Individual environmental responsibility and its role in public environmentalism
The A. looks at the role of environmental responsibility in public environmentalism and particularly at how this notion is articulated by individuals involved in a range of pro-environmental behaviours. The translation of this environmental
responsibility into consistent behaviour proves to be complex and dependent upon the individual's social context as well as upon organised environmentalism.
In the Netherlands, it appears to be possible to reach a scientific consensus on future developments in economy as well as on the environmental impacts of these developments. It is necessary to have a vision on the dynamics of environmental
processes, and, to prevent new environmental problems, forecasting techniques are needed, which deal with uncertainties. It is a rather long interactive policy exercise.
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.
Carbon dioxide ; Concept ; Environment ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Global change ; Land use ; Water resources
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.
Geography and environmental management in South Africa
Education ; Environment ; Environmental management ; Geography ; South Africa ; Sustainable development
The paper examines the relationship between geography and environmental management in South Africa ; the role of geographers and the future of this relationship. The paper identifies eleven themes in the environmental management literature in South
Africa and suggests that geography plays a crucial role in providing the theoretical foundation for the more applied paradigm of environmental management. - (AJC)
The main substantive theme of last year's review of developments in the study of environmental issues was air pollution, embracing brief updates on acid rain, radon gas, ozone depletion and greenhouse gases. This year the focus shifts away from
environmental science towards environmental management, and the emphasis is on the broader context of environmental decision-making and emerging approaches to the resolution of environmental conflicts.
Author criticizes the two extreme views of environmental security : the pessimist view (the theory of Himalayan environmental degradation) that population is growing while the resource bas eis static or declining and the optimist view (heralded
by Julian Simon) that there are no environmental limits because of unfailing human ingenuity. He suggest rejecting the mutually opposed orthodoxies for socially informed understanding of environmental security that considers types of social solidarity
Mountain myths revisited : integrating natural and social environmental science
Special issue on integrating natural and social environmental science
Paper is an introduction to the special edition, but it is far more than a review of the following articles. Author argues for social constructions of the environment that will avoid myths (e.g., Himalayan environmental degradation
) and will facilate a critical debate over the meaning of biophysical processes. He supports the adoption of cultural theory, new ecology, and critical realism in environmental research which should incorporate environmental perception, long-term environmental
histories, and the environmental knowledge of different parties. - (SLD)
A természeti eroforrasok hasznositasanak kornyezeti kockazata Environmental risk and the utilization of nature resources
New questions are risen, examining the relations of environmental and traditional/economic/hazards. The common consideration of the economic and environmental hazards bring the necessary bettering of effectiveness and structure by considering them
A kornyezetminosito térképezés problematikaja. (Maps of environmental qualification and related problems)
Maps of environmental qualification are oriented to the solution of practical problems, i.e. the mapping analysis and qualification of the factors of the environmental subsystems on a unified conceptual basis is a contemporary task in response
A seat at the table : geographers and the formulation of environmental policy
Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Geographer's role ; Planning ; Practice of geography
A call for geographers to be more visible in the formulation of environmental policy by participating on boards and commissions and be interjecting themselves in media reports. - (SLD)
The latest developments in respect of environmental planning and management in Nigeria are reviewed. The main focus is the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) law of 1988, which among other things enunciated government position
on environmental protection in the country. Although the law has been framed to operate on a sectoral basis, a geographical framework is proposed involving the use of existing river-basin framework.