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Marco Beccali Maurizio Cellura Maria Iudicello Marina Mistretta 《Environmental management》2009,43(4):707-724
Food production and consumption cause significant environmental burdens during the product life cycles. As a result of intensive
development and the changing social attitudes and behaviors in the last century, the agrofood sector is the highest resource
consumer after housing in the EU. This paper is part of an effort to estimate environmental impacts associated with life cycles
of the agrofood chain, such as primary energy consumption, water exploitation, and global warming. Life cycle assessment is
used to investigate the production of the following citrus-based products in Italy: essential oil, natural juice, and concentrated
juice from oranges and lemons. The related process flowcharts, the relevant mass and energy flows, and the key environmental
issues are identified for each product. This paper represents one of the first studies on the environmental impacts from cradle
to gate for citrus products in order to suggest feasible strategies and actions to improve their environmental performance.
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Marina Mistretta (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Andrew McKinley 《The Environmentalist》2008,28(3):319-326
In this short essay it is argued that recent criticisms portraying the activist environmental movement as overly pessimistic
are valid and that the communication of this pessimism to the public at large has been largely counterproductive to the objectives
of environmentalists. It is argued that, in contrast to historic assumptions of a ‘progress paradigm’ that epitomized the
widely held optimism of the past, the shock tactics and pessimistic media campaigns employed by the activist environmental
movement, and the media that capitalizes upon those campaigns, have contributed to the creation of a figurative hopeless age. The key characterization of the hopeless age is the widely held assumption that the future will be worse than the present
and that the lives of future generations will be diminished relative to our own. It is argued that the creation of this social-psychological
phenomenon is counterproductive to the aims of the environmental movement and that the restoration of a collective vision
and message of hope would be far more productive. Lastly, some reasons for a hopeful outlook are suggested.
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Andrew McKinleyEmail: Email: |
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An Empirical Evaluation of Private Landowner Participation in Voluntary Forest Conservation Programs
The use of voluntary programs targeting resource conservation on private land has become increasingly prevalent in environmental
policy. Voluntary programs potentially offer significant benefits over regulatory and market-based approaches. This article
examines the factors affecting landowner participation in voluntary forest conservation programs using a combination of parcel-level
GIS and remotely sensed data and semi-structured interviews of landowners in Monroe County, Indiana. A logistic regression
model is applied to determine the probability of participation based on landowner education, membership in other non-forest
voluntary programs, dominant land use activity, parcel size, distance from urban center, land resource portfolios, and forest
cover. Both land use activity and the spatial configuration of a landholder’s resource portfolio are found to be statistically
significant with important implications for the design and implementation of voluntary programs.
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Derek KauneckisEmail: |
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Douglas J. Norton James D. Wickham Timothy G. Wade Kelly Kunert John V. Thomas Paul Zeph 《Environmental management》2009,44(2):356-368
Common decision support tools and a growing body of knowledge about ecological recovery can help inform and guide large state
and federal restoration programs affecting thousands of impaired waters. Under the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), waters not
meeting state Water Quality Standards due to impairment by pollutants are placed on the CWA Section 303(d) list, scheduled
for Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development, and ultimately restored. Tens of thousands of 303(d)-listed waters, many
with completed TMDLs, represent a restoration workload of many years. State TMDL scheduling and implementation decisions influence
the choice of waters and the sequence of restoration. Strategies that compare these waters’ recovery potential could optimize
the gain of ecological resources by restoring promising sites earlier. We explored ways for states to use recovery potential
in restoration priority setting with landscape analysis methods, geographic data, and impaired waters monitoring data. From
the literature and practice we identified measurable, recovery-relevant ecological, stressor, and social context metrics and
developed a restorability screening approach adaptable to widely different environments and program goals. In this paper we
describe the indicators, the methodology, and three statewide, recovery-based targeting and prioritization projects. We also
call for refining the scientific basis for estimating recovery potential.
