The 2016 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme was held in Labuan Island and Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. The Programme included workshops, plenary sessions, and fieldwork around the topics of local sustainable development challenges in the region. The main goals of the Programme were to identify local leadership opportunities for sustainable development and to link local and national sustainable development projects to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Treaty, and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction.
The effect of environmental knowledge and attitude towards pro environmental ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study that analyzed the effect of environmental knowledge, attitude, and social economic status on pro-environmental behavior in a peasant community in Indonesia. The study aimed to analyze: 1) the effect of environmental knowledge on behavior, 2) the effect of attitude on behavior, 3) the effect of social economic status on behavior, 4) the moderating effect of social economic status on the relationship between knowledge and behavior, and 5) the moderating effect of social economic status on the relationship between attitude and behavior. The results showed that environmental knowledge, attitude, and social economic status significantly influenced pro-environmental behavior. However, social economic status did not significantly moderate the relationships between knowledge or attitude and behavior.
This document is the second issue of the BALANCED newsletter, which focuses on population, health, and environment (PHE) approaches and their links to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The newsletter contains several articles discussing these links, including how PHE projects can inform climate change adaptation approaches and help communities plan for changes in resources. It also highlights case studies of organizations using integrated PHE and climate change approaches in places like Tanzania, Asia, Ethiopia, and Colombia.
This document provides information about environmental management. It defines environment as the sum of all surrounding conditions affecting an organism. It discusses the evolution of environmental concern from the 1960s onwards, sparked by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. Environmental management aims to make decisions about natural resource use, pollution, and ecosystem modification. It involves stakeholders from different backgrounds and scales, from local to global. While environmental management considers human impacts, its main focus is on managing human activities and decisions rather than directly managing the natural environment.
Final Draft Research Paper_Sustainability copyTobbi Stewart
1. The document discusses the concept of sustainability and introduces its three main components: a healthy environment, social justice, and economic growth.
2. It explains that sustainability aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
3. The document analyzes how human activity has negatively impacted the environment through pollution, resource depletion, and climate change, threatening Earth's carrying capacity and long-term habitability.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes a holistic view of natural features, infrastructure, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages: selection of sensory information, organization of information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, and difference, and interpretation to explain selections and organizations in a way that makes sense, influenced by both internal and external factors.
This document provides an overview of an introductory unit on environment management. It discusses key topics that will be covered, including defining environment management, the fundamentals of sustainable development, implications of human population growth, and the relationship between environment and business schools. The unit is estimated to take 10-15 hours to complete through readings, self-assessment tests, assignments, and further research. It provides a content map that outlines the main sections and subsections to be addressed.
Impacts of climate change on livelihood by zewde alemayehu tilahunzewde alemayehu
Climate change is negatively impacting livelihoods in several ways. It is causing weather extremes like droughts and floods more frequently, reducing food security and forcing migration. Subsistence farmers are especially vulnerable as they depend on climate-sensitive rain-fed agriculture. Studies show countries like Ethiopia, which rely heavily on agriculture, may see agricultural income reductions of 60% by 2100 due to climate change. Climate change is exacerbating existing issues in Ethiopia like land degradation and deforestation, further threatening livelihoods. Adaptation is needed to help vulnerable communities cope with the effects of climate change and protect livelihoods.
The effect of environmental knowledge and attitude towards pro environmental ...Alexander Decker
This document summarizes a research study that analyzed the effect of environmental knowledge, attitude, and social economic status on pro-environmental behavior in a peasant community in Indonesia. The study aimed to analyze: 1) the effect of environmental knowledge on behavior, 2) the effect of attitude on behavior, 3) the effect of social economic status on behavior, 4) the moderating effect of social economic status on the relationship between knowledge and behavior, and 5) the moderating effect of social economic status on the relationship between attitude and behavior. The results showed that environmental knowledge, attitude, and social economic status significantly influenced pro-environmental behavior. However, social economic status did not significantly moderate the relationships between knowledge or attitude and behavior.
This document is the second issue of the BALANCED newsletter, which focuses on population, health, and environment (PHE) approaches and their links to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The newsletter contains several articles discussing these links, including how PHE projects can inform climate change adaptation approaches and help communities plan for changes in resources. It also highlights case studies of organizations using integrated PHE and climate change approaches in places like Tanzania, Asia, Ethiopia, and Colombia.
This document provides information about environmental management. It defines environment as the sum of all surrounding conditions affecting an organism. It discusses the evolution of environmental concern from the 1960s onwards, sparked by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. Environmental management aims to make decisions about natural resource use, pollution, and ecosystem modification. It involves stakeholders from different backgrounds and scales, from local to global. While environmental management considers human impacts, its main focus is on managing human activities and decisions rather than directly managing the natural environment.
Final Draft Research Paper_Sustainability copyTobbi Stewart
1. The document discusses the concept of sustainability and introduces its three main components: a healthy environment, social justice, and economic growth.
2. It explains that sustainability aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
3. The document analyzes how human activity has negatively impacted the environment through pollution, resource depletion, and climate change, threatening Earth's carrying capacity and long-term habitability.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes a holistic view of natural features, infrastructure, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages: selection of sensory information, organization of information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, and difference, and interpretation to explain selections and organizations in a way that makes sense, influenced by both internal and external factors.
This document provides an overview of an introductory unit on environment management. It discusses key topics that will be covered, including defining environment management, the fundamentals of sustainable development, implications of human population growth, and the relationship between environment and business schools. The unit is estimated to take 10-15 hours to complete through readings, self-assessment tests, assignments, and further research. It provides a content map that outlines the main sections and subsections to be addressed.
