Il carico di Alex, tra profezia e politica

Author(s): Massimo (Mao) VALPIANA / Language(s): Italian Issue: 13/2016

his essay outlines a profile of Alexander Langer, son and master of the European nonviolent tradition, tireless activist in ecological and intercultural field, member of the European Parliament. He fulfills the nonviolent legacy and translates it into daily political action. Alex is a fine intellectual – with a franciscan education – uses ideas and words not to create new ideas and words, but to change reality, get to act, amend politics, meet and join people, achieve tangible projects. His legacy is one of the most meaningful witnesses of nonviolence persuasion.

Potreba ozelenjavanja ekonomije u Srbiji

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2014

This paper present extract from and promotion of study about achievements and perspectives towards a Green Economy and Sustainable Growth in Serbia. It is important to note that even at the global level there is still no uniform, generally accepted definition of the term green economy. While creating this study we have relied on the definition of “green economy” given by UNEP, while also taking into consideration the definition given by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The green economy concept is promoted as a tool to assist countries on the path to achieve sustainable development. The world witnessed that while economic growth lifted millions out of poverty, it was often at the expense of environmental and social conditions and did not benefit all. The decades in which new values and prosperity were created based on the principles of traditional economic models have not managed to fight social marginalisation and change ever-growing excessive consumption of resources. Therefore, it is important to ensure that economic growth provides benefits to society and the environment as a whole. Sustainability still remains a primary long-term goal, but additional efforts must be focused on implementing the concept of green economy if the desire is to achieve that goal. Sustainable development is an umbrella, holistic concept and paradigm which connects economy, society and environment, within which green development strategies can be viewed as an appropriate framework contributing to feasible sustainable development policies. In view of this, it is clear that green economy is something which is more specific than sustainable development.

ZINTEGROWANE GOSPODAROWANIE NA OBSZARACH CHRONIONYCH

Author(s): Anetta Zielińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 46/2/2016

Integrated management on protected areas is based on the concept of sustained management with regard thereto. Integrated management can be obtained by the greening of economy, where the greening of traditional economy is a challenge and a peculiar paradigm of the present, whereas protected areas become the arena of implementing such sustained management. The aim of the paper is to present the connection of the integrated management process with the aspects such as: sustained management, the levels of integrated management as well as to show the benefits of integrated management.

Wpływ ekologizacji konsumpcji na zmiany w zarządzaniu organizacjami

Author(s): Dariusz Kiełczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2015

An aim of considerations is to indicate the changes in organisation management taking place under the impact of ecologisation of consumption. The research was based on a review of literature. Enterprises, the public sector and NGOs under the impact of consumers more and more often change their attitude towards the environment and are more involved in its protection. This contributes to acceleration of implementation of the processes of sustainable development. The article is of the conceptual nature.

Efektywność kosztowa polityki ekologicznej – identyfikacja kosztó

Author(s): Elżbieta Broniewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6A/2013

The purpose of this article is to identify the costs of environmental policy needed to the costeffectiveness analysis. A review of the literature in this area, and results of their own research were presented. It was found that in the literature there are two approaches: traditional – where the costs of environmental policies are defined as the sum of capital expenditures and operating costs, and extended – taking into account the external costs. There is also recognised the existence of the transaction costs related to the implementation and operation of environmental policy instruments.

LNG jako alternatywne paliwo dla transportu

Author(s): Urszula Motowidlak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6A/2013

Currently, almost the whole transport sector is based on oil, what poses a threat to the environment and economy. The implementation of alternative fuels for transport is a guarantee of security of energy supply. The article analysed the reasons for increased interest in LNG in transport. It identified its main advantages and disadvantages. In addition, it shows the potential and direction of development of the infrastructure for ships and LNG-fuelled vehicles.

Infrastruktura kolejowa w województwie podlaskim – aspekty ekologiczne rozwoju linii kolejowej Rail Baltica

Author(s): Anna Busłowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6A/2013

The transport activity has a significant impact on the environment. Particularly this impact concerns air, water and soil pollution, excessive noise and vibration, and transport accidents. This article concerns transport external costs on the example of the railway Rail Baltica in the region of Podlasie. An aim of the article is to seek answers to the question of whether and how the development of the railway network in the Podlasie region affects the natural environment of that region.

