This document discusses environmental conservation and its relationship to economics. It begins by defining economics and the environment. It then outlines global trends in increasing priority given to environmental protection, including frameworks like the UNFCC and Kyoto Protocol. For Uganda specifically, the document notes that environmental sustainability is a strategic objective in development plans but the country has not performed well on related MDG measures. It emphasizes that Uganda's prosperity relies on biodiversity that faces threats. Finally, it describes the interrelationship between the environment and economics, noting the environment supplies resources and economic prosperity relies on it.
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ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE IS CUT, ONLY WHEN THE LAST RIVER IS POLLUTED, ONLY WHEN THE LAST FISH IS CAUGHT, ONLY THEN WILL THEY REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY’ American proverb
Due to growing awareness and concern on the impact of human activity on the ecosystem, there is an
increasing trend to judge organizations in relation to the community in which it operates. The impact of the activities on the environment with regard to pollution of water, air, land and abuse of natural resources are coming under scrutiny of governments, stakeholders and citizens. Education is considered the key to effective development strategies and TVET institutions then must be the master
key that can alleviate poverty, promote peace, conserve the environment, improve the quality of life
for all and help achieve sustainable development. Unless proper accounting work is done, it cannot be determined that both have been fulfilling their responsibilities. The aim of the study was to explore whether distinctive processes of environmental accounting are possible in agro-allied and
manufacturing industries with a view to enhancing sustainability. To accomplish this aim, this research explores environmental accountability practices in TVET institutions. This paper is in part of an exploratory research project and it is limited in that it attempts to be illuminative and theoretically driven. The paper aims to prove that environmental reporting and disclosure will
enable in agro-allied and manufacturing industries undertake a major transformation that includes
approaches that harmonize economic prosperity, environmental conservation and social well-being.
However, while strategies for achieving this goal are not widespread, a range of international experiences is beginning to suggest ways forward. These initiatives include national TVET policy reforms, green campus, green curriculum, green community, green research and green culture. The paper includes suggested templates that can be useful in agro-allied and manufacturing industries
With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a vulnerable and highly climate-sensitive economic sector. Climate affects a wide range of environmental resources that are essential attraction factors for tourism. Climate change will make destinations less attractive and jeopardize major sources of income. There are direct impacts like altered seasonal patterns or coastal erosion, loss of beach area and higher costs to protect and maintain waterfronts. Also there are indirect impacts of climate change like water shortages. Higher costs for risk management for touristic infrastructure might change the demand side of tourism markets or the visitor numbers. Furthermore, the awareness of tourists towards climate change and other environmental issues is likely to be a major driver of their future holiday choices. Operators that do not adapt to this emerging ‘climate aware’ market risk losing market share to more responsive competitors. This clinic will discuss the important relation between climate change and tourism, and will try to show some alternatives and help to promote a responsible and sustainable tourism, which bring not only benefits for the tourism industry but also to the people whose livelihood depends on tourism.
Integrating Environmental Accounting in Agro-Allied and Manufacturing Indust...IJMER
ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE IS CUT, ONLY WHEN THE LAST RIVER IS POLLUTED, ONLY WHEN THE LAST FISH IS CAUGHT, ONLY THEN WILL THEY REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY’ American proverb
Due to growing awareness and concern on the impact of human activity on the ecosystem, there is an
increasing trend to judge organizations in relation to the community in which it operates. The impact of the activities on the environment with regard to pollution of water, air, land and abuse of natural resources are coming under scrutiny of governments, stakeholders and citizens. Education is considered the key to effective development strategies and TVET institutions then must be the master
key that can alleviate poverty, promote peace, conserve the environment, improve the quality of life
for all and help achieve sustainable development. Unless proper accounting work is done, it cannot be determined that both have been fulfilling their responsibilities. The aim of the study was to explore whether distinctive processes of environmental accounting are possible in agro-allied and
manufacturing industries with a view to enhancing sustainability. To accomplish this aim, this research explores environmental accountability practices in TVET institutions. This paper is in part of an exploratory research project and it is limited in that it attempts to be illuminative and theoretically driven. The paper aims to prove that environmental reporting and disclosure will
enable in agro-allied and manufacturing industries undertake a major transformation that includes
approaches that harmonize economic prosperity, environmental conservation and social well-being.
However, while strategies for achieving this goal are not widespread, a range of international experiences is beginning to suggest ways forward. These initiatives include national TVET policy reforms, green campus, green curriculum, green community, green research and green culture. The paper includes suggested templates that can be useful in agro-allied and manufacturing industries
With its close connections to the environment and climate itself, tourism is considered to be a vulnerable and highly climate-sensitive economic sector. Climate affects a wide range of environmental resources that are essential attraction factors for tourism. Climate change will make destinations less attractive and jeopardize major sources of income. There are direct impacts like altered seasonal patterns or coastal erosion, loss of beach area and higher costs to protect and maintain waterfronts. Also there are indirect impacts of climate change like water shortages. Higher costs for risk management for touristic infrastructure might change the demand side of tourism markets or the visitor numbers. Furthermore, the awareness of tourists towards climate change and other environmental issues is likely to be a major driver of their future holiday choices. Operators that do not adapt to this emerging ‘climate aware’ market risk losing market share to more responsive competitors. This clinic will discuss the important relation between climate change and tourism, and will try to show some alternatives and help to promote a responsible and sustainable tourism, which bring not only benefits for the tourism industry but also to the people whose livelihood depends on tourism.