Impacts of climate change on livelihood by zewde alemayehu tilahunzewde alemayehu
Climate change is negatively impacting livelihoods in several ways. It is causing weather extremes like droughts and floods more frequently, reducing food security and forcing migration. Subsistence farmers are especially vulnerable as they depend on climate-sensitive rain-fed agriculture. Studies show countries like Ethiopia, which rely heavily on agriculture, may see agricultural income reductions of 60% by 2100 due to climate change. Climate change is exacerbating existing issues in Ethiopia like land degradation and deforestation, further threatening livelihoods. Adaptation is needed to help vulnerable communities cope with the effects of climate change and protect livelihoods.
The document analyzes water governance in coupled social-ecological systems in Namibia. It discusses how the social-ecological system in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin has traditionally had a strong coupling between diverse livelihoods and variable natural conditions. However, political and economic changes are causing the system to transition. The concepts of resilience and governance in social-ecological systems are introduced, focusing on maintaining key functions and adapting to change through options and alternatives. Governance structures that foster resilience acknowledge uncertainty, include different knowledge types, and allow for locally developed solutions through polycentric and multilayered structures.
Sustainability-08-00254 - Human -Nature for Climate ActionHelen Santiago Fink
This document discusses using nature-based solutions to address climate change and sustainability at the city scale. It proposes a local climate action framework with three drivers: 1) policy incentives and planning, 2) biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and 3) low-carbon infrastructure and green infrastructure. Cities are well-positioned to combat climate change impacts through engagement with residents in their daily lives. Nature and green infrastructure can provide cost-effective ways to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation goals while also improving human well-being.
Basis for an effective climate change adaptation: Case small Mexican agricultureIJERA Editor
Mexico is considered one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change effects. Its geographical location and climatic, orographic and hydrological conditions contribute considerably to this situation. The objective of this paper is to propose a guide for stakeholders in the selection and efficient design of adaptation measures to face climate change, taking into account constraints on resources availability (financial, technological, human, and others), which force the search of criteria to capitalize actions. The paper consists of four sections: Initially, conceptual and legal framework is present, regarding the issue of climate change, its impact on sectors in Mexico, the identification of the necessity and adaptation capacity and the importance of the interrelation between water, energy and food production. Next, principles for effective adaptation are studied. In the third section, it is discussed through a case study, the efficiency of adaptation policies in small agriculture in Mexico. Final section presents some recommendations and conclusions. It is concluded that adaptation projects proposals should be concrete and clearly address the problem, considering a feasibility analysis. Also, that climate change threatens the stability and productivity of the agricultural sector, which forces society to protect it by progressing to climate-smart production systems in order to strengthen food security.
Role of watershed management in reducing soil erosion zewde azewde alemayehu
Soil is one of the most important and essential natural resources. Soils offer plants physical support, air, water, temperature moderation, nutrients, and protection from toxins. Soils provide readily available nutrients to plants and animals by converting dead organic matter into various nutrient forms.
Environmental management is a wide and evolving field that affects everyone and plays a crucial role in sustainable development. It is motivated by pragmatic concerns about avoiding problems, saving costs, compliance with regulations, shifts in ethics, and macroeconomic benefits. Environmental management approaches can be advisory through education, economic through taxes and subsidies, or regulatory through standards and restrictions. It involves modifying activities and ethics to achieve goals, but managers often have to work within existing development strategies and face challenges like inadequate resources and changing priorities. Environmental management has components like advice, economic instruments, and regulatory controls, and can take preventive, reactive, or compensatory approaches to mitigate impacts.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on biological organization and interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes an interdisciplinary view of both natural and human-built features, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages - selection of information, organization of selected information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, or difference, and interpretation of organized information based on internal and external factors like personality, experience, and environmental cues.
1) Climate change is causing ecosystems to degrade and become less able to provide vital services to human lives and well-being. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to climate change impacts.
2) EbA involves sustainably managing, conserving, and restoring ecosystems to make them more climate resilient and continue providing essential services. This allows ecosystems to enhance human resilience to climatic and non-climatic threats.
3) There is now broad acceptance of EbA as defined by the Convention on Biological Diversity and promoted through international frameworks like the UNFCCC. Five years of a global EbA program provide lessons on criteria for effective Eb
Leyendo el texto completo, responda:
1) ¿Cuál es el problema que aborda la economía ecológica?
2) ¿Cuál es el asunto primario bajo el paradigma de administración de la economía ecológica?
Puede responder en inglés o español.
When not every response to climate change is a good one: Identifying principl...Rafael Martins
This review article discusses the concept of sustainable adaptation to climate change. It identifies four principles to guide responses to climate change: 1) recognize the context for vulnerability, including multiple stressors, 2) acknowledge that differing values and interests affect adaptation outcomes, 3) integrate local knowledge into adaptation responses, and 4) consider potential feedbacks between local and global processes. The principles argue that fundamental societal transformations are needed to achieve sustainable development and avoid maladaptive responses to climate change. Case studies from diverse contexts illustrate how attention to these principles can help achieve socially just and environmentally sound adaptation.
The document discusses environmental policy, outlining its objectives, principles, purpose and strategies. Environmental policy aims to manage human activities to prevent harm to nature and ensure human-made changes don't damage the environment or humans. The key objectives of India's National Environment Policy include conserving critical resources, ensuring livelihoods and equity between generations. Environmental policy establishes regulatory frameworks and incorporates environmental concerns into development plans to efficiently manage resources and governance.
