Environmental Revolution Research Articles

Hydrogen an environmental revolution toward clean energy transition: a green concept for current and future perspectives

Hydrogen an environmental revolution toward clean energy transition: a green concept for current and future perspectives

Dynamic nexus among fossil fuels utilization, economic growth, and urbanization: a tri-regional selected countries analysis.

There are worldwide growing concerns about environmental issues such as global warming and climate change. Moreover, it is expected that there will be regional differences in environmental issues. Therefore, this study focuses on a tri-regional comparison: America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Previous literature has paid less attention to exploring regional comparisons while considering regional heterogeneity. Against this backdrop, this study delves into the dynamic relationship between fossil fuel utilization, economic growth, globalization, urbanization, and CO2 emissions to understand the environmental implications of these interconnected factors. The study period spans from 1990 to 2021. Additionally, it employed rigorous tests to confirm cross-sectional dependence and data heterogeneity, following methodologies proposed by Pesaran (2004, 2015) and Pesaran (2007), utilizing the CS-ARDL panel cointegration methodology by Chudik and Pesaran (2015). The results confirm long-term significant relationships among OC, NGC, FDI, and UR variables in both combined panels, with and without regional dummies. However, GDP and COC become insignificant in the long run in the dummy variables regression. Furthermore, the regional dummies were found to be negative but remain insignificant, possibly due to heterogeneous effects or unobserved factors influencing each region independently. Analysis by region reveals predominant coal consumption in Asia, higher oil consumption in America, and greater gas consumption in Europe. Economic growth and CO2 emissions are positive in Asia and America but negative in Europe, aligning with theories prioritizing growth over environmental concerns in Asia and America, and advocating for renewable energy adoption in Europe. Urbanization increases energy demand and emissions, supporting the environmental revolution theory, while FDI holds the potential to reduce CO2 emissions, as per the endogenous growth theory.

The risk paradox: Exploring asymmetric nexus between climate policy uncertainty and renewable energy technology budgets.

The ups and downs of climate policy uncertainty (CPU) cast a captivating shadow over the budgets allocated to renewable energy (RE) technologies, where strategic choices and risk assessment will determine the course of our green environmental revolution. The main intention of this investigation is to scrutinize the effect of CPU on the RE technology budgets (RETBs) in the top 10 countries with the highest RE research and development budgets (the USA, China, South Korea, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Australia, and Italy). Although former researchers have typically employed panel data tools to contemplate the connection between CPU and RE technology, they repeatedly ignored variations in this connection throughout different economies. In contrast, our research adopts a unique approach, "quantile-on-quantile," to check this association at the country-to-country level. This approach offers a comprehensive worldwide perspective while procuring tailor-made perceptions for individual economies. The outcomes suggest that CPU significantly decreases RETBs across several data quantiles in our sample nations. In addition, the outcomes underscore that the connections between our variables differ among nations. These outcomes highlight the significance of policymakers implementing thorough appraisals and skillfully governing plans relevant to CPU and RETBs.

Progress in China's environmental policy in synergy with foundational giant panda conservation program

Abstract In recent years, China has embarked on a remarkable journey toward greater environmental sustainability, investing in a vast protected area system, ecocompensation programs, and a more protectionist regulatory framework. The result is a model program in the making, with progress and future prospects for China's environmental health that few could have foreseen a few short decades ago. Paralleling and sometimes preceding this environmental revolution, much of China's environmental attention focused on its “national treasure”—the giant panda. We explore developments, progress, and shortcomings in the emerging protections and environmental ethos alongside the rich history of giant panda conservation, culminating in the recent downlisting of the panda from Endangered to Vulnerable. We make the case that recent advancements in environmental progress, such as the development of a more harmonious relationship between humans and nature (termed ecocivilization) have been, in part, underpinned and inspired by efforts to conserve the panda.

Human and Nature: Developing Virtues for Environmental Responsive Behaviour

The environmental issues such as deforestation, climate change, ozone layer depletion, greenhouse effect and pollution of air, water and soil rises due to unethical activity of human beings and behaviour of humankind. Environmental degradation and the deterioration of human moral values are inter-connected with each other. So, environmental revolution required a transformation in human behaviour. Virtue ethics could be used as an instrument to develop a pro-environmental behaviour. Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with what kind of people we should be, what kind of characters we should have, and how we should act. This directly develops one’s moral character as well as pro-environmental character and behaviour, i.e., wisely use the natural resources; develop the habit to preserve the nature. Virtue ethics would be built to bridge the gap between human behaviour and the needs of environment. This paper emphasizes the implications of virtue ethics to bring changes in human character and behaviour to resolve the current environmental problems.

