Global Environmental Issues
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چکیده
Volume 2 • Issue 2 • 2013
منابع مشابه
People Perception Regarding Possible Impact of Urbanization on Environmental Degradation in Islamabad
Urbanization is the process in which green space (fields, trees, wetlands, etc.) is converted into black space (concrete and asphalt). Urbanization occurs because people move from rural areas to urban areas. This usually occurs when a country is still developing. Slums and its consequences of overcrowding lack of sanitation, global warming, air pollution, water pollution and loss of forest cove...
متن کاملGlobalization as a Driver or Bottleneck for Sustainable Development: Some Empirical, Cross-National Reflections on Basic Issues of International Health Policy and Management
Background This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system. Methods In multiple standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, we tested the effects of 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on the following indicators of sustainable develop...
متن کاملEnvironmental Policy Attitudes: Issues, Geographical Scale, and Political Trust
Objectives. This article examines environmental policy attitudes, focusing on the differences in preferences across issue type (i.e., pollution, resource preservation) and geographical scale (i.e., local, national, global). In addition, we study whether an individual’s trust in government influences environmental policy attitudes. Methods. Analyzing data from the 2007 Cooperative Congressional ...
متن کاملAdvancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
In the past decade international and national environmental policy and action have been dominated by issues generally defined as global environmental problems. In this article, we identify the major discourses associated with four global environmental issues: deforestation, desertification, biodiversity use and climate change. These discourses are analysed in terms of their messages, narrative ...
متن کاملPublic Perception of Environmental Issues in a Developing Setting: Environmental Concern in Coastal Ghana.
OBJECTIVE: Balancing environmental quality with economic growth in less developed settings is clearly a challenge. Still surprisingly little empirical evidence has been brought to bear on the relative priority given environmental and socioeconomic issues among the residents themselves of such settings. This research explores such perceptions. METHODS: We undertake survey research with 2500 res...
متن کاملStudy of environmental management systems on defence
The effective and sustainable environmental performance of a business is a result of various factors and most important the integrated outcome of the environmental management. Likewise, the integration of environmental protection into the armed forces functions has also gain interest for the military sector internationally. Therefore, the environmental management system (EMS) is recognized as o...
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