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Scope and aspect of environmental resource managementAl Jubaer
Environmental resource management involves managing the interaction between human societies and the environment. It aims to protect ecosystem services for future generations while balancing human needs. Environmental resources include both natural resources like water, soil, and air as well as socioeconomic and cultural resources. Effective environmental resource management requires consideration of ethical, economic, social, and technological factors. It also requires coordination across many disciplines like geography, biology, ecology, and social sciences.
None Dare Call It Hubris: The Limits of KnowledgePresCrow
The document discusses the limits of human knowledge and ability in the face of complex global challenges. It argues that while scientific and technological progress has enabled growth, it has also caused environmental damage and issues that transcend individual interests. To address problems like climate change, new approaches are needed that integrate knowledge across disciplines and find ways to cooperate rather than compete. Current limits include those of individuals, sociobiology, socioeconomics, technology, and philosophy. New kinds of thinking are required to develop knowledge sensitive to these boundary conditions and foster planetary stewardship.
MDGs and Global Environmental Change - Governance, Innovation and LearningEuforic Services
Presentation by Andreas Rechkemmer (IHDP) during the High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs - Brussels, 23 June 2009 - http://www.bit.ly/after2015
Dr. Anna Evely. Looking at conservation projects that engage with volunteersAnnaEvely
what are conservation projects that involve volunteers?
why look at conservation projects that involve volunteers?
choosing methods when crossing disciplines: taking an integrative approach
how might participation be linked to attitudes?
how might participation be linked to social learning?
Dr. Anna Evely. Looking at conservation projects that engage with volunteersAberdeen CES
The document discusses conservation projects that involve volunteers and their importance for sustainability and resilience. It explores how participation may be linked to attitudes and social learning, and emphasizes taking an integrative approach when researching these projects by considering different methods and philosophies. Choosing the appropriate research method requires understanding one's philosophical approach.
The document summarizes lessons learned from Action on Climate Today (ACT), a program that worked to strengthen climate adaptation processes in 5 South Asian countries. The key lessons included innovating entry points to climate adaptation by addressing critical local issues, widening stakeholder groups, focusing on the most vulnerable, simplifying messaging, and connecting problems to climate change impacts. ACT trained over 1,200 people, implemented over 100 policy reviews and system improvements, and mobilized $1.5 billion in climate finance. Reflections emphasized identifying concerns of vulnerable groups, establishing links between issues and climate change, and engaging the private sector to finance resilience.
The document provides an overview of climate science literacy. It discusses how climate has varied throughout history due to natural factors like changes in Earth's orbit and tilt, and how human activities are now the primary cause of global warming. The summary identifies climate literacy as understanding how climate influences society and how human actions impact the climate. It promotes using climate science knowledge to make informed decisions that reduce vulnerabilities to climate change.
This document provides an overview of the relationship between environmental degradation and social integration. It discusses how social factors can influence the environment through changes in population, markets, land tenure systems, and social inequities. Environmental degradation then impacts societies through effects on health, livelihoods, and resources people depend on. Individual and collective responses to environmental changes can transform social structures over time. The document reviews policy approaches to addressing degradation and argues for holistic strategies that consider social and environmental dynamics in specific contexts.
Electricity Demand Side Management (DSM) and End-use Efficiencyeecfncci
This presentation explains the concept of Electical Demand Side Management and shows how to implement it in industries. It was prepared for energy auditor training in Nepal in the context of GIZ/NEEP programme. For further information go to EEC webpage: http://www.eec-fncci.org
This document discusses models of urban sustainability and contains presentations from several speakers. Gerald Fugione discusses Philly Car Share, a car sharing program. Russell Meddin discusses plans to launch a bike sharing program in Philadelphia called Bike Share Philadelphia. Bike sharing programs have expanded rapidly in over 100 cities around the world and provide environmentally friendly transportation options that reduce traffic and pollution. The goal of bike sharing is to bring public bicycles to Philadelphia to cut congestion and emissions while increasing public health.
The document analyzes water governance in coupled social-ecological systems in Namibia. It discusses how the social-ecological system in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin has traditionally had a strong coupling between diverse livelihoods and variable natural conditions. However, political and economic changes are causing the system to transition. The concepts of resilience and governance in social-ecological systems are introduced, focusing on maintaining key functions and adapting to change through options and alternatives. Governance structures that foster resilience acknowledge uncertainty, include different knowledge types, and allow for locally developed solutions through polycentric and multilayered structures.
Sustainability-08-00254 - Human -Nature for Climate ActionHelen Santiago Fink
This document discusses using nature-based solutions to address climate change and sustainability at the city scale. It proposes a local climate action framework with three drivers: 1) policy incentives and planning, 2) biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and 3) low-carbon infrastructure and green infrastructure. Cities are well-positioned to combat climate change impacts through engagement with residents in their daily lives. Nature and green infrastructure can provide cost-effective ways to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation goals while also improving human well-being.
Basis for an effective climate change adaptation: Case small Mexican agricultureIJERA Editor
Mexico is considered one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change effects. Its geographical location and climatic, orographic and hydrological conditions contribute considerably to this situation. The objective of this paper is to propose a guide for stakeholders in the selection and efficient design of adaptation measures to face climate change, taking into account constraints on resources availability (financial, technological, human, and others), which force the search of criteria to capitalize actions. The paper consists of four sections: Initially, conceptual and legal framework is present, regarding the issue of climate change, its impact on sectors in Mexico, the identification of the necessity and adaptation capacity and the importance of the interrelation between water, energy and food production. Next, principles for effective adaptation are studied. In the third section, it is discussed through a case study, the efficiency of adaptation policies in small agriculture in Mexico. Final section presents some recommendations and conclusions. It is concluded that adaptation projects proposals should be concrete and clearly address the problem, considering a feasibility analysis. Also, that climate change threatens the stability and productivity of the agricultural sector, which forces society to protect it by progressing to climate-smart production systems in order to strengthen food security.
