404 results on '"Ecosphere"'
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2. Satisfaction of Human Needs and Environmental Sustainability
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Upreti, Gopi and Upreti, Gopi
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- 2023
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3. Biogeochemical Cycles
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Fernandez-Remolar, David C., Gargaud, Muriel, editor, Irvine, William M., editor, Amils, Ricardo, editor, Claeys, Philippe, editor, Cleaves, Henderson James, editor, Gerin, Maryvonne, editor, Rouan, Daniel, editor, Spohn, Tilman, editor, Tirard, Stéphane, editor, and Viso, Michel, editor
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- 2023
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4. A new approach for quantifying ecological sustainability in waste management by using the method of modelling.
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Strakos, Christian, Bauer, Elias, Marx, Clara, and Weihrich, Richard
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WASTE management ,SUSTAINABILITY ,PRODUCT life cycle assessment - Abstract
Human activity has an ever-increasing impact on the environment. In order to understand all processes and interactions behind this change, one has to analyze the environmental impact. Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are one way to achieve this, which, however, are time-consuming and often associated with high costs, as well as the requirement of specialized knowledge and software. This paper introduces a model, which allows an initial assessment. The model enables a more pragmatic way and may be considered as a first step in order to implement ecological sustainability considerations into companies. Based on a real-world problem, namely the disposal of foundry dust, the model is explained in a vivid manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Do Nothing: The Danger of Believing in a World Without Limits
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Cays, John and Cays, John
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- 2021
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6. 简谈“双一流”背景下技术人才与公共测试 平台建设的双向共生关系.
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曹丽转, 廖定容, 唐金晶, and 周小元
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TEST design ,TALENT development ,TEAMS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
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- 2022
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7. Environmental protection measures in mineral resource development: case study of a gold-bearing deposit in the Russian Far East.
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Krupskaya, Liudmila T., Orlov, Aleksey M., Golubev, Dmitry A., Nikulina, Tatiana V., Tagirova, Valentina T., Teslenko, Valentina A., Tiunova, Tatiana M., and Orel, Oksana V.
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MINES & mineral resources ,ENVIRONMENTAL security ,GOLD mining ,NATURAL resources ,ALPINE glaciers ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
In the Russian mining industry, the recent social and economic processes inevitably affect environmental safety and the social security of all those affected by mining. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the technogenic impacts of a mining company on the environment. Measures were developed and implemented to ensure ecological safety and social security during a mineral resource development project in the southern part of the Russian Far East. This study analysed global experiences in this regard and carried out field research with the aim of establishing an inventory of plants and animals (terrestrial and aquatic), showing that technogenesis produced new specific landforms, e.g. quarries and dumps that replaced natural landforms. The main ecologically negative impacts of the mining operations in the region were the movement of mountain masses, changes in forms of erosion, and destruction of mountain ranges with the formation of dispersed clastic fractions of large specific surface areas, which determine exomorphodynamic processes, e.g. deflation, suffusion, and landslides. A general assessment of the biota status and natural water quality within the boundaries of influence of the developed deposit was presented, and a set of measures was recommended for environmental protection and ensuring the rational use of natural resources during mining operations. Moreover, the necessity of creating effective mining and environmental monitoring systems was supported. A 'Map of the Ecological State of Gold Mining Development in the Albazino Territory' was compiled for the first time, pinpointing areas undergoing various degrees of environmental stress. Changes in the forested areas within the territory of the mining allotment were forecast using the forest cover of the study area as the baseline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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8. Ecosphere
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Idowu, Samuel O., editor, Schmidpeter, René, editor, Capaldi, Nicholas, editor, Zu, Liangrong, editor, Del Baldo, Mara, editor, and Abreu, Rute, editor
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- 2023
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9. Ecosphere
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Gargaud, Muriel, editor, Irvine, William M., editor, Amils, Ricardo, editor, Claeys, Philippe, editor, Cleaves, Henderson James, editor, Gerin, Maryvonne, editor, Rouan, Daniel, editor, Spohn, Tilman, editor, Tirard, Stéphane, editor, and Viso, Michel, editor
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- 2023
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10. TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND ECOCRITICAL ASPECTS IN KAMALA MARKANDAYA'S THE COFFER DAMS.
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Borade, Alka
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ENVIRONMENTAL degradation ,ECOCRITICISM ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
The ecosphere which is the biological component of the planet consists of the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere. Our ecosphere is in danger due to man's anthropocentric tendency. Man's claims to be a superior race and his interference in nature's affairs with scientific and technological advancement are posing a threat to a healthy environment. Industrial evolution, automobiles, nuclear weapons, use of pesticides, deforestation and indifferent attitude to surroundings are contaminating air, water and land. The adulterous air, water and soil are adversely affecting human and non human health. Acid rain, global warming, greenhouse gas effect, ozone layer depletion, drought, famine, flood, land slide, earth quake, soil erosion, ground water dwindling, loss of biodiversity, alteration in nature's season cycle arefatal consequences of environmental destruction. The very elements of the planet; the air, the water and the soil are turning toxic due to human centred activities. Man is the only species fouling his own nest. Man's adamant determination to exhaust all of the earth's resources to satisfy his craving is desperately polluting the environment. Kamala Markandaya, a conscious lover of nature focuses on environmental issues in her sixth novel, The Coffer Dams (1969). The present paper explores how an industrial set upfractures the ecological harmony of a serene place. This study is an attempt to highlight environmental issues like urbanisation, deforestation and noise pollution due to a dam project in a hilly tribal area, Malnad in South India. This study reveals the detrimental effects of technology on ecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
11. Consequences of different pesticide emissions modelling: case study for soybean crop in Brazil
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Kássio Ricardo Garcia Lucas, Maurício Ursi Ventura, Robson Rolland Monticelli Barizon, Marília Ieda da Silveira Folegatti-Matsuura, Juliana Ferreira Picoli, and Ricardo Ralisch
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Ecosphere ,Technosphere ,Ecoinvent ,PestLCI ,Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering ,TD1-1066 ,Industrial engineering. Management engineering ,T55.4-60.8 - Abstract
The impacts of pesticide use are one of the main environmental problems in agriculture and a threat to as much environment as human beings. Even Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies, one of the main ones to evaluate production systems, have encountered difficulties in determining the (eco)toxicity impacts of pesticides. The lack of understanding in the relationship between the production system and the environmental emission compartment is one of the problems. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate two modeling methods – and two definitions of environmental emission compartments, ecosphere and technosphere – for pesticides: 100% of emissions to soil and PestLCI. Two soybean production techniques were considered, integrated pest and disease management (IPM-IDM) and scheduled application. To assess the impacts, two methods were adopted: USEtox and ReCiPe. In the evaluation by USEtox, we observed the human toxicity category, which suffered few changes, different of the freshwater ecotoxicity category. For ReCiPe that most impact categories have undergone few changes, except for ecotoxicity categories, terrestrial and freshwater. Therefore, despite the difference in modeling and emission compartments, no consensus has been reached on the framing of compartments between ecosphere and technosphere. However, we observe that the combination of different models together with different impact assessment methods mainly influence the (eco)toxicity impact categories, of which the definition of emission compartments is more sensitive
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- 2021
12. Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Problems and Perspectives
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Singh, Vijay P., Singh, Vijay P., Editor-in-Chief, Sarma, Arup K., editor, Bhattacharjya, Rajib K., editor, and Kartha, Suresh A., editor
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- 2018
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13. Selecting, combining, and cultivating digital deeptech ecosystems.
