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Grace-McCaskey, Cynthia A., Briana Iatarola, Alex K. Manda, and J. Randall Etheridge. "Eco-Ethnography and Citizen Science: Lessons from Within." Society & Natural Resources 32, no. 10 (April 1, 2019): 1123–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1584343.
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Verstraeten, Guido JM, and Willem W. Verstraeten. "From Citizen to Cytizen. How to Escape from Cyberstates?" International Journal of Social Science Studies 6, no. 1 (November 23, 2017): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v6i1.2695.
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The Modern Western state is characterized by unmediated individual access to wellness, health, safety and liberal human rights. The Newtonian conception of space and time makes formal room for a discursive public area with the citizen and the public institutes in the margin, while participation and ethical responsibility is a prejudice of good citizenship. It is a necessary condition of consistency and coherence of the nation. To date, global migration and multiculturalism threaten those necessary basic conditions of Western states´ political equilibrium. To challenge the actual global phenomena national states transform into virtual places of fear dominated by cybernetics, digital bureaucracy while citizen’s identity is mirrored by the efficiency and unisexual beauty ideal of cyborgs. The substantive conception of technology is government’s tool box to realize the cyberstate while citizen reduce to “cytizen”.In order to escape from this global grey, we propose a different conception of space and time namely the Leibnizian conception of pluralistic independent participating worlds. Moreover, we modify Leopold’s Land-Ethics by introducing the transpersonal identification claim of Warwick Fox inside the common Land so-called eco-homeland while the care for the foreigner serves as paradigmatic core attitude to all participants of the eco-homeland. So we constitute a common eco-refuge, similar to the ideas of Bookchin´s eco- anarchistic ideas but avoiding his dialectic ideal conception of the Land and its participants.
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Lee, Elsa Ukanyezi. "The eco-club: a place for the becoming active citizen?" Environmental Education Research 23, no. 4 (February 25, 2016): 515–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1149552.
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Makuch, Karen E., and Miriam R. Aczel. "Eco-Citizen Science for Social Good: Promoting Child Well-Being, Environmental Justice, and Inclusion." Research on Social Work Practice 30, no. 2 (December 11, 2019): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731519890404.
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This article examines the benefits and challenges of engaging children in environmental citizen science, defined as science conducted by nonspecialists under the direction of professional scientists, to promote social good. Citizen science addresses two central elements of the social good model—environmental justice and inclusion with particular attention to diversity in age, gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in addressing environmental injustice that is more prevalent in underrepresented communities. This article evaluates how participation in citizen science projects focused on the environment (eco-citizen science) benefits the child’s development, contributes to science, and leads to commitment to environmental stewardship and justice as adults. Our work offers a novel contribution to the discourse on social good and social justice through explicitly calling for children to be included in environmental citizen science projects. We examine the benefits and challenges of involving children in scientific projects and discuss implications for policy, practice, and future research.
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Heggen, Marianne Presthus, Barbara Maria Sageidet, Nina Goga, Liv Torunn Grindheim, Veronica Bergan, Inger Wallem Krempig, Tove Aagnes Utsi, and Anne Myklebust Lynngård. "Children as eco-citizens?" Nordic Studies in Science Education 15, no. 4 (November 26, 2019): 387–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nordina.6186.
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Education for sustainability in early childhood tends to focus on practices and advocacy, rather than on the aims of this education. We suggest that the aim should be to consider children as being and becoming eco-citizens. This suggestion is built on an exploration of children as eco-citizens. With theories concerning child-sized citizenship we suggest a description of children and adults as being and becoming eco-citizen. We explore this through the fields of nature connection and science and children’s curiosity. We find that environmentally friendly practices as gardening and harvesting wild food show how children’s eco-citizenship is realizable. We support this additionally by references to how children’s literature, seeing how children depicted as eco-citizens can support the notion of children as eco-citizens. Through these analyses, we conclude that children should be viewed as being and becoming eco-citizens.
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van den Burg, Sander W. K., Arthur P. J. Mol, and Gert Spaargaren. "Consumer-Oriented Monitoring and Environmental Reform." Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 21, no. 3 (June 2003): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/c0034j.
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The monitoring of environmental flows is usually considered an important first step in realising environmental reform of production and consumption. When citizen-consumers are involved, monitoring is frequently associated with surveillance and social control by the powerful (governmental and nongovernmental) providers of goods and services. The authors investigate the future perspectives for monitoring that empowers citizen-consumers. Post-Fordism, chain inversion, and liberalisation allow for consumer-oriented monitoring, which increases the countervailing power of end-users and strengthens the potentials of citizen-consumers to change the infrastructures of consumption. Several monitoring projects, for example eco-teams and Scorecard, are dealt with in some detail. It is concluded that consumer-oriented monitoring schemes do seem to be of considerable importance.
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Skarzauskiene, Aelita, and Monika Mačiulienė. "Citizen Science Addressing Challenges of Sustainability." Sustainability 13, no. 24 (December 17, 2021): 13980. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413980.
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Practices for the engagement of citizens and other research and innovation (R and I) stakeholders in science can be found aplenty in the existing literature, all along with principles, guidelines and tools providing meaningful guidance for practitioners in research funding and performing, organizations (RPFOs) and helping them achieve high quality and responsible citizen science projects addressing sustainability challenges. Such guidance, however, is scarce when it comes to setting up and running transdisciplinary citizen science eco systems, where projects can be systematically initiated by different stakeholders and carried out in a dedicated supportive environment. Based on literature review and series of semi-structured interviews with quadruple helix stakeholders in Lithuania, this paper provides a current overview of the perceptions, concerns, motivational factors, and obstacles with regard to participation in citizen science activities.
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Guo, Jingfu. "A Study on the Strategies of Eco-civilization Construction." Journal of Social and Development Sciences 2, no. 3 (September 15, 2011): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v2i3.664.
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During the primitive civilization and the agricultural civilization, human beings had limited understanding of nature, while the industrial civilization has created unprecedented material wealth and great convenience, the natural resources and ecological environment have been depleted and damaged. This paper illustrates that eco-civilization is the integral product of material, spiritual and regulation achievement; it’s the cultural and ethical manifestation of the harmonic co-existence of human and nature, balanced development, sustainable prosperity. The major characteristics of eco-civilization are studied in this paper, the essence of eco-civilization is to pursue the harmonic co-existence between human and nature and the goal of which is to realize the all-rounded, harmonic and sustainable development of human society. At last, the strategies to construct eco-civilization in China are explained, such as construction of ecological government, establishment and improvement of the laws and regulations to protect the ecological environment, developing ecological and circular economy, utilizing the traditional eco-ethics culture and nurturing the sense of eco-citizen, etc.
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Fitzpatrick, Caroline, and Spencer S. Stober. "Close Encounters of the Natural Kind: Eco-Composition, Citizen Science, and Academe." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 2, no. 1 (2006): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v02i01/54349.
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MAEDA, Mizuki, Norihiko ITAGAKI, and Ayano FUKUJU. "Operation incorporating citizen science in the roof garden eco-museum at Futakotamagawa Rise." Journal of the Japanese Society of Revegetation Technology 47, no. 4 (May 31, 2022): 453–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7211/jjsrt.47.453.
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Yang, Xin, Xiaohe Zhou, Shuwen Cao, and Anlu Zhang. "Preferences in Farmland Eco-Compensation Methods: A Case Study of Wuhan, China." Land 10, no. 11 (October 29, 2021): 1159. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10111159.