The green industry is made up of a diverse mix of production, service as well as trade and businesses which include sod growers and wholesale nursery, maintenance firms as well as landscape contractors, home centers, retails garden centers as well as mass merchandisers with garden departments and lawns, brokers and also horticultural distribution centers.
For more information please visit: http://www.GreenCollarVets.org
Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environment, society and economy. Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives). There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.
Science has learnt from natural laws tremendously; nature doesn't waste but economics is build around a paradigm of extract, produce, use and waste. A zero-waste circular economy paradigm will be consistent with natural laws and offers hopes for a sustainable world. We discuss the various aspects of this optimistic prospect.
The green industry is made up of a diverse mix of production, service as well as trade and businesses which include sod growers and wholesale nursery, maintenance firms as well as landscape contractors, home centers, retails garden centers as well as mass merchandisers with garden departments and lawns, brokers and also horticultural distribution centers.
For more information please visit: http://www.GreenCollarVets.org
Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environment, society and economy. Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives). There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.
Science has learnt from natural laws tremendously; nature doesn't waste but economics is build around a paradigm of extract, produce, use and waste. A zero-waste circular economy paradigm will be consistent with natural laws and offers hopes for a sustainable world. We discuss the various aspects of this optimistic prospect.
Integrating Environmental Accounting in Agro-Allied and Manufacturing Industr...IJMER
‘ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE IS CUT, ONLY WHEN THE LAST RIVER IS
POLLUTED, ONLY WHEN THE LAST FISH IS CAUGHT, ONLY THEN WILL THEY REALIZE
THAT YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY’ American proverb
Due to growing awareness and concern on the impact of human activity on the ecosystem, there is an
increasing trend to judge organizations in relation to the community in which it operates. The
impact of the activities on the environment with regard to pollution of water, air, land and abuse of
natural resources are coming under scrutiny of governments, stakeholders and citizens. Education is
considered the key to effective development strategies and TVET institutions then must be the master
key that can alleviate poverty, promote peace, conserve the environment, improve the quality of life
for all and help achieve sustainable development. Unless proper accounting work is done, it cannot
be determined that both have been fulfilling their responsibilities. The aim of the study was to explore
whether distinctive processes of environmental accounting are possible in agro-allied and
manufacturing industries with a view to enhancing sustainability. To accomplish this aim, this
research explores environmental accountability practices in TVET institutions. This paper is in part
of an exploratory research project and it is limited in that it attempts to be illuminative and
theoretically driven. The paper aims to prove that environmental reporting and disclosure will
enable in agro-allied and manufacturing industries undertake a major transformation that includes
approaches that harmonize economic prosperity, environmental conservation and social well-being.
However, while strategies for achieving this goal are not widespread, a range of international
experiences is beginning to suggest ways forward. These initiatives include national TVET policy
reforms, green campus, green curriculum, green community, green research and green culture. The
paper includes suggested templates that can be useful in agro-allied and manufacturing industries
Consideration of Conformity Assessment for the Circular Economy.pdfDr. Monideep Dey
The post-COVID recovery offers an opportunity to reverse unsustainable economic trends and build back better, to promote sustainable consumption and production as laid out in SDG 12 and transition to a circular, more resilient and low-carbon economy. Nations are developing a circular economy in the context of the Paris Agreement, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Call for Action on Adaption and Resilience. ISO, UNECE and other international standards organizations are developing a number of standards that are essential in supporting the climate agenda; they help adapt to climate change, quantify greenhouse gas emissions and promote the dissemination of good practices in environmental management.
A critical element to ensure the achievement of sustainable develop goals is the assessment of conformity and accountability that such goals are being achieved and in a manner consistent with all the SDGs. Although this document reports specifically on conformity assessment for the Circular Economy that is aimed to serve UN SDG12 – Responsible consumption and production, and also UN SDG-13, Climate action, many concepts and methods discussed here will be applicable more broadly in the implementation of all SDGs.
International Standards also play a crucial role in underpinning the global economy, and creating trust on all aspects of international trade. In the past, advanced economies have been the main participants in the development of international standards with participants from the transition and developing economies only playing a minor role. This paper emphasizes that issues important to developing and transition economies such as those for social and environmental concerns should be addressed in international standards for them to have broad benefit across all nations and to achieve the SDGs worldwide.
Declaración para Rio+20: 63 laureados de medio ambiente de 37 paises piden a los gobiernos en Rio+20 ser pioneros del cambio y la inovación social.