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Foss Rosenstand, Claus A.
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PUBLIC-private sector cooperation ,INNOVATION management ,SYSTEMS theory ,DIGITAL technology ,INDUSTRIAL robots - Abstract
The area of interest is private-public partnerships and digital deeptech ecosystems. This is framed with eco-system literature and system theory. The research question is: How to support exponential growth leveraged by digital disruptive technologies through selecting, combining, and cultivating digital deep-tech ecosystems within the digital disruptive domain? And more practical, how to orchestrate the innovation managers of these ecosystems? The point of departure for identifying digital deep-tech ecosystems is a Startup Genome report mapping Denmark's position in the global startup ecosystem lifecycle. Though action research the contribution of this early stage research-in-progress is a digital deep-tech ecosphere canvas illuminating a private-public partnership's contributions to the Danish ecosystems of gov-tech, fin-tech, health-tech, foodtech, robotics, and crea-tech. This is exemplified with the private-public partnership Digital Hub Denmark. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
14. The Life Required. Political Economy in the Long Emergency
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Orr, David W., Turner, R. Kerry, Series editor, and Shmelev, Stanislav, editor
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- 2017
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15. Talking About Nature: Ecolinguistics and the Natureculture Paradigm
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Zunino Harper, Francesca and Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia, editor
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- 2016
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16. Biogeochemical Cycles
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Fernández-Remolar, David C., Gargaud, Muriel, editor, Irvine, William M., editor, Amils, Ricardo, editor, Cleaves, Henderson James (Jim), II, editor, Pinti, Daniele L., editor, Quintanilla, José Cernicharo, editor, Rouan, Daniel, editor, Spohn, Tilman, editor, Tirard, Stéphane, editor, and Viso, Michel, editor
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- 2015
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17. Anita Desai's Green Delineation in Where Shall We Go this summer.
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SIVARANJANI, K. and RAJARAJAN, S.
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FORTIFICATION ,EARTH system science ,DISASTERS ,FABRICATION (Manufacturing) - Abstract
The most influential contemporary Indian writer Anita Desai adroitly shaped the image of new women by her shrewd illustration. As an Indian grandee, she recoils her narration with different dimensions. Her expertise brings out the inner mind of women, which crammed with rigidity, foiling, disaffection and stiffness in this modern world. Sita the protagonist of the novel finds it tough to lead a serene life in the city. She was earnestly anxious about the ecological catastrophe and its fortification. Anita Desai brazenly swings her description from the extent to the former ecological note and jauntily expounds the impending future of nature's fabrication. It is the depiction of the inner and outer ecosphere of present existence with eco-crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
18. Designing solar farms for synergistic commercial and conservation outcomes
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M. Julian Caley, Lin Schwarzkopf, and Eric J. Nordberg
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Land use ,Work (electrical) ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Natural resource economics ,business.industry ,Set-aside ,Agriculture ,Greenhouse gas ,General Materials Science ,Ecosphere ,Solar energy ,business ,Renewable energy - Abstract
Competition among land uses is making it increasingly difficult to set aside adequate space for wildlife and nature conservation, so it is imperative that opportunities that simultaneously achieve commercial and conservation outcomes be identified and seized. Such opportunities exist in the renewable energy industry. It is widely recognized that renewable energy generation benefits the ecosphere through reduced carbon emissions, but currently, further opportunities for realising direct and indirect conservation benefits through the design of solar farms are less well known. Among other opportunities, solar farm designs that deliver environmental credits through carbon sequestration and biodiversity improvements can deliver higher financial returns. Other opportunities to improve local hydrology, pollination, and pest-control services could be available depending on site-specific characteristics where solar farms are built, and the other land use practices that exist, or are possible, in the immediate vicinity. Here, we explore opportunities among renewable energy generation, agriculture, and conservation, through the co-location and innovative design of PV solar energy farms on grazing and croplands. These forms of land sharing can achieve higher land-equivalent ratios (LERs), a quantitative metric of the reduction in land use. We identify opportunities whereby solar farms can be designed to improve biodiversity, land condition, and conservation outcomes, while maintaining or increasing commercial returns. Much work remains, however, to understand the suite of opportunities available for achieving simultaneously the best commercial and conservation outcomes through solar farm designs in agricultural landscapes.
