Ecological Beauty Research Articles

Short Study on Ecological Pictures in Walden

Walden is a literary masterpiece written by American writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), which records his living alone in Walden Pond, far away from money-obsessed society, embracing the simple life of nature with his heart, and demonstrating the harmonious ecological beauty of Walden Pond. In this novel, Thoreau vividly shows the harmonious and interdependent relationship between man and nature through the ecological pictures of the delicious evening and red squirrel in the Walden Pond, and emphasizes the unique spiritual value given by nature to human beings. This paper attempts to use literature research and graphic marking ways to appreciate the harmonious atmosphere of delicious night in Walden Pond and the lively state of red squirrels in winter from the Angle of plot and animal description. By combining theory with practice, the conclusion of this paper is: human beings should overcome the limitations of anthropocentrism, protect animals, respect nature, and establish a “community of love” with nature, the concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, or they will be punished by nature. In-depth exploration and interpretation of Walden Pond is of great significance for enhancing people’s awareness of ecological crisis, promoting ecological governance, helping people rationally view the relationship between man and nature, and respecting and protecting nature.

Research on Gardening Art from the Perspective of Different Aesthetic Forms

Aesthetics is an important part of art design, and the analysis of gardening art from the perspective of different aesthetic forms can enhance the designer's aesthetic mood, understand the harmony and richness between people and the living world, and improve people's living space and spiritual realm. Ming Dynasty private gardens are a climax in the history of Chinese gardens, with good craftsmanship, good interest and fine aesthetics, which is a model for the study of contemporary gardening art aesthetics. The past analysis of the aesthetics of garden landscape is mainly from the ancient Chinese traditional thought pattern or mood style, this paper will be analyzed from different aesthetic perspectives. The different forms of aesthetic objects include natural beauty, social beauty, personality beauty, artistic beauty, scientific beauty, technological beauty and ecological beauty. This paper analyzes the gardening art of Jiangnan private gardens in the Ming Dynasty based on different forms, so as to understand and summarize the aesthetic value of the gardening art of Jiangnan private gardens in the Ming Dynasty, in the hope of exploring the more far-reaching aesthetic meaning of gardening art through research.

Are Ashes All That Is Left? Grace Jantzen’s Aesthetics and the Beauty of Biodiversity

As the climate crisis continues to worsen and it becomes apparent that the earth faces its sixth mass extinction event, it is more important than ever to find an alternative to the disordered thinking that prevents meaningful environmental reform in nations of the Global North with large carbon footprints such as the United States. Informed by affect theory, I revisit Grace Jantzen’s late work on death and beauty in the context of biodiversity to develop the beginnings of a theological affect of responsiveness to ecological beauty. Juxtaposing Jantzen’s theory of the displacement of beauty with Kevin O’Brien’s theological ethics of biodiversity, I suggest that biodiversity can be key to an ecotheology that combats human exceptionalism and prioritizes responsiveness to beauty. I contend that an aesthetics of natality requires responsiveness to the beauty of biodiversity in order to combat both human exceptionalism and the culture of necrophilia that Jantzen critiqued. Ultimately, I conclude that beauty, natality, and biodiversity may be able to inform an ecological theology centered on nonexceptional theological affects.

The Impact of Green Development on Modernization in China: Evidence from 108 Cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

ABSTRACT Building a stronger modern socialist country is China’s second centenary goal, and ecological beauty is the innovation of the connotation of modernization. How to realize the drive toward modernization with green development is an urgent topic. Based on the municipal panel data of the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2009–2019 in China and selecting the air circulation coefficient and river network density as instrumental variables, this research examines the impact mechanism of green development on modernization. The results show the following: (1) green development significantly promotes modernization; (2) green development indirectly promotes the improvement of modernization through technological innovation, foreign capital flow, and talent attraction; and (3) the promotion of green development to modernization is affected by the urban size, and medium-sized cities benefit most. The study results provide empirical support and a decision-making basis for promoting the win-win situation of green development and modernization construction.

Research on the Aesthetic Value in the Construction of Landscape Urbanism

Landscape urbanism, as a product of reconciling the contradiction between man and nature, has dual attributes of natural system and human system. Its ecological beauty, cultural beauty and creative beauty meet people ' s aesthetic needs. This paper summarizes the realization path of aesthetic value from the concept and elements, characteristics and embodiment of aesthetic value in the construction of landscape urbanism, aiming to provide some reference for the development of landscape urbanism practice.