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Successful farmland eco-compensation projects need to reflect the heterogeneous preferences both from suppliers and beneficiaries. This paper tries to answer this question by investigating both citizen and farmer preferences for different farmland eco-compensation methods in Wuhan, China, and explore some of the socio-demographic characteristics that contribute to their preferences. Based on the data of 288 citizens and 331 farmers, the multinomial logit model was employed to analyze their preferences for the four farmland eco-compensation methods (monetary compensation, in-kind compensation, technology compensation and policy compensation), respectively. The results show that: (1) Monetary compensation is the most welcomed farmland eco-compensation method among both citizens and farmers. (2) Despite farmers and citizens both putting a high value on monetary compensation methods, citizens are more likely to provide compensation methods that can help farmers improve their living standards in a sustainable method (in-kind compensation, technology compensation and policy compensation). Farmers are less likely to choose the in-kind compensation method. (3) The preference for farmland eco-compensation systems of farmers and citizens are influenced by different socio-demographic characteristics. The results can help the government to design more aimed farmland eco-compensation methods for farmers with different socio-demographic characteristics.
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Hillbur, P., M. Ideland, and C. Malmberg. "Response and responsibility: fabrication of the eco-certified citizen in Swedish curricula 1962–2011." Journal of Curriculum Studies 48, no. 3 (January 8, 2016): 409–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2015.1126358.
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Ali, Rozaina, Ahmad Shaharudin Abdul Latiff, and Sazali Abdul Wahab. "A Systematic review of ontology-based approach and decision-making (DM) to improve public service delivery (PSD)." Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies 6, no. 2 (June 20, 2020): 629–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i2.1100.
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A systematic review of the DM literature on PSD was performed with the aim to build an operational ontology-based for decision makers. Five public administration journals were screened on the subject with more than 200 articles found. 29 articles were shortlisted, categorised, summarised, and applied to outline the influential factors in DM for PSD. The result of the systematic reviews also provided a brief clarification on the requirement for the creation of a more citizen-centric and coordinated eco-system for efficient PSD underpinned by effective DM.
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Chitakira, Munyaradzi, Luxon Nhamo, Emmanuel Torquebiau, James Magidi, Willem Ferguson, Sylvester Mpandeli, Kevin Mearns, and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi. "Opportunities to Improve Eco-Agriculture through Transboundary Governance in Transfrontier Conservation Areas." Diversity 14, no. 6 (June 8, 2022): 461. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d14060461.
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Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) are critical biodiversity areas for the conservation and sustainable use of biological and cultural resources while promoting regional peace, cooperation, and socio-economic development. Sustainable management of TFCAs is dependent on the availability of an eco-agriculture framework that promotes integrated management of conservation mosaics in terms of food production, environmental protection or the conservation of natural resources, and improved human livelihoods. As a developmental framework, eco-agriculture is significantly influenced by existing legal and governance structures at all levels; this study assessed the impact of existing legal and governance frameworks on eco-agriculture implementation in the Lubombo TFCA that cuts across the borders between Mozambique, Eswatini, and South Africa. The assessment used a mixed research method, including a document review, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions. Although the three countries have no eco-agriculture policies, biodiversity practices are directly or indirectly affected by some policies related to environmental protection, agriculture improvement, and rural development. The assessment found that South Africa has the most comprehensive policies related to eco-agriculture; Mozambican policies mainly focus on equity and involvement of disadvantaged social groups, while Eswatini is conspicuous for explicitly making it the responsibility of each citizen to protect and safeguard the environment. The protection of conservation areas is critical to preserving natural habitats and ensuring the continued provision of ecosystem services. The lack of transboundary governance structures results in the Lubombo TFCA existing as a treaty on paper, as there are no clear processes for transboundary cooperation and collaboration.
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Wenk, Michael. "The European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS): Still a Viable Entity or a Concept Spiraling Towards Obscurity?" Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law 6, no. 1 (2009): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/161372709x457693.
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AbstractThe European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was envisioned as a panacea for the perceived ills facing the European Union (EU) at the time of its inception. Its manifest purpose was to more comprehensively administer environmental management and compliance, to help ensure a uniform set of environmental performance across the entire EU. The scheme, together with the Eco-Label, the other EU voluntary tool, was developed as a complement to traditional 'command-and-control' legislation. While noble and ambitious in its design, EMAS has failed to become the shining light of environmental management which it was designed to be, and instead has devolved into a second class citizen. While the ongoing revision, EMAS III, offers some hope for the future, the program as a whole remains burdened by inefficiency and impracticality. The Scheme must expand in scope, and include motivations and rewards for incorporating such pressing ideas as CSR, or it will be doomed to the ash heap of history.
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Wijaya, Karto, Heru Wibowo, and Asep Yudi Permana. "IDENTITAS KAWASAN KAMPUNG PARALON DI PERMUKIMAN PADAT MELALUI KONSEP ECOVILLAGE Studi Kasus: Kampung Paralon Desa Bojongsoang Kabupaten Bandung." Jurnal Arsitektur ZONASI 2, no. 3 (October 19, 2019): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jaz.v2i3.19873.
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Abstract: Architecture as one of the fields that cannot be separated from how to process space is very appropriate in supporting the Eco Village program because the conception of space in the field of architecture has a three-dimensional conception. Through understanding the concept of three-dimensional space with limited land owned by each citizen does not mean that the community cannot cultivate their land into productive land, namely making agricultural land (agriculture). This makes observers interested in researching villages that have long been built, but are now blocked by housing that was once an empty space (in this case rice fields) in Bojongsoang Village, Bojongsoang District, Bandung Regency as a form of observer participation in developing an urban farming approach to achieving sustainability (sustainable). The purpose of this study was to find out which Eco Village models exist in the region Paralon Village as an Eco-Architecture concept in supporting the development of Sustainable City, as one of the eco-architecture models in urban villages by utilizing the land and space of each community member. Keywords: Eco Village; Sustainable City; Settelment Abstrak: Arsitektur sebagai salah satu bidang yang tidak dapat dipisahkan dari cara mengolah ruang sangat tepat dalam mendukung program Eco Village karena konsepsi ruang dalam bidang arsitektur memiliki konsepsi tiga dimensi. Melalui pemahaman konsep ruang tiga dimensi dengan lahan terbatas yang dimiliki oleh setiap warga negara tidak berarti bahwa masyarakat tidak dapat mengolah lahan mereka menjadi lahan produktif, yaitu membuat lahan pertanian (pertanian).Hal ini membuat para pengamat tertarik meneliti desa-desa yang telah lama dibangun, tetapi sekarang dihambat oleh perumahan yang dulunya merupakan ruang kosong (dalam hal ini sawah) di Desa Bojongsoang, Kabupaten Bojongsoang, Kabupaten Bandung sebagai bentuk partisipasi pengamat dalam mengembangkan suatu pendekatan urban farming untuk mencapai keberlanjutan (sustainable).Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui model Eco Village yang ada di wilayah Desa Paralon sebagai konsep Eco-Architecture dalam mendukung pengembangan Kota Berkelanjutan, sebagai salah satu model eco-architecture di desa-desa perkotaan dengan memanfaatkan lahan dan ruang dari setiap anggota komunitas.Kata kunci: Desa Ramah Lingkungan; Kota Berkelanjutan; Permukiman
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Talyzina, Elena Viktorovna. "“A CITIZEN OF THE EARTH”: EDWARD THOMAS AS A LINK BETWEEN “ROMANTIC ECOLOGY” AND ECO-CRITICISM." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 7 (July 2019): 92–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2019.7.20.