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- 2021
19. Construction of healthy wetland ecosphere in estuarine delta: Theory and method.
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HAM Guang-xuan, NIU Zhen-guo, LUAN Zhao-qing, WANG Guang-mei, ZHANG Li-wen, and GUAN Bo
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The health of wetland ecosphere in an estuarine delta is determined by many factors, such as continuity of natural processes, ecosystem connectivity, habitat heterogeneity, and food web diversity. The contradiction between ecological and environmental protection and regional development, in the estuarine delta is becoming more and more prominent.. A series of man-made and natural processes directly and indirectly resulted in habitat fragmentation of wetlands, which has direct and strong impacts on the ecosphere health and the habitat function of wetlands. In this paper, we pro- vided a perspective on researches on the basic theory of healthy wetland ecosphere, landscape eco- logical network system, hydrologic network construction, key food webs, and habitat heterogeneity. At the regional and landscape scales, with the linkages between land use and ecosystem integrity as the main line, we clarified the influences of habitat fragmentation on wetland ecological functions, especially the effects of landscape integrity and river connectivity on wetland habitat. At the community and ecosystem scales, emphasis should be given on the relationship between food web and ecosystem stability, especially the supporting role of food web diversity and habitat heterogeneity on the construction of wetland biosphere. Further efforts should focuse on the wetland habitats construction based on landscape integrity, hydrologic connectivity, habitat heterogeneity and food web diversity. These efforts could help to develop and optimize the theory and method of constructing wetland ecosphere and enhancing its ecological function, and promote the sound development, of regional ecological environment and resource utilization in estuarine deltas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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20. Problems of Reducing Environmental Damage Caused in the Past Century by Mining Facilities and Ways of Their Solution in the Far Eastern Federal District.
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Krupskaya, L. T., Zvereva, V. A., Golubev, D. A., Bubnova, M. B., and Tagirova, V. T.
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MINERAL industries & the environment , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *RECLAMATION of land , *MINE waste , *RESTORATION ecology ,ENVIRONMENTAL aspects - Abstract
Given are the results of many-years’ research aimed at implementing the major state policies in the field of environmental development of the Far Eastern Federal District of the Russian Federation, eliminating environmental damage accumulated due to past mining activities, and restoring disturbed natural ecosystems. In this regard, the purpose of the study was to justify the need to develop a method for reclamation of the surface of the tailing dumps of bankrupt mining enterprises of the Far Eastern Federal District to ensure their environmental safety. Innovative proposals have been developed to reduce negative impact of toxic mining wastes on the environment, the novelty of which has been confirmed by patents of the Russian Federation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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21. Scientific bases of classification of arable lands on productivity of soils for cultivation of the basic agricultural crops
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Oksana Drebot, D. Dobriak, and P. Melnyk
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Geography ,Work (electrical) ,Agroforestry ,Agricultural land ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Ecological assessment ,Arable land ,Ecosphere ,Zoning ,Productivity ,Environmentally friendly ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
The article highlights the theoretical and methodological approaches to the classification of arable land by the suitability of soils for growing major crops, which are based on environmentally friendly use of agricultural land, which is now considered as the basis for the development of society as a whole. Methodological basis of this doctrine is the demands of plants to environmental factors, the need for various resources (light, heat, humidity, etc.) and their response to their combination of conditions, including the idea of optimum, ecological amplitudes of limiting factors, plasticity or adaptation. The ecological assessment of the territory itself is considered as a suitability for intensive (ie as part of arable soils) use and as an assessment of the fertility factors inherent in this territory. This is an analysis of the territory in terms of compliance of factors with the basic requirements of plants. When the requirements of plants do not meet the external conditions, the question arises about the unsuitability of the territory for the plant or the need to adapt the conditions to plants or, conversely, plants to environmental conditions. Until now, scientific and practical work on this issue was aimed at determining the relationship of indicators-scores or non-cost indicators. In this case, we are talking about the concomitant study of a set of natural conditions, ie the ecosphere, in relation to the agrobiological characteristics of certain plant species, including crops. The solution of this problem is recommended in the following stages: carrying out natural-agricultural zoning of the territory; generalization of agrobiological requirements of plants to the environment; agro-climatic substantiation of placement of agricultural crops and allocation of zones of their cultivation; development of soil assessment scales in accordance with the cultivation of crops; development of tables of classifications of arable lands according to the suitability of soils for growing major crops; determining the suitability of land, analysis of the actual location of crops and opportunities for improvement.
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- 2021
22. Ecohydrology and adaptation to global change
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Małgorzata Połatyńska-Rudnicka, Arnoldo Font-Nájera, Małgorzata Godlewska, Małgorzata Łapińska, Magdalena Urbaniak, Paweł Jarosiewicz, Joanna Mankiewicz Boczek, Kamila Belka, Kinga Krauze, Agnieszka Bednarek, Liliana Serwecińska, Iwona Wagner, Tomasz Jurczak, Adrianna Wojtal-Frankiewicz, Sebastian Szklarek, Ilona Gągała, Katarzyna Izydorczyk, Elżbieta Mierzejewska, Piotr Frankiewicz, Maciej Zalewski, Zbigniew Kaczkowski, Edyta Kiedrzyńska, and Renata Włodarczyk-Marciniak
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business.industry ,Nutrient pollution ,Ecohydrology ,Environmental resource management ,Sustainability ,Sustainability science ,Integrated water resources management ,Environmental science ,Aquatic Science ,Ecosphere ,business ,Resilience (network) ,Ecosystem services - Abstract
Ecohydrology is a transdisciplinary sustainability science based on an understanding of hydrosphere/ecosphere interactions from the molecular to catchment scale, developed within the framework of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (UNESCO IHP). This paper introduces a broad range of Ecohydrological Nature-Based Solutions (EH-NBS) that have been developed based on dual regulation considering understanding of reciprocal H → B (Hydrogeology → Biocenosis) and B → H interactions. EH-NBS are particularly effective at reducing various dispersed impacts especially non-point source pollution, which generate up to 50% of nutrient pollution load from the catchment. The importance of methodology, integration of ecological and hydrological disciplines which reduces impact and increases landscape water and nutrients retention and freshwater ecosystem resilience which is becoming important element of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) was also presented. Considering the above, implementation of ecohydrology aims to increase catchment sustainability potential, expressed by water, biodiversity, ecosystem services and resilience (WBSR). Due to the specific nature of dispersed impact generated by human factor in the catchment, it is crucial to engage society through culture and education (CE) to ensure the implementation and long-term efficiency.
