environmental conservation Articles
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Evaluation in environmental conservation: issues of adequacy and rigour
Significant effort and investment is committed to environmental conservation. How much conservation projects can achieve will be determined by the efficacy of this investment. Measuring project performance, establishing priorities and expenditure options requires examination of the relationship between goals, inputs and outcomes, based on clear evaluation methods. This paper reviews the recent ...
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Cooperation between Central and Eastern European countries and developed countries on energy and environmental conservation
This article overviews cooperation between Central and Eastern European countries and developed countries on energy and environmental conservation. Problems of energy conservation during transition as well as methodological problems of cooperation are presented. The problems resulting from EU accession and the creation of the International Center for Energy and Environmental Policy for Central ...
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Religious approaches to water management and environmental conservation
The goal of this paper is to identify points of convergence between the great religious traditions in addressing human–nature relations, as well as presenting a critical evaluation of whether these approaches have in fact affected environmental conservation in representative countries. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism have been considered. The main traditions considered are: ...
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Implications of the principles of sustainable development for the environmental and energy policies of new EU member states
This paper briefly describes difficulties in implementing the principles of sustainable development in new EU member states and discusses the opportunities and threats involved. It gives recommendations for environmental protection and energy policies consequent on these sustainable development tendencies.Keywords: sustainable development, sustainability, energy conservation, environmental ...
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The effect of environmental regulations: a restricted cost function for Korean manufacturing industries
Environmental conservation requires society to consider the trade-off between allocating resources to productive activities and pollution control activities. Therefore, it is informative to measure the effect of environmental regulations on firms’ productivity. This paper attempts to estimate the impact of environmental regulations on Korean manufacturing industries. Despite being key inputs in ...
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The economic evaluation of estuarine dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) watching tourism in the Cananéia region, south–eastern Brazil
A study was conducted during 2005 and 2007, aiming at estimating the value of observation tourism of the estuarine dolphin in the Cananéia region and the satisfaction levels reported by the tourists. The measure of tourist satisfaction can be considered as high and the application of the Travel Cost Method depicted that the economic evaluation of this activity was estimated to be US$ 556,733.98. ...
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Energy and environmental conservation in Slovakia and institutional support
The paper covers the problem of energy intensity in Slovakia, its international comparisons and reasons for its considerable level. The availability of primary energy sources in Slovakia is mentioned and the impact on the environment of the energy sector is presented. Brief characteristics of the Slovak Energy Policy are stated and institutional measures aiming at more efficient energy use in ...
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Development policy cooperation with China in the environmental sector: principles and focal areas
Environmental conservation is a focus of German development policy and thus also a focus of cooperation with the People's Republic of China. Development that is environmentally sound and makes careful use of natural resources is not only important for the people of China, in terms of preserving the source of their livelihood and helping to improve their living conditions. It is also, given the ...
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Risk management on energy and environmental conservation in CEE countries
The report has been prepared on the basis of seven independent provided research projects, realised by experts from all countries of CEE. The seven research projects are: 1) Development of risk analyses on energy and environmental conservation; 2) Strategic forecast on energy and environment conservation; 3) Main risk sources identification on energy conservation policy; 4) Risk valuation methods ...
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Corporate environmental and financial performances and the effects of information-based instruments of environmental policy in Japan
Focusing on 278 listed corporations in Japan, the present study tests the hypothesis that robust environmental conservation activities have a positive effect on their financial performance. It also examines the role played by the environmental policies introduced and strengthened by the government since the end of the 1990s. By a statistical causality analysis using data from 1999 to 2003, we ...
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A case study of small–scale coffee production: coffee farming as a potential tool for environmental conservation and community development in rural Minas Gerais, Brazil
This paper is based on research conducted about small–scale coffee farming in Rosário da Limeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The paper connects the global coffee market and new trends within the coffee market with the reality of small–scale coffee production. The paper considers the transition to a sustainable coffee production system as a potential tool for environmental ...
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The importance of education in ecotourism ventures: lessons from Rara Avis ecolodge, Costa Rica
Ecotourism is based on three main concepts: conservation and protection of the environment, supporting local cultures and economies and environmental education for both locals and tourists. Thus far much of the research has focused on the first two components; largely ignoring the importance that environmental education has in the future of ecotourism and the conservation movement as a whole. ...
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Aridea Uses Buoy-Based Monitoring with the Aqua TROLL 600 in Critical Whale Habitat
Overview Faced with a complex task to monitor a methane leak in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, Aridea Solutions selects In-Situ as its go-to partner to meet a host of challenges and help protect critical beluga whale habitat. Challenge In February 2017, drill-rig workers discovered a methane leak from an aging ocean-floor pipeline bubbling up in Alaska’s Cook Inlet. The leak was reported, and ...
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Complying with and enforcing of environmental law: a critical appraisal of the mechanisms used at the international and the European level
Despite the vast number of environmental agreements and laws coming into force their impact are not the anticipated ones, as clearly seen from the degradation of the natural environment. This is largely due to ineffective enforcement of and compliance with the environmental obligations encompassed by all these laws and treaties. Thus, enforcement and compliance mechanisms are of paramount ...
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Analysis of the generation of household solid wastes, household hazardous wastes and sustainable alternative handling
In the southern part of Mexico City, household solid wastes (HSWs) were examined qualitatively and quantitatively. The purpose of this work was to determine the dynamics of HSW and hazardous waste generation and create in households a responsible attitude towards environmental conservation. For this analysis, the population was categorised into three socioeconomic strata (lower, middle and ...
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The Annapurna Conservation Area Project: tourists as agents of development and environmental management in the high Himalaya?
The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) strives to blend environmental and cultural conservation with economic development in the Nepali Himalayas. At the heart of ACAP's strategy, is a programme of sustainable tourism. This paper seeks to contribute to a broader assessment of ACAP's work. It focuses on the part one specific constituency ? foreign trekkers ? play in helping deliver the ...
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Building trust through transparency in environmental data
Public participation in environmental conservation is increasingly important for the protection of the environment, with public awareness on environmental issues rapidly rising. For scientists and engineers, being open and transparent regarding environmental data can go a long way – helping build trust with local communities and stakeholders, as well as contributing to the development of ...
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Endogenous growth with material balance principle
This paper considers how environmental problems affect economic growth. In order to explain the relationship between the economy and the environment, we impose the law of mass conservation and its corollary, the mass balance principle, and consider pollution from both production and consumption sectors. Utilising a model which incorporates the material balance principle on endogenous growth ...
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Does escalating conflict and conservation challenges allow the Asian elephants to co–exist with humans in north India?
The Shivalik Elephant Reserve (c 5405 Km²) appears to be one of India's most important biological area, which holds a healthy population of Asian elephants (±1,346) and sex areas ratio. But during the recent past, man–elephant conflict has escalated drastically in this region primarily due to the increasing movement of elephants in agricultural fields, and attacks. For the last six years, ...
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Institutionalising cleaner production in China: the Cleaner Production Promotion Law
During the 1990s, cleaner production was introduced in China, in the beginning especially via development aid projects. From 1992 to 1997 the focus was strongly on the introduction of cleaner production methodology, the training of personnel and the implementation of demonstration projects at the enterprise level. After 1997, the emphasis shifted to cleaner production policy-making, culminating ...
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