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Paul ZephEmail: |
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Mannino I Franco D Piccioni E Favero L Mattiuzzo E Zanetto G 《Environmental management》2008,41(1):118-129
A cost-effectiveness analysis was performed to evaluate the competitiveness of seminatural Free Water Surface (FWS) wetlands
compared to traditional wastewater-treatment plants. Six scenarios of the service costs of three FWS wetlands and three different
wastewater-treatment plants based on active sludge processes were compared. The six scenarios were all equally effective in
their wastewater-treatment capacity. The service costs were estimated using real accounting data from an experimental wetland
and by means of a market survey. Some assumptions had to be made to perform the analysis. A reference wastewater situation
was established to solve the problem of the different levels of dilution that characterize the inflow water of the different
systems; the land purchase cost was excluded from the analysis, considering the use of public land as shared social services,
and an equal life span for both seminatural and traditional wastewater-treatment plants was set. The results suggest that
seminatural systems are competitive with traditional biotechnological systems, with an average service cost improvement of
2.1-fold to 8-fold, according to the specific solution and discount rate. The main improvement factor was the lower maintenance
cost of the seminatural systems, due to the self-regulating, low artificial energy inputs and the absence of waste to be disposed.
In this work, only the waste-treatment capacity of wetlands was considered as a parameter for the economic competitiveness
analysis. Other goods/services and environmental benefits provided by FWS wetlands were not considered.
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Daniel FrancoEmail: |
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Willingness to Pay for Improving the Residential Waste Disposal System in Korea: A Choice Experiment Study 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This study attempts to apply choice experiments with regard to the residential waste disposal system (RWDS) in Korea by considering
various attributes that are related to RWDS. Using data from a survey conducted on 492 households, the empirical analysis
yields estimates of the willingness to pay for a clean food-waste collection facility, the collection of small items (such
as obsolete mobile phones and add-ons for personal computers), and a more convenient large waste disposal system. The estimation
results of multinomial logit models are quite similar to those of nested logit models. The results reveal that residents have
preferences for the cleanliness of facilities and the collection of small items. In Korea, residents are required to purchase
and attach stickers for the disposal of large items; they want to be able to obtain stickers at not only village offices but
also supermarkets. On the other hand, the frequency of waste collection is not a significant factor in the choice of the improved
waste management program.
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Seung-Hoon YooEmail: |
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Cross-Boundary Coordination on Forested Landscapes: Investigating Alternatives for Implementation 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Cross-boundary coordination is a tool for ecosystem management whereby landowners voluntarily coordinate management practices
toward economic and/or ecological landscape-scale outcomes (e.g., fiber, invasive species control, habitat). Past research
indicates that it may be particularly applicable on landscapes that include small forest landholdings. To explore alternatives
by which coordination might occur, we conducted seven focus groups with landowners (n = 51) who actively manage their forests in southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa. Focus group participants were presented
with three hypothetical alternatives to coordinate with their neighbors; landowners could self-organize, work with a natural
resource professional (i.e., forester), or work with an organization to complete a cross-boundary practice. In this article,
we focus on the latter two alternatives and the role of two social theories—principal-agent and cooperation—in explaining
landowners’ evaluations of these alternatives. Key findings are that (1) cross-boundary coordination has the potential to
alleviate problems between landowners and resource professionals inherent to their typical working relationship, and (2) social
relationships are a major factor contributing to landowners’ willingness to participate. We posit that cross-boundary coordination
offers a non-economic incentive for landowners to work together as it may reduce the uncertainty associated with hiring a
resource professional. At the same time, professionals can provide a bridging function among landowners who are unacquainted.
To achieve these outcomes and expand the adoption of cross-boundary coordination, we suggest four guidelines. First, foster
dialogue among landowners toward shared cognition and oversight. Second, match landowners’ practices and objectives such that
there are clear benefits to all. Third, develop relationships through low risk activities where possible. Fourth, do not expect
on-going commitments.