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- 2021
23. Manipulating Golden Wombs’
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Roma Madan-Soni
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Vision ,History ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Environmental ethics ,Context (language use) ,050601 international relations ,Injustice ,0506 political science ,Earth system science ,Ecofeminism ,Politics ,Originality ,050602 political science & public administration ,Ecosphere ,media_common - Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this study/paper Manipulating Golden Wombs’ (2017) is to show the author’s non-site intervention of authoritarian – undemocratic maneuvering of both women’s and earth’s “golden” wombs. The burning fossil fuels in myriads of flame colors, signal the power and distress of Earth’s wounded womb, memories of war, environmental destruction and human fatality, and descend to decline as extinguished Oil Drops (2017), creating a void. Global warming poses a problem for fossil fuel systems and those who profit from them. Design/methodology/approach The title of this paper has been inspired by Cara New Dagget’s book, The Birth of Energy (2019), posited in the nascent realm of energy “mortalities.” Now, confronting a world warmed by sweltering fossil fuels, the book provides us with a direction to thinking energy beyond the “Calvinist view” of everlasting work. Spellbound by Manipulating Golden Wombs’ (2017), the audience canter around the outer surface of the centrally positioned, circulating luminous “acrylic” oil drops highlighted by hundreds of mono-frequency lamps impregnated with desert biodiversity. A closer look takes spectators through a fiery desert, across the fossil fuel fields into the depths of its scorching oil wells, its womb, as they sense the “real-time” catastrophe that had occurred beyond the gallery wall. Findings These artists’ objective with their interventions is to “root it to the contour of the […] land, so that it’s permanently there and subject to the weathering,” so the audience is “sort of curious to see what will happen to this” (Schmidt, 1996, 225) through the course of time. The works resists the resistance of nature and social culture, as well as of body and intellect by emphasizing the intransience, however complex, of human beings with the ecosphere in which they survive (Novak 2002, 23). The surfacing of the under-surface of the land and ocean life triggers the idea of the private space, which involves role-play, gender norms and the control over women's lives in the capitalist and Gulf societies. Authoritarianism, fossil fuel capital, high-energy use and militarism make the climate politics critical to planetary security. This combustible convergence gave birth to Manipulating Golden Wombs’ (2017). Research limitations/implications Ganz reminds us that devouring less energy appears to be almost unharmonious with the current politics of being “Modern.” Sacrificing energy resonances with abstinence at best, and widespread death and injustice at worst. But, consuming an overload of energy is incompatible with a multispecies existence on Earth. Scientists caution “a cascade of feedbacks could push the Earth System irreversibly onto a ‘Hothouse Earth’ pathway,” the consequence of which could be an uninhabitable, unsafe globe for beings (Steffen et al., 2018). Even though it sounds vivid, it is hard to overstate the crisis in the midst of what environmentalists and biologists term as a sixth extinction event (Kolbert, 2014), in line with a “biological annihilation” that paints “a dismal picture of the future of life, including human life” (Ceballos et al., 2017). Practical implications It is not only the land’s womb that we have hurt; we have miffed the hearts of the water network, and “Othered” and the wombs of many women and most surfaces of the Earth have been penetrated, unconsented! To sustain a biodiverse sphere, to pause the deaths of the planet’s flora and fauna and to thrive on Earth, we need to work on renewable sources of energy based on “new collectively shared values, principles, and frameworks” (Steffen et al., 2018). We need to stop Manipulating Golden Wombs’ (2017). Are we ready to accept the challenge? (Lau and Traulsen, 2016) Social implications Petro-masculinity has multiple global dimensions and manifests in multiple and locally specific ways (Dagget, 2018). This encourages the geographically diverse artists discussed in this paper to embrace alternative visions, to make bold and explicit statements on gender and global diversity, equity and rights. Through history, women, in specific, embodied the entirety of the Ecocene and its life cycle and explored it in the context of their own relationships, health, sexuality, fertility, reproduction, childbirth, illness and inescapably death. The artists’ interventions’ visual physiognomies and intentions point toward a comprehensive agenda of action that leads to remedial courses toward reinstating the biome to a healthy condition. Originality/value Manipulating Golden Wombs’ (2017) enacts the historic all-consuming fires, penetrating the “shared environment,” burning the fossilized fuels exuding from Earth’s penetrated womb. The higher cone-shaped oil drops irradiate the intense dazzling images of oil wells in flames and the desert flora and fauna nestled within the scorching inner arena. This aligns with the private space provided to women. The wombs are smothered in the fuming fires of the Gulf war. The darker, narrower lower oil drops, iconic of the remnants of fossil fuel, are the residual sludge within which the land and water species are enmeshed and ensnared to death. The potency of the enactment of the drops “enables the viewer to see [him/]herself seeing, to become aware of how she perceives the world around [him/]her and in doing so participates in shaping it” (Eliasson, 2009, p. 25) as a form of engagement, which involves an “attention to time, movement and changeability” (pp. 18–21).
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- 2021
24. Advances in Biological Techniques for Remediation of Heavy Metals Leached from a Fly Ash Contaminated Ecosphere
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Amit Kumar Yadav and Krishna Rawat
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Environmental remediation ,Fly ash ,Environmental chemistry ,Environmental science ,Heavy metals ,Contamination ,Ecosphere - Published
- 2021
25. Impact of technogenic dust pollution from the closed mining enterprise in the Amur Region on the ecosphere and human health
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K. A. Kolobanov and N. K. Rastanina
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lcsh:TN1-997 ,Pollution ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,mining ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Human health ,population risk ,Environmental health ,Environmental monitoring ,waste ,education ,lcsh:Mining engineering. Metallurgy ,environmental monitoring ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Pollutant ,education.field_of_study ,Process Chemistry and Technology ,Geology ,heavy metal ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,Environmental science ,compounds ,Population Risk ,Ecosphere ,amur region ,Economic problem - Abstract
Environmental protection is a complex ecological and economic problem, including the need to develop and implement a number of environmental protection measures to mitigate the negative impact of mining waste on all natural environment components and human health. In this regard, the study purpose was to assess the impact of Pb, Cd, Cr, and As compounds on the environment and health of the population of the Solnechny miner’s village. Based on the purpose, the following tasks were set: 1) review and systematization of literature data on the problem of technogenic dust pollution; 2) assessment of the mining industrial system as a source of ecosystem pollution with toxic elements within the closed mining enterprises impact areas; 3) development of proposals for mitigating the impact of mining activities on ecosystems and human health. The paper presents the findings of the study of the elemental status of children and adolescents living within the closed town-forming enterprise JSC Solnechny GOK impact area. The relationship between the level of technogenic pollution of the natural environment and the changes in the elemental status of the children was shown. A feature of the elemental status of the children in the study group was high content of heavy metals, including Pb, Cr, and As. Our research confirmed the data that a growing child’s body actively adsorbs compounds of toxic chemical elements. Deficiency and imbalance of microelements in the body can cause ecologically-related diseases in the child population. Individual and population carcinogenic risks (CR) caused by the As, Pb, and Cr pollution were calculated. In accordance with the acceptance criteria for the risk caused by exposure to the pollutants, the individual carcinogenic risk CR (Cr) = 1,05 · 10–3 belongs to the fourth range and is unacceptable neither for the population, nor for occupational groups. This is De manifestis risk, and when it is reached, it is necessary to carry out emergency curative measures to mitigate it. The individual risks CR (As) = 7,05 · 10–4 also exceed the acceptable level for the population. This level of pollution is subject to permanent monitoring, requires development and implementation of planned curative measures to improve the indicators of the human environment, one of which is the organization of the environmental monitoring system in the study area.