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Kim, Jaewan, Tae Yong Jung, and Yong Gun Kim. "Multilevel Analysis of Civic Engagement and Effectiveness of Energy Transition Policy in Seoul: The Seoul Eco-Mileage Program." Sustainability 12, no. 23 (November 26, 2020): 9905. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12239905.
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The Seoul Eco-mileage Program is a representative project of the One Less Nuclear Power Plant (OLNPP) scheme, which addresses the energy transition policy of Seoul aiming to reduce CO2 emissions. Unlike other governmental projects, the success of this program requires the direct participation of citizens. This study investigates the influence of civic engagement in participant towns (Level 1: 423 administrative towns) and districts (Level 2: 25 administrative districts) on CO2 emissions reduction (kg CO2/membership) throughout 2017 in Seoul via multilevel modeling. Our results show that town-level civic engagement, as measured by voter turnout, is positively correlated with the performance of the Eco-mileage Program. Moreover, when civic engagement factors (social trust, volunteer activities, and citizen participation) at Level 1 interact with Level 2 factors (housing prices, motivation of district leaders, and energy-saving practices) in each district, we observed cross-level interactive effects on CO2 reduction. Among Level 2 factors, the representative institutional capacities, such as financial independence and ordinance, showed positive correlations with the performance efficacy of the energy transition policy of Seoul.
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Li, Huifeng, and Martin de Jong. "Citizen participation in China’s eco-city development. Will ‘new-type urbanization’ generate a breakthrough in realizing it?" Journal of Cleaner Production 162 (September 2017): 1085–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.06.121.
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Leong, Misha, and Michelle Trautwein. "A citizen science approach to evaluating US cities for biotic homogenization." PeerJ 7 (April 30, 2019): e6879. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6879.
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Cities around the world have converged on structural and environmental characteristics that exert similar eco-evolutionary pressures on local communities. However, evaluating how urban biodiversity responds to urban intensification remains poorly understood because of the challenges in capturing the diversity of a range of taxa within and across multiple cities from different types of urbanization. Here we utilize a growing resource—citizen science data. We analyzed 66,209 observations representing 5,209 species generated by the City Nature Challenge project on the iNaturalist platform, in conjunction with remote sensing (NLCD2011) environmental data, to test for urban biotic homogenization at increasing levels of urban intensity across 14 metropolitan cities in the United States. Based on community composition analyses, we found that while similarities occur to an extent, urban biodiversity is often much more a reflection of the taxa living locally in a region. At the same time, the communities found in high-intensity development were less explained by regional context than communities from other land cover types were. We also found that the most commonly observed species are often shared between cities and are non-endemic and/or have a distribution facilitated by humans. This study highlights the value of citizen science data in answering questions in urban ecology.
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Ishmuhametova, K., O. Spirina, and A. Desyatkina. "CLUSTER MODEL OF THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC ECO-SPACE OF THE UFA CITY." Bulletin of Belgorod State Technological University named after. V. G. Shukhov 7, no. 6 (March 1, 2022): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.34031/2071-7318-2022-7-6-57-69.
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The article raises the topical issue of the formation of eco-consciousness in a resident of a modern metropolis through the urban environment. The authors analyzed the prerequisites for the appearance of eco-clusters in the existing public spaces of the city of Ufa. Using the experience in the formation of domestic and foreign eco-friendly public spaces and relying on theoretical works on the formation of a "personal" public space, the authors propose a cluster model of a "personal-public" system of public eco-spaces of the city of Ufa. The model is based on socio-spatial patterns of citizens' relationships at various large-scale levels in the system of public spaces of the city. The model contains the principles and methods of designing public spaces at all levels in accordance with the author's concept of "house-world". The proposed model describes a hierarchical multilevel system of public ecospaces embedded either in the existing public spaces of the city of Ufa, or in activating the resource and potential locations of the city. The model lays down the principle of participation as a condition for the development and resilience of the ecospaces of the city. The authors consider the citizen of the city as an active participant in the formation of ecospaces through ecopractics. The structure of the model includes an aspect of the mental peculiarity of the perception of space as a "home"- personal, private, and as an external "world" - an outside, surrounding "home". The model assumes the scalability of ecospaces and a different degree of perception by city residents of the level of privacy of these spaces. The principles of the formation of eco-spaces laid down in the model are due to the desire to expand the concept of "home" to the boundaries of the city. Each level of the model is presented through a socio-functional scenario of the ecospatial space included in the Ufa ecocluster and visualized as a variable design solution for the city.
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E, Weimann,. "Citizen Research Highlights: Blue Flag Beach is not a Reliable Eco-Label to Protect Bathers in Cape Town." Journal of Environment and Ecology 9, no. 2 (November 25, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jee.v9i2.13478.
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Background: Every day over 50 million liters of raw sewage are pumped into the Atlantic Ocean at several marine outfalls around the Cape Peninsula. They are in proximity to Blue Flag beaches and marine coastal nature reserves. This wastewater disposal poses severe health risks to citizens and recreational bathers. Moreover, sea food is contaminated by germs, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other toxic substances. Caused by the wastewater pollution the marine ecosystem is under threat and deteriorating. Furthermore, Cape Town experiences recurrent droughts and the wastewater disposal puts additional strain to fresh water resources.Study design: The Blue Flag beach criteria were applied as a framework. A citizen research approach was used. Seawater was analysed daily over two months during high tide at Blue Flag beaches in Cape Town during Blue Flag season. Wind directions were recorded, photo documentation performed, and drone flights were conducted. Wastewater related diseases were reported by an online questionnaire.Results: The water at Blue Flag beaches in Cape Town is contaminated by E. coli. The drone flights showed that the sewage plume is shifted by wind directions, tides and currents towards the coast and Blue Flag beaches. Skin rashes, ear infections, stomach cramps, diarrhea as well as vomiting were reported by recreational bathers.Conclusions: The dissemination of sewage and other pollutants are influenced by wind directions and currents. The present sewage disposal into the sea poses a risk to the health of recreational bathers and sea food consumers. The International Blue Flag beach label promotes beaches as major tourist attractions but is not a reliable label indicating the cleanliness of water. Tertiary wastewater treatment plants are mandatory for coastal cities to protect the marine environment and recreational bathers. The appropriate recycling of wastewater is required to combat recurrent droughts to mitigate the climate crisis.
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Cullen, Alexander. "Transitional environmentality – Understanding uncertainty at the junctures of eco-logical production in Timor-Leste." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 2 (March 3, 2020): 423–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848620908201.
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Environmentality has proven an enduring framework for interrogating issues around environmental behaviours and discourse as a means of subject governance and citizen-making. However, its application often insufficiently reflects the temporal nuances of environmental (eco) logics as transient, emergent and differentiated amongst ‘citizens’. This is particularly the case in post-conflict zones of transition where the fluidity, friction and fractural nature of socio-political relations between state and subject are often overlooked. By examining community experiences in the establishment of Timor-Leste’s first national park, this article highlights the inadequate attention directed towards addressing these concerns. It proposes ‘transitional’ environmentality as a novel framework that first, better reflects the ever-transient nature of environmental behaviour and regulation; and second, recognizes the prevalence for this in post-conflict landscapes. Transitional environmentality emphasizes the temporal fragility of environmental authority structures and its potential for renegotiation of resource management between the frictions of the state and the subjects it seeks to make.
