Environmental Awareness - Science topic

It was nice to take part in big marches, meet people and feel part of a "big family".

Now, it is time to help the planet by avoiding the use of fossil fuels and convince others to do the same. Start recycling and support others. You can bicycle to work, school or university and meet nice people on the way while doing so.

Eat well, because a healthy mind needs a healthy body.

In my opinion, it is necessary to carry out a broad explanatory work among the population, to explain the tragic consequences of not wearing a mask. Sometimes a strict punishment or reward is also beneficial.

Totally agree to that, However sustaining sensitivity towards these issues after the pandemic remains to be seen...

Kindly see once https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322253509_COMPARATIVE_PERFORMANCE_ASSESSMENT_OF_CONVENTIONAL_BUILDINGS_OF_KATHMANDU?_sg=VodxAZeOO2MC2Cgq0hCGx3-EH4qtvLbWat2ugQ-QscFwnD5NUrlbfqvWwk7U81bUgqhkaD5013ihE80thY79Tu3tK5n-doYl8kFq1GcO.0hQIBlenZN5UGf-qCbr_ooSw3cWNbQeOJnfOW7yHKV8MElNU0jRq-PMrIJ6mwH9FVBYkPei389dxhm8adGBNVQ

If I understand your question correctly, In the answer to the first part of your question, The Ramsar Convention has a number of standards for identifying international wetlands such as: Places of International Importance for the Conservation of Biodiversity. Criteria related to species and ecological communities,If you know Persian language, this link may be useful

Dear Brad,

Through the lens of functionalism, we can say that memory cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the context in which it was formed. This is not an easy question to explore; nevertheless, it is an important one. The nervous system, indeed the entire body, acts as an integrated whole. Therefore, memory must play an important role in maintaining the integrity of that whole. How memory was formed may implicitly or explicitly play a role in how and when it will be used. Context, hence, must play an important role.

This will be a meaningful dialogue to engage in and I hope to hear back from you. Please take a look at the meta-analytic study by Smith and Vela (2001), which I have attached so that we can use some shared language for future conversations.

Best wishes,

Micah

This question should be addressed to the authorities of the Government of India that are tasked with responsibility for education, including the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It may be of interest to know that, coincidentally, UNESCO has just published Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives (2017) in recognition of the hard truth that "[e]mbarking on the path of sustainable development will require a profound transformation of how we think and act. To create a more sustainable world and to engage with sustainability-related issues as described in the SDGs, individuals must become sustainability change-makers. They require the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that empower them to contribute to sustainable development. Education, therefore, is crucial for the achievement of sustainable development."

UNESCO's excellent and timely publication identifies learning objectives across the SDGs as well as approaches to implementing learning for the SDGs through Education for Sustainable Development (the latter section deals with integrating ESD in policies, strategies, programs, curricula, textbooks, and teacher education; delivering ESD in the classroom and other learning settings; and assessing ESD learning outcomes and the quality of ESD programs. Some will now rightly ask about next steps so Churchill's wisdom comes to mind: "It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all."

We conducted a study on acoustical methods for leak detection.  We have a conference paper published. A more comprehensive report should be out later this year.

Hi Camilo¡

The BF tries to justify environmental quality, even when these areas have long lost their geomorphological and ecologic features

the beaches are not characterized for their naturalness; instead they show high levels of human influence and artificialization,  there is a lot of services for the bathers, but no real management and conservation of these fragile coastal systems.

The concession of Blue Flag award is strictly focused on services offered to the users of the beach, and they do not take in account environmental and ecological issues related to the behavior of beaches as natural and fragile systems

These kinds of awards should not be sold as eco-labels, but as quality labels of

services offered to the bathers in artificial and urban beaches

There is a paper related to spanish blue flag could be interesting to you: 

M. Mir-Gual, G.X. Pons*, J.A. Martín-Prieto, A. Rodríguez-Perea (2015): A critical view of the Blue Flag beaches in Spain using environmental variables. Ocean & Coastal Management 105: 106-115

Predicting rain and runoff, flooding is largely based on limited records, and in many instances you are not going everything you want.  Models will typically use all the data you can muster, and be wanting for more.  You need a combination of recording rain guage stations preferred and recording stream gauges and have an absolute minimum of 10 years record for any predictive capability or comparisons with the old data stations, however even 100 years is probably not enough for some things.  Consider the rainfall event we had in October near Charleston, SC.  Using the available data, we had the 1000 year event on the national forest, but as soon as we insert this data into the total and recalibrate, perhaps it may be the 500 year event.  Weather specialists do a reasonable good job now with their data and tools for predicting weather within the next few days, weeks or maybe as far as months, that is pushing it.  However, the predictive tools rely on spatial data, and a lot of it.  In areas with a lot of topographical relief, adding more rainguages can help coverage of individual storms or help locate areas that then to get more rain, but they are not necessarily going to improve prediction but may help with years of data.  Weather patterns shift, the jet stream shifts, you can have wet years, dry years, and individual event severity is dependent on a lot more than a truck load of data.  It is best to model and predict as best as we can, but identify the uncertainty and build infrastructure, homes, etc. accordingly.  If you are in the floodplain, elevate your structure above the 100 year or more elevation, and such as put your garage on the lower level and accept your car may or may not be flooded in your lifetime.  Most people don't have the information at all so that they can consider it as an option. 

This is 2016. If it is important that you "experience" the environment and can't be there, at least be there virtually in both the auditory and visual domains. You can equip a manikin with microphones for binaural sound recording and with a camera for binocular video recording and then play them or stream them so that you can experience the environment for the duration of the recording or stream from the reference pointof the manikin. How tht would add to your learning about the environment would depend upon what you need to know. 