Role of watershed management in reducing soil erosion zewde azewde alemayehu
Soil is one of the most important and essential natural resources. Soils offer plants physical support, air, water, temperature moderation, nutrients, and protection from toxins. Soils provide readily available nutrients to plants and animals by converting dead organic matter into various nutrient forms.
Environmental management is a wide and evolving field that affects everyone and plays a crucial role in sustainable development. It is motivated by pragmatic concerns about avoiding problems, saving costs, compliance with regulations, shifts in ethics, and macroeconomic benefits. Environmental management approaches can be advisory through education, economic through taxes and subsidies, or regulatory through standards and restrictions. It involves modifying activities and ethics to achieve goals, but managers often have to work within existing development strategies and face challenges like inadequate resources and changing priorities. Environmental management has components like advice, economic instruments, and regulatory controls, and can take preventive, reactive, or compensatory approaches to mitigate impacts.
This document discusses different approaches to human ecology and their relation to disasters. It describes three main approaches: ecosystem approach, landscape approach, and perception approach.
The ecosystem approach focuses on biological organization and interactions between organisms and their environment. It recognizes humans as integral parts of ecosystems. The landscape approach takes an interdisciplinary view of both natural and human-built features, stakeholders, and external forces affecting an area. It facilitates inclusive risk assessment and planning.
The perception approach involves three stages - selection of information, organization of selected information into patterns based on proximity, similarity, or difference, and interpretation of organized information based on internal and external factors like personality, experience, and environmental cues.
1) Climate change is causing ecosystems to degrade and become less able to provide vital services to human lives and well-being. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) uses biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to climate change impacts.
2) EbA involves sustainably managing, conserving, and restoring ecosystems to make them more climate resilient and continue providing essential services. This allows ecosystems to enhance human resilience to climatic and non-climatic threats.
3) There is now broad acceptance of EbA as defined by the Convention on Biological Diversity and promoted through international frameworks like the UNFCCC. Five years of a global EbA program provide lessons on criteria for effective Eb
Leyendo el texto completo, responda:
1) ¿Cuál es el problema que aborda la economía ecológica?
2) ¿Cuál es el asunto primario bajo el paradigma de administración de la economía ecológica?
Puede responder en inglés o español.
When not every response to climate change is a good one: Identifying principl...Rafael Martins
This review article discusses the concept of sustainable adaptation to climate change. It identifies four principles to guide responses to climate change: 1) recognize the context for vulnerability, including multiple stressors, 2) acknowledge that differing values and interests affect adaptation outcomes, 3) integrate local knowledge into adaptation responses, and 4) consider potential feedbacks between local and global processes. The principles argue that fundamental societal transformations are needed to achieve sustainable development and avoid maladaptive responses to climate change. Case studies from diverse contexts illustrate how attention to these principles can help achieve socially just and environmentally sound adaptation.
The document discusses environmental policy, outlining its objectives, principles, purpose and strategies. Environmental policy aims to manage human activities to prevent harm to nature and ensure human-made changes don't damage the environment or humans. The key objectives of India's National Environment Policy include conserving critical resources, ensuring livelihoods and equity between generations. Environmental policy establishes regulatory frameworks and incorporates environmental concerns into development plans to efficiently manage resources and governance.
This document discusses the role of "greening" or environmental stewardship activities in building resilience after disasters or conflicts. It provides examples of how tree planting, memorial gardens, and fisheries management helped communities recover from events like 9/11 and wars in Iraq. The document argues that including local communities in greening activities can help social-ecological systems withstand disturbances by providing feedback and strengthening connections between people and nature. Policymakers are encouraged to support such efforts through funding, research, and integrating greening into emergency response plans to facilitate long-term adaptation to climate change impacts.
Scope and aspect of environmental resource managementAl Jubaer
Environmental resource management involves managing the interaction between human societies and the environment. It aims to protect ecosystem services for future generations while balancing human needs. Environmental resources include both natural resources like water, soil, and air as well as socioeconomic and cultural resources. Effective environmental resource management requires consideration of ethical, economic, social, and technological factors. It also requires coordination across many disciplines like geography, biology, ecology, and social sciences.
None Dare Call It Hubris: The Limits of KnowledgePresCrow
The document discusses the limits of human knowledge and ability in the face of complex global challenges. It argues that while scientific and technological progress has enabled growth, it has also caused environmental damage and issues that transcend individual interests. To address problems like climate change, new approaches are needed that integrate knowledge across disciplines and find ways to cooperate rather than compete. Current limits include those of individuals, sociobiology, socioeconomics, technology, and philosophy. New kinds of thinking are required to develop knowledge sensitive to these boundary conditions and foster planetary stewardship.
MDGs and Global Environmental Change - Governance, Innovation and LearningEuforic Services
Presentation by Andreas Rechkemmer (IHDP) during the High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs - Brussels, 23 June 2009 - http://www.bit.ly/after2015
Dr. Anna Evely. Looking at conservation projects that engage with volunteersAnnaEvely
what are conservation projects that involve volunteers?
why look at conservation projects that involve volunteers?
choosing methods when crossing disciplines: taking an integrative approach
how might participation be linked to attitudes?
how might participation be linked to social learning?