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ALVISI, FRANCESCA, ELISA BALDRIGHI, SILVIA MERLINO, MARINA LOCRITANI, MONICA PANFILI, SABRINA COLELLA, SIMONA BRONCO, FRANCESCA CICOGNA, SERENA COIAI, and EMILY H. KING. "Walking on the Sea Traces: Developing a platform to bring Ocean Literacy and Citizen Science at Home." Mediterranean Marine Science 23, no. 2 (March 31, 2022): 389–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.26931.
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We describe the process of the development of a citizen science platform on Ocean Literacy designed and implemented during the lockdown period of 2020. As restrictions due to the COVID-19 health emergency did not allow researchers to organise public events and field data collection activities related to Ocean Literacy, we decided to take advantage of this situation by building an online platform to bring Ocean Literacy issues directly into citizens' homes. The massive use of digital tools by all civic communities during this time has allowed us to implement this idea and make it effective. The pandemic control measures then provided a unique opportunity to focus citizen attention on the collection of household data and information and to highlight the more or less direct connections between citizens' lifestyles and the eco-marine system. Short questionnaires were used to ascertain and highlight citizens' household behaviours and daily attitudes during the lockdown towards water use, seafood consumption and plastic material use and disposal. Data and information were also proposed, collected and analyzed in terms of: general environmental awareness of the respondents, perception regarding their purchasing choices during this particular period, as well as any changes in lifestyles and habits during the lockdown with respect to previous periods. The collected data allow us to improve our knowledge on some aspects of people domestic habits as well as their perception vs. real knowledge about the proposed environmental issues. We also realized that it is increasingly crucial for scientists to directly and extensively involve people and schools in educational and outreach activities and events as a good practice of science-society interaction. But to achieve good results we also need to develop appropriate communication tools and effective involvement strategies to promote their widespread participation in citizen science projects.
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Caldevilla-Domínguez, David, Almudena Barrientos-Báez, and Graciela Padilla-Castillo. "Twitter as a Tool for Citizen Education and Sustainable Cities after COVID-19." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 22, 2021): 3514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063514.
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The social confinement resulting from the COVID-19 crisis temporarily reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Although experts contend that the decrease in pollution rates was not drastic, some surveys detect growth in social concern about the climate. In this new climate-conscious environment, municipalities and local governments are promoting a new way of living and caring for cities, even before they can regain national and international freedom of movement. This work analyzes the connections between new climate awareness arising from the COVID-19 crisis, proposals of sustainable citizenship around the world, and its communication on Twitter to educate the new eco-conscious audience. The methodology mixes quantitative and qualitative analysis, using the Twitonomy Premium tool and the Twitter research tool with data extracted at the end of December 2020. Among the top ten most influential and active accounts, the results show educational institutions, local institutions, companies, neighborhoods, associations, and influencers. The impossibility of living in the city has not prevented citizen education and commitment to make real change for when that city and its citizens return to normality. However, this new normality must be different: more ecological, more responsible, more sustainable, and practiced from early childhood.
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Shved, Vadym. "Chinese social credit system: key features and possibility of using in Ukraine." Socio-Economic Research Bulletin, no. 2(77) (June 30, 2021): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33987/vsed.2(77).2021.41-53.
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The article considers the key features of the social credit (rating) system implementation and functioning, which is the main tool for digitalization of Chinese society, and in the future is considered by the Chinese authorities as a basic mechanism of electronic government. The historical retrospective of the phenomenon of social rating emergence and development, which was later transformed into social credit, is presented. Attention is paid to the differences in the implementation and functioning of the social credit system, depending on regional characteristics. The participants in the social credit system and the main mechanisms for collecting information for the social credit level formation, including through the mandatory use of specially designed ID-cards, and recently the almost widespread use of the verification for a person by face, have been determined. Despite the position of the Chinese authorities, according to which the use of the social credit system is successful, a list of shortcomings that are now inherent in this system, both of an author’s and of an expert nature, is given. The practice of implementation the state digital eco-environment «Diia» (State and I), which is a key tool for building a digital state, as well as the functional content of the «Diia» eco-environment (service) and its main components, is analyzed. The basic shortcomings that are now inherent in the service are determined, in particular, the key tool in the fight against coronavirus – «Diia. Vdoma», as well as the controversial character of the proposed innovation for the business environment «Diia. City». The features of the declared novel of the relationship between the citizen and state ‒ the concept of «paperless», are studied. The issue of regulation of the «Diia» eco-environment functioning is raised in the context of the legislative introduction of the concept of «paperless» announced on September 1, 2021. The conclusion is substantiated that the basic mechanisms are already being introduced in Ukraine, which form the basis for the Chinese social credit system functioning, in particular, through the tools of citizensʼ verification. On the basis of the analysis carried out, proposals are made to improve the functionality of the «Diia» eco-environment.
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Su, Yuan, Ziyu Miao, and Chanjuan Wang. "The Experience and Enlightenment of Asian Smart City Development—A Comparative Study of China and Japan." Sustainability 14, no. 6 (March 17, 2022): 3543. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14063543.
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With the urbanization level advancing in cities, increasingly significant urban ecological environment problems must be solved. The construction of a smart city with the overall development of information technology also regards environmental friendliness as the primary goal. The “smart” idea of urban environment innovation and governance has become a new model. In this paper, we first expound on the development process of low-carbon cities, eco-cities, and smart cities in Japan and China. Then, we analyze the coordinated development of intelligent environmental protection measures in government policies, transportation, energy utilization, resource recovery, and community management. Finally, we compare Japan and China’s smart city development characteristics. We discuss the improvement measures for energy utilization, urban transportation, and urban operation, including developing renewable energy systems, efficient energy use, and citizen participation policy. These experiences can provide feasible measures for constructing Asian smart cities and have great significance for the city’s sustainable applications and practice.
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H, Ulinata. "PERENCANAAN DESAIN TRANSPORT HUB PADA KAWASAN BERORIENTASI TRANSIT." Jurnal SCALE 6, no. 1 (January 30, 2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/scale.v6i1.22.
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Jakarta Special Capital Region is surrounded by a lot of infrastructures to support its citizen, unfortunately it is not enough to cope with the citizen’s growth. The scarcity of infrastructures are easily seen in a lot of sectors, including transportation sector where the numbers of mass transportation systems are not equal with the population numbers, the widening road numbers which also lack in comparison with the growth of vehicles, etc. These kind of problems make Jakarta Citizens preferring to use personal transportation rather than public transportation, which causing more serious problems such as the increasing in transportation costs, reducing the mobility of its citizens, and decreasing in population quality of life because of heavy traffic jam that happens on daily basis. To solve these problems we need to create a development concept that can comply with the mobility of the people and oriented in mass transportation which is called Transit Oriented Development (TOD).The reason why Dukuh Atas were chosen is because Dukuh Atas located in the heart of Jakarta City and also surrounded by business districts, it also becoming a central hub where many public transportations route are connected, such as Airport Train Railink, KRL Commuter Jabodetabek, Transjakarta, LRT, MRT.One strategic spot that will be developed as a transportation hub is located in Jl. Kendal, right at the front of KRL Sudirman station. The design of transportation hub as a Dukuh Atas TOD will be considering eco friendly concept, hopefully it will create a city development that can increasing the quality of the life of its citizen.