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- 2021
26. Automated detection of wildlife using drones: Synthesis, opportunities and constraints
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Ashlee Sudholz, Evangeline Corcoran, Grant Hamilton, and Megan Winsen
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0106 biological sciences ,Computer science ,Remotely piloted aircraft ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Ecological Modeling ,Wildlife ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Data science ,Ground survey ,Drone ,Habitat ,Homogeneous ,Ecosphere ,Multirotor ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Accurate detection of individual animals is integral to the management of vulnerable wildlife species, but often difficult and costly to achieve for species that occur over wide or inaccessible areas or engage in cryptic behaviours. There is a growing acceptance of the use of drones (also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs and remotely piloted aircraft systems, RPAS) to detect wildlife, largely because of the capacity for drones to rapidly cover large areas compared to ground survey methods. While drones can aid the capture of large amounts of imagery, detection requires either manual evaluation of the imagery or automated detection using machine learning algorithms. While manual evaluation of drone-acquired imagery is possible and sometimes necessary, the powerful combination of drones with automated detection of wildlife in this imagery is much faster and, in some cases, more accurate than using human observers. Despite the great potential of this emerging approach, most attention to date has been paid to the development of algorithms, and little is known about the constraints around successful detection (P. W. J. Baxter, and G. Hamilton, 2018, Ecosphere, 9, e02194). We reviewed studies that were conducted over the last 5 years in which wildlife species were detected automatically in drone-acquired imagery to understand how technological constraints, environmental conditions and ecological traits of target species impact detection with automated methods. From this review, we found that automated detection could be achieved for a wider range of species and under a greater variety of environmental conditions than reported in previous reviews of automated and manual detection in drone-acquired imagery. A high probability of automated detection could be achieved efficiently using fixed-wing platforms and RGB sensors for species that were large and occurred in open and homogeneous environments with little vegetation or variation in topography while infrared sensors and multirotor platforms were necessary to successfully detect small, elusive species in complex habitats. The insight gained in this review could allow conservation managers to use drones and machine learning algorithms more accurately and efficiently to conduct abundance data on vulnerable populations that is critical to their conservation.
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- 2021
27. The Cultural Ecosphere of Jingchu in the Inheritance of Modern and Contemporary Hubei Fine Arts
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Chen Guojun and Liu Bin
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Inheritance (object-oriented programming) ,History ,business.industry ,Ecosphere ,business ,Genealogy ,Fine art - Published
- 2021
28. Python Earth Engine API as a new open-source ecosphere for characterizing offshore hydrocarbon seeps and spills
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Leo Turon, Whitney Trainor-Guitton, and Dominique Dubucq
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Application programming interface ,Database ,Computer science ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Geology ,02 engineering and technology ,Python (programming language) ,computer.software_genre ,01 natural sciences ,Geophysics ,Open source ,Submarine pipeline ,Ecosphere ,computer ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
The Python Earth Engine application programming interface (API) provides a new open-source ecosphere for testing hydrocarbon detection algorithms on large volumes of images curated with the Google Earth Engine. We specifically demonstrate the Python Earth Engine API by calculating three hydrocarbon indices: fluorescence, rotation absorption, and normalized fluorescence. The Python Earth Engine API provides an ideal environment for testing these indices with varied oil seeps and spills by (1) removing barriers of proprietary software formats and (2) providing an extensive library of data analysis tools (e.g., Pandas and Seaborn) and classification algorithms (e.g., Scikit-learn and TensorFlow). Our results demonstrate end-member cases in which fluorescence and normalized fluorescence indices of seawater and oil are statistically similar and different. As expected, predictive classification is more effective and the calculated probability of oil is more accurate for scenarios in which seawater and oil are well separated in the fluorescence space.
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- 2021
29. Aboveground mining waste storage as an ecosphere pollution source and waste exploitability in Russia’s Far East
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V.P. Zvereva, A.M. Orlov, G.F. Sklyarova, and L.T. Krupskaya
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Pollution ,Ecology ,Geochemistry and Petrology ,Environmental protection ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Environmental science ,Geology ,Ecosphere ,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology ,Far East ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,media_common - Published
- 2021
30. A Systematic Review on Graduate Mathematics Theses and Dissertations of State Universities and Colleges in Region I: A Basis for a Proposed Research Direction
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Mark Angelo C. Reotutar
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Index (publishing) ,State (polity) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Research studies ,Mathematics education ,Correlation method ,Ecosphere ,Education ,media_common - Abstract
Reviewing completed research studies aids research ecosphere to provide a conclusive and reliable bibliography; and it confirms a comprehensive generalization on the conducted researches along mathematics education. It aimed to systematically review the completed graduate mathematics education researches in SUCs in Region I to see the complete picture of the conducted researches in the region. Specifically, the researcher classified and characterized the graduate mathematics education researches in the region and identified the effect sizes of the researches. The researcher made used of the descriptive-quantitative method of research to systematically review the completed theses and dissertations in mathematics education. Specifically, a meta-analysis was done in some portions of the review. The following are the findings of the study: (1) the determinants of mathematics achievement of students have the greatest number of researches conducted by graduate mathematics students from the years 2007 to 2016. (2) Most of the conducted researches used correlation method of research and had a small to very small effect size index. (3) As consequence of the findings, a research mapping and a proposed research direction were crafted by the researcher for mathematics education future researchers. The results of the study tell that every university in the country should comprehensively choose research topics, monitor and guide their students who are enrolled in the graduate programs to avoid over saturation to research topics especially in mathematics education. In the light of the findings and conclusions, the researcher recommended that the constructed proposed research mappings and directions should be used as guide in thinking what research area/s will be undertaken by future mathematics education researchers.
