Individual Duties Regarding Global Environmental Problems The Example of Climate Change

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lieske Voget-Kleschin ◽  
Christian Baatz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Individual Duties

scholarly journals The results of applied research for solutions to environmental problems, expected!

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Dolly Priatna ◽  
Kathryn A. Monk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Restoration ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Ngos ◽  
Global Environmental

With this issue, the Indonesia Journal of Applied Environmental Studies (InJAST) enters its second year, having been first published in April 2020 just as the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading globally. In the first two issues, InJAST published 13 articles, which were the results of research and ideas from academia, researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and members of conservation NGOs. Within its first year, the InJAST website has been visited by around 1,500 visitors from 50+ countries.  Although the majority were from Indonesia, 30% were from across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and included the USA, UK, Australia, and India.One of InJAST's missions is to provide a vehicle for academia (students and lecturers), members of environmental NGOs, and young researchers, particularly from Indonesia, who are just starting to publish their ideas, literature reviews and research findings or articles in scientific journals. InJAST was also developed to accommodate scientific papers related to broader environmental topics, but as yet, most articles have focused on plant/wildlife ecology, nature conservation, and forest restoration (61%). Others were the result of the studies on environmental education (8%) and on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other environmental issues (31%).As we start the third decade of the 21st century, the environmental challenges we face are ever more complex and demanding. The UN’s global action plan for the next 10 years set out in the "UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", puts forward special measures to achieve a world that is fairer, more prosperous, and more respectful of the environment. The main global environmental challenges that, according to the UN, must be resolved in this decade, are climate change mitigation and adaptation, pollution problems and their effects on health, protecting oceans, the energy transitions and renewables, a sustainable food model, protecting biodiversity, sustainable urban development and mobility, hydric stress and water scarcity, extreme meteorological phenomena, and overpopulation and waste management. As academics, environmental researchers, and members of environmental NGOs, we can and should support the UN agenda by seeking the solutions to these major global environmental problems that affect all of us. We do this by carrying out relevant research and, just as importantly, publishing them in scientific journals so that we can disseminate our findings as widely as possible and suggested interventions can be trialed and then implemented on the ground.This new issue of InJAST contains several papers focusing on plant ecology, endangered species conservation, and forest restoration, all of which are closely related to one of the main global problems identified by the UN, namely protecting biodiversity. Another paper analyses determinants and typology of hydrometeorological disasters that may relate to the problem of extreme meteorological phenomena. Strong pro-environmental legislation and government regulations are very important in implementing existing environmental policies, and environmental awareness and responsibility are also important to assess whether people are willing to participate in addressing global environmental problems at the local level. This is explored in two other papers in this issue of InJAST.We reflect further that we are in a hugely different place from where we were at the start of 2020. The Covid pandemic, obviously a global tragedy, has changed many people’s behavioral patterns and our subsequent impact of nature and the environment. It seems to have in many ways heightened people's awareness of nature and environmental issues, and the relationships between unsustainable production and consumption and the nature and climate change crises. A plethora of new research is emerging on these interdisciplinary questions and we look forward to submissions tackling these questions in future editions of InJAST.Finally, as Editors-in-Chief, we have been working hard to improve and expand our peer review community, as well as the processes of online submission, reviewing and publishing.  We are delighted to be presenting Volume 2 No 1 of InJAST and we encourage our colleagues from all sectors to submit their papers for the next issue.

Introduction: Infectious diseases

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 625-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON A. LEVIN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Endemic Diseases ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Land Use Practices

In any discussion of the great challenges facing humanity in addressing global environmental problems, a small number of topics automatically rise to the top: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the sustainability of the services ecosystems provide us. But no threats to human welfare are more urgent than those posed by infectious diseases; we suffer already the devastating consequences of the emergence of new diseases such as HIV, the reemergence of old ones such as tuberculosis, and simply the increasing toll of endemic diseases such as malaria. Non-human animals play fundamental roles in the spread of many of these diseases – as reservoirs, as vectors, and as cauldrons for the creation of new types. Land-use practices and environmental management both affect the persistence and spread of endemic diseases, such as malaria. Furthermore, as animal populations increase their ranges, due to climate change and human-facilitated alien introductions, the potential for disease spread also increases. These factors, together with the increasing mobility of the human population, conspire to make these environmental problems of great and immediate concern.

