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One of the most pressing global problems today is the prevention of environmental crises is achieved only through targeted actions of people. In this regard, the search for ways out of the environmental crisis is being carried out, which is reflected in the laws "On environmental protection of the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Emergencies of natural and technogenic character ", as well as in state documents dedicated to environmental issues. as the "National Action Plan for Environmental Protection for Sustainable Development" adopted in our country. An environmental crisis is not the result of some mistakes in the technical or social development of society, it is a manifestation of a cultural crisis, which includes the relationship of people with each other and the system of interaction between society and nature. To get out of it, people need to master new value-normalized relationships, expand their environmental outlook, change the motto “economic efficiency” of society as a whole to “environmental efficiency.” We believe that it is necessary to develop a new system of continuous environmental education and training to support these new trends and changes in cognitive / by cognitive /, value and practical orientation of the content of education. From this point of view, we tried to study the bioecological characteristics of plants in the Aral region of the Kyzylorda region as a regional component of teaching biology and to include the results obtained in the educational process. Studying the biology and ecology of plants in the Aral region of the Kyzylorda region, students express their patriotic feelings before their homeland, responsibility and views on nature conservation.
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The article examines the state of environmental education in general and innovative technologies for the formation of environmental competence of high school students in the educational system of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The results of our own research on environmental education and the results obtained after the application of innovative technologies for the formation of environmental competence of high school students are presented: discussion of the results of the questionnaire before and after the elective course entitled "Ecology and sustainable development". The results of the survey showed that conducting an elective course using innovative technologies in environmental education is the most useful, convenient and necessary method of forming environmental competence of high school students of secondary schools. Based on the results of the survey, it was possible to determine which topic should be emphasized when drawing up the elective course program and on which topics innovative technologies such as the use of ICT, group design and research work, group work, promotions, as well as what knowledge, skills and abilities should be given when conducting a course on ecology. And the results of the questionnaire on the topic of "Rational nutrition" made it clear that the ignorance of students on the topic of proper nutrition that it is necessary to include this topic in the elective course program, and at the same time to focus on human health with frequent eating of quickly prepared food.
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The first part of the paper offers a theoretical consideration of the Anthropocene as an epoch in which human and geological times have radically mixed. It outlines insights formulated within the Anthropocene discourse, as well as findings of climatology. They encourage developing the Anthropocene’s hauntology as an epoch in which “the time is out of joint”. The second part of the paper applies theory to literary studies practice (especially in terms of ecocriticism). Author reconstructs proposals to practice ecocriticism in the times of the Anthropocene formulated by Timothy Clark and Lynn Keller, and undertakes initial attempts at translating them into the Polish context.
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The analysis of a number of late 20th-century nature poems allows the author to redefine the traditional concepts of transcendence and immanence in the context of post-secular studies and the broadly defined new materialism. The article argues that the reformulation of these categories allows one to map the dynamic changes in the 20th-century and 21st-century ecopoetics. The analysis of selected poems written by poets who are well aware of the limits of language, allows the author to draw attention to the debate around the concept of the Anthropocene, a significant turning point in itself. The article discusses current poetic tendencies, taking into account the impact of the Anthropocene.
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The article interprets Velebit as a space of peripatetic literature beginning, naturally, with Petar Zoranić’s Planine (written in 1536 and published in 1569) wherein, in addition to a personal psychogram on conventional lovesickness (“beteg”), the author problematizes the general situation in his “scattered heritage” (“rasuta bašćina”) (under Ottoman and Venetian threat). As opposed to Zoranić’s imaginary voyage formulated as an allegorical voyage of enlightenment along the paths of Velebit, Edo Popović, in his trans-genre Priručnik za hodače (The Walkers’ Manual) (2009), 440 years after Zoranić (to introduce some symbolism), with his zen-roamings in Velebit and his principle of “voluntary poverty,” as mirrored in Henry David Thoreau’s ecological matrix, equally discloses sociograms of not only “scattered heritage”, but of the global world order, as well. The trilogy of travel writings, of this hiking literature by Edo Popović, can be defined as peripatetic literature about Velebit. Yet it has to be stressed that these are travel writings, namely hiking literature with an engaged attitude toward reality.