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Procesi, Monia, Giuseppe Di Capua, Silvia Peppoloni, Marco Corirossi, and Alessandra Valentinelli. "Science and Citizen Collaboration as Good Example of Geoethics for Recovering a Natural Site in the Urban Area of Rome (Italy)." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (April 8, 2022): 4429. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084429.
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Natural sites in urban spaces can have a key role in citizen well-being, providing fundamental ecosystem services to the population and assuring a multitude of benefits. Therefore, cities should guarantee a number of green areas and their conservation in time as an essential part of urban architecture. In this framework, cooperation between scientists, decision makers and citizens is critical to ensure the enhancement of green public spaces. Social and scientific communities are called to work in a tuned way to combine scientific knowledge and methods to local socio-economic contexts, driven by the values of geoethics. The Bullicante Lake case study, discussed in this work, represents an example of application of geoethical values, such as inclusiveness, sharing, sustainability and conservation of bio- and geodiversity. This urban lake in Rome appeared following illegal excavation works in 1992 and remained closed until 2016 favouring re-naturalization processes. Over time, this site was often threatened by pending actions for building. The aim of this study was to highlight how fruitful cooperation between science and citizens is able to transform a degraded urban area into a place of knowledge, recreation, enjoyment and eco-systemic preservation. Moreover, on the basis of this experience, the authors proposed a generalised approach/strategy to be developed and applied in other contexts. The active involvement of citizens and the cooperation among scientists, artists and institutions were able to redress opportunistic behaviours well by preventing site degradation and its improper use, favouring environmental safeguarding and making possible the site’s recognition as a natural monument. The results of these actions led to the improved quality of citizen life, showing an excellent example of virtuous cooperation between science and society.
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Santaoja, Minna. "Social media in learning on nature: case Finnish amateur mycologists." On the Horizon: The International Journal of Learning Futures 30, no. 2 (March 28, 2022): 122–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oth-10-2021-0118.
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Purpose Eco-social crises such as the loss of biodiversity call for transformative learning. This study analyzes the prospects of social media in learning about nature. Design/methodology/approach The study is placed in the intersection of science and technology studies, futures studies, environmental social sciences, and environmental humanities. The study draws on a qualitative case study of a mycologists' Facebook group. The empirical material was collected through digital ethnography. Findings Social media provides opportunities for learning about nature for many people. However, specialized naturalist social media groups are increasingly geared towards citizen science. The development may fragment the online naturalist cultures and narrow the scope for learning. Research limitations/implications Insights from a single case study cannot be broadly generalized. However, the case highlights significant features to consider in promoting collective learning in social media in the future. Originality/value Much of the previous research has focused on social media uses in the formal education of youth. This study addresses social media in informal and collective learning, specifically about nature.
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von Hellermann, Pauline. "From Ecophany to Burnout? An Anthropologist’s Reflections on Two Years of Participating in Council-Citizen Climate Governance in Eastbourne." World 2, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 521–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world2040032.
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In July 2019, Eastbourne Borough Council declared a climate emergency and committed to making Eastbourne carbon neutral by 2030. In order to achieve this, citizens together with Council created a unique model of council-citizen collaborative climate governance, the Eastbourne Eco Action Network (EAN). EAN’s main strategy has been the setting up of targeted working groups, each bringing together Councillors, engaged citizens and providers, and each tackling a specific area of climate action through a combination of infrastructure, institutional and behavioural changes. As an environmental anthropologist living in Eastbourne, I was involved in this process right from the beginning, having had my own ‘ecophany’—the realisation that the climate emergency required urgent action—in February 2019. Two years and one pandemic later, in this paper I reflect on the overall experiences and challenges of EAN’s and Eastbourne Borough Council’s work towards town-wide carbon neutrality to date, discussing possible factors (structural and other) determining varying successes and failures. At the same time, this paper provides an auto-ethnographic account of what ‘engaged anthropology’ means in practice, mapping out the real contributions anthropologists can and should make in local climate action, but also reflecting on challenges encountered along the way.
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Purwendah, E. K., Rusito, A. Awaludin, and I. D. S. Triana. "Public Participation in Environmental Protection: Citizen Law Suits in the Indonesian Civil Justice System." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1030, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 012022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1030/1/012022.
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Abstract This article discusses public participation in the Indonesian civil justice system which aims to protect the interests of the environment. Citizen Law Suit (CLS) as the right to a good and healthy environment as a constitutional right guaranteed by the state. As a right of lawsuit, CLS is filed in a civil court which has the principle of legitimacy standi in yudisio (everyone can be a legitimate party in the trial), as long as they have sufficient legal interest (point d’interet, point d’action (have sufficient legal interest) to file a claim) by proving the argument or posita with evidence. This is different from CLS which does not base its claim on personal interests, but based on interests as citizens who have the right to a good and healthy environment with the claim in the petition that is improvement of government performance on a good and healthy environment The approach method used is a conceptual approach, departing from the idea that social ecological justice (eco-social) is inherent as the right to a good and healthy environment is a citizen’s human right. In the results and discussion shows that a civil justice system that does not recognize al CLS, starting to accept CLS based on the judge’s legal discovery (rechtsvinding) and overriding the point d’interet, point d’action principle.
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Kloeckner, Jane. "The power of eco-labels: Communicating climate change using carbon footprint labels consistent with international trade regimes under the WTO." Climate Law 3, no. 3-4 (2012): 209–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/cl-120064.
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Information is power. At the intersection of culture, science, mass communication, and law, this paper argues that information provided by a transparent and internationally harmonized eco-label scheme serves to enhance understanding of public policy choices for mitigating climate change.Aproduct carbon footprint (PCF) label communicates climate change information to citizen consumers and can indirectly reduce GHG emissions. PCF labels are effective response measures that countries are taking to address global warming and are not obstacles to international trade. The international community should embrace domestic PCF labeling schemes, whether voluntary or mandatory. The PCF label and associated standards, which countries may use as domestic trade measures in response to the challenges of climate change, should be consistent with the rules and regimes of WTO agreements to ensure that these schemes support fair and free international trade. At some time in the future, the UNFCCC parties may reach agreement on a domestic response, including trade measures, to reduce GHG emissions, and PCF labeling schemes may be adapted as needed to assist developing countries’ participation. The WTO should support environmental trade measures that fight global warming, such as a domestic PCF label and associated standards.
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Lanigan, Richard L. "Netizen communicology: China daily and the Internet construction of group culture." Semiotica 2015, no. 207 (October 1, 2015): 489–528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0056.
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AbstractIntercultural communicology is a complex system of intergroup communication and, in consequence, is a specialized case of human communication in which discourse is constructed in a semiotic world of experience, i.e., the Semiosphere. I look at the Netizen (online citizen) application of semiotic phenomenological theories and categories as we explore their emblematic presence as cosmologies and logics in the sociocultural discourses of the People’s Republic of China. The analysis examines stories published (2010–2011) in the online version of China Daily, a quasi-official newspaper of the Chinese government. The analysis is the main task that Umberto Eco called the semiotic quest for “the logic of culture”. I shall periodically cite the longitudinal statistical research of Richard E. Nisbett reported in his popular book The Geography of Thought. It is important to note that Nisbett’s research confirms the applied practice of the cultural group semiotic in use, rather than theoretically describing the logic constituted by the semiotic systems, which is my goal. In consequence as we shall see, Nisbett makes the mistake of describing the Asian semiotic in terms of a Western logic perspective – not the Asian perspective per se!