Ochrona bioróżnorodności a nowe rozwiązania prawne w zakresie ochrony terenów zieleni i zadrzewień

Author(s): Emilia Nawrotek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

This article is an analysis of new regulations about protection of green areas and shrubs contained in the Nature Conservatory Act. Amendments to the Act, liberalized regulations for disposal of trees and shrubs, empowering landlords to the removal of trees and bushes without permission. Without any doubts, those green areas are public goods impossible to be multiplied. They are part of the natural heritage, moreover, fulfill various functions – recreation, health, aesthetic, also play a significant role in maintaining biodiversity, creating refuges for a large number of species of plants and animals. The new provisions of the Nature Conservatory Act seem to be ill-conceived from the point of view of the effects that can cause in the human environment.

Characteristics of the renewable energy sources technology transfer center's building in the context of requirements for the passive standard

Author(s): Marcin Jaczewski,Szymon Firląg / Language(s): English Issue: 13/2014

The aim of this paper is to present the requirements for the passive standard based on the example of the RES TTC building. The requirements were divided into main energy demand and detailed recommendations for each indicator. The calculations and analyses have shown that to achieve the required energy demand, better solutions than the recommended ones need to be applied, such as air handling units with better heat recovery efficiency. The same applies to the U heat penetration coefficient of heat for the outer partitions. The use of ventilation units with a recommended efficiency of 75% does not guarantee achieving a passive standard.

Analysis of the potential of the Łódź region in terms of a biogas plant construction

Author(s): Stanisław Aleksandrow,Dorota Michalak / Language(s): English Issue: 7/2013

The aim of this article is to analyze the potential of the Łódzkie voivodship in terms of a biogas plant construction, in the context of the Polish government's position in the field of sustainable energy development plans, biogas energy and the economic conditions related to investments in biogas engineering. In order to diagnose the potential of the Łódzkie voivodeship, in the context of the mentioned elements, the results of the research conducted among the entities generating organic waste were presented, analyzed and interpreted. The article ends with conclusions, research recommendations and a SWOT analysis of the Łódź region in terms of biogas production.

АЛГОРИТМ ОБҐРУНТУВАННЯ УПРАВЛІНСЬКИХ РІШЕНЬ У ЛІСОКОРИСТУВАННІ В УМОВАХ РИЗИКУ

Author(s): Ihor Yarema / Language(s): English,Ukrainian Issue: 1/2017

It is offered the scientific approaches and guidelines for substantiation management decisions in forest management. It is proposed the algorithm for decision-making under uncertainty with the use of fuzzy set theory. Applying the algorithm discussed in greater detail on the example of organization of production by the forestry enterprises. Implementation of the results and developed proposals on their basis to the practical work of management of forestry enterprises contribute to a better justification of management decisions on forest management and predictability of received financial and business results. The developed algorithm of substantiation management decisions on forest management in terms of risk can be integrated into practice implementation of the analytical monitoring system for forest management in the region.

Влияние гидросооружений на состояние популяций наземных видов бесхвостых амфибий

Author(s): A. A. Marchenkovskaya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2005

Data of the research of two terrestrial amphibian species – common spade foot and green toad – from the territory adjoining to the Dnieper–Donbass channel are presented. The both populations are valid and stable. The high number of both young amphibians and mature individuals with high reproductive potential (high absolute reproductivity) are the affirmation. Morpho physiological indexes of the animals testify their normal physiological state. It has positive influence on the individuals’ and populations’ vital functions. The Dnieper–Donbass channel positively influences on the terrestrial amphibians by creation of new habitats and conditions for spreading.

Фауна риб прибережної зони дніпровсько-орільського заповідника на сучасному етапі розвитку іхтіоценозу

Author(s): D. L. Bondarev / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2004

Status of groups of coastal fish in water bodies of the nature reserve, and dynamics of their quantitative and qualitative parameters is considered. Responses of fish communities to changes occurring in floodplain lakes were recorded,with the determination of their underlying factors, and measures on maintaining homeostasis of this group of aquatic organisms and optimization of their recovery and reproduction are recommended.

Закономерности распределения асти Л ОЧНЫХ беспозвоночных степных экосистем центрального степного приднепровья

Author(s): V. V. Brygadyrenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2004

Taxonomic and functional structure of herpetobion mesofauna of steppe ecosystems in the territory of Dnipropetrovsk region was analyzed. With the use off actor and discriminant analysis, the groups of invertebrates with similar response to changing environmental conditions have been identified.

Активность пероксидазы – показатель устойчивости растений-интродуцентов в условиях степной зоны украины

Author(s): L. G. Dolgova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2004

The paper includes the data on peroxidase activity in leaves of 8 garden jasmine species introduced from various floristic regions into the steppe zone of Ukraine. Peroxidase is an indicator of stability and protective reaction of plants which should be taken into account when using the material for introduction.