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- 2020
31. En-Governance – A paradigm shift in corporate governance
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Elangovan, A. and Mala, J. Jayashree
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- 2012
32. Performing Politics
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Troy R. E. Paddock
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aesthetics ,Walter Benjamin ,debate ,ecosphere ,Jürgen Habermas ,meme ,politics ,public sphere ,Aesthetics ,BH1-301 - Abstract
Walter Benjamin’s observation that fascism turns politics into aesthetics is, by now, a well-worn idea. This article argues that Benjamin’s critique of politics can apply just as much to the modern democratic politics of the United States. Borrowing from Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Carl Schmitt, this article suggests that modern political discourse in the United States does not follow the classical liberal ideal of rational discourse in the marketplace of ideas within the public sphere. Instead, contemporary politics has become spectacle where images and slogans replace thought and debate in a 24/7 news cycle and political infotainment programs. The result is that progressives and conservatives have their own political “ecospheres” which enable them to have their own perspective reinforced, and debate is replaced by straw man arguments and personal attacks.
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- 2016
33. White Noise of the Ecosphere: Ontology in Digital Sound
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Eyal Amiran
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Cultural Studies ,Cognitive science ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,business.industry ,Computer science ,White noise ,Digital media ,Philosophy ,Ontology ,Ecosphere ,business ,Sound (geography) ,Digital audio - Abstract
This essay offers a critique of the ontological turn in digital media theory, focusing on the presence the voice is presumed to confer on sound, even in digital media. The voice is not understood b...
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- 2020
34. Neue Dämmstoffe auf dem Weg in die praktische Anwendung
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Illner, Micha and Publica
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Spritzdämmung ,SULFOAM ,Wärmedämmung ,AeroBasalt ,AeroPutz ,Dämmstoff ,THELMA ,WiTraBau ,HighTechMatBau ,Plattendämmstoff ,EcoSphere - Abstract
Das wissenschaftliche Begleitvorhaben »WiTraBau« verfolgt das Ziel, forschende Stellen bei der Entwicklung von Strategien zur Verwertung ihrer Forschungsergebnisse zu unterstützen. Die neu entwickelten Dämmstoffe SULFOAM, EcoSphere, THELMA, AeroBasalt und AeroPutz werden durch WiTraBau begleitet und exemplarisch vorgestellt.
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- 2022
35. Sources of Environmental Hazards Effects and Control
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Abdulraheem Mukhtar Iderawumi
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,Public health ,02 engineering and technology ,General Medicine ,Hazard ,Natural (archaeology) ,Environmental hazard ,020401 chemical engineering ,Environmental protection ,Agriculture ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,medicine ,Environmental science ,Health education ,0204 chemical engineering ,Ecosphere ,Natural disaster ,business ,Environmental planning - Abstract
The entire world become village and whatever affects a country will ultimately affect the neighbouring ones. Since the environment is being constantly polluted by man through its various activities such an acts constitutes hazard to man and its ecological being and a threat to public health. An environmental hazard is a substance, state or event which has the potential to threaten the surrounding natural environment and / or adversely affect people's health. This term incorporates topics like pollution and natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes. Human-made hazards while not immediately health-threatening may turn out detrimental to man's well-being eventually, because deterioration in the environment can produce secondary, unwanted negative effects on the human ecosphere. The effects of water pollution may not be immediately visible because of a sewage system that helps drain off toxic substances. If those substances turn out to be persistent (e.g. persistent organic pollutant), however, they will literally be fed back to their producers via the food chain: plankton -> edible fish -> humans. In that respect, a considerable number of environmental hazards are man-made (anthropogenic) hazards. This necessitate to this study of investigating, the sources, effects and controls of environment hazards. Data were gathered from Primary Health Care (P.H.C) department and from environment department through oral interview method. The findings from the data collected revealed that’s the people in the study area have negative attitude towards environmental hazards which make them to mismanage environmental resources such as land, water and air. Investigation also shows that, there were poor and inadequate system of refuse disposition and that the system most of the houses in the area are without adequate toilet facilities. Health education should be given to the people on the sources and effects of environmental hazards. It is therefore hoped that, if the recommendation made in this study is staffs strictly adhered to, it would go a long way in improving the environmental condition.
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- 2019
36. Revisioning environmental literacy in the context of a global information and communications ecosphere
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Milton McClaren
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business.industry ,Knowledge level ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Information technology ,050109 social psychology ,Environmental ethics ,Context (language use) ,Education ,Environmental education ,Civic engagement ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Social media ,Sociology ,Ecosphere ,business ,0503 education ,General Environmental Science ,Social capital - Abstract
This essay questions whether current formulations of environmental literacy as an outcome of environmental education (EE) require revision in the context of the emergence and implementation...