Declaration on Rio+20: 63 Environmental Laureates from 37 countries ask governments in Rio+20 to be pioneers and and social innovators.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE T...vijay kumar sarabu
There is direct relationship between environment and economic development. Economic development without environmental considerations can cause serious environmental damage in turn impairing the quality of life of present and future generations. In the process of economic development, the environmental problems have been ignored or less concentrated. Any country’s environmental problems are related to the level of its economic development, the availability of natural resources and the lifestyle of its population. In India, rapid growth of population, poverty, urbanization, industrialization and several related factors are responsible for the rapid degradation of the environment. Environmental problems have become serious in many parts of the country, and hence cannot be ignored. The main environmental problems in India relate to air and water pollution particularly in metropolitan cities and industrial zones, degradation of common property resources (Tanks, Ponds Lakes, Rivers, Forests etc.) which affect the poor adversely as they depends on them for their livelihood, threat to biodiversity and inadequate system of solid waste disposal and sanitation with consequent adverse impact on health, infant mortality and birth rate.
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Introduction to Basic Economic Theory and Concepts
The Banking Economic Systems
Pricing and Price Mechanism
Inflation
The Government and Economy
Types of Business Organizations
MODULE COVERAGE
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International Trade and Regional Groupings
Economics and the Environment
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Meanings of the two concepts
Economics is a social science that analyzes and describes the consequences of choices
made concerning scarce productive resources. It is the study of how individuals
and societies choose to employ those resources: what goods and services will be
produced, how they will be produced, and how they will be distributed among the
members of society.
In choosing how to use scarce resources to alternative uses for optimum personal,
firm or national benefit, care has to be taken that the natural environment is
preserved, conserved and in some cases enhanced.
The environment is made up of various factors such as the economic environment,
socio-cultural environment, political, technological, demographic and
international, which affect the business and the way it works. However, the most
important is the economic environment which affects business.
For the sake of this unit, we shall focus on the natural environment – the ecology, wild
life, vegetation, climate, weather and other natural phenomena that support life
and society.
Globally and nationally, environmental conservation has become an urgent item on
the development agenda. Whereas it used to be discussed mainly as an interesting
sideline topic to development, the preservation of natural environment has
become a top-level issue in all development concerns.
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Global trends in environmental conservation
Issues to do with environmental protection (and especially conservation) continue to
increase in the priority list of the global development agenda.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climatic Change (UNFCC) was signed by
more than 150 counties at the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development in 1992.
Subsequently the Kyoto Protocol has been ratified by many countries and several
industrialized countries as well as corporations increasingly support conservation
efforts. This reflects the seriousness with which leaders are taking environmental
protection. In recent years, the environment as a central development issue has
assumed increasing importance in all international, regional, continental and
national planning.
Multinational organizations now actively seek to buy carbon credit to offset their
negative contribution to environmental wellness. This is reflected in Millennium
Development Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability reflects active concern
for environmental conservation at the global level.
Conservation and revitalization of the environmental is likely to remain a key
development challenge for coming decades.
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Environmental conservation and management in Uganda
In the National Development Plan (Uganda’s current development planning
framework), environmental sustainability is one of the eight strategic objectives.
This corresponds with MDG 7, an area in which the country has put some effort
but not performed particularly well.
Of the four measures for monitoring this MDG, Uganda is on track on just one: safe
water for the population.
The other aspects directly concerned with loss of biodiversity and other
environmental aspects are either lagging or stagnated.
This means conservation and revitalization of biodiversity should be top on Uganda’s
development agenda – and it is.
As a development aspect, increased activity in conservation is needful because
Uganda is endowed with significant portions of the world’s biodiversity and natural
resources. This biodiversity forms the basis for most economic activities in the
country, ranging from agriculture to tourism.
To a significant extent, the country’s prosperity is dependent on the wise use of this
biodiversity which is unfortunately facing a number of threats and weaknesses
that undermine conservation.
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Interrelationship
Economics cannot exist in isolation, it cannot even be a mere study of how goods and
services are produced, and therefore, it has to take into consideration the impacts
of the use of resources on the environment. The impacts may be in the form of
externality, pollution or exhaustion.
• Any study on the economic content of production, distribution and development
cannot be completed without touching upon the environmental aspects like
externality, pollution, damage, exhaustion and depletion.
• It is therefore important to understand the interrelationship between the
environment and economics and how to promote economic growth of nations
with least environmental damage.
• The environment is the supplier of all forms of resources; households and firms
are connected to environment, and they are interconnected too. Households and
firms depend on nature for resources. Both households and firms send out
residuals of consumption and production respectively to nature thermodynamics.
• If we destroy the environment in pursuit of economic prosperity, the very base of
that economic prosperity will also be destroyed and thus we shall suffer
economically. It is therefore not only a scientific or bio-geographical need to
preserve the environment: it is necessary for sustainable economic prosperity.
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At the end of this unit, you should be able to:
Explain the interrelationship between economics and the environment
Discuss the relationship between economics and the environment
A key cause is increased demand for resources resulting from the country’s high population growth rate of 3 % per annum. This is not helped by the weak enforcement of conservation and other environmental regulations, perhaps reflecting inadequate political will. This precarious situation has attracted local and international interest to assist in the conservation of Uganda’s biodiversity and ensure sustained benefits and the well being of society.