Origins of the Concept of Circular Economy and its Evolution

The first concepts connected with the material circularity have been introduced through the terms of Industrial Symbiosis and Industrial Ecology since the 1940s. In 1947 Renner, G. included in his works the term of ‘reuse – exchange’ as processes by which waste or by-products of an industry or industrial processes become the raw materials for another one (exchange). In 1966, Economy in Washington – with the paper ‘The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth’ presented the idea of a circular loop for the materials, considering open and closed systems. Moreover, in the 1970s, Stahel, W. R. introduced the concept with the expression ‘cradle-to-cradle’ in opposition with ‘cradle-to grave’. As a consequence of the environmental revolution, the industrial ecology gained more and more importance. In the 1980s, Frosh, R. A. proposed an analogy of natural ecosystems, for the eco-industrial ones: in addition to reducing the production of wastes, they should maximize the efficient use of residue materials and end-of-life products, as an input for other production processes. In 1994, Pauli, G. in ‘Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives’ divided the economic models in three: red, green and blue economy. Later, Ayres went ahead using the metaphor of the biosphere (ecology) – technosphere (economy), followed by Biomimicry of Benyus, thanks to the ‘Spiral of Life’. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, the Linear Economy based on the terms take, make, consume, throw away was introduced. Its development is connected with the technological innovations encouraged by the growing scientific development increased productivity and promoted the progress of the linear economy. The Circular Economy, was introduced in 2015 by the European Union, and its aim is connected with the concept of: a) more efficient and sustainable use of resources; b) new integrated model of production, distribution and consumption.

Women Representation as Symbols of Mother Nature: An Ecofeminism Perspective in Moana Film

Women are often considered weak and discriminated against, so women rise through the wave of feminism. Ecofeminism is one of the social thoughts and movements that connect women and ecology in facing environmental challenges. This study investigates the relationship between women and nature featured in Moana (2016) film from ecofeminist thinking. The study also wanted to examine women’s relationships with ecological issues featured in the same film. This study would look at the relationship between women and nature featured in Moana (2016) film from an ecofeminist perspective and semiotic. The study also wanted to examine relationships between women’s ecological issues in the film. The emergence of ecofeminism shows the relationship between women with nature and animals. This study uses a qualitative method which is a textual analysis of the movie in six frames. These frames were selected based on several elements from the miseenscene. Once the frames are selected, the frames will be analyzed and form the themes and categories. The results found that women’s relevance to these ecological issues is divided into three based on the framework of interpretation of the ecological revolution namely ecology, reproduction, and consciousness, women in the film Moana (2016) are often associated with nature through two ecofeminism thoughts: natural ecofeminism and spiritual ecofeminism. In addition, this study also found that women's association with ecological issues is divided into two based on the framework of interpretation of the environmental revolution, namely ecology and reproduction. This study also shows that female characters in Moana (2016) films are more dominant, showing gender equality.

Boosting Battery Safety by Mitigating Thermal‐Induced Crosstalk with a Bi‐Continuous Separator

AbstractLithium‐ion batteries are taking center stage in the environmental revolution through the ever‐growing adoption of electric vehicles. However, safety issues derived from battery thermal runaway remain a prominent challenge. In this work, a bi‐continuous separator (Bi‐Sep) via micro‐gravure and phase inversion techniques is developed. The proposed nonshrinkage separator exhibits a nanoporous morphology and a super‐stretchable property, thus effectively blocking both internal short circuits and chemical crosstalk between electrodes at thermal abusive temperatures. Besides its considerable performance at normal conditions, the LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2/graphite pouch cell assembled with the Bi‐Sep separator presents superior sustainability at an elevated temperature of 60 °C. Moreover, the cell using this Bi‐Sep separator achieves an extremely high level of survivability under thermal abusive conditions. This work concludes that engineering the porous structure and thermomechanical properties of a separator, rather than simply improving its heat‐resistance, is of significant importance for the development of safe batteries.

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters

Environment, Environmental Crimes, Environmental Forensic Medicine, Environmental Risk Management and Environmental Criminology.