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- 2019
37. Hidden patterns of sustainable development in Asia with underlying global change correlations
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Brian R. Mackay and Richard R. Shaker
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Decision Sciences ,Development ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,12. Responsible consumption ,Urbanization ,11. Sustainability ,Regional science ,Population growth ,Sustainability indicators ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,QH540-549.5 ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Sustainable development ,Ecology ,Sustainability assessment ,1. No poverty ,15. Life on land ,Natural resource ,Index ,Geography ,13. Climate action ,Sustainability ,Prosperity ,Ecosphere ,Social equality - Abstract
As the most populous continent, and its dominant role in the global economy, Asia is arguably the most important region for understanding global change. To evaluate and guide humanity’s growth toward a more sustainable future, indicators and their composite indices have been adopted as key tools resulting in a paralyzing amount for decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers to choose from. Although research has improved understanding of development metrics for evaluating and monitoring global change, making progress toward sustainability remains as open as ever. Building from previous work, 44 Asian nations were studied using four guiding research questions: (i) What are the hidden dimensions within a collection of known sustainable development indices, and what differentiates winning locations from losing ones? (ii) Are the three major divisions of sustainability (economic growth, social equity, environmental integrity) equally supported by these development measuring initiatives? (iii) How do common global change indicators statistically respond to the canonical development dimensions? (iv) Do recent population growth and urbanization trends move humanity closer to planetary sustainability? Those questions were explored using four amassing methodological stages. First, six hidden development dimensions (factor axes) were revealed while maintaining over 80% of 35 known sustainable development indices’ variation. The dimensions expressed: (F1) human well-being synergies; (F2) environmentally efficient happiness; (F3) ecological integrity to economic performance trade-off; (F4) peace, prosperity, and natural resources protection; (F5) economic and political liberty; and (F6) generosity. Second, a mega-index of sustainable development (MISD) was created by combining the six latent dimensions. Third, spatial patterns of the hidden development axes, MISD, and nine common global change metrics were explored. Fourth, using global and local inferential tests, associations between the canonical development dimensions, MISD, and global change indicators were made. The human well-being synergies dimension (F1) explained over one-third of the total variance, and positively clustered in northern Asia and negatively in southern Asia. The MISD ranked Singapore best, followed by Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, and Malaysia; Afghanistan ranked worst, then China, Syria, Russia, Turkmenistan, and India. Overall, improved sustainable development position came through increased population density, decreased country area, lower latitude, and a greater proportion of urban land cover. This cross-country analysis reiterates an underrepresentation of biogeochemical (ecosphere) conditions across development indices; moreover, spatial patterns of favorable development were rarely found simultaneous. Trade-offs and the lack of spatial concordance will make achieving sustainability a very difficult task in an urbanizing world without limits.
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- 2021
38. Ecological Sustainability of Silk Manufacturing Segment in Indian Ecosphere and future growth prospects from an economic perspective
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Divya Nandini Sharma and Lakheshwar a
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Natural resource economics ,Perspective (graphical) ,Sustainability ,Economics ,Ecosphere - Published
- 2021
39. Building Worlds Together with Sound and Music: Imagination as an Active Engagement between Ourselves
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Tuuri, Kai, Peltola, Henna-Riikka, Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mark, book editor, Walther-Hansen, Mads, book editor, and Knakkergaard, Martin, book editor
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- 2019
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40. İKİ ÇAG, İKİ ÇEVRE, İKİ KiRLENME: ETOSFER VE EKOSFER.
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ERİNCİK, Selçuk
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ıytankind has been facing with some huge problems related to two different spheres one of which bears much more responsibility. The environmental erisis is thought to be a major discontent of the present day. There has been intense debate about this topic si nce it turned out to. be an undeniable and horrific fact. The public is highly acquainted with same popular and visible aspects of that problem such as water pollution, air pallutian and global warming because of mass-media and even cinema. However we believe that it is just a self-evident result caused by deeper philosophical, moral and anthropological motivations/transformations whose real reasons can be traced back to the Cartesianism and the scientific revolution. Both modem and postmodem ages have interwoven the moral and environmental problems. So it is only the resurrection of traditional wisdom based on the divine revelation to stop, if possible, this corruption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
41. Fertile Wear : Underwear in relation to manufacturing toxicity, the ecosphere and our reproductive zones
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Nivrén, Linnéa and Nivrén, Linnéa
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Every artifact in this consumerism world is connected to Earth’s four ecological layers. Everything around us, air, organism, water, and soil/rock also known by the names; atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. All together form the ecosphere, the place that contains all materials and resources that we use when creating artifacts. »Every material that we use comes from the ecosphere and eventually goes back to it.« - Ann Thorpe The way humans use, extract, manufacture and dispose of materials has concerned me for many years, long before I started this design program. It has formed my way of making as a designer, and because of my love for textiles, I have been applying it in that field of practise. I want to design textiles that function and can be used frequently, with a purpose and in the end, decompose before I do. The aim of this conducted design project is to, in a playful way, break down the barrier between maker and user. Combined with unfolding the hidden truths about garments, how they are manufactured and where those textile components originate from. This would enable me to broaden my knowledge in the field and in return I will have the opportunity to share my insights with the public. Within this project I will also put the emphasis on the impact textiles have on our bodies, reproductive health and surrounding ecosystems. Designing with the intention to highlight topics like this, the whole life cycle of garments, creates a stronger bond between user and maker. This is something I as a designer and maker want to build my foundation on. In order to do this I needed to pin down where this conducted design project could take place and what sustainable possibilities of change it could embed for the future.
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- 2021
42. Conclusion
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Roger Domeneghetti
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law ,Blogosphere ,Immediacy ,Media studies ,CLARITY ,Journalism ,Social media ,Sociology ,Ecosphere ,Amateur ,Gatekeeping ,law.invention - Abstract
The number of black and ethnic minority journalists is also low compared to their white counterparts. As Wiske and Horky acknowledge in their contribution, social media platforms have undermined the traditional gatekeeping role of legacy media and it is clear that it does enable traditionally marginalised groups to bypass legacy media and forge their own identities and discourse in the digital ecosphere. The tools of digital journalism, and in particular the various social media platforms now available, have increased both the immediacy and intimacy of the professional environment which sports journalists inhabit. The increased access to technical knowledge and equipment through which content can be shared has created space for amateur journalists of the type discussed by McEnnis. McEnnis has attempted to bring greater clarity to the comparison of the journalism skills possessed, and content produced, by bloggers and journalists through an analytical framework of the blogosphere.