Check these out: http://www.odi.org/publications/4375-pastoral-development-network-papers

and this:

Anything by Stephen Sanford or Management of Pastoral Development in the Third World

Manageing Induced Rural development by Jon Moris

Works by Ian Schoones (New Directions for Pastoral Development in Africa), Roy Benkhe, Carol Kervin

Works by Layne Coppock & Solomon Desta

Look at teh material from Jonathon Davies network

Can they use stairs to move between levels, and if so, do they?  Also, how do they commute to work - mechanical armchairs or active transport? Our bodies are the closest environment we inhabit - how we value our own physical well-being will be reflected in how we value other environments such as our workspace, organisational presence, civil behaviour and global environmental responsibility.

Dear Andras, I have been telling my students who will be future leaders of our society that they need to manage and solve the problems of our country including polluted rivers, open burning and haze, OVER FISHING (related to this question)., over dependence on foreign labor.  In my country, this link gives info about overfishing.

“Healthy marine habitats, through the effective protection and management of key areas, are vital for people’s food security, livelihoods, and economic stability. WWF welcomes this significant accomplishment of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security,” says Jackie Thomas, WWF Coral Triangle Programme Leader.

“With effective management and investment, these areas can help reduce pressure on fish stocks by preventing overfishing, destructive fishing, and habitat degradation—the very threats causing fish stocks to decline. They will lead, over time, to increases in fish populations, size, and biomass, allowing spillover to nearby fishing grounds,” adds Thomas.

Dear Florent,

Beforehand I would like to thank you for your answer and consideration.

Actually I had read that article a while ago and it was quite useful however, the ambiguity that I mentioned about difference between those constructs still remained to me.  

It is probably my problem about understanding the exact meaning of those constructs. I think I need to spend more time and read more about them.

Regards

Dear Amany,

This is an interesting question indeed.

ISO 14001 is an International Standard of worldwide acceptance based on the concept that better environmental performance can be achieved when environmental aspects are systematically identified and managed, through pollution prevention, improved environmental performance and complying with applicable laws.

ISO 14001 specifies requirements for an environmental management system to enable an organization to develop and implement a policy and objectives which take into account legal requirements and information about significant environmental aspects.

Although legislation is not the same all over the world, some countries do support ISO 14001 certification more than others (e.g., by public programs or procurement) and there might be some variation on Certification Bodies criteria, I would suggest try to study if the number of ISO 14001 certified organizations by country and Industry sector can be used as a possible proxy for your work.

According to ISO Survey 2013 (www.iso.org/iso/iso-survey) until the end of December 2013, at least 301,647 ISO 14001:2004 certificates had been issued in 171 countries and there are indeed some differences to be remarked between countries.

I wish you the best.

Luis Fonseca

Attached is our state's sample protocol for sampling groundwater.  It requires monitoring wells at the periphery to sample.

You'll need to go through each section to understand what is required to get valid data.

Selecting the parameters you want to sample for depends on what the local concerns are. There's other literature out there for the constituents of Leachate (water that leaches contaminants from waste).

If i would me teaching them, i would say that imagine this classroom as our planet earth and ask each of them to burn a piece of paper one by one .On practicing this room will become smokey and then i will tell them how we are contribution in pollution and then tell them what kind of impact they are producing on the environment. then i will tell them to open the windows to blowout the smoke. soon the air of room will become fresh with fresh charge of air. then i will relate the opening of windows with the trees. hope u will like my idea.

With reference to Fabrice Lambert. There is an exhaustive survey of the often claimed 97% here: http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/97_Consensus_Myth.pdf

One may not like the origin or purpose of the organisation behind the survey, but the statistics talks for itself.

We tried assessment of students knowledge and awareness of students regarding environmental issues.

This may help:

Factors influencing car use for commuting and the intention to reduce it: A question of self-interest or morality?

Wokje Abrahamse, Linda Steg, Robert Gifford, Charles Vlek

Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 01/2009; DOI:10.1016/j.trf.2009.04.004

ABSTRACT Car use for commuting contributes to various environmental and traffic problems, such as pollution and congestion. Policies aimed at reducing commuter car use will be more effective when they target important determinants of car use and willingness to reduce it. This study examined whether variables reflecting self-interest (from the theory of planned behavior [Ajzen, I. (1985). From intentions to actions: A theory of planned behavior. In J. Kuhl & J. Beckmann (Eds.), Action control: From cognition to behavior (pp. 11–39). Berlin: Springer]) and variables reflecting moral considerations (from the norm-activation model [Schwartz, S. H. (1977). Normative influences on altruism. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.). Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 10, pp. 221–279). New York: Academic Press]) were able to explain self-reported car use for commuting and intentions to reduce it in a sample of Canadian office workers. Car use for commuting was mostly explained by variables related to individual outcomes (perceived behavioral control and attitudes) whereas the intention to reduce car use was mostly explained by variables related to morality (personal norms). The study also found that perceived behavioral control moderated the relation between personal norms and behavioral intentions: stronger personal norms were associated with stronger behavioral intentions, but only when perceived behavioral control was low. Some issues evoked by these results are discussed.

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Hi,

I work with a team of researchers developing, facilitating and negotiating quality of governance standards for multi-stakeholders in the sustainable development arena. We are trialling a participation methodology in Nepal, including Indigenous representatives.

Tim

Human population and Human consumption of oil, coal, and natural gas.

I will add corruption to the list of challenges.