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Environmental implications of socio-économic change in se-Spain
  • Environmental implications of socio-économic change in se-Spain
  • Agricultural mechanization ; Agricultural retreat ; Agriculture ; Desertification ; Economic impact ; Environmental degradation ; Irrigation ; Rural change ; Social change ; Soil erosion ; Spain
  • Agriculture ; Changement social ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Déprise agricole ; Désertification ; Erosion des sols ; Espagne ; Espagne du Sud-Est ; Impact économique ; Irrigation ; Mutation rurale ; Mécanisation agricole
Environmental policy : ecological modernisation or the risk society ?
  • Environmental policy : ecological modernisation or the risk society ?
  • Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Global change ; Social change ; Society-environment relationship
  • Changement global ; Changement social ; Environnement ; Protection de l'environnement ; Relation société-environnement
  • This review reflects on both the intellectual and policy implications of global environmental change. It explores opposing perspectives on the relationship between environmental and social change. These perspectives possess an ideological component
  • sometimes differentiated as environmentalism and ecologism. They also relate to a theoretical discourse about the nature of modern society and the sources of change.
Urban change and the environment
  • Urban change and the environment
  • Changement urbain ; Environnement ; Environnement urbain ; Planification urbaine ; Utilisation du sol ; Ville
  • Environment ; Land use ; Town ; Urban change ; Urban environment ; Urban planning
  • The volume contains the result of the research carried out by the Urban Change Unit of Italy's Human Dimensions of the Global Environmental Change Programme. It is an overview of the most important aspects of the most recent urban changes
  • and environmental transformations. - (MR)
Environmental issues
  • Environmental issues
  • Carbon dioxide ; Concept ; Environment ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Global change ; Land use ; Water resources
  • Changement global ; Concept ; Dioxyde de carbone ; Environnement ; Forêt ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Ressource en eau ; Utilisation du sol
  • If there is a hallmark of environmentalism in the mid-1990s, it must surely be the new emphasis on sustainable development to which so many disciplines are contributing and which holds so many keys to the future of both planet and people
  • . The A. adopts sustainable development as the primary focus of this annual review, which builds upon the earlier emphases on environmental issues and environmental decision-making.
New Zealand and environmentalism: an outsider's view
  • New Zealand and environmentalism: an outsider's view
  • Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Environmental management ; New Zealand ; Resource management
  • This paper is a personal perspective on how New Zealand appears to have changed in its approach to environmental management in the twenty years since 1970.
Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Karoo, South Africa in Geomorphological studies in Southern Africa.
  • Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Karoo, South Africa in Geomorphological studies in Southern Africa.
  • The paper presents an overview of environmental changes during the Quaternary of the Karoo : and examines new palynological evidence from the Nuweveldberg region.
Global environmental policy: the role for economic instruments
  • Global environmental policy: the role for economic instruments
  • Global change: polish perspectives 2
  • Biodiversity ; Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Environmental management ; Global change ; Government policy ; Greenhouse effect ; International agreement ; Pollution ; Taxation system ; Technology transfer
  • Accord international ; Changement global ; Diversité biologique ; Effet de serre ; Environnement ; Fiscalité ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Politique gouvernementale ; Pollution ; Protection de l'environnement ; Transfert de technologie
  • This paper discusses global environmental problems such a climate change and biodiversity conservation, and reviews policies to address them. Two broad groups of instruments are analyzed: taxes and marketable permits. The paper concludes
  • with an overview of the available set of policy instruments indicating their potential role in reaching efficient and equitable international environmental agreements.
High latitude environments and environmental change
  • High latitude environments and environmental change
  • Action anthropique ; Arctique ; Bibliographie ; Changement global ; Ecosystème ; Effet de serre ; Environnement ; Permafrost ; Pollution
  • Arctic Ocean;Arctic Region ; Bibliography ; Ecosystem ; Environment ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; Human impact ; Permafrost ; Pollution
  • This article aims to review critically various kinds of phenomenal records from the late 1980s, which are pertinent in the environmental change context. The account is restricted to the northern boreal zone and the Arctic.
Data of environmental changes in the past in Belgian research on global change.
  • Data of environmental changes in the past in Belgian research on global change.
