Account Ecological Factors Research Articles

The Effects of Clothing Purchase Determinant Factors Associated with Customer Temperament

The purpose of this paper is to determine and quantify the effects of the clothing purchase determining factors associated with the customer’s temperament (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, and melancholic). A number of 192 respondents participated in an electronic questionnaire, 68.8% of whom were women. The results were analysed with the help of the Process-based structural equation modeling application, provided by SmartPLS 4 software. The results obtained showed that in the purchase process, social factors and appearance are important for sanguine people; in the case of choleric individuals, the conferred status and superior quality of the product are essential; for phlegmatic people, it is important that the product responds appropriately to a need and provides comfort; and melancholic people take into account ecological factors and identification with the product. These results can be useful to clothing companies for the adoption of sales strategies that consider the buyers' interest factors regarding the products.

Influence of the Crisis on Saint Petersburg’s Public Health and the Goals of Social Policy

ABSTRACT The goal of this article is to assess the influence of the 2014 economic crisis on the health of Saint Petersburg’s residents. The conventional hypothesis holds that the crisis negatively affected the public’s health and living environment. This hypothesis was tested by looking at changes in more than twenty public health indicators and factors affecting public health. In order to assess precrisis trends, a linear trend was constructed for each indicator and factor, and extrapolated values were calculated for 2015 and 2016. Deviations from these trends were the main measures of the crisis’s effect on these indicators. This research uncovered negative deviations from the trends of all indicators, but there were especially significant deviations in environmental protection, health care resources, and consumption of a number of foods. It is shown that the city’s current program for health care development has understated target values and does not take into account ecological factors. This reduces its effectiveness as an instrument of regional social policy. The proposed method calculates scientifically justified targets for programs to rebuild the city’s social services.

Legal Mechanisms of Ensuring Environmental Rights in the Implementation of Urban Planning: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Adoption of environmentally unreasonable urban planning decisions leads to significant environmental problems in certain territories causing massive violations of the right of citizens to favorable environment as a result of deterioration of environment or certain natural objects. The author has investigated the legal mechanisms of ensuring environmental rights in the implementation of urban planning activities in the context of their effectiveness. The paper has demonstrated the connection between town-planning and relations regulated under environmental law, analyzed objective and subjective environmental factors of town-planning, elucidated the necessity of taking into account ecological factors at the stage of territorial planning, determined the place and importance of urban planning activities in the mechanism of ensuring environmental rights of the man and citizen.The author has examined constitutional foundations of ensuring environmental human rights in the implementation of urban planning activities, implementation of human rights in the principles of urban planning legislation. The author has determined an environmental component of the legal regulation of urban planning, the correlation between such basic concepts of town-planning and environmental legislation as “the right of citizens to a favorable environment,” “favorable conditions of life,” “sustainable development of territories.” The paper has also analyzed legal mechanisms enshrined in the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation for the consideration of environmental factors and requirements in the process of territorial planning as a fundamental type of urban development at the stage of substantiation and preparation of draft documents of territorial planning of public entities of the Russian Federation and at the stage of coordination of projects between bodies of public administration and local self-government. The paper reveals a declarative and formal nature of the relevant procedures, substantiates the absence of effective legal mechanisms of taking into account environmental factors and requirements in the current town-planning legislation. The author suggests ways of improving the legal regulation of enforcement of environmental rights in the implementation of urban planning.

Utilizing Modern Media and Design in Designing Historical Film Costumes

The use of fashion art and design in the field of media, especially historical films, is one of the most important factors that contribute to the success of historical cinematic work, especially in the world cinema, which significantly affects any human level and anywhere. To the consumer based on a set of science, and the concerted efforts of scientists due to the economic importance and return on the public income of the state, where this research contributes to the role of catching up with the cultural competition in this area and highlights the importance of benefiting from modern science, and its leading role in the design of thousands of costumes Iam historical, scientific foundations of modern science and how they relate to the creative process in designing costumes of historical films. The research deals with the definition of historical films, in terms of content, stories, and how to address the scenario, as well as the importance of the role of fashion in them, and the extent of the impact of fashion on the success of the historical film. The research also deals with the usefulness of ergonomics, which is to provide the basic needs of man in his products through a scientific study of these needs and products and presents the objectives of ergonomics in the field of fashion design: - The capabilities of the consumer and obstacles to its use of the clothing product. For the performance of the product in terms of functionality, comfort and ease of use. Achieve the highest performance or functional efficiency. The problems that may face Ergonomics in order to achieve these goals are: - The motivations of the designer and self. The information available to the designer and the ergonomist. The obstacles of organization. Contradiction of the principles and beliefs prevailing in the society. Increased power and influence of the consumer. The research also shows the impact of ecological science in the process of designing human-friendly fashion from the sources of natural elements in the environment and suitable for historical films, where the designer is inspired by new design ideas to study what is around, and draws new things, and so-called innovative designs, so that they become real, realistic and tangible, for products with Functional and aesthetic qualities of characteristics of species of organisms as sources of its designs. (1) The research has shown the increasing interest in ecology, which led to its entry in all different sciences, including design in what is known as applied ecology, and ecological design has become one of the terms that refer to products that take into account ecological factors and increase human interdependence with the environment through products illustrated In its interaction with its environment, the research presented a set of design ideas derived from plant elements, used in historical films, and used in everyday life. The research also presented a set of findings and recommendations, and a set of formats

Natural resource depletion and the economic performance of local districts: suggestions from a within-country analysis

SUMMARY Studying the interactions among ecological factors and economic performance measured at the local scale is necessary to suggest policies able to mitigate natural resource depletion in complex ecosystems, like those in the Mediterranean region. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship among natural resource depletion due to land degradation (LD) and some economic characteristics of local labour systems in Italy, a country where many areas, especially southern regions, are vulnerable. LD was estimated using an environmental sensitive area index, covering the national territory at a fine scale, which takes into account ecological factors such as climate, soil and vegetation. Economic indicators used here consider per capita income, land productivity, production and labour productivity by sector (agriculture, industry and services). A regression analysis was built-up at the LLS scale using an index change over time (1990–2000) as dependent variable and economic variables as predictors. A principal component analysis (PCA) was carried out to synthesise the outputs of the regression analysis. Results indicate a negative relationship among per capita income and LD over the whole study area. However, other variables showed a significant correlation with the dependent variable, highlighting the importance of local factors to increase land vulnerability. In order to clarify the contribution of economic factors to natural resource depletion it is necessary to drive integrate policies to combat LD in dry Mediterranean areas.

The ecological demand and practice for recycling of aluminium

Environmental concerns are increasing rapidly, and the public and legislators are concerned about natural resources, the use of energy, and the increase of waste. In the past, products were produced to meet the customer's demand as to quality, delivery time, and price. However, today it is equally important to take into account ecological factors in production and recycling of products. The intrinsic recyclability of aluminum, with favourable economics, has stimulated the establishment of a substantial and growing secondary industry. For all of aluminium's end-use markets, the aim is to recycle as much of the available metal as possible, and to use it in the same or similar products. This in turn has fueled a demand for technology for recovering aluminium from scrap in the most efficient way. The technologies already employed cover scrap preparation, coatings removal and melting. In addition, new techniques have been developed for closing the loop on dross and salt cake byproducts from the recycling process. The powerful combination of intrinsic recyclability, existing recycling infrastructure and recycling technologies make aluminium well positioned to meet ecological challenges of the 1990s.