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The article is an analytical and interpretative study of the poetics of the two newest art installations by Joanna Rajkowska.
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The article deals with the advancement of phenomenology of aarchitecture and multisensorial perspective and the impact of Juhani Pallasmaa on the multisensorial approach in architectural theory and design. While analyzing the architectural and intellectual contexts in which phenomenological perspective of architecture was produced the author shows that phenomenology was entering architecture gradually, through the works of Steen Eiler Rasmussen and Christian Norberg-Schulz as well as a number of other thinkers who had an architectural background. It is argued that despite of the fact that Norberg-Schulz was influenced mostly by Martin Heidegger, meanwhile Pallasmaa - by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, they both have advanced phenomenological view of architecture. It is suggested that Pallasmaa has not only played an important part in shaping current philosophical concerns about architecture and strengthening positions of phenomenological inquiry in architectural discourse but also questioned the present hierarchy of senses domination of vision in creation and experience of architecture and offered a far-reaching and more prospective multi-sensory approach toward the built environment.
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The evolving phenomenon of extinction of flora and fauna species, the greenhouse effect, and climate change encourage the search for more effective methods of environmental protection. The aim of the article is to present an innovative concept of plant dignity introduced in Swiss law. The article elaborates on the claim that the concept provides arguments for the formation of a new paradigm of environmental protection, in which the reference point is shifted from anthropological to ecocentric. The concept of plant dignity is a source of values and solutions that can provide legislative inspiration for the development of international law norms in this matter. As part of the considerations, the inference oscillates around emphasizing the role of the concept of dignity for the protection of plants as living beings. In the face of the intensive development of science and technology, of bioengineering, the issues that require the continuation of legislative work to rationally define the boundaries of human activity have been identified. When formulating the postulates de lege ferenda, the role of the concept of plant dignity as a guideline in the profiling of pro-ecological activities is emphasized.
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The topic of the study tries to answer the question, „Is external public audit a lever to identify vulnerabilities in the way how the public funds for sustainable regional and local development are managed?” In this respect, the approach started from the analysis and re-treating of the disfunctions found by the Supreme Audit Institution in the management of public funds of the ministry under review. Thus, with the help provided by the global diagnostic grid of the public funding management of the ministry, the disfunctions were addressed in the hierarchical order of the entities which receive public funds and also according to the typology of the deviations. The disfunctions were re-treated on the basis of the trinomial criterion of financial accounting - budget execution - internal management control system.
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The paper deals with the different contextual factors that may influence the speaker’s stylistic choices. The perspective taken follows (Kovecses, 2015) who looks at contextual components as frames that are nested in one another: the physical setting as the outermost frame, which includes the social frame that contains the cultural frame and so on, and the innermost frame where we find the speaker, the hearer and the topic The topic under analysis is climate change communication, more precisely the British Prime Minister’s address at the conference known as COP26 (Conference of the Parties, the 26thedition), hosted at Glasgow, at the beginning of November, 2021.
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Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser today stands for a veritable example of a man as an accomplished ecological being. The merging of art, architecture, politics, and ecology into one utopian concept oriented towards the future positioned Hundertwasser not only an architectural experimenter but also as a specific visionary of ecological architecture. Throughout his lifetime, Hundertwasser opposed the so-called “mainstream” culture and materialism, which later contributed to his popularity. This popularity is certainly limited just as for those circles of social activists who believed that architecture must possess a “human figure”. He was a man who, through art, knowledge of nature and its processes, created a new chapter in various fields, such as painting and design, all the way to architecture and the fight to preserve nature. This paper deals with the contribution of an unconventional artist to architecture and ecology. The introductory discussion approximates the significance of sustainable architecture, while the first part of the paper presents a brief biographical overview of Hundertwasser’s character and oeuvre, as well as his understanding of life. The second part of the paper focuses on his views of the importance of ecological identity and the place of architecture in it, while the third part of the paper shows examples of the ideas of sustainable construction and their possible implementation in practice.