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Khuc, Quy Van, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Tam-Tri Le, Truc-Le Nguyen, Thuy Nguyen, Hoang Khac Lich, and Quan-Hoang Vuong. "Brain Drain out of the Blue: Pollution-Induced Migration in Vietnam." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 6 (March 18, 2022): 3645. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063645.
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Air pollution is a major problem that severely affects the health of inhabitants in developing countries’ urban areas. To deal with the problem, they may consider migration to another place as an option, which can result in the loss of skillful and talented workforces. This situation is called the brain drain phenomenon. The current study employed the Bayesian mindsponge framework (BMF) on the responses of 475 urban inhabitants in Hanoi, Vietnam—one of the most polluted capital cities in the world—to examine the risk of losing talented workforces due to air pollution. Our results show that people with higher educational levels are more likely to have intentions to migrate both domestically and internationally due to air pollution. Regarding the domestic migration intention, younger people and males have a higher probability of migrating than their counterparts. Age and gender also moderate the association between educational level and international migration intention, but their reliability needs further justification. Based on these findings, we suggest that environmental stressors caused by air pollution can influence citizen displacement intention on a large scale through the personal psychological mechanism of cost-benefit judgment. Due to the risk of air pollution on human resources, building an eco-surplus culture is crucial for enhancing environmental and socio-economic resilience.
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Cho, Hyoun-Ah, and Gyu-Min Lee. "The Effect of Eco-Friendly Activities of Food Delivery Apps on Pro-Environmental Attitude and Customer Citizen Behavior-Focusing: On the Moderating Role of Self-Monitoring." Journal of Tourism and Leisure Research 34, no. 9 (September 30, 2022): 257–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31336/jtlr.2022.9.34.9.257.
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Wojtyszyn, Bogusław. "Sustainable Development of Urban Spaces towards Climate Protection and Adaptation to its Changes." Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports 30, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ceer-2020-0036.
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Abstract The article concerns urban spaces highly responsible for climate change in the country, Europe, and the world. This topic is now of major importance because it reflects on every citizen of Europe and the world in that we all confront the necessity of climate protection and adaptation also in law, to climate change in urban areas. It is associated with a radical change of lifestyle in the world’s cities, mainly in terms of energy consumption and its methods of production. The research results presented in the article indicate the need to adapt current methods for slowing down adverse climate change into functional and spatial systems of urban development and their economic, legal, and social conditions affecting the pace of implementation of new technologies for climate-friendly sources such as low-carbon, energy-saving, and renewable energy. Attention was also paid to the possibility of ecological revitalization of the existing urban structure of buildings, among other things, in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions adversely affecting the climate. On the other hand, modern ideas for an Eco-City and solutions for a Green-City and Solar-City, presented in the article, implemented through sustainable development in the field of planning activities and energy management methods, can be additional indicators of the direction of sustainable development for Polish cities for climate protection and adaptation to its changes.
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Yang, Yixi, and Mark C. J. Stoddart. "Public Engagement in Climate Communication on China’s Weibo: Network Structure and Information Flows." Politics and Governance 9, no. 2 (April 28, 2021): 146–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v9i2.3754.
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This article provides an empirical study of public engagement with climate change discourse in China by analysing how Chinese publics participate in the public discussion around two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and how individual users interact with state and elite actors on the pre-eminent Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. Using social network analysis methods and a temporal comparison, we examine the structure of climate communication networks, the direction of information flows among multiple types of Weibo users, and the changes in information diffusion patterns between the pre- and post-Paris periods. Our results show there is an increasing yet constrained form of public engagement in climate communication on Weibo alongside China’s pro-environmental transition in recent years. We find an expansion of public engagement as shown by individual users’ increasing influence in communication networks and the diversification of frames associated with climate change discourse. However, we also find three restrictive interaction tendencies that limit Weibo’s potential to facilitate multi-directional communication and open public deliberation of climate change, including the decline of mutually balanced dialogic interactions, the lack of bottom-up information flows, and the reinforcement of homophily tendencies amongst eco-insiders and governmental users. These findings highlight the coexistence of both opportunities and constraints of Weibo being a venue for public engagement with climate communication and as a forum for a new climate politics and citizen participation in China.
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Bendell, Jem. "Replacing Sustainable Development: Potential Frameworks for International Cooperation in an Era of Increasing Crises and Disasters." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (July 5, 2022): 8185. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14138185.
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This transdisciplinary review of research about international cooperation on social and environmental change builds the case for replacing Sustainable Development as the dominant framework for an era of increasing crises and disasters. The review is the output of an intentional exploration of recent studies in multiple subject areas, based on the authors’ decades of work in related fields since the Rio Earth Summit 30 years ago. It documents the failure to progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consequently, scholarship critiquing the conceptual framework behind those ‘Global Goals’, and the economic ideology they arose from, is used to explain that failure. Although the pandemic set back the SDGs, it further revealed the inappropriate strategy behind those goals. This suggests the Global Goals constitute an ‘own-goal’ scored against people and nature. Alternative frameworks for organising action on social and environmental issues are briefly reviewed. It is argued that a future framework must relate to a new eco-social contract between citizen and state and engage existing capabilities that are relevant to an increasingly disrupted world. The case is made for an upgraded form of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) as an overarching framework. The proposed upgrades include detaching from economic ideologies and recognising that a wider metadisaster from climate chaos may reduce the future availability of external support. Therefore, self-reliant resilience and locally led adaptation are important to the future of DRM. Options for professionals continuing to use the term sustainability, such as this journal, are discussed.
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Ward, Sue. "Dirtgirlworld: Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Consumption in the World of Children's Television Programming." Media International Australia 145, no. 1 (November 2012): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214500105.
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Discussions in the field of ethical consumption usually refer to the mainstreaming of ethical and environmental concerns that impact on consumer behaviour in the consumption of food and material goods, and in some cases to television programs (especially lifestyle and makeover programs) that acknowledge the environmentally concerned viewer by encouraging the consumption of goods and services that minimise environmental impact. These studies recognise the field of commodity consumption as an important site for thinking about practices of identity-formation and the construction of the self as a responsible, environmentally and ethically concerned citizen who makes politically based decisions in everyday practice. But rarely is a TV program itself presented as a green commodity produced with the intention to be ecologically and ethically sound in its branded identity. This article showcases the production and distribution of the preschool television program dirtgirlworld as a response by ecologically minded individuals to engage with the challenges of today's environmental crises. This is a case study that connects ethical consumption and corporate social responsibility with screen production and distribution. The central thrust of this article is to posit the example of dirtgirlworld as part of a global social movement towards a more ecologically sustainable existence. However, the suggestion here is that this case study also lends itself to much-needed conversation about how media studies can engage with our current ecological crises beyond the practice of eco-criticsm.