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Mark RickenbachEmail: |
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Sustainability assessment (SA) is a holistic and long-range strategic instrument capable of assisting policy-making in electing,
and deciding upon, future development priorities. The outcomes of an SA process become more relevant and strengthened when
conducted with multi-stakeholder engagement, which provides for multiple dialogues and perspectives. This was the object of
research of the SA team in the context of BioScene (Scenarios for Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation with Declining Agriculture Use in Mountain Areas in Europe), a three-year project (2002–2005) funded by the European Union 5th Framework Program, which aimed to investigate the implications
of agricultural restructuring and decline for biodiversity conservation in the mountain areas of Europe, using three distinct
methodological streams: the ecological, the socio-economic, and the SA approaches. The SA approach drew on the previous two
to assess the importance for biodiversity management of different scenarios of agri-environmental change and rural policy
in six countries (France, Greece, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), develop causal chains, include stakeholder
views, and identify potential contributions for, or conflicts with, sustainability. This article tells how SA was used, what
sustainability meant in each study area through different objectives of sustainability considered, discusses the methods used
in SA, and the benefits arising. The SA was conducted by a team independent of any study area, who developed and oversaw the
application of the SA methodology, assisting national teams, and developing a cross-country understanding of the sustainability
of proposed scenarios in the different geographical and social contexts, and their implications for policy-making. Finally,
it reflects on the persistent challenges of interdisciplinary research, compounded by multi-cultural teams, and concludes
on the BioScene’s lessons for the further development and application of SA.
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William R. SheateEmail: |
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In the United States, the common interest often is conceived as a by-product of the pluralist, interest-group-driven democratic
process. Special interests dominate in many political arenas. Consequently, we have lost the language, vocabulary, and ability
to talk about the common interest. The way to reverse this trend is to develop and practice with new tools that allow us to
articulate what we mean by the common interest in specific contexts. In this article, we leveraged the literature on procedural,
substantive, and pragmatic decision making to illustrate how they work together to demonstrate whether and how the common
interest was served in three case studies of Healthy Forests Restoration Act implementation on the Apache-Sitgreaves National
Forest in Arizona. In two of the cases we found that the common interest was mostly served, while in the third case it was
not. Our results raise questions about the ability of procedural criteria or substantive criteria alone to determine effectiveness
in decision making. When evaluated together they provide a more complete understanding of how the common interest is or is
not served.
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Toddi A. SteelmanEmail: |
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Robins L 《Environmental management》2008,42(5):833-846
This paper aims to give practical meaning to ‘capacity building’ through (a) identifying a suite of practical measures, such
as mentoring or best practice guidelines, that have been shown to or are considered to build human, social, institutional,
and economic capital; (b) placing these measures within a broader systems framework; and (c) exploring stakeholder feedback
on specific measures to inform framework implementation. The 29 measures described provide actors, whether government or nongovernment,
with a suite of practical investment choices for building capacity. These measures are then clustered into eight groups according
to their primary purpose and placed within a systems framework. The framework provides a tool for actors with responsibilities
for or an interest in capacity building to inform more holistic and strategic targeting of effort and investment. Stakeholder
feedback gathered through surveys and workshops is subsequently reported to further inform implementation of specific measures
within the framework’s eight groupings. The framework presented may be built upon through the identification and inclusion
of further capacity building measures. The research is conducted within the context of decentralized governance arrangements
for natural resource management (NRM), with specific focus on Australia’s recently formalized 56 NRM regions and their community-based
governing boards as an informative arena of learning. Application of the framework is explored in the Australian setting through
the identification and comparison of measures supported and most preferred by four major stakeholder groups, namely board
members, regional NRM organization staff, policy/research interests, and Indigenous interests. The research also examines
stakeholder perceptions of capacity issues, and whether these issues are likely to be addressed through implementing their
preferred measures.
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Lisa RobinsEmail: |
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We examined the prevalence of residential development that occurs with consideration of the natural features of the site,
known as conservation design, within county-level planning jurisdictions across Northern Indiana. Using data from telephone
interviews with representatives of planning departments, jurisdictions were ranked based on reported use of conservation design.