The Game and Impetus Analysis of Ecological Enrichment of Corporate Citizens

Ecological enrichment is not the growth of the economic value of a business entity and the use of surplus to fund deficits, but the coordinated growth of corporate citizens’ ecological value and economic value, which is conducive to the positive evolution of ecological beauty and economic vitalization. Through the game model, this paper makes a game analysis of various possibilities of the game of ecological enrichment and further gives a balanced solution to the impetus of ecological enrichment. Positive‐sum return, return equilibrium, and dynamic equilibrium are all the necessary conditions for the positive selection of repeated games for corporate citizens’ ecological enrichment and play a decisive role in the impetus of ecological enrichment.

Analysis of the importance of art elements in the construction of ecological environment in the new era

Abstract With the development of economy, people have higher and higher requirements for living art. A good ecological environment is the guarantee of creating an aesthetic environment. Taking the ecological environment construction of ecological town as an example, this paper analyses the importance of integrating artistic elements into the ecological environment construction in the new era from the perspective of environmental aesthetics. Based on the concept of "three life integration" and "garden city theory", this paper creatively puts forward the construction methods and models of ecological environment in contemporary small towns. Based on the height of environmental aesthetics, this paper analyses the planning and construction process of characteristic town and the evaluation and acceptance criteria of ecological environment design, summarises its successful experience and main problems, and makes a retrospective summary and reflection. This paper analyses the importance of the integration of art elements into the ecological town in the new era. The results show that in the new era of ecological environment construction, the integration of art elements can not only improve the quality of ecological environment construction, but also improve the common people's cognition of ecological beauty.

Application of Ecological Technology of Concrete Retaining Wall in Urban Dyke

Traditional concrete and mortar-masonry retaining walls are mature, safe and reliable, widely used in urban river embankment, and play a great role in disaster prevention and mitigation in towns. However, such retaining walls lack of ecological characteristics. In order to give the traditional concrete and mortar-masonry retaining walls ecological characteristics and provide conditions for the unfortunate people who fell into the water to rescue themselves and go ashore, two traditional retaining wall ecological technologies were invented, which are suitable for new retaining walls and existing retaining walls. When the new retaining wall is built, the slope ratio of the wall should be appropriately slowed down and several rows of planting grooves should be arranged. For the retaining wall that has been built, the planting groove is anchored on the wall. Landscape plants are selected and planted in the planting groove, and automatic irrigation system is arranged according to the needs. The engineering application shows that applying these two technologies to river improvement projects at the same time can form a full coverage of ecological beauty on the water-side wall of the traditional retaining wall. People who fall into the water can climb on the planting trough and wait for rescue, or climb along the planting trough to reach the goal of harmonious coexistence between people and water.

Assessing the current status and proposed solution of municipal solid waste management in Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province

Solid waste management is one of the most important challenges for the local administration in Pleiku city. The study on current assessment and proposing solid waste control solutions was con-ducted in Pleiku city, Gia Lai province. In general, the large volume of the municipal solid waste caused pollution and loss of ecological beauty - case study in Pleiku city. This paper investigated the total solid of waste volume which was increasing in periods from 2012 to 2016 with 35,386; 38,689; 43,243; 46,900 and 50,737 tons per year, respectively. The amount of solid waste was col-lected mainly from households and they was equal to the highest rate of 78.7%. Regarding to prediction by 2030, the volume of municipal solid waste tends to increase with 361.186 tons per day. The solid waste was buried in a landfill and used a large land area, but it just can be used in a short time. In addition, the volume and composition of municipal solid waste were relevant to the MBT-CD.08 technology's standard. This researching will be contributed to the decision-making on the selection of solid waste treatment technology in Pleiku city following their trends such as the sustainable development and the high benefits. The MBT-CD.08 technology are a useful solution, high feasibility and will be saved costs related to the solid waste treatment.