Dr. Anna Evely. Looking at conservation projects that engage with volunteersAberdeen CES
The document discusses conservation projects that involve volunteers and their importance for sustainability and resilience. It explores how participation may be linked to attitudes and social learning, and emphasizes taking an integrative approach when researching these projects by considering different methods and philosophies. Choosing the appropriate research method requires understanding one's philosophical approach.
The document summarizes lessons learned from Action on Climate Today (ACT), a program that worked to strengthen climate adaptation processes in 5 South Asian countries. The key lessons included innovating entry points to climate adaptation by addressing critical local issues, widening stakeholder groups, focusing on the most vulnerable, simplifying messaging, and connecting problems to climate change impacts. ACT trained over 1,200 people, implemented over 100 policy reviews and system improvements, and mobilized $1.5 billion in climate finance. Reflections emphasized identifying concerns of vulnerable groups, establishing links between issues and climate change, and engaging the private sector to finance resilience.
The document provides an overview of climate science literacy. It discusses how climate has varied throughout history due to natural factors like changes in Earth's orbit and tilt, and how human activities are now the primary cause of global warming. The summary identifies climate literacy as understanding how climate influences society and how human actions impact the climate. It promotes using climate science knowledge to make informed decisions that reduce vulnerabilities to climate change.
This document provides an overview of the relationship between environmental degradation and social integration. It discusses how social factors can influence the environment through changes in population, markets, land tenure systems, and social inequities. Environmental degradation then impacts societies through effects on health, livelihoods, and resources people depend on. Individual and collective responses to environmental changes can transform social structures over time. The document reviews policy approaches to addressing degradation and argues for holistic strategies that consider social and environmental dynamics in specific contexts.
Electricity Demand Side Management (DSM) and End-use Efficiencyeecfncci
This presentation explains the concept of Electical Demand Side Management and shows how to implement it in industries. It was prepared for energy auditor training in Nepal in the context of GIZ/NEEP programme. For further information go to EEC webpage: http://www.eec-fncci.org
This document discusses models of urban sustainability and contains presentations from several speakers. Gerald Fugione discusses Philly Car Share, a car sharing program. Russell Meddin discusses plans to launch a bike sharing program in Philadelphia called Bike Share Philadelphia. Bike sharing programs have expanded rapidly in over 100 cities around the world and provide environmentally friendly transportation options that reduce traffic and pollution. The goal of bike sharing is to bring public bicycles to Philadelphia to cut congestion and emissions while increasing public health.
2014 Future Cities Conference / Karl Henrik Johansson "Smart Infrastructures ...Future Cities Project
This document summarizes Karl H. Johansson's presentation on smart infrastructure projects in Stockholm to improve sustainability. It discusses how buildings and transportation are large energy consumers and how new technologies enable innovations like optimizing building climate and appliance usage using real-time data. A key project is transforming a brownfield site into the sustainable Stockholm Royal Seaport district, with goals of reducing CO2 emissions and becoming fossil fuel-free. The presentation addresses challenges around collaborative goods transportation and utilizing buildings as dynamic energy storage for the city through multi-disciplinary research.
Professor Isam Shahrour Summer Course « Smart and Sustainable City » Chapter...Isam Shahrour
This document provides an overview of sustainable cities and sustainability indicators. It discusses that a sustainable city is designed, built, and managed to meet citizens' needs without compromising the environment or future generations. Key challenges for cities regarding sustainability include city structure and organization, local government competencies, unsustainable expansion, and funding sustainable development. The document also outlines common sustainability indicators used to measure progress in areas like environment, social issues, and economics.
O documento resume as atividades e iniciativas da comunidade CocoaHeads no Brasil, incluindo 18 capítulos em 12 estados, mais de 130 eventos e 4 mil participantes. Ele também lista recursos como um podcast, aplicativo open source, tradução do livro "Swift Programming Language" e site com vagas para desenvolvedores iOS.
Sustainable City and Architecture DesignYunaKubota
The document discusses strategies for making cities more sustainable, including compact, mixed-use development that reduces the need for transportation; connecting compact neighborhoods by public transit; designing buildings and cities to maximize natural lighting, ventilation and renewable energy sources; and ensuring sustainable cities also have conceptual and sensory appeal.
This document provides an overview of the concept of a compact city presented by a group of students. It begins with listing the group members and structure of the presentation. It then discusses the origin of compact cities, defines what a compact city is, and outlines the compact city model. Key characteristics of compact cities are presented for both developed and developing countries. The document contrasts compact cities with urban sprawl and defines an eco-compact city model. It lists indicators to measure compact cities and discusses both positive and negative impacts. Finally, it provides examples of cities that depict the compact city model.
This document discusses the need for societies and economies to embrace environmental ethics as a driver for stable, just, and self-sustaining communities worldwide. It notes that current societies face challenges like climate change and ecosystem degradation. The paper recommends adopting ethical duties and virtues focused on positive environmental outcomes. Embracing environmental ethics could help address issues and create more humane and sustainable living conditions for future generations.
Sustainability, Green Technologies & Eco CitiesLeeniOr
Cities are reducing their environmental impact through various green technologies and sustainable practices. This includes making buildings more energy efficient, improving public transit systems, expanding green spaces, and transforming to renewable energy sources. Green roofs and banning single-use plastics are also strategies that cities are using. Modern waste management systems that capture methane from landfills and sending zero waste to landfills by certain deadlines are further ways that cities are becoming more sustainable.
