scholarly journals Global perspectives and impacts on Canada's environment

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. (Bert) Reid
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Sustained Use ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Population Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The greatest threat to the future world environment is that of the uncontrolled population increase and the resulting severe land and air degradation. Global population in 1990 was estimated at 5.3 billion, and is expected to double to 10 billion early in the next century. The UN Population Fund Report of 1990 stated "we cannot solve the environmental crisis without solving the population crisis". An equal danger to a stable and acceptable global environment are the excessive demands and wasteful use of resources by the Western world's society. Twenty-five percent of the population uses 80% of the worlds resources. Some authorities state that "the impact of each Canadian on the environment is the equivalent of that of 40 to 50 third world residents." Canada will be increasingly impacted by these global environmental issues whether we like it or not. The greatest threat will be that we do not recognize this fact and that we do not prepare ourselves for sustained resource use. However, there are great opportunities for Canadian resource planners and users to play a leading role in adopting a sustained, long term forestry vocation in respect of the use of all its resources; and demonstrate to the global community how essential this is for a stable economy, a moderate lifestyle, and a protected environment. We have the technological capability and the proven expertise to achieve this, if we care to use it appropriately. The major task is "selling" this integrated sustained use or sharing concept to Canadian society because of the required sacrifices in lifestyles, economic costs, and certain environmental degradation. In the short term, progress can be made with public input to commissions, hearings and the like; but in the long term, a rational understanding of sustained forest use and conservation can only be achieved through education in all forms at all ages. An appreciation of global forest and related environmental issues, and their impacts on Canada, can facilitate positive Canadian action to practical sustained use of all forest and natural resources, in both a national and global context.

scholarly journals Assessing the impact of free-roaming dog population management through systems modelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M. Smith ◽  
Rupert J. Quinnell ◽  
Conor Goold ◽  
Alex M. Munteanu ◽  
Sabine Hartmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Fertility Control ◽  
Population Management ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Efficient Reduction ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Responsible Ownership ◽  
The Impact

AbstractFree-roaming dogs can present significant challenges to public health, wildlife conservation, and livestock production. Their own welfare may also be a concern, as free-roaming dogs can experience poor health and welfare. Dog population management is widely conducted to mitigate these issues. To ensure efficient use of resources, it is critical that effective, cost-efficient, and high-welfare strategies are identified. The dog population comprises distinct subpopulations characterised by their restriction status and level of ownership, but the assessment of dog population management often fails to consider the impact of the interaction between subpopulations on management success. We present a system dynamics model that incorporates an interactive and dynamic system of dog subpopulations. We identify that methods incorporating both fertility control and responsible ownership interventions (a reduction in abandonment and an increase in shelter adoptions) have the greatest potential to reduce free-roaming dog population sizes over longer periods of time, whilst being cost-effective and improving overall welfare. We suggest that future management should be applied at high levels of coverage and should target all sources of population increase, such as abandonment, births, and free-roaming owned dogs, to ensure effective and cost-efficient reduction in free-roaming dog numbers.

scholarly journals Decube Framework: An Introduction to a New Energy Modelling and Planning Process for Sustainable Utilisation of Pakistan’s Energy Resources

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (4II) ◽  
pp. 499-515
Author(s):  
Adeel Ghayur
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Change World ◽  
Fast Tracking ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Impact

Sustainable Development—which ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not restrict their use by future generations [UNEP (2007)]—is the most significant challenge facing today’s governments. Consequently, the notion of Sustainable Development [Matthews (1979)] has become a fundamental part of any policy and decision carried out at national and international levels. If the current acceleration of human advancement is not reduced it poses the biggest threat to long term sustainability of the entire globe, arising from the development and industrialisation in the twenty-first century, dwarfing the impact of twentieth century. This further compounds the work of policy-makers faced with the challenge of fast tracking the economies of developing countries. Since the Industrial Revolution energy has become the lifeline of economic development and progress. This led to exponential increase in use of fossil fuels. However, rampant, unchecked and accelerated burning of fossil fuels in the twentieth century has resulted disastrous and long term damaging effects to earth’s climate. Consequently, world has begun this century with the aim “to develop a coherent and practical approach to climate change [World Energy Council (2007)].” “Safe, environmentally sound and economically viable energy pathway that will sustain human progress into the distant future is clearly imperative [WCEW (1987)]” to achieve the above goal. As a result environment has become an integral part of any energy system and policy. On the whole today’s energy policies and decisions have to be carefully woven into an intricate web traversing the boundaries of economy, environment and society.