Landscape construction of urban wetland park based on ecological aesthetics research

According to the relevant theoretical research of landscape ecological aesthetics, landscape construction in urban wetlands will be analyzed. The ecological aesthetic framework constructed on this basis can be used to understand the development status and research significance. By combing the relevant concepts, theories about the major ecological aesthetics will be part of the concern. These will be used to construct a theoretical framework for landscape construction. Proceed from the awakening of ecological aesthetic consciousness to explore the beauty of natural ecological balance and the construction of human ecological beauty. On this basis, it puts forward a harmonious view of ecological aesthetics and looking for various connections between people and landscape elements in ecological aesthetics. These will be used to emphasize the complexities of natural aesthetics and the construction of urban wetland landscape ecological aesthetics.

Geographical thoughts on the relationship between ‘Beautiful China’ and land spatial planning

The concept of ‘Beautiful China’ is a new goal of ecological construction in the new era of socialism and aims to meet the needs of people as they strive for a better life. National land spatial planning is one major component of the Chinese state’s overall planning for various spatial types. The concept of ‘Beautiful China’ is thus a leading goal of Chinese development in the second centenary. The background of this concept aims for ‘ecological beauty’ as well as the combined beauty of ‘economy-politics-culture-society-ecology.’ The construction of ‘Beautiful China’ therefore necessitates a differentiated evaluation index system that is built on the basis of local conditions. This concept is intimately related to land spatial planning and the idea of Beautiful China guides an important direction for this planning which itself provides an important mechanism and spatial guarantee for construction. The establishment of land spatial planning nevertheless needs to strengthen further discussion of the regional system of human-land relationship, point axis system, main functional division, sustainable development, resources and environmental carrying capacity as well as new urbanization, and the rural multi-system. The aim of this paper is to summarize current thinking in land spatial planning, scientifically analyze the natural geographical conditions, the socioeconomic development, the interrelationship of the land space, plan the goal, vision and path of land space, encourage the public to participate in and carry out dynamic evaluation, build an intelligent system platform for land and spatial planning to realize the goal of ‘Beautiful China’ from a geographical perspective. And they can also present key ideas relating to the compilation and implementation of land spatial planning.

Factors Influencing on Purchase Intention towards Organic and Natural Cosmetics

The cosmetic industry is one of the fastest-growing and essential industries in the world as well as in Sri Lanka. Usage of chemical base cosmetics causes environmental and health issues. Meanwhile, there are a number of organic and natural cosmetic products are available in the Sri Lankan market which is not harmful for health and the environment. This issue closely related to consumer behaviour. The objective of the study attempted to gain knowledge about the influence of Consumer Attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control towards Purchase Intention of organic and natural cosmetics. This research was exploratory type research with a quantitative perspective and the population of the study consisted of above 15 years old consumers of Colombo District. To achieve the goals of this research, the data were collected from a convenience sample of 200 consumers who are lived in the Colombo District. The respondents provided the data by means of a close-ended questionnaire. Multiple regression was used for testing the hypotheses. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS19 Software. This study empirically examines that Consumer Attitudes (CA), Subjective Norm (SN), Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC), Consumers’ Past Experiences (PE) the independent variable and Purchase Intention for Organic and Natural Cosmetic Products (PIOC) as the dependent variable. While all four variables are significantly predicted purchase intention for organic and natural cosmetic products. And consumer attitude is the best predictor of PIOC. The results of this study also suggest that retailers can develop effective marketing strategies emphasizing ecological beauty, product safety, and affordable prices to increase consumers’ intentions to buy organic and natural cosmetic products.

THE EFFECT OF CONSUMER VALUE AND PERSPECTIVE OF VALUE TO INTENTION TO BUY THROUGH ATTITUDE ON ORGANIC PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS IN JAKARTA

The problem of this research was to identify the impact of consumer value and perspective of value to intention to buy through attitude, which is addressed to organic personal care product. The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of consumer value and perspective of value to intention to buy through attitude in organic personal care product. The methodology of this research was quantitative approach. Data were collected by 140 users of skin and hair care’s users at mall in Jakarta. The variable factors that used on this research are consumer value (health consciousness, environmental consciousness and appearance consciousness), perspective of value, attitude and intention to buy. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Finding and contribution in this research was environmental consciousness, appearance consciousness, and perspective of value have positive effect on attitude; and attitude has positive effect on intention to buy organic personal care products. Research limitation/implication in this research was the data only being collected in Jakarta. These findings here provide suggestion in order to increase intention to buy organic personal care, a product owner need to focus on ecological beauty, values and informational knowledge of organic benefit in their communication campaign.

THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMER VALUE AND PERSPECTIVE OF VALUE TO INTENTION TO BUY THROUGH ATTITUDE TO ORGANIC PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT IN JAKARTA

The problem of this research was to identify the impact of consumer value and perspective of value to intention to buy through attitude, which is addressed to organic personal care product. The objective of this research was to analyze the effect of consumer value and perspective of value to intention to buy through attitude in organic personal care product. The methodology of this research was quantitative approach. Data were collected by 140 users of skin and hair care’s users at mall in Jakarta. The variable factors that used on this research are consumer value (health consciousness, environmental consciousness and appearance consciousness), perspective of value, attitude and intention to buy. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Finding and contribution in this research was environmentalconsciousness, appearance consciousness, and perspective of value have positive effect on attitude; and attitude has positive effect on intention to buy organic personal careproducts. Research limitation/implication in this research was the data only being collected in Jakarta. These findings here provide suggestion in order to increase intention to buy organic personal care, a product owner need to focus on ecological beauty, values and informational knowledge of organic benefit in their communication campaign

Satellite-Driven Land Surface Temperature (LST) Using Landsat 5, 7 (TM/ETM+ SLC) and Landsat 8 (OLI/TIRS) Data and Its Association with Built-Up and Green Cover Over Urban Delhi, India

One of the most important impacts of urbanisation in Indian cities is the conversion of green belts and agriculture land into the built-up area in the periphery (Chadchan and Shankar, Int J Sustainable Built Environ 1:36–49, 2012; Pandey and Seto, J Environ Manag 148:53–66, 2015). With these physical changes, i.e. decrease in green cover and increase in built-up, the land surface temperature (LST) is bound to increase. The green area is a basic need of any city because it is a must for a healthy life and also maintains the aesthetic and ecological beauty in the urban areas (Low et al. 2007). The present study aims to analyse the association between built-up, green cover and land surface temperature for which district-level analysis of the normalised differential built-up index (NDBI), normalised differential vegetation index (NDVI) and land surface temperature (LST) has been done over the urban area of Delhi. In this study, Landsat 7 (ETM+ SLC) for 2003, Landsat 5 (TM) for 2010, and Landsat 8 (OLI/TIRS) for 2017 have been used together with Survey of India (SOI) toposheet of Delhi at 1:25,000. Indices like NDBI, NDVI and LST are calculated for 2003, 2010 and 2017 using the spectral radiance model (SRM), the mono-window algorithm (MWA) and the split window algorithm (SWA). Thereafter, district-wise NDBI, NDVI and LST are extracted by using clip tools in ArcGIS 10.5 software. To analyse the relationship between built-up and green cover with LST, correlation is done in SPSS software and a scatter diagram is made to assess the correlation amongst the variables. The further surface temperature profile is created to know which part of the Delhi has the highest and lowest temperatures on a particular surface. The study shows that NDVI and LST are negatively correlated with each other as vegetation has a cooling effect on the land surface temperature whereas NDBI and LST are positively correlated with each other. The studies show a change in the distribution of vegetation cover and gradually increase in the built-up land which results in the increase in land surface temperature to about 3.31 °C in the last 14 years. The result shows that MWA give the most accurate result in this study since RMSE of MWA is the lowest (0.71 °C) amongst the three algorithms used in the study. Temporal analysis of land surface temperature by all the three algorithms shows the increase in land surface temperature of Delhi between 2003 and 2017.

Hemingway’s Reminiscence of Nature: An Eco-critical Study of “Fathers and Sons”

“Fathers and Sons” is the final tale in Ernest Hemingway’s Winner Take Nothing and last published Nick Adams Story. This article employs ecocriticism to explore the ecological consciousness in the short story. It introduces the definition of ecocriticism and briefly describes the natural world in Hemingway’s biography, then focuses on the exploration of Hemingway’s reminiscence of the lost natural beauty in “Fathers and Sons”. The study holds that Hemingway artistically associated Nick Adams’ reminiscence of his beloved father with the loss of ecological beauty in the Michigan State. Through the portrayal of Nick’s memories, Hemingway exposed human being’s ruin of nature and showed his sympathy for the destroyed ecology. The story actually reflects the Hemingway’s yearning towards the lost beauty of nature.