Three categories of use emerged from the data: no use, use of individual practices associated with conservation design, and
integration of multiple conservation design practices. Qualitative data analysis revealed that conservation design practices
were not being used widely and, when used, were often used to fulfill stormwater requirements. Statistical analysis, using
data from interviews, spatial data sets, and the U.S. Census Bureau, identified several significant positive predictors of
the levels of conservation design use including conversion of forest or agricultural land cover to urban uses and education
levels in the jurisdiction. Many of the interviewees noted that agricultural land is perceived to meet open space needs within
their counties. Given that agricultural land does not fully meet all ecosystem needs, education about the benefits of other
types of open space is suggested.
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Linda Stalker Prokopy (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Agricultural expansion and deforestation are spatial processes of land transformation that impact on landscape pattern. In
peninsular Malaysia, the conversion of forested areas into two major cash crops—rubber and oil palm plantations—has been identified
as driving significant environmental change. To date, there has been insufficient literature studying the link between changes
in landscape patterns and land-related development policies. Therefore, this paper examines: (i) the links between development
policies and changes in land use/land cover and landscape pattern and (ii) the significance and implications of these links
for future development policies. The objective is to generate insights on the changing process of land use/land cover and
landscape pattern as a functional response to development policies and their consequences for environmental conditions. Over
the last century, the development of cash crops has changed the country from one dominated by natural landscapes to one dominated
by agricultural landscapes. But the last decade of the century saw urbanization beginning to impact significantly. This process
aligned with the establishment of various development policies, from land development for agriculture between the mid 1950s
and the 1970s to an emphasis on manufacturing from the 1980s onward. Based on a case study in Selangor, peninsular Malaysia,
a model of landscape pattern change is presented. It contains three stages according to the relative importance of rubber
(first stage: 1900–1950s), oil palm (second stage: 1960s–1970s), and urban (third stage: 1980s–1990s) development that influenced
landscape fragmentation and heterogeneity. The environmental consequences of this change have been depicted through loss of
biodiversity, geohazard incidences, and the spread of vector-borne diseases. The spatial ecological information can be useful
to development policy formulation, allowing diagnosis of the country’s “health” and sustainability. The final section outlines
the usefulness of landscape analysis in the policy-making process to prevent further fragmentation of the landscape and forest
loss in Malaysia in the face of rapid economic development.
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Adnan A. HezriEmail: |
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As in other mountain regions of Asia, agricultural lands in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh are undergoing
degradation due primarily to environmentally incompatible land-use systems such as shifting cultivation (jhum) and annual cash crops. The suitable land-use systems such as agroforestry and timber tree plantation provide benefit to
the society at large, but they might not provide attractive economic benefits to farmers, eventually constraining a wide-scale
adoption of such land-use systems. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate agricultural land-use systems from both societal
and private perspectives in the pursuit of promoting particularly environmentally sustainable systems. This article evaluated
five major land-use systems being practiced in CHT, namely jhum, annual cash crops, horticulture, agroforestry, and timber plantation. The results of the financial analysis revealed the
annual cash crops as the most attractive land use and jhum as the least attractive of the five land-use systems considered under the study. Horticulture, timber plantation, and agroforestry,
considered to be suitable land-use systems particularly for mountainous areas, held the middle ground between these two systems.
Annual cash crops provided the highest financial return at the cost of a very high rate of soil erosion. When the societal
cost of soil erosion is considered, annual cash crops appear to be the most costly land-use system, followed by jhum and horticulture. Although financially less attractive compared to annual cash crops and horticulture, agroforestry and timber
plantation are the socially most beneficial land-use systems. Findings of the alternative policy analyses indicate that there
is a good prospect for making environmentally sustainable land-use systems, such as agroforestry and timber plantation, attractive
for the farmers by eliminating existing legal and institutional barriers, combined with the provision of necessary support
services and facilities.