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Starting from the idea that the captive mind a socio mental alchemy with deceptive propagandistic ingredients is a "banal evil" in the spectacle society in which we all live this essay reviews some faces and symptoms of the captive mind in communism and after communism. The stake of the essay remains, however, deciphering the states and feelings hidden behind the faces and symptoms of the captive mind.
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The role of game farms and hunting complexes in reducing the pressure on wildlife of hunting interest is almost unanimously recognized, and from the perspective of climate change, game farms and hunting complexes can prove their usefulness against the background of the expected migrations of wild fauna to areas more favorable. After reviewing the content of the notions of "game farm", "hunting complex" and "farmed game", the author critically analyzes, distinctly, the legal regime of wild animals of hunting interest held in game farms and hunting complexes, as well as the legal regime of game farms and hunting complexes (both from the perspective of common law in the matter, and from the perspective of forestry and hunting law). The conclusions of the work relating, among other things, to the need to regulate the issue of game farms and hunting complexes, at the European level, through a Regulation, to the numerous inadvertences existing in the wildlife protection legislation regarding them, to the main distinction between the legal regime of specimens of wild fauna species of hunting interest in the wild and those kept in game farms and hunting complexes, given by the former belonging to the category of public goods, a category from which specimens of wild fauna species of hunting interest kept in game farms and hunting complexes are excluded by virtue of the provisions of article 52 of Law no. 407/2006, with the subsequent amendments and additions, add to them numerous de lege ferenda proposals which, in essence, aim at granting fiscal facilities and implementing simplified procedures (including regarding the change of land use categories) in cases where the developers of investment projects aimed at the construction of game farms and hunting complexes undertake the rehabilitation of inadequate or degraded ecosystems or the ecological reconstruction of natural ecosystems, the distinct sanctioning of theft having as its object the specimens of fauna species of hunting interest held in the game farms and complexes of hunting, with the special minimum and maximum limits of the higher punishment compared to those of the crime of theft and qualified theft provided for by article 228 and 229 penal code, as well as the violation of the premises of game farms and/or hunting complexes.
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The exponential growth of African students’ mobility to China has become a cause célèbre in China-Africa relations. As of 2018, the African students occupied 16.57% of the international students in China. Against this backdrop, it is imperative to understand the drivers and motivations behind their continuous influx to Chinese higher education institutions. This paper goes beyond the commonly used ‘pull-push’ model and approaches this trend from a holistic perspective provided by Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. Through a mixed approach, we explored the impact of the students’ multidimensional environment on their decision-making of mobility to China. Data from a survey of 375 participants and 15 interviews showed that the macrosystem had the utmost influence on choosing China as their study destination. It also shows that the economic factors and the pursuit of better education amalgamate the ‘why’ and ‘how’ in the students’ decision-making process. Although they opt for quality education, African students tend to carefully weigh the yearnings and earnings of mobility to China through self-bargaining and self-negotiations. The implications on international students’ mobility are discussed in this article.