Mass Media of Communication and Environmental Problems: Islamic Religious Communication Solutions Perspectives

During the past 50 years, our planet has undergone dramatic changes in pollution, population and the pressures that humanity puts on its natural resources. Our environmental problems are largely traceable to rapid population growth which is putting severe stress on the earth’s natural resources. This is compounded by scientific and technological development coupled with industrial growth. Many parts of the global system are at the perils of myriad of environmental problems - a situation that is increasingly becoming more challenging to human continued survival. In Africa, the problems of drought, ecology and the environment have had a very deleterious effect on people, thus making acute an already delicate situation. It is estimated that in sub-saharan Africa alone, close to 156 million people will be adversely affected by famine, for example, in 2015 if a serious intervention on environmental problems is not engineered. This paper examines the problems of environment and ecological deterioration from an Islamic mass media of communication perspective. It argues that the Universe, with all that is in it-the stars and planets, sun and moon, the light and darkness, water and earth, plants, animals and human beings-are created by Allah/God. It is, therefore, imperative that they are treated with the respect that is due to Allah's creatures. The destruction of these things, the paper insists, constitutes a confrontation with the Divine purpose and a wicked act of oppression, for all the creatures and products of the natural world have their own share of, and input into, the universal whole and the ecological beauty and balance. The question of environmental misgovernance, insecurity, degradation, conservation and management has gradually come to dominate the centre-stage in development fora during the four decades after the United Nations Conference on the human environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. The paper notes that the visible consequences of human activity on the environment have made it evident that continued environmental welfare can no longer be taken for granted. The paper analyses the solutions provided by Islamic Religion and way of life to make the environment more secure, better, safer, cleaner and greener. It also submits that deliberate and concrete action needs to be taken to conserve, renew and maintain a healthy environment which ensures sustainable development and is suitable for human existence. The paper concludes that protecting the environment is not an option for the government and the governed, but it is an imperative that must be placed at the centre of economic and political-decision making. If we fail to protect the environment properly, we could at best make life unbearable for millions of people and other species, and at worst terminate our existence.

Pricing ecological beauty under Dichotomous choice framework: the case of Taman Negara national park in Malaysia

Taman Negara is Malaysia’s premier national park and the largest in the country covering over 4343 square kilometers (434,300 hectares) of primary forest, spans across three states Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang - and is situated in the center of the Peninsula Malaysia. It is home to much wildlife and is a popular tourist attraction to both local and foreign tourists. This study attempts to determine the economic value of Taman Negara National Park by eliciting visitors’ willingness to pay (WTP) using contingent valuation method followed by single bounded dichotomous choices. A stepwise backward binary multivariate logistic regression model was used to measure WTP and to determine the factors that influence the variation in WTP. Primary data were obtained from 368 local and foreign visitors who have been interviewed in TN Park. The study found that both local and foreign visitors were willing to pay more than the current charges for entrance permit and nature based activities provided by TN Park. On average visitors are willing to pay for entrance permit RM 16.71 ($ 5.4) per person. The existing rate is RM 1 ($ 0.32) per person. Beside, WTP for all other activities such as fishing license, camera license, camping fee, canopy walkway and hide fee is much higher than the existing rates. The optimum pricing strategy should be a combination of policy objectives and information gathered from local and foreign visitors on WTP. In conclusion, this study can be used as a tool for revising pricing policies on TN national park in Malaysia.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/suslj.v11i1.5888Sabaragamuwa University Journal 2012; V. 11 No. 1 pp 75-93

Ecological Beauty, In the Eye of the Beholder

Ecological Beauty, In the Eye of the Beholder

Design for Ecological Democracy by Randolph T. Hester

Design for Ecological Democracy is indispensable as both field guide and handbook for creating ecological democracy through the design of the buildings, cities, and landscapes of the future. As a field guide, Hester enables the reader to recognize the social and ecological beauty of places when it is encountered with his rich hand-drawn illustrations and watercolor paintings. As a handbook, Hester gives the reader the intellectual tools to apply these ideas in one's own work in planning and design with his thoughtful analysis and clear design principles.