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Golam RasulEmail: |
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Public rangelands in North America are typically managed under a multiple use policy that includes livestock grazing and wildlife
management. In this article we report on the landscape level extent of grassland loss to shrub encroachment in a portion of
the Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve in southwestern Alberta, Canada, and review the associated implications for simultaneously
supporting livestock and wildlife populations while maintaining range health on this diminishing vegetation type. Digitized
aerial photographs of 12 km of valley bottom from 1958 and 1974 were co-registered to ortho-rectified digital imagery taken
in 1998, and an un-supervised classification used to determine areas associated with grassland and shrubland in each year.
Field data from 2002 were over-layed using GPS coordinates to refine the classification using a calibration-validation procedure.
Over the 40-year study period, open grasslands declined from 1,111 ha in 1958 to 465 ha in 1998, representing a 58% decrease.
Using mean production data for grass and shrub dominated areas we then quantified aggregate changes in grazing capacity of
both primary (grassland) and secondary (shrubland) habitats for livestock and wildlife. Total declines in grazing capacity
from 1958 to 1998 totaled 2,744 Animal Unit Months (AUMs) of forage (−39%), including a 58% decrease in primary (i.e., open
grassland) range, which was only partly offset by the availability of 1,357 AUMs within less productive and less accessible
shrubland habitats. Our results indicate shrub encroachment has been extensive and significantly reduced forage availability
to domestic livestock and wildlife, and will increase the difficulty of conserving remaining grasslands. Although current
grazing capacities remain marginally above those specified by regulated grazing policies, it is clear that continued habitat
change and decreases in forage availability are likely to threaten the condition of remaining grasslands. Unless shrub encroachment
is arrested or grassland restoration initiated, reductions in aggregate ungulate numbers may be necessary.
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Edward W. BorkEmail: |
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Farmers attempting to subsist in tropical uplands often rely upon unsustainable resource use practices that lead to soil erosion, declining crop yields, and a loss of soil productivity capacity. Other uses of tropical uplands, including logging and conversion of forest to rangelands, have similar results. The undesirable effects of these actions are felt on-site, at the watershed level, and even nationally. Ecological cause-effect relationships are poorly understood, and few examples exist of the successful integration of ecological knowledge with upland development. It is hypothesized that recent results of ecological research could be applied to uplands management so that stable sustainable systems of human use may be established. A second hypothesis is that statistically reliable data can be obtained from experiments in upland situations, although natural variations of soils, weather, and vegetation are great. To test these hypotheses, research involving multinational collaboration among American and Southeast Asian scientists has begun. The objective of the work is to provide credible quantitative information to help policy and decision makers and resident farmers to plan and implement improved practices based on ecological principles.Some findings to date include:
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1. | Ecological principles are difficult to relate to the practical context of upland agroecosystems. Indeed, the null hypothesis is necessary for planning experiments and demonstrations. |
2. | The signal-to-noise ratio in these field experiments is low, and the detection of changes due to human intervention in soil erosion, nutrient movement, and plant productivity is difficult. |
3. | Obstacles to field research in developing countries include logistic, cultural, political, and institutional factors. It is essential that local land managers participate from the start with scientific researchers in designing experiments. |
4. | Planned collaboration among academic and government scientists facilitates design of relevant research and the implementation of results. |
5. | The idea of ecologically based management has been well received by researchers and government officials in Asia. There is little argument with the logic of the approach. |
6. | Pressures for quick responses to urgent problems in the uplands conflict with the need for careful, long-term, statistically valid scientific research. |
7. | Ecological principles are vaguely understood and poorly articulated in the scientific literature. The transfer and application of ecological science to the developing world would be enhanced by clearer statements of principles. |
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Joseph M. Petulla 《Environmental management》1989,13(3):273-278
Since the term environmental ethics began to be used a generation ago, it has covered many different kinds of environmental notions, problems, ethical systems, and forms of behavior. A variety of cases are presented and examined under two terms,environmental ethics andecological morality, in an effort to illustrate different kinds of ethical objectives. In order to understand the connections between various strands of environmental ethics, personal and social values and subcultural norms of environmental ethics are examined under Christopher Stone's concept of moral pluralism. G. J. Warnock's notion of the general object of morality is proposed to integrate the variegated purposes of environmental ethics. 相似文献