Economic development and environmental management in Malaysia
  • Economic development and environmental management in Malaysia
  • Development ; Development strategy ; Economic development ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Environmental management ; Malaysia
  • Through a series of five years plans, the economy has greatly expanded. The A. highlights the consequences of these economic changes to the Malaysian environment, summarises measures taken by government to reduce consequential environmental problems
Issue in the field of global environmental change
  • Issue in the field of global environmental change
  • Changement global ; Environnement ; Ozone ; Pollution atmosphérique
  • Atmospheric pollution ; Environment ; Global change ; Ozone
  • Dans ce journal qui s'intéresse aux dimensions humaines et politiques du changement global, l'on trouve dans ce numéro des articles sur le dioxyde de carbone, le changement climatique global, l'accord sur l'effet de serre, le trou d'ozone, l'apport
Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Antarctic and their correlation with global change
  • Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Antarctic and their correlation with global change
  • Antarctique ; Calotte glaciaire ; Carotte de glace ; Catastrophe ; Changement global ; Effet de serre ; Niveau marin ; Quaternaire ; Réchauffement climatique ; Variation climatique
  • Antarctica ; Catastrophe ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; Ice core ; Ice sheet ; Quaternary ; Sea level
Climate and environmental change at high northern latitudes
  • Climate and environmental change at high northern latitudes
  • Action anthropique ; Arctique ; Changement global ; Effet de serre ; Forêt ; Glaciaire ; Ozone ; Pollution ; Stratosphère ; Toundra ; Variation climatique ; Zone froide
  • Arctic Region ; Climatic variation ; Cold area ; Forest ; Glacial features ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; Human impact ; Ozone ; Pollution ; Stratosphere ; Tundra
  • This is the second-year report on recent environmental changes at high northern latitudes (Boreal-Arctic). As in the previous one (Kullman, 1992) subjects and references are selective rather than comprehensive, with the overall aim to confront
  • topical environmental issues of public and scientific concern with the factual world. The A. studies the climatic trends and variability, snow, ice and periglacial activity, stratospheric ozone, plant cover-tundra and the boreal forest, pollution of air
Short-term climatic change : evidence, causes, environmental consequences and strategies for action
  • Short-term climatic change : evidence, causes, environmental consequences and strategies for action
  • This paper examines the evidence for short-term climatic change provided by atmospheric observations and environmental indicators over the past century and accounts for this change in terms of current (if conflicting) theories, particularly those
  • associated with dust veils, the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion. It also discusses the predicted impact of these changes on a wide range of environmental factors, including sea level, agriculture and human health. It concludes with an analysis
Effects of environmental changes on hydrology and riverbed dynamics in the Congola-basin, NE Nigeria
  • Effects of environmental changes on hydrology and riverbed dynamics in the Congola-basin, NE Nigeria
  • Environmental change and geomorphology
  • Climate ; Ecology ; Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Erosion ; Human impact ; Hydrology ; Nigeria ; Sedimentary ; Semi-arid area
  • L'A. étudie la réponse du système fluvial de Gongola (nord est du Nigéria) en fonction de changements environnementaux. L'objectif est de déterminer les évolutions géomorphologiques depuis une décennie. Les processus de dégradation écologique sont
  • dus à l'action anthropique plus qu'au changement climatique.
Environmental policy : the quest for sustainable development
  • Environmental policy : the quest for sustainable development
  • Attitude ; Development strategy ; Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Environmental degradation ; Global change ; Market ; Natural resources ; State control
  • Attitude ; Changement global ; Dégradation de l'environnement ; Environnement ; Marché ; Protection de l'environnement ; Ressource naturelle ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Stratégie de développement
  • The A. focuses on the political processes that have defined and shaped the environmental agenda over the past five years : the uneven development, the role of scientific evidence in defining the scale of problems, the growing political importance
  • of transboundary and global environmental impacts. Then, the A. examines the challenge posed by sustainable development to sovereignty and the market and the importance of equity in the development of policy.
Spatial indeterminacy and the construction of environmental knowledge
  • Spatial indeterminacy and the construction of environmental knowledge
  • Carbone ; Changement climatique ; Connaissance ; Constructivisme ; Electricité ; Environnement ; Etats-Unis ; Pollution ; Positivisme ; Relation homme-environnement
  • Carbon ; Climatic change ; Constructivism ; Electricity ; Environment ; Knowledge ; Man-environment relations ; Pollution ; Positivism ; United States of America
  • The paper is an attempt by an environmental analyst to show what a self-reflexive approach to environmental assessment might look like and a rumination on the opportunities and challenges such an undertaking entails. It uses a climate change-related
  • case study regarding the attribution of carbon emissions from electricity use to various US states. The A. argues that both positivist and constructivist approaches are needed to understand human-environmental relations.
Nebkha (coppice dune) formation and significance to environmental change reconstructions in arid and semiarid areas
  • Nebkha (coppice dune) formation and significance to environmental change reconstructions in arid and semiarid areas
  • Aeolian features ; Aeolian transport ; Arid area ; China ; Dune ; Environmental change ; Geochronology ; Semi-arid area ; Vegetation
  • Changement environnemental ; Chine ; Domaine aride ; Domaine semi-aride ; Dune ; Eolien ; Géochronologie ; Nebka ; Transport éolien ; Végétation
  • Here the AA. summarized recent advances in research on the formation, development, and sediment characteristics of nebkhas and their significance to environmental changes in arid and semiarid regions. Based on the reviews of previous studies, the AA
  • . suggested that research on nebkha formation can provide distinct clues about environmental changes in arid and semiarid regions; however, continued studies are needed.
  • [b1] Key lab. of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), CAS, Lanzhou, Chine
Environmental pattern and socio-economic changes in the Peri-urban Village of Guwahati City
  • Environmental pattern and socio-economic changes in the Peri-urban Village of Guwahati City
  • Changement social ; Guwahati City ; Géographie de l'Asie ; Inde ; Village ; Zone péri-urbaine
Rising to the challenge of environmental behaviour change : developing a reflexive diary approach
  • Rising to the challenge of environmental behaviour change : developing a reflexive diary approach
  • The paper assesses the use of a household diary approach as a means of framing and collecting household environmental data, and as an educational vehicle for bringing about behavioural change by encouraging reflexivity.