Ways Forward in Efforts to Ameliorate Climate Change EffectsSIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
Importance of Environmental Journalism in PakistanMuhammad Qasim
This document discusses the importance of environmental journalism in Pakistan. It covers several topics, including the challenges of reporting on environmental issues, significant themes like climate change and energy efficiency, and framing issues in a way that empowers readers. The goal of environmental journalism is to communicate earth systems thinking and facilitate public understanding of complex scientific topics in order to engage citizens and inform policy decisions. It is becoming increasingly important for journalists in Pakistan to cover these issues.
This document provides definitions for key terms related to climate change vulnerability assessments. It begins with an overview and table of contents. The document then defines key concepts such as adaptation, adaptive capacity, assessment, climate change, ecosystem services, mitigation, resilience, uncertainty, and vulnerability. It provides definitions from sources like the IPCC and UN frameworks on climate change. The definitions are intended to establish a common understanding of terminology for those conducting integrated environmental assessments and reporting related to climate change vulnerability.
Presentation by Cheikh Mbow at Our Common Future Under Climate Change conference session on Climatic Variability and the Social and Human Dimensions of Vulnerability. Paris, France, 8 July 2015
1. The document discusses the multidisciplinary nature of environmental studies, including its scope and importance.
2. It covers the key components of the environment, as well as the various disciplines that contribute to environmental science like biology, physics, social sciences, and more.
3. Sustainable development is introduced as development that meets current needs without compromising future generations, balancing economic, environmental and social factors.
Aan dp net presentation on hfa climate change and drr april 2k xDIPECHO Nepal
Climate change and disaster risk reduction are closely linked. As extreme weather events increase due to climate change, disasters will become more frequent and severe. However, existing disaster risk reduction methods and tools can help countries adapt to climate change impacts. The Hyogo Framework for Action provides guidance on integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation through priorities like making risk reduction a national priority, improving risk monitoring and early warning systems, increasing public education, reducing underlying risk factors, and strengthening disaster preparedness. Public participation, especially of vulnerable groups like women and children, is important for effective adaptation.
C:\Documents And Settings\Prashant1\My Documents\Study Material\Publication\P...Prashant Mehta
Energy and Sustainable Development are dynamically interlinked. This paper highlights industail process and product change can bring requirements of energy to minimum
Environmental management aims to control human impact on the environment to preserve natural resources and improve human welfare. It focuses on developing and implementing environmental policy. Sustainable development meets present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. India faces many environmental issues like pollution, degradation of land and forests, and loss of biodiversity due to factors like population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. The national environmental policy aims to mainstream environmental concerns in development and achieve conservation, equity, and sustainability.
UK Public Policy for influencing Pro-environmental Behaviour - Lavinia UdreaLavinia Ioana Udrea
The document discusses the UK government's approaches to influencing pro-environmental behavior, including financial incentives, nudging, and population segmentation. However, these approaches may only motivate short-term actions and not help people internalize sustainable habits long-term. The document argues that the government needs to provide more transparent information about the consequences of unsustainable behaviors and facilitate contexts where people can become aware of their own unsustainable actions. This could help people feel more responsible for protecting the environment in the long run.
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
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The document is an IPCC press release summarizing the key findings of their latest climate change report. It finds that urgent climate action is needed to secure a livable future, as the impacts of climate change are already causing significant losses and damages worldwide. The report highlights that climate change poses severe risks to vulnerable communities and ecosystems. However, there are feasible options to mitigate further warming and adapt to the impacts already occurring through ambitious emissions reductions, investments in climate resilient development, and global cooperation. The choices made in the next few years will be critical to determining the future climate.
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
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Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
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environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
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changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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Leadership and Urban Sustainability, Irina Safitri Zen, UTM
1. Dr. Irina Safitri Zen
Head of Sustainability Research Unit, Institute Sultan Iskandar (ISI)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning,
Faculty of Built Environment
UniversitiTeknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Leadership & Urban
Sustainability
2. Presentation Outline
Climate Change and the Effect to the urban environment
The Solution :Approach, Framework & Initiatives
Climate Governance & SDG Agenda 2030
Sustainability Leadership
Quintuple Helix Framework
11. Urbanization and Urban Heat
Since 19779, land
temperatures have
increased about twice
(2x) faster than ocean
temperatures.
Urban Heat Island
(UHI) causes change in
micro climate of urban
areas and leads to
rising trend in rainfall
extremes events and
decrease quality of life
in urban area.
12.
13. Why should developing countries care
about climate change?
Studies show that some of the most adverse effects of
climate change will be in developing countries, where
populations are most vulnerable and least likely to easily
adapt to climate change.
Changes in temperature, water supply and quality will
impact on agricultural production, human settlement and
health, biodiversity and animal migratory patterns (IPCC,
2001a,b).
20. 3 DOMAIN OF APPROACH IN TACKLING
THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES
The interrelated concepts address as to response to its impact
to the human systems areVULNERABILITY,
ADAPTATION & MITIGATION (Smit et al. 1999, 2000 and 2001,Adger 2001 and
Huq et al. 2003).
1. Vulnerability defines in the literature of climate change as
- the combined measure of threats to a particular system either
adversely or beneficially.
- the degree to which a system is susceptible to or unable
to cope with the adverse effects of climate change, including
climate variability and extremes (Mc Carthy et al., 2007).
21. 2. Adaptation
‘Adjustment in natural or human systems to a new or
changing environment. Adaptation to climate change
refers to adjustment in natural or human systems in
response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their
effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial
opportunities‘ - IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change)
In this context, adaptation occurs in physical, ecological, and
human systems where its involves wider spectrum such as changes
in social and environmental processes, perceptions of climate risk,
practices and functions to reduce risk and exploration of new
opportunities to cope with the changed environment.