Place and role of rebranding in increasing market capitalization of modern energy companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Ye. S. Rychina ◽  
A. Ye. Uzhanov
Keyword(s):  
International Markets ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
Market Capitalization ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company

The author estimates the impact of the rebranding process on the capitalization of modern energy companies.Based on the results of a comprehensive analysis, the main theoretical aspects of the brand renewal process have been identified and presented. Examples of the world practice of rebranding in the energy sector are given on the examples of such corporations as AGL Australia, Eversource (formerly Northeast Utilities), Statoil, Gas Natural Fenosa, PJSC Rosseti. The concept of initial brand is studied, and the analysis of rebranding in one of Russia’s largest energy companies, the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, is presented from the concept to implementation. It is estimated that due to rebranding, all subsidiaries and organizations of this company will be united under a common brand name, which should further unite all the separate parts of the holding into a single streamlined system. This will further enhance both the company’s reputation and economic standing on international markets. The potential and authority of the Rosatom brand are forecast to rise, with the corporation becoming more competitive and attractive for investors. In the long term, this will definitely affect the total capitalization of Rosatom. According to all forecasts, this will rise, bringing the company good profits, along with considerable proceeds to the Russian Federation budget.The research methodology is consistent with conventional boundaries, with a full set of approaches typical of research of a social phenomenon, such as the company's rebranding activities. As a hypothesis, a convincing and proven assumption has been put forward that the brand has become as important factor in competitiveness as the tangible properties of company products. Rebranding is therefore taking a leading role in increasing the market capitalization and competitiveness of a company in international markets.

Observations and Recommendations

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-113
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oil Revenues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The future of tourism and communication technology are intertwined. As Toffler observed with other revolutionary change, an inter-relationship will be difficult to predict but rewards will be substantial to those who are ahead of the curve. Two critical forces will continue to collide: increased democratization of tourism and increased focus on sustainable use of resources. The growth in incomes and the expansion of low-cost air service make China, India, and a few other developing countries the most rapidly growing tourism markets. This is particularly the case in parts of the Islamic world, resulting in rapidly expanding numbers of Muslims who seek to undertake the Haj. As detailed in a case study, this has resulted in demolition of much of ancient Mecca to make way for tourist hotels, a case where it appears the Saudi government is more interested in offsetting declining oil revenues with tourism revenues than with preservation of a unique tourism asset. Elsewhere the threat of over-tourism is evident in many places. In Europe, this is most evident in Venice where as tourism has expanded, the prices charged for overnight accommodations have shot up, forcing long-term residents to move out of the city and to endure commutes to their places of work back in the city. Local government has a choice – see the asset degrade or limit tourism. The market is well suited to limit tourism, but if the government imposes fees, say a day pass to enter the city, is this an equitable option (i.e., potentially making the city available only to wealthy visitors)? The nation of Bhutan has already imposed a high fee for visitors as a method to maintain the nation's happiness index. The future of tourism is uncertain as is the impact that technology change and concern regarding sustainability.

scholarly journals Synchronization of energy consumption by human societies throughout the Holocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (40) ◽  
pp. 9962-9967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Freeman ◽  
Jacopo A. Baggio ◽  
Erick Robinson ◽  
David A. Byers ◽  
Eugenia Gayo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Global Comparison ◽  
Sustained Use ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Energy Consuming

We conduct a global comparison of the consumption of energy by human populations throughout the Holocene and statistically quantify coincident changes in the consumption of energy over space and time—an ecological phenomenon known as synchrony. When populations synchronize, adverse changes in ecosystems and social systems may cascade from society to society. Thus, to develop policies that favor the sustained use of resources, we must understand the processes that cause the synchrony of human populations. To date, it is not clear whether human societies display long-term synchrony or, if they do, the potential causes. Our analysis begins to fill this knowledge gap by quantifying the long-term synchrony of human societies, and we hypothesize that the synchrony of human populations results from (i) the creation of social ties that couple populations over smaller scales and (ii) much larger scale, globally convergent trajectories of cultural evolution toward more energy-consuming political economies with higher carrying capacities. Our results suggest that the process of globalization is a natural consequence of evolutionary trajectories that increase the carrying capacities of human societies.

The Developmental State in Ecological Modernization and the Politics of Environmental Framings: The Case of Singapore and Implications for East Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Mei Ling Wong
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Policy Concern ◽  
The Impact

In East Asia, climate change as a policy concern has been a late developer. The last decade, however, has seen the mainstreaming of environmental issues in core policy circles, but in the form of market-friendly, pro-industrial development framings. This paper problematizes such environmental framings by looking at the politics of state-led ecological modernization and the institutional reforms that have emerged out of it. It argues that State-led ecological modernization necessarily leads to environmental framings that are too narrowly defined by state and industrial interests - hence the focus on carbon emissions, energy security and the impact on Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The State-driven assumption that society can modernize itself out of its environmental crisis through greater advancements in technological development also ignores the fact that this process often leads to the creation of other environmental and social problems, which in turn undermines the fundamental goals of stability and sustainability. Civil society needs to be given greater space in the policy and framing processes in order to have a more balanced policy approach to environmental reform in a more equitable way.

scholarly journals Analysis of the impact of sub-acute care activities on consumption of hospital resources in Milan