Conclusion

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Multiple Loci ◽  
Private Authority ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
Over Time

This book has examined how private rule makers are contributing to the management of global environmental problems by rethinking the meaning of private authority. It has shown that private authority is diffused through and among a diverse set of actors, creating multiple loci for rule-making and governance. It has also distinguished two different types of private authority: delegated authority and entrepreneurial authority. This concluding chapter summarizes the book's findings and considers their theoretical implications—namely, appropriate ways to evaluate the effects of private authority in world politics. It suggests potential contributions of private authority to the climate change regime as it moves forward. Finally, it outlines future avenues for inquiry, situating this study within a much broader set of questions about institutional complexity and density and the effects of private authority over time.

Globality through Local Eyes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Avenell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environment And Development

This chapter explores Japanese groups’ involvement at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Responding to debates over global environmental problems such as climate change, Japanese activists argued that the rights of marginalized groups needed to be recognized when formulating countermeasures. They sympathized with advocates from developing countries who argued that it was unfair to demand restraint now when the advanced countries had developed without consideration for resource usage or environmental destruction for hundreds of years. Japanese activists pointed to the violation of the rights of marginalized groups in Japan as a result of industrial pollution. They suggested that similar patterns of discrimination were at work between rich and poor countries and hence, any solutions to global environmental problems needed to consider the situation of these disadvantaged groups. The chapter argues that the experience of environmental injustices in Japan deeply shaped this perspective among some Japanese activists.

Liberal Environmentalism and Global Environmental Governance

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Earth Summit ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
International Environmental Treaties

Global environmental governance rests on a set of norms best characterized by the label “liberal environmentalism.” The 1992 Earth Summit catalyzed the process of institutionalizing these norms, which predicate environmental pro tection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. To support this claim, this article identifies the specific norms institutionalized since Rio that undergird international environmental treaties, policies and programs. It also explains why a shift toward liberal environmentalism occurred from earlier, very different, bases of environmental governance. The implications of this shift are then outlined, with examples drawn from responses to climate change, forest protection and use, and biosafety. The article is not an endorsement of liberal environmentalism. Rather, it shows that institutions that have developed in response to global environmental problems support particular kinds of values and goals, with important implications for the constraints and opportunities to combat the world's most serious environmental problems.

scholarly journals Development of Microplastic Research in ASEAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 324 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Khodijah ◽  
Sayyidah Nur Habibah
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Marine Organisms ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Asean Country

Microplastic research is currently an exciting trend along with global environmental problems. The purpose of this study is to review the development of microplastic research in ASEAN. The researc uses a systematic review method by searching for the keyword “microplastic” and the name of the ASEAN country on the Google Scholar website, Science Direct, and other research paper provider websites. Papers reviewed in 2018 to August 2021 period were then classified based on the components analyzed. The results showed that based on the research location category, the majority of microplastic research was carried out in Vietnam (12/50 articles). The category of research object focused on marine organisms more than terrestrial organisms, the category of microplastic concentration varied because the microplastic sampling method was not standardized, the category of microplastic form dominated by the form of fiber; commonly found in coastal areas. The socio-economic category is not much related to the circular economy. To conclude, microplastic research still has opportunities, especially from a socio-economic perspective.

scholarly journals The Role of Libraries in the Information Support of Global Environmental Problems

2011 ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Elena F. Bychkova ◽  
Anna V. Krukova
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Scientific Seminar ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental

On the scientific seminar “The Role of Libraries in the information support of global environmental problems. The problem of using nuclear energy”, which has taken place on April 28, 2011 at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology

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