LEGAL BASES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Maria-Luiza Hrestic / Language(s): English Issue: 1 (42)/2019

Maybe more than many others, environmental law differs from what itseems. Despite its reputation of being arid, it is luxuriant, technical, it is elementary, andbeing suppletive, it is essential. Moreover, it is defined as rational matter, as set of rulesregulating man’s activities in his environment and in the relation with his environment. Itsjuridical framework is of the order of the obligation of doing, out of the means it usesprincipally prevention, and as accessory, reparation or remediation or reconstruction.However, being a rupture law, its maturity tends to change its fundaments towards afinalizing definition, close to an obligation of result. As sand, the standards for sustainableeffect get infiltrated in the young building and consolidate or weaken it. In this way, forexample, public and private persons contribute, each in his domain of competence andwithin the limits of his responsibility, to a policy whose objective is to enforce eachperson’s right to breathe an air that is not damaging to health. Since then and for thisreason, its physiognomy becomes confuse, especially if we think about the immensetendency to borrow from other laws, to transform principles or deep concepts, and even tocreate some, solely its own. Environmental law generates in itself, but also outside itself(e.g. the mechanism evaluating a project’s impact on the environment, consisting in thescientific evaluation of a project’s incidents on the environment, whose principle has beenexported towards other laws). This is precisely a sign of its maturity.

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF USING NUCLEAR ENERGY

Author(s): Marina Filipović,Vladimir Cvetković,Slavko Nešić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Nuclear technological production of electricity is characterized as a low-carbon technology, which on the one hand, has key importance in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while on the other hand there are numerous controversies, defensive approach and anxiety due to the danger of nuclear accidents and solving the problem of radioactive waste. Starting from the actuality and importance of the issue of the use of nuclear energy in the context of solving environmental changes, the paper carried out a thorough review of literature. On this occasion, the paper carried out an insight into the existing relevant scientific knowledge in this field and a secondary analysis of the contents of documents of relevant international institutions, which within their competence publish data on the energy state and current emissions of greenhouse gases on a global level. The majority of papers emphasize the advantage of the use of nuclear energy in comparison with the generation of energy in the process of combustion of fossil fuels. It is primarily stated that small amounts of radioactive gases, which are regularly discharged under controlled conditions in the operation of nuclear power plants, cannot produce effects such as acid rain, smog, ozone depletion and do not contribute to an increase in temperature of the troposphere. However, the possibility of producing nuclear accidents and the severity of the consequences if radioactive isotopes leave the reactor uncontrollably, and the generation of radioactive waste results in a dilemma in the scientific and social community and creates a division in the acceptance of nuclear energy as an alternative to the use of fossil fuels.

Co widać gołym okiem…

Author(s): January Weiner,Anna Mateja / Language(s): Polish Issue: 791/2021

НОВИ ДРУШТВЕНИ ПОКРЕТИ на примеру еколошког покрета

Author(s): Ljubica Kujundžić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/1994

EKONATIVIZAM I APROPRIJACIJA ZELENE POLITIKE: KONTROVERZE U VEZI SA OTVARANJEM RUDNIKA LITIJUMA RIO TINTO U LOZNICI I PRESTANKOM RADA TERMOELEKTRANE PLJEVLJA

Author(s): Branko Banović,Jelena Ćuković,Miloš Milenković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2022

The article outlines the conclusions of comparative ethnographic research on the socio-cultural ramifications of the Rio Tinto lithium mine’s announced opening in Loznica, Serbia, and the shutdown of the Pljevlja thermal power plant in Montenegro. In both contexts on the verge of major societal conflict, the narrative is driven by populism based on scientific denialism on the one hand and econativism on the other. There is a powerful narrative charge that has moved the debate away from the standard set of green policy aims - environmental conservation, pacifism, respect for human and minority rights - and into a nationalist-apocalyptic idiom otherwise prevalent in Serbian and Montenegrin culture. Our research strategy is based on the assumption that culturally critical goals do not have to be achieved through culturally critical means, so we decided to involve stakeholders instead, a strategy that has already resulted in some success in comparable cases of flammable social disputes such as inter-ethnic strife. However, in this case, such a goal turned out impossible to achieve, and the outcomes so far were fairly bleak. Green politics is under threat from nationalist appropriation, much as liberal, democratic, and pro-European aims have been the target of nationalist appropriation since the early 2000s in a vain attempt to adapt to a profoundly re-traditionalized society. Anti-corporate flirting with the econativist narrative, which has anti-development effects in public, should consider the fact that it calls into question not just development but also the fundamental ideals of the Open Society.