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Godoy Junior, Ederaldo, José Rui Camargo, João Lucio Mariano Da Silva, Ricardo Osmar De Jesus, José Luz Silveira, and José Roberto Bertoncello Danieletto. "Rational Use of Residential Digesters for Sewage Treatment with Carbon Credits." Advanced Materials Research 608-609 (December 2012): 286–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.608-609.286.
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The present work aims at decentralization of sewage treatment and eco-efficient way of enabling the deployment of residential digesters to treat only the water with high organic load without overloading the system, avoiding the drag of sludge and effluent untreated into the urban network of collection. For this purpose we developed a low-cost technology that treats sewage in the house of the citizen, thus avoiding that large stations aerobic treatment of sewage and its result regarding the large demands for energy and area: the generation and disposal of biogas smelly collection networks in urban, high production and disposal costs aerobic sludge, the disposal of sewage in fresh water bodies causing eutrophication of waters and spread of diseases hydro transmitted. The system proposed digester residential removes about 80% of the organic load of sewage without the use of any electromechanical element, and also allows to collect the biogas produced subsequently be used for energy or simply be burned to hygiene and / or crediting of carbon . Basically, the system comprises three anaerobic digesters in upflow sludge bed, arranged in series forming cascade phase separator with solid-liquid gas-shaped coil. Used to treat wastewater with high organic load coming from the toilet and the kitchen sink. Then the waters with low organic load coming from the baths, sinks and laundry, are used to dilute and improve the quality end of the anaerobically treated effluent in a sustainable manner. Social and environmental technology developed aligns with the guidelines of the National Water Agency and the Kyoto Protocol, whose goal is to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Gómez-Carmona, Oihane, Diego Casado-Mansilla, and Diego López-de-Ipiña. "Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities." Proceedings 2, no. 19 (November 1, 2018): 1212. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2191212.
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The adaptation of cities to a future in which connectivity is at the service of the citizens will be a reality by creating interaction spaces and augmented urban areas. The research on this field falls within the scope of Smart Cities (SC) with the advantages that the common public spaces provide as new points for information exchange between the city, the urban furniture and their citizens. Kiosk systems have been recognized as an appropriate mean for providing event-aware and localized information to the right audience at the right time. Hence, in this article, we provide a vision of an eco-system of multifunctional urban furniture, where kiosks are part of them, designed not only for digital interaction but for sustainable use and symbolic integration into the urban environment as well. The proposed approach is conceived to drive services through digital urban nodes that facilitate tailored citizen-city communication and interaction. The central element of the designed platform consists on an intelligent digital kiosk which features a series of hardware and software components for sensing different environmental conditions, multimodal interaction with users and for conveying the captured data to the Cloud. The custom-based contents visualized to the users are controlled remotely through a management tool that allows to set-up and configure the digital kiosk. This system is not presented as an ad-hoc solution for one specific purpose but instead, it becomes a platform that can accommodate and solve the needs of every kind of user that populates urban shared-use spaces.
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Malysh, E. V. "Mechanisms of Green Development of Urban Agricultural Production in a Large Industrial City." Economics and Management 26, no. 8 (September 27, 2020): 823–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2020-8-823-829.
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A city’s potential for food self-sufficiency is expected to increase through the distribution of innovative, high-tech, green agricultural practices of producing food in an urban environment, which can improve the city’s food security due to increased food accessibility in terms of quantity and quality. Aim. Based on the systematization of theoretical approaches and analysis of institutional aspects, the study aims to propose ways to strengthen the city’s food security by improving food supply in urban areas, increasing the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of urban food systems, and changing the diet of urban residents.Tasks. The authors propose methods for the development of urban agricultural production in a large industrial city based on the principles of green economy and outline the range of strategic urban activities aimed at implementing green agricultural production technologies associated with the formation and development of the culture of modern urban agricultural production.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specificity of objectives of strengthening a city’s food security by improving the quality of food supply to the population. Methods of comparison, systems analysis, systematization of information, and the monographic method are also applied.Results. A strategic project for the development of urban agricultural systems through the implementation and green development of advanced urban agricultural technologies is described. Green development mechanisms will create conditions for the city’s self-sufficiency in terms of organic and safe products, functioning of short supply chains, and green urban agriculture.Conclusions. Managing the growth of urban agriculture will promote the use of highly effective, easily controlled, resource-efficient, eco-friendly, weather- and season-independent, multi-format urban agricultural technologies. The study describes actions aimed at creating conditions for stabilizing a city’s high-quality food self-sufficiency with allowance for the growing differentiation of citizen needs.
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Z. Karvalics, László. "Okos városok: a dekonstrukciótól a hiperkonstrukcióig." Információs Társadalom 16, no. 3 (April 10, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22503/inftars.xvi.2016.3.1.
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Az okos város (smart city) elképesztően expanzív fogalommá lett, a jelentések szigorú rendjére épülő tudománynak pedig határozott viszonyt kell kialakítani a saját módszertani fundamentumainak egy részét cseppfolyósítani kezdő közbeszédhez. Egy jól irányzott dekonstrukciós erőfeszítés megnyithatja az utat ahhoz, hogy újra egyesíteni lehessen a különböző fogalomhasználati regisztereket. Ehhez a tanulmány elsőként rendszerezi, milyen kritikai mozzanatokat azonosított eddig a szakirodalom. Jelesül: centralizáció-pártiság, technológiai determinizmus, univerzalizmus, nagyváros-központúság, üzlet-vezéreltség. Az okos várossal foglalkozó szakmai-tudományos háttérmunka egyoldalúsága, az okos város programok egyenlőtlenség-fokozó hatása, a polgárok ellenőrzésének magasabb szintje, a sebezhetőség növekedése, az automatikusan adaptált megoldások miatt csökkenő lakossági aktivitás. A hiperkonstrukció újrarendezi az okos város irodalomban használt tipikus attributumokat, ám ezeket a ’jó város’ elvárt jellegzetességeként (rekvizitumaként) normatívan kezeli, és rendezi tíz csoportba: Alkalmazkodó/öngyógyító/érző/válaszképes, Fenntartható/zöld/öko-/permakulturális, Egészséges, Biztonságos, Kreatív/innovatív, Együttműködő/részvételen alapuló, Inkluzív/egyenlő/igazságos, Nyílt/átlátható, Multikulturális/kevert, Összekötött/Hálózatba kapcsolt.
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Smart cities: from deconstruction to hyperconstruction
The paper provides a systematic overview of the critical literature of the smart city, identifying ten aspects, which require conceptual deconstruction: centralization, technological determinism, universalism, big city focus, business-driven reflexes, bias of the scientific-professional background work, growing inequality, higher level of surveillance and vulnerability, and the danger of weakening citizen activity, thanks to the automatically adapted solutions. As a part of the other side, i.e. hyperconstruction, we rearrange the usual attributes of smart city literature normatively, into a new framework, as “ten requisites of a good city”. They are: Resilient/Adaptive/Responsive/Sentient (1) Green/Eco/Sustainable (2) Creative/Innovative (3) Cooperative/Participative (4) Inclusive/Equal/Fair (5), Open/Transparent (6), Multicultural/Mongrel (7), Healthy (8), Safe (9), Connected/Interoperative/Networked
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Ermolaeva, Polina, Yulia Ermolaeva, and Olga Basheva. "Digital Environmental Activism as the New Form of Environmental Participation." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 19, no. 3 (2020): 376–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2020-3-376-408.