Forensic medicine has always held the human environment, either seen as a source for pathological agents or the background of judicial events, in great consideration. The concept of the environment has evolved through time, expanding itself to include all the physical and virtual sub-spaces in which we exist. We can nowadays talk of technoenvironmental reality; virtual spaces exploded because of the COVID-19 pandemic making us come to terms with the fact that those are the places where we work, where we socialize and, even, where we meet our doctors and can be cured. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has contributed to shaping new virtual realities that have got their own rules yet to be discovered, carved and respected. We already fight a daily battle to save our natural environment: along with the danger of green crimes, comes the need for environmental justice and environmental forensic medicine that will probably develop a forensic branch and an experimental branch, to implement our technical culture leading to definition of the real dimension of the risk itself to improve the role of legal medicine in the Environmental Risk Management. While green criminology addresses widespread green crimes, a virtual environment criminology will also develop, maybe with a contribution of AI in the justice field. For a sustainable life, the environmental revolution must rapidly take place, and there is the need for a new justice, a new forensic medicine and a new criminology too.

УПРАВЛЕНИЕ СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИМ РАЗВИТИЕМ НА ОСНОВЕ КОНЦЕПЦИИ ВЕРЫ В НЕОБХОДИМОСТЬ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ И ПРЕАКТИВНОГО ВИДЕНИЯ БУДУЩЕГО

T he article is devoted to the basics of the concept of strategic development management based on the belief in the necessity and effectiveness of changes, as well as a preactive vision of the future. The object of the research is the economic system of the state. The subject of the research is organizational-economic and managerial relations in the process of strategic development during the crisis. The purpose of the research is to develop approaches to the implementation of the concept of managed development based on the belief in the necessity and effectiveness of change, as well as a preactive vision of the future. Research objectives are the following; to analyze the directions of strategic changes in the economy and features of the current crisis; to reveal trends and features of the industrial, environmental and energy revolution as key areas of strategic change; to identify the main innovative problems and political risks of targeted development management. The directions of strategic changes in key areas of life are considered. It is shown that these changes are increasingly leading to crises that take on a systemic character. The nature and consequences of today's crisis are determined. The basics of the methodology of proactive management and preactive planning are considered. As examples of managed development based on the belief in the necessity and effectiveness of changes, the trends and features of the industrial, environmental and energy revolution are shown. On the example of the energy sector, the main innovative problems and political risks of targeted development management based on the belief in the need and effectiveness of changes, as well as a preactive vision of the future, are identified. The necessity of using the creative potential, innovative competencies, entrepreneurial and innovative activity of people in the management of strategic transformations is shown. The need for Russia to build a new economic system, to some extent less dependent on external influence, aimed at ensuring economic security, is revealed. It is shown that there is a need for consolidation of interests, a willingness to compromise for the sake of implementing managed development based on the belief in the need and effectiveness of changes, as well as a preactive vision of the future

The international mobility of students apprentices at the heart of building a skills economy: the example of the Corsican territory

At a time of exacerbated globalization, education, and more generally training, is a key factor for our society, at the heart of territories challenged to renew themselves in the face of the emergence around the globe of new centers of economic and demographic gravity, with their own models. Training, and its link with working life, is a real challenge to face, in the near future, the technological, economic, political and environmental revolutions that we are already facing. Beyond what is called sandwich training or continuing vocational training in Higher Education, the current challenge is indeed around lifelong learning, old concept but whose forms always call for an actualization in modernity. At the heart of a small island territory like Corsica, this challenge is all the more crucial to take up as it foreshadows its attractiveness in a context of glocalisation (Mair, 1991) now durably anchored.In an ever-changing global environment, with moving landmarks, increasingly complex personal and professional lives, and where everything that seemed well compartmentalized yesterday faces increasing porosity, the purpose of this contribution is to explain that the international mobility of students apprentices, at the heart of the construction of a skills economy, is a major strategic issue for the development and structuring of a small territory such as Corsica.

A bitter pill: smallholder responses to the new green revolution prescriptions in northern Ghana

ABSTRACT Through a qualitative case study from the Northern Region of Ghana, this paper examines smallholders’ perceptions of environmental change and contemporary Green Revolution prescriptions promoted by foreign donors, NGOs and the state. These prescriptions seek to commercialise and intensify production in Ghana through increasing use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and faster-growing seed varieties. We argue that many smallholders are reluctantly adopting the inputs and techniques of the Green Revolution in response to erratic rainfall, shortened growing seasons, and drier soils with diminished fertility, as well as other structural constraints such as increasing competition for land. Farmers’ responses are also influenced by social inequalities, as gender and wealth differences affect access to agro-inputs and participation in farm contracts. Female farmers are especially disadvantaged in adoption, which is serving to widen disparities. However, even those farmers who are following the Green Revolution prescriptions are not uncritical of its impacts, as they commonly described their decision to adhere to this technical package as a short-term trade-off to meet subsistence needs at the expense of worsening soil health and increasing debt.