22. 3. Mitigation
Refers to any strategy or action taken to remove the GHGs
released into the atmosphere, or to reduce their amount.
Defined as 'technological change and substitution that
reduce resource inputs and emissions per unit of output
with respect to climate change.Mitigation means
implementing policies to reduce GHG emissions and
enhance sinks‘ - IPCC
23. Sustainable Development Goals
Agenda 2030
“action-oriented, concise and easy to communicate, limited in number,
aspirational, global in nature and universally applicable to all countries while
taking into account different national realities, capacities and levels of
development and respecting national policies and priorities”
17 Goals
230 Indicators
169 Targets
in 15 years
24. Several Related Goals in SDGs
Goals 11. Sustainable cities and communities
Goals 13. Climate Action.Take urgent action to
combat climate change and its impacts
Goals 17. Partnership for the Goals.
Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable
development
25.
26. How is Global Climate Change Affect
the local government?
i. A high and increasing portion of greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions is generated in cities – mitigate,
ii. The effects of global climate change have a direct impact on
cities, which need to adapt to the changing situation,
iii. Linkages and synergies between climate policy and
sustainable development become most obvious at the local
level, and motivate cities to generate the social and
technological.
.
27. Effect Climate Change to Sub-National
States
There is an increasing emphasis on the role of SUB-
NATIONAL STATES play in the global multi-level climate
governance systems.
They are in a well positioned to develop policy and
programmatic solution that best meet specific geographic,
climatic, socio economic condition of the cities (Gupta 2007).
29. Climate Governance
Recognize as self-governing, governing
through enabling, governing by provision
and governing by regulation, climate
governance requires different approach
and skills for the government response
proactively to the climate challenge.
30. Multi-Level Climate Governance
The emergence of new types of
governance where authority is
increasingly shared and shifting
between several policy levels and
new actor constellations are
formed, including both state and
non-state actors.
Global warming exemplifies the
need for such new types of
multi-level governance by
changing the relations between
higher and lower levels of
government as well as redefining
them for the sake of greater
coherence in policy-making.
31. Multilevel governance
“An action by local governmental authority in areas related to
climate change in legal and institutional frameworks at higher
scales” (Corfee-Morlot et al. 2009).
A two-way relationships; top - bottom approach between local
and national action on climate change can provide interface for
policy making which functions as an enabler each other and also
defined as policy actors and stakeholders operating across
horizontal and vertical levels of social organization and
jurisdictional authority around a particular issue (Selin and
VanDeveer, 2009).
Emerge in NorthAmerica and several OECD countries such as
Finland, Sweden, Sao Paolo-Brazil, NewYork City and Barcelona,
as a response to climate change challenges.
32. What type of Leader to address the
uncertainty and risky environment as a
result from climate changes ?
33. Understanding the
interconnections
of systems – System
Thinking.
GloCal -Think globally and
Act locally
Env-Soc Dynamic Interaction
Protect nature
and people
Transform business
as usual - BAU.
Sustainability Science
- Lead by example
in your actions
Sustainability Leadership
34. Sustainability
Leadership
5 Principles
Understanding the
interconnections of
systems.
It is vital to recognize how each group of related factors (people,
objects, processes, etc…) are connected and contingency impact.
Think globally and
toward the future
Consider what current and future impacts you are making with each
decision on other countries, society, oceans, animals, communities,
waste, resources, etc…
Protect nature and
people.
Distinguish how actions taken affect people and the environment.Try to
make decisions that will reduce the negative impacts on 2nd and 3rd
levels of people, processes, the environment, and economies.
Transform business as
usual
Do something different within your span of control. Change a habit
which reduces waste such as reading via an e-book or printing double
sided.
Lead by example in
your actions.
Be responsible for yourself, your job, your actions, and your
organization. Hold the organization accountable to lead by example in
its actions. Hold yourself accountable to reduce waste and increase
efficiency. Others will follow.
35. Defined as
create opportunities for people to come together and generate their own answers – to
explore, learn, and devise a realistic course of action to address sustainability challenges.
Not giving direction but develop and implement actions in collaboration with others,
modifying them as needed to adapt to unforeseen changes in the environment over time.
This approach to leadership does not assume an ability to control activity with any
degree of certainty and predictability.
Embrace the inevitability of continually changing dynamics in everyday life, while
developing reasonable actions with others within an integrated framework that provides
coherent direction, clear accountability, and enough flexibility to allow for mid-course
corrections.
Sustainability
Leadership
36. Sustainability Leadership
For every action a sustainable leader takes, whether personal or on
behalf of an organization, they might ask:
1. How the action affects the ecosystem, subsystems and super systems
upon which my family, my organization, my community, the people
of the world and myself depend for sustaining life?
2. How the action affects my social well-being and that of others in my
family, my organization, my community and the world?
3. How the action affects the economic stability/growth potential for
my family, my organization, my community, the world and myself?
37.
38.
39.
40.
41. HOW / WHAT IS THE ROLE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN climate
change & sustainable development?
42. Improve Interconnection
in Sustainability.
• The Triple (3) Helix innovation
model focuses on university-
industry-government relations.
• The Quadruple (4) Helix embeds
the Triple Helix by adding as a
fourth helix the ‘media-based and
culture-based public’ and ‘civil
society’
43. Climate Change the Source
for Eco-Innovation and
Knowledge Based Society
The Quintuple (5) Helix
innovation model is even
broader and more
comprehensive by
contextualizing the Quadruple
(4) Helix and by additionally
adding the helix (and
perspective) of the ‘natural
environments of society’.