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The article provides a comprehensive study and systematization of the main approaches and theories to the study of digital environmental activism based on a related-literature analysis. The authors came to the conclusion that, in the conceptualization of a digital environmental activism, researchers place emphasis either on the features of the digital technologies that drive such activity, or on the basis of the environmental mobilization itself. In this work, combining both approaches with digital environmental activism, the authors understand the voluntary collective activity around common environmental interests and values that are implemented publicly and voluntarily through the use of new informational and communication technologies. The article discusses the main features of digital environmental activism, which include, on the one hand, the enhancement of environmental knowledge, and the change in the paradigm of interaction between actors in which they become not only consumers of information, but also its active producers. On the other hand, digital practices contribute to the alienation of users from the real protest movement by limiting them to virtual means of interaction; additionally, this form of participation is not accessible to all citizens, thereby generating new forms of digital inequality and social distances. The authors examined various types of digital participation which include clicktivism, meta-voting, self-affirmation, e-finance, political consumer protection, digital petitions, botivism, data activity, and hacktivism. The authors critically assess both established and new theoretical approaches to the study of digital eco-activism such as Castells’ theory of network society, deliberative democracy, “citizen science”, socio-psychological theories to explain environmental behavior, and Digital Environmental Humanities. The author’s vision of possible options for data synthesis in the study of environmental online activism for the Russian scientific context is proposed.
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Lõhmus, A. "The role of citizen science in ornithology." Estonian Journal of Ecology 60, no. 2 (2011): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3176/eco.2011.2.01.
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Metalkova-Markova, Milena. "Micro-Design Intervention as a Method for Social Acupuncture to Stimulate Environmental Design Consciousness in Bulgaria." South East European Journal of Architecture and Design 2016 (January 10, 2016): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/seejad.2016.10016.
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AIM: This paper aims to establish a method for a micro-design intervention as a social acupuncture used to stimulate sustainable development consciousness among young students during fieldwork in mountain and rural areas of Bulgaria.MATERIAL AND METHODS: A theoretical framework of a sustainable approach for a micro-design intervention is established on the base of the phenomenological approach of Yuhani Pallasmaa, the concept of eco-museum type of endogeneous rural development by Toshio Mitsuhashi and the design philosophy of “Rural Studio” in USA. At the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture there are annual summer fieldworks for students of architecture usually organized at various mountain or rural villages within the country. Students are asked to conduct research on vernacular architecture, community relationships and local cultural milieau as part of their education curricula during the second year of their studies and in the 5th year as a pre-diploma architectural practice. By means of micro-design interventions at focal public points or buildings students tried to find a way to activate people environmental consciousness and attitudes to their immediate environment. The main aim of the fieldworks was to connect research with a Design & Make approach in order to catalyze citizen participation in a fusion with an environmental education.RESULTS: These practical experiences seek to transform the research theory of sustainable environmental design into a pragmatic strategy to strengthen environmental consciousness for young generations of students in architecture in Bulgaria. Working and living together in rural or mountain traditional environments, trying to understand and assist local people by creating micro-design interventions is one of the best ways to heighten environmental design consciousness by an immersion in the milieau of local culture and community relationships.CONCLUSION: A socially sustainable micro-design intervention as a strategy is only possible by combining the tools of an anthropologist and a designer or in other words by finding the intersection and cross-fertilization points between the cultural values of insiders and observers.
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Ganzevoort, Wessel, and Riyan van den Born. "The Thrill of Discovery: Significant Nature Experiences Among Biodiversity Citizen Scientists." Ecopsychology 11, no. 1 (March 2019): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/eco.2018.0062.
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Klavina, Aneka, Maija Kalpisa, Linda Paegle, Lasma Akulova, and Ivars Vanadzins. "Perceptions, Choices and Usage of Ecological Household Chemicals: Results from an Online Citizen Survey in Latvia." Environmental and Climate Technologies 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 1055–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2022-0079.
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Abstract Chemical products are widely used in our everyday activities. As the availability and accessibility of ecological chemical products increases, the usage of these products should be promoted and encouraged since it is better for the environmental and human health. However, there is a gap between individual perceptions on these products and actual usage, therefore the aim of this study was to compare the knowledge and perceptions on chemical products and their labelling in Latvian adult citizens and whether this knowledge impacts their choices and usage of chemical products. An online survey was used to gather data from 412 respondents (21.8 % (n = 90) men, 78.2 % (n = 322) women, average age 39.5 years, 77.2 % (n = 318) had obtained higher education). 62.2 % (n = 237) of respondents use household chemicals every day: 6.7 % (n = 25) more than five times a day, 25.9 % (n = 99) two to five times a day and 29.6 % (n = 113) at least once a day. Although 78.2 % (n = 257) of respondents indicated that it was important to them that the household chemicals are ‘ecofriendly’, only 7.4 % (n = 28) of them responded that they always purchase eco-labelled chemical products and 60.1 % (n = 229) do it sometimes. Almost a third of respondents (28.9 %, n = 110) have not payed attention whether the product has an eco-label. Survey data also shows that 91.9 % (n = 351) respondents’ choice regarding household chemicals is affected by their previous experience, including product effectiveness, product ‘ecofriendliness’ (62.1 %, n = 237) and product price (59.2 %, n = 226). Many respondents have correctly identified eco-labels, but at the same time, more than a third of respondents (17.9–39.8 %) mistake other labels to be eco-labels as well.
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Metalkova-Markova, Milena. "Micro-Design Intervention as a Method for Social Acupuncture to Stimulate Environmental Design Consciousness in Bulgaria." South East European Journal of Architecture and Design 2016 (January 10, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/seead.2016.10016.
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<p><strong>AIM:</strong> This paper aims to establish a method for a micro-design intervention as a social acupuncture used to stimulate sustainable development consciousness among young students during fieldwork in mountain and rural areas of Bulgaria.</p><p><strong>MATERIAL AND METHODS:</strong> A theoretical framework of a sustainable approach for a micro-design intervention is established on the base of the phenomenological approach of Yuhani Pallasmaa, the concept of eco-museum type of endogeneous rural development by Toshio Mitsuhashi and the design philosophy of “Rural Studio” in USA. At the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture there are annual summer fieldworks for students of architecture usually organized at various mountain or rural villages within the country. Students are asked to conduct research on vernacular architecture, community relationships and local cultural <em>milieau</em> as part of their education curricula during the second year of their studies and in the 5<sup>th</sup> year as a pre-diploma architectural practice. By means of micro-design interventions at focal public points or buildings students tried to find a way to activate people environmental consciousness and attitudes to their immediate environment. The main aim of the fieldworks was to connect research with a <em>Design & Make</em> approach in order to catalyze citizen participation in a fusion with an environmental education.</p><p><strong>RESULTS:</strong> These practical experiences seek to transform the research theory of sustainable environmental design into a pragmatic strategy to strengthen environmental consciousness for young generations of students in architecture in Bulgaria. Working and living together in rural or mountain traditional environments, trying to understand and assist local people by creating micro-design interventions is one of the best ways to heighten environmental design consciousness by an immersion in the <em>milieau</em> of local culture and community relationships.</p><p><strong>CONCLUSION:</strong> A socially sustainable micro-design intervention as a strategy is only possible by combining the tools of an anthropologist and a designer or in other words by finding the intersection and cross-fertilization points between the cultural values of insiders and observers.</p>