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One of the main tasks of ecological parasitology at the present stage is to establish patterns of spread of invasive diseases of animals in the environment through a thorough epidemiological examination, as well as to determine the main directions and factors of spread of parasites in Ukraine. Among the many pathogens, endoparasites play a major role in a number of diseases in rabbits with increased morbidity and mortality. In the body of both wild and domestic rabbits several species of parasites that form a parasitocenosis can be localized. The latter have a pathogenic effect on organs and tissues, leading to reduced weight gain, premature slaughter and even mortality. The prevalence of endoparasitoses was studied in weaned rabbits 60 days of age, 120 days of age at fattening, 180 days of age – mating age and adults of 320 days of age to determine the extensiveness and intensity of the dominant invasion. A total of 720 head was studied, 180 animals from each age group. Three species of nematodes were recorded in the rabbits: Trichostrongylus retortaeformis (Zeder, 1800), Nematodirus leporis (Ransom, 1907) and Passalurus ambiguus (Rudolphi, 1819); the cestode Taenia pisiformis (Bloch, 1780); three species of Emeria: Eimeria stiedae (Lindermann, 1865), which parasitizes in the bile ducts of the liver and gallbladder, E. magna (Perard, 1925) and E. media (Kessel, 1929) – in the epithelial cells of the intestine. The prevalence of the infestation depends on the age of the animals. According to the data obtained, eimeriosis was one of the main parasitic diseases of the rabbits. Dominant invasions of Eimeria in the intestines of 60-day-old rabbits were found in the studied animals, their extensiveness reached 19.4%, while the spread of hepatic Eimeria was registered in 13.3% of the examined rabbits. The total infestation of weaned rabbits with helminths was 22.2%, in rabbits for fattening – 26.7%, and in rabbits of mating age and adults – 20.0% and 20.6%, respectively. Global climate change will change the distribution and dynamics of soil-borne helminthiases, but host immunity may also affect host-parasite interactions. Subsequent studies will be aimed at elucidating the effect of mono and mixed invasions on the body of rabbits. Updated data on helminthiasis will expand the screening strategy to maintain rabbit health and reduce economic losses.
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Awareness, optimism and the role of individuals and corporates in addressing the environmental sustainability concerns is of prime importance for the future of the planet. Such a study becomes more relevant under the influence of a pandemic. This study dwells into the issues concerning environmental sustainability based on a sample of working individuals. The study is anchored around the exploratory factor analysis but also uses regression analysis and cross tab analysis for data interpretation. The study found three significant factors relevant to environmental sustainability (Organization’s concern and contribution to sustainability; Sustainability awareness; Sustainability optimism). A major finding from the study is that an increased level of awareness and optimism will enable the organizations to contribute and care about the environmental and business sustainability.
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The aim of this article is to research animal agency in situations where the living environment of said animals changes radically. Our empirical material is constituted by the case of reintroducing the European mink, which we introduce through local knowledge gained by interviews conducted on the island of Hiiumaa, and relevant scientific literature. We are interested in the changes that take place in the umwelt of the mink when the animal is taken from an ex situ environment to an in situ environment. By employing the concepts of functional circle, meaning-carrier and umwelt transition it is possible to explicate the changes that take place in these animals’ lives, thanks to their agency, when there are major changes in their environments. In the case of the European mink agency manifests itself mainly through choices that they make in that altered environment regarding food and relations to humans. The functional circles undergo a transformation that can be described as Umwelt reversion, i.e., some basic functional circles, that have been heavily altered in captivity, obtain characteristics common to functional circles of in situ populations due to the minks’ own activities. We can see that the agency of the minks is strongly dependent on the environment that they live in, and we can, to a certain degree access it through the way they interact with their environment.
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Universumi evolutsioneerumisprotsessi saab mõista talle omase ihana aina uute ja keerukamate vormide poole liikuda. Olemine, mis end ligi 3,8 miljardit aastat tagasi prokarüootides sängitas, on sellest hetkest saati üha suurema sügavuse ja ulatuse poole püüelnud. Miljonite eluvormide tärkamise ja hääbumise kireval teekonnal on evolutsioon viimaks jõudnud hetkesse, milles Kõiksus inimese näol teadvusliku enesetunnetusorgani leiab. Koos inimliigiga jõuab biosfäär enneolematusse arenguetappi – lisaks ürgsele instinktiivsusele ärkab nüüdsest elusse intellekt, mille pealisülesandeks saab läbi viia sise- ja väliskaemuslikke protsesse. Sellega on Universum iseenesele ärganud ning loob katsetusi mõistmaks, millisel parimal viisil omaenese olemasolu määratleda.
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