposites of his values (i.e., weight, lingering, ‘flame’ exactitude, ambiguity, singularity, and inconsistency) no less compelling, Carpenter’s work suggests that Calvino’s values (or rather the absence or removal of their binary opposites) are not only preferable in terms of contemporary literary challenges, but an ethical imperative in relation to environmental impact as it relates to contemporary media, dissemination, and indeed everyday life. In this analysis of TGC, Calvino’s values will be discussed in relation to each of the work’s six sections (i.e., the ‘frontispiece’ and five ‘plates’).

Parasite diversity as an indicator of environmental change? An example from tropical grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) mariculture in Indonesia

Parasitology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 138 (13) ◽  
pp. 1793-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. PALM ◽  
S. KLEINERTZ ◽  
S. RÜCKERT
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Fish Parasites ◽  
Impact Monitoring ◽  
Marine Habitats ◽  
Term Change ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Epinephelus Fuscoguttatus ◽  
Net Cages ◽  
Environmental Impact Monitoring

SUMMARYFish parasites are used to monitor long-term change in finfish grouper mariculture in Indonesia. A total of 210Epinephelus fuscoguttatuswere sampled in six consecutive years between 2003/04 and 2008/09 and examined for parasites. The fish were obtained from floating net cages of a commercially run mariculture facility that opened in 2001. The fauna was species rich, consisting of ten ecto- and 18 endoparasite species. The ectoparasite diversity and composition was relatively stable, with the monogeneansPseudorhabdosynochusspp. (83–100% prevalence, Berger-Parker Index of 0·82–0·97) being the predominant taxon. Tetraphyllidean larvaeScolex pleuronectisand the nematodesTerranovasp. andRaphidascarissp. 1 were highly abundant in 2003/04–2005/06 (max. prevalenceS. pleuronectis40%,Terranovasp. 57%,Raphidascarissp. 1 100%), and drastically reduced until 2008/09. These parasites together with the prevalence ofTrichodinaspp., ecto-/endoparasite ratio and endoparasite diversity illustrate a significant change in holding conditions over the years. This can be either referred to a definite change in management methods such as feed use and fish treatment, or a possible transition of a relatively undisturbed marine environment into a more affected habitat. By visualizing all parameters within a single diagram, we demonstrate that fish parasites are useful bioindicators to monitor long-term change in Indonesian grouper mariculture. This also indicates that groupers can be used to monitor environmental change in the wild. Further taxonomic and systematic efforts in less sampled regions significantly contributes to this new application, supporting fish culture and environmental impact monitoring also in other tropical marine habitats.

scholarly journals SENSE tool: easy-to-use web-based tool to calculate food product environmental impact

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saioa Ramos ◽  
Lohitzune Larrinaga ◽  
Unai Albinarrate ◽  
Niels Jungbluth ◽  
Gyda Mjöll Ingolfsdottir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Web Based
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