44. Knowledge Based Society
“Quintuple Helix outlines what Sustainable Development might
mean and imply for ‘eco-innovation’ and ‘eco-entrepreneurship’ in
the current situation and for our future”
(Carayannis & Campbell 2010)
45. The FIVE subsystems (helices)
(1) The education system
Refer to‘academia’,‘universities’,‘higher education systems’, and
schools. In this helix, the necessary‘human capital’ eg. students, teachers,
scientists/ researchers, academic entrepreneurs, etc. of a state (nation-
state) is being formed by diffusion and research of knowledge.
(2) The economic system
Consists of‘industry/industries’,‘firms’, services and banks which
concentrates and focuses the‘economic capital’ eg. entrepreneurship,
machines, products, technology, money, etc. of a state (nation-state).
(3) The natural environment:
is decisive for a sustainable development and provides people with a
‘natural capital’ (for example: resources, plants, variety of animals, etc.).
46. (4) The media-based and culture-based public
Integrates and combines two forms of‘capital’;
i. culture-based public (eg. tradition, values, etc.), a ‘social
capital’.
ii. media-based public (eg. television, internet, newspapers, etc.)
contains also ‘capital of information’ (eg. news,
communication, social networks).
(5)The political system
Formulates the‘will’, where to the state (nation-state) is heading toward
in the present and future, thereby also defining, organizing as well as
administering the general conditions of the state (nation-state).
Therefore, this helix has a‘political and legal capital’ (for example:
ideas, laws, plans, politicians, etc.).
47. Quintuple Helix innovation model
Use as a framework for trans-disciplinary (and
interdisciplinary) analysis of sustainable development and
social ecology.
A model which grasps ad specializes on the sum of the social
interactions and the academic exchanges in a state (nation-
state) in order to
promote and visualize a cooperation system of knowledge,
know-how, innovation for more sustainable development
How do knowledge, innovation and the environment (natural
environment) relate each other?
(Carayannis and Campbell 2010)
48. Why Higher Education Institution (HEI) need to take the
leading role in developing the Knowledge Based Society ?
IHE as “the scientific community now needs to strengthen further
international collaboration, and take a leading role in providing the knowledge
needed for societal transformations to a sustainable world. The challenge
remains to lift the role of science, both natural and social, to develop a thorough
understanding of the complex global challenges, to identify, validate and monitor
new approaches and technologies and to introduce new green economic models”.
Institutional
Sustainability Leadership
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002219/221907E.pdf
49.
50.
51. COPENHAGEN: CARBON MEASUREMENT & PLANNING
Copenhagen scooped up the Carbon Measurement & Planning award for its
ambitious 2025 Climate Plan—an attempt to make the city
completely carbon neutral by 2025. If it succeeds in cutting emissions to
400,000 tons, Copenhagen will be the first carbon neutral capital city in the
world.
53. Produce more fuel-efficient vehicles
Reduce vehicle use
Improve energy-efficiency in buildings
Develop carbon capture and storage
processes
Increase solar power
Decrease deforestation/plant forests
Improve soil carbon management
strategies
What next—what can we do?
54. Collaboratively designing each study, generating and exchanging
knowledge, and planning for implementation.The approach proved
useful in the development of shared knowledge on the sizable
contribution of ecosystem services to disaster risk reduction.
This knowledge was used by stakeholders to design and implement
several actions to enhance ecosystem services :
i. new investments in ecosystem restoration,
ii. institutional changes in the private and public sector, and
iii. innovative partnerships of science, practice, and policy.
By bringing together multiple disciplines, sectors, and stakeholders to
jointly produce the knowledge needed to understand and manage a
complex system, knowledge coproduction approaches offer an effective
avenue for the improved integration of ecosystem services into decision
making.
57. Voluntary Low Carbon Comitment
Malaysia Commitment
Speech by YAB Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister
“… Malaysia is proposed a voluntary reduction up to 40%
in terms of carbon emission intensity of GDP by the year
2020 compared to 2005 levels.”
17th December 2009
Global Citizens + Responsibilities
For the Earth, for our future generation
Green Sustainability as New Consumer - Sustainable
Culture, New Market, New Growth
Money Saving
Energy conservation and renewable energy
58.
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61. Figure 1 : Smart City Multiplier Effect Under City Development in 11th Malaysia Plan
(MIGHT 2014)
62. Malaysia Climate Change Profile
Major sources of CO2 emission :
- 35% energy industries.
- 21% transport
- 16 % manufacturing industries and construction
- 14% forest and greenhouse gas, GHG conversion
- 6 % mineral production.
Urbanization annual rate of change 2.66%,
the Malaysia urban population achieve 74.7% of total population.
The contribution of CO2 emission to an increase of outdoor air pollution - leading
cause of cancer (IARC 2013), its create an urgency for an improvement of urban
environment.
The statistic justifies the needs on climate change mitigation and adaptation in the city.
65. Championing the Integrated Urban
Development
Melaka has shown LEADERSHIP with successful implementation of integrated urban
development Pursuing an integrated approach towards urban development is not new for
Melaka.
The state has successfully begun the transformation of the Melaka River from a backyard
drainage channel to a popular and highly successful cultural amenity.
An integrated effort and nearly a decade to construct wastewater infrastructure, adopt
historic preservation and placemaking measures, and pursue economic development strategies
to create a an urban waterfront with a riverwalk and river cruise experience that has become a
popular tourist attraction.
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68. Terima Kasih. Thank You.
If you want to go fast,go alone.
If you want to go far,go together.
(African proverb).