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- 2021
43. Recognising the homely in an unheimlich world : rationality and the uncanny ecosphere
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Dhanya Lingesh
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Aesthetics ,Philosophy ,Rationality ,Ecosphere ,Uncanny - Published
- 2021
44. Considering Harmful Algal Blooms
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Ruby E. Jalgaonwala
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,business.industry ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,InformationSystems_INFORMATIONSTORAGEANDRETRIEVAL ,Climate change ,Effective management ,01 natural sciences ,Algal bloom ,Aquaculture ,Effects of global warming ,Environmental science ,Ecosystem ,Economic impact analysis ,Ecosphere ,business ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Problematic harmful algal bloom is wide and tenacious, upsetting estuaries, coasts, and freshwaters system throughout the ecosphere, alongside disturbing human health, social life as well as national economy. Particular environmental factors supports growth of algal blooms, temperature always is significant when speaking about water-ecosystem. Disparity in temperature also found to affect the interaction of physical, chemical and biological parameters so it is equally imperative to consider effects of climate change, as change in climatic conditions supports unwanted growth of algae. Also inconsistency in climate equally contributes to the apparent increases of HAB, therefore effects of climate change needs to be totally comprehended along with development of the risk assessments and effective management of HABs. Increased HAB activities have a direct negative effect on ecosystems and they can frequently have a direct commercial impact on aquaculture, depending on the type of HAB. Causing economic impact also, as there is still insufficient evidence to resolve this problem. Therefore this chapter considers the effects of past, present and future climatic variability on HABs along with impacts of toxins release by them, on marine organism as well as human beings correspondingly, mitigation of HAB with help of suitable biological agents recognized.
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- 2021
45. Ecosphere
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Gargaud, Muriel, editor, Irvine, William M., editor, Amils, Ricardo, editor, Cleaves, Henderson James (Jim), II, editor, Pinti, Daniele L., editor, Quintanilla, José Cernicharo, editor, Rouan, Daniel, editor, Spohn, Tilman, editor, Tirard, Stéphane, editor, and Viso, Michel, editor
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- 2015
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46. Click politics and the ecosphere, 2020
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Celeste M. Condit
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Cultural Studies ,Materiality (auditing) ,Politics ,Communication ,Ecology (disciplines) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Environmental ethics ,Sociology ,Ecosphere ,Selfie ,Wilderness ,media_common - Abstract
The human-scape regarding earth, ecology, the environment, wilderness, or nature has changed substantially since the publication of Kevin DeLuca's Image Politics in 1999.1 The election to the Unite...
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- 2019
47. Trust to Share : Investigating the Key Factors to Influence Tenants’ Participation in Online Short-Term Rent
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Liuye Yu, Zhixia Zang, and Xue Yang
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Service quality ,Information Systems and Management ,Sociology and Political Science ,05 social sciences ,Business model ,Virtuous circle and vicious circle ,Empirical research ,Sharing economy ,Order (business) ,0502 economics and business ,050211 marketing ,Business ,Landlord ,Marketing ,Ecosphere ,050203 business & management - Abstract
The concept of sharing economy has received rich attention in recent years. As a typical type of business model in the sharing economy, online short rent has been paid attention by both industry and academia. In this study, we find trust to be a critical determinant to the success of online short rent platforms. Based on three dimensions of trust theory, i.e., ability, benevolence and integrity, we investigate the factors influencing tenant’ willingness to participate in online short rent. We further examine the extent to which trust can influence the number of sales and comments of rooms listed at online short-term rent platforms, which can represent tenant’ willingness to participate in the sharing economy. The results show that the trust dimensions represented by a landlord’s personal characteristics have significant positive correlations with the number of sales and comments. For example, the real name authentication and the sesame score can represent the trust integrity; online replay ratio and the average confirmation time representing the trust sincerity, and the order acceptance ratio representing the trust ability. On this basis, we proposed some recommendations for both platforms and landlords. For example, the landlords can improve the tenants’ trust by authenticating his/her real name, replying actively and timely. For platforms, when they make housing list ranking rules, they can take the landlord’s personal attributes that may affect trust into consideration. Moreover, platforms can also allow landlords to supply value-added services to improve service quality and ultimately promote the virtuous circle of the platform ecosphere. Through conducting the empirical research on a particular application of the sharing economy, we aim to fill the research gap of this field in China and provide theoretical and practical contributions to the future development of online short rent.
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- 2019
48. The coral ecosphere: A unique coral reef habitat that fosters coral–microbial interactions
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Laura Weber, Maickel Armenteros, Patricia González-Díaz, and Amy Apprill
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geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Habitat ,Ecology ,Coral ,Coral reef ,Aquatic Science ,Ecosphere ,Biology ,Oceanography - Published
- 2019
49. Stakeholders in the healthcare service ecosystem
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Lei Tao, Yu Wang, Jia Min Peng, and Juhua Wu
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Service (business) ,0209 industrial biotechnology ,Knowledge management ,business.industry ,Stakeholder ,Context (language use) ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Conceptual framework ,Health care ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Ecosystem ,Healthcare service ,Ecosphere ,business ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Healthcare services and management plays an essential role in human society. Nevertheless, there is little attention to the issues of healthcare services, concerning multiple stakeholders involved, complicated relationships, and high management difficulty. This paper aims to explore the approach to optimize management of stakeholders, from the perspective of the service ecosystem. Based on the construction of stakeholders’ map in the healthcare service ecosystem, potential stakeholders are identified preliminarily. Moreover, drawing on Mitchell score-based approach, the stakeholders are classified. Eventually, with the distinguishing of leading, core and supporting populations based upon the classification results, the healthcare service ecosphere in the Chinese context is developed. This research provides a research framework for the positioning of stakeholder, formulation of management strategies and formation of interest balance mechanism in the healthcare service ecosystem. In addition, it also provides theoretical support and practical guidance for the optimization of healthcare services.
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- 2019
50. Entrevista com Mark Fellowes: 'We must learn to reduce our demands on the ecosphere, but I'm not sure that we're smart enough to do that' 26-29
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Fabio Angeoletto
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Computer science ,Ecosphere ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,computer - Abstract
Dr. Mark Fellowes studied Zoology at Imperial College London (1995) and moved to Imperial’s Silwood Park campus to complete a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology (1998), followed by a brief post-doctoral position at the NERC Centre for Population Biology. He joined the University of Reading as a lecturer in Zoology (2000). Dr. Fellowes’ group work on human-wildlife interactions (People and Wildlife Research Group), asking how the choices people make have unforeseen consequences for species. Current projects include work on red kites, urban greening, cats and conservation, leopard ecology and urban butterfly population dynamics, and how the presence of mutualists affects plant-herbivore-enemy interactions in an urban context. The work of Dr. Fellowes’ research group has featured widely in national and international print and broadcast media, won a silver medal at the Chelsea Flower Show, and he has published two science books aimed at the general public
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- 2019
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