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Franz X. Bogner 《The Environmentalist》1998,18(1):27-38
The present study deals with the evaluation of environmental/ecological perceptions of secondary school pupils. It has two major objectives. Firstly, to administer a measurement instrument to explore ecological/environmental perceptions for a sample of approximately 900 Irish secondary school pupils aged between 12 and 16 years. The operation and use of three subscales, environmental behaviour, utilization of nature and consideration for conservation, was based on a previous study undertaken in Bavaria, but its structure, dimensionality and reliability was further assessed using psychometric procedures. Secondly, the study monitored the differences in these dimensions between Irish and Bavarian pupils. Common items within the subscale structure were selected from both samples to form a truncated item selection and to function subsequently as the basis for the final factor analysis applied to the combined Irish–Bavarian sample. Comparisons on this basis indicated substantial differences in attitudes and environmental behaviour between pupils from both regions: the Irish sample favoured less conservational values, but more patronage for the utilization of nature and it revealed less willingness to take and plan action in individual environmental behaviour. In addition, the Irish sample disclosed a significantly greater gender difference in the two subscales. 相似文献
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Su Wild River 《Local Environment》2013,18(6):719-732
Abstract This paper presents the results of a national project investigating Australian local government (LG) attempts to deliver beneficial environmental outcomes. It briefly describes the extensive environmental planning, management and protection roles played by Australian LGs. It notes that these roles are poorly documented within the academic literature, and makes a case for fundamental research to better understand LGs and their work from the inside. It describes this project's use of grounded theory methods in gathering and analysing 34 case studies of Australian LG environmental initiatives. The inside perspectives represented by the papers show that Australian LG environmental work:
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extends beyond its statutory requirements;
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is novel and creative;
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endures by balancing ecological, social and economic values;
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demonstrates different patterns depending on its planning, management or protection focus; and
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usually involves environmental strategists with long-term, passionate commitments to local environmental values.
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Advocates for environmental justice: the role of the champion in public participation implementation
Deborah Rigling Gallagher 《Local Environment》2013,18(10):905-916
That segment of the community I would say is just in general pretty disenfranchised. We found that if you want participation you have to go to them. I mean there are days when you just need to go knock on the door. Brownfields developer in a poor urban neighbourhood
This article considers the role that champions play as advocates for socioeconomically disadvantaged community member involvement in environmental management decision-making. Six case studies of brownfields redevelopment projects located in poor urban neighbourhoods are examined. Analysis of these case studies reveals how champion behaviour, which has typically been studied only in the context of technological innovation, is enacted in public participation efforts in the service of environmental justice. The study finds that champions who emerge in these settings lead the development and implementation of non-standard public participation process innovations. 相似文献
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Dorion Sagan 《The Environmentalist》1987,7(4):271-281
Summary Biosphere II is a new project to build a self-contained ecological system containing humans, plants, and as many other living organisms as necessary for long-term sustenance. Soviet space scientists have already designed Bios 3, simulating conditions on board a flight to Mars. In building Biosphere II, the Institute of Ecotechnics (IE), in collaboration with Space Biospheres Ventures, Decisions Teams Limited, The Environmental Research Laboratory associated with The University of Arizona, and Sarbid Limited, plan to build the prototype of an artificial world in which environmental and ecological processes can be observed closely; An educational, scientific, and ethical laboratory, Biosphere II will raise public consciousness of the interdependence of all life. It will also serve as a control world where possibly harmful environmental effects can be modelled before they reach a crisis stage. Eventually the biospheres are to be marketed and set up in space as the biosphere, no longer in conflict with but aided by human technology, puts forth its young upon other celestial bodies.Dorion Sagan's most recent books areMicrocosmos andOrigins of Sex, both co-authored with Lynn Margulis. He is working onBiospheres, a book on closed ecological systems which is to be published shortly. 相似文献