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M G Perri ◽  
S Zanardi ◽  
C Mosconi ◽  
M Mosillo ◽  
D Nicolosi
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Daily Rate ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Hospital Resources ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background In 2011, a new health service called 'sub-acute care activities' (SA) has been provided by Lombardy. It is a protected hospitalization of patients, especially elderlies, suffering for clinical issues following an acute disease or for non-complex clinical failures due to a chronic pathology. This is a hospitalization area between the hospital and home, created to reduce the number of post-acute hospitalized patients who can't be discharged. The goal of this study is the analysis of the hospitalizations in the SA setting within medical structures located in the Metropolitan area of Milan. Methods The data extracted from the hospital discharge card database, is focused on hospitalizations in SA that occurred from 2016 to 2019. The analysis describes yearly production, the characteristics of hospitalizations and patients, finally some trends. Results 16,395 hospitalizations in SA were analyzed (0.7% of the total). Some data are constant in time: hospitalizations (1%), age (average 79), days of hospitalization (average 26). Patients coming from public hospitals (from 28% to 22%) are decreasing while those coming from other in-patient admission typologies within the same organization (from 44% to 54%) are increasing. The major diagnostic categories are related to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Over the 85% of hospitalizations are paid with the highest daily rate among those allowed by law. Talking about discharge typologies, 57% of patients return home, 20% are re-transferred to the acute ward, 16% are sent to rehabilitation/long-term care while 7% have died. Conclusions The use of the highest daily tariff and the high number of patients who need to be re-transferred to the acute ward place, gives many doubts on how appropriate is allocation of resources and about the accuracy of admissions in the SA unit during the patient care path. We're planning to return to these issues with further targeted studies. Key messages The analysis showed constant characteristics of SA activities during the four years. Data showed that there may be management issues in the appropriate use of resources in SA assistence.

scholarly journals “BRTT” (Clean, Neat, Orderly, Organized) Program as a Pioneer of Daarut Tauhid Santri with Ecological Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
Dea Mutiara
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
The People ◽  
Living Things ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Situation

Daarut Tauhid as one of the educational institutions that study religion proves that an islamic boarding school does not only deepen the Holy Qur’an and hadith; but also does real activities in the society. Researchers are interested in capturing the process of implementing the "BRTT" program to the ecological intelligence of the Santri[1] of Daarut Tauhid. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The subjects of this study include the santri from Daarut Tauhid, the Quality Control Team and Daarut Tauhid Principal. The data are collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the background of implementing this program is the desire to make islamic boarding schools as pioneers of a clean, neat, orderly, and organized attitude to its santri and to the people who live nearby. The process of implementing the BRTT program is carried out in two categories: internally and externally. The obstacles encountered in the implementation of the BRTT program were self-habit constraints and fatigueness. The factors that influence the students in being disciplined in implementing BRTT are self-consciousness and environmental habit. The ecological intelligence of the students of Daarut Tauhid consists of seven aspects: (1) understanding environmental issues and problems from the perspective of ecological balance and sustainability, (2) conducting BRTT starting with a rule, mandatory policies which gradually become a habit and are inherent in self, (3) ways of solving problems creatively and applying knowledge in a new situation (ecological context), (4) oftenly assess the impact and the effects of human actions and technology on the environment, (5) oftenly take into account of the long-term consequences in taking a decisions (environmental context), (6) knowing indicators of clean and healthy living behavior, also (7) ways to give attention, empathy, and care for others and other living things.[1] Santri is the students of islamic boarding school

scholarly journals Nexus between Issue of Environmental Pollution and the Urban Population: Evidence of Economic Growth in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. Layouting
Author(s):  
Lutfi Asnan Qodri ◽  
Setyo Tri Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Vector Error Correction ◽  
Oil Palm Industry ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to analyze the factors that cause climate change that occurs in Indonesia. From every effort to increase economic growth, some elements are sacrificed. The Oil Palm Industry, high levels of CO2 emissions, Gini ratio index, and population increase in urban areas are variables used in this research. This research was conducted for thirty years, from 1990 to 2020. The analysis model used was the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). The estimation results show that the palm oil industry, the impact of CO2 emissions, and the increase in urban population have a positive effect in the long term but do not impact economic growth in the long term because one of them is environmental quality degradation. Therefore, sometimes every effort to increase economic growth must be accompanied by mitigation of environmental impacts that will affect the short and long term.

Suppressed, but Not Forgotten

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Meier ◽  
Anja König ◽  
Samuel Parak ◽  
Katharina Henke
Keyword(s):  
Memory Trace ◽  
Thought Suppression ◽  
Test Phase ◽  
Indirect Test ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Test Experiment ◽  
And Control ◽  
Cue Words ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of thought suppression over a 1-week interval. In two experiments with 80 university students each, we used the think/no-think paradigm in which participants initially learn a list of word pairs (cue-target associations). Then they were presented with some of the cue words again and should either respond with the target word or avoid thinking about it. In the final test phase, their memory for the initially learned cue-target pairs was tested. In Experiment 1, type of memory test was manipulated (i.e., direct vs. indirect). In Experiment 2, type of no-think instructions was manipulated (i.e., suppress vs. substitute). Overall, our results showed poorer memory for no-think and control items compared to think items across all experiments and conditions. Critically, however, more no-think than control items were remembered after the 1-week interval in the direct, but not in the indirect test (Experiment 1) and with thought suppression, but not thought substitution instructions (Experiment 2). We suggest that during thought suppression a brief reactivation of the learned association may lead to reconsolidation of the memory trace and hence to better retrieval of suppressed than control items in the long term.

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