Environmental Revolution in Contemporary Buddhism: The Interbeing of Individual and Collective Consciousness in Ecology

A spiritual awakening is necessary to address the global ecological crisis and to bring about an environmental revolution. The aim of this paper is to bring together various passages from Thich Nhat Hanh’s works that refer to a collective consciousness and environmental revolution, in order to gain some insight into what the view of contemporary Buddhism might have been on the idea of Buddhist environmentalism. This paper is divided into three main areas: the concept of interbeing, the view on the interdependent nature of individual and collective consciousness, and the various interdependent elements influencing the transformation of consciousness that could bring about an environmental revolution in ecology. In using the concept of interbeing coined by Thich Nhat Hanh, I argue that this understanding of the interconnected relationship of everything in the world will enhance the awareness of a global environmental movement for a better future, which is possible.

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters ‐ by Lewis, Tammy L.

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters ‐ by Lewis, Tammy L.

The Educational Significance of the Ecological Revolution

Despite the enormous popularity of the ecological revolution throughout the world today, there is little evidence that American educators have reacted very positively to its challenge and begun the hard work of determining its significance for the activities of schooling. This is not to imply complete inactivity on their part. Many national groups ( e.g., the NEA, National Parks Service, and the Audubon Society) and local school districts, as well as numerous individual teachers in both secondary and higher education are busy developing or have already developed proposals for environmental education. Nor is it the case that educators have been unresponsive personally and individually to the theme of environmental crisis. They have shared as fully as other Americans the mixture of shock, indignation, and enthusiastic optimism in the possibilities of environmental redress which the ecological revolution brought in its wake. Still we have experienced nothing like the wave of widespread educational r eform so characteristic of the Sputnik era, or the more recent reform efforts of the 60's. By and large the effects of the ecological revolution on education have been superficial: the celebration of Earth Day; the addition of courses on "environmental awareness", or the beefing up of existing courses by adding units in ecology; the establishment in Universities of interdisciplinary departments or even separate environmental "centers" to handle the environmental theme; and the appropriation into educational vocabularies, and their use in a variety of frequently ungainly contexts, of a host of ecologically "in" terms like "ecology", "environment", "Nature", and so on. While these efforts are always well intended and often energetically pursued, they only scratch the surface of the challenge and the opportunity which today's environmental revolution holds for education.

Vigilancia Tecnológica e inteligencia competitiva (VT & IC): Alternativas para la recuperación y el aprovechamiento de residuos de plástico ABS alrededor del mundo

This study presents the results of the first stage (scientific production analysis) of a Technological Surveillance and Competitive Intelligence exercise (TS&CI), carried out for the research of "the current alternatives for the recovery and valorization of ABS plastic waste around the world"; which was carried out with information from the specialized Scopus® database, with the guidance of TS&IC experts, from EAFIT University. It was found that the leading countries in scientific publications are China, the United States and Japan, three of the largest consumers of ABS resin in the world. The leading institution in publications is the prestigious Chalmers University of Technology, a research university that is in Sweden. Finally, it was found that 86% of the scientific production related to the subject of interest, occurs next to the year 1999, time after the environmental revolutions of the age and to the first “Earth day” in 1970.Keywords: acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, ABS plastic waste, recycling, reuse, reutilization.

Tammy L. Lewis , Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters (Cambridge, MA, and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2016), pp. viii + 282, £22.95, pb.

Tammy L. Lewis , Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters (Cambridge, MA, and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2016), pp. viii + 282, £22.95, pb.

Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters, by Tammy L.Lewis, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. 296 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN: 978026258771.

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SAUDI YOUTH ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ON THE STUDY A SAMPLE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE CITY OF BURAIDAH

Taadalatjahat according to the opinion of scientists of the most important components of the experience that determine an individual's ability to contribute to the solution of environmental problems and address them, as we hold the real sources of energy directed human behavior so it was necessary to identify the trends of individuals about their environment and its problems. So some scholars of Education believes that the best solution to the current crisis environment requires a significant change in human attitudes about the environment, but that some of them believes that the environmental revolution, which we desperately need it but a revolution in attitudes, so conservative Ali become the ecological balance of the best way to avoid the risk of these problems If we are to maintain the ecological balance must stop the unfair interference of man in environmental activities. That environmental problems can not be dealt with through technological procedures These important though measures alone are not sufficient to meet these environmental problems The problems should be resolved in the framework of social, economic and cultural causes and through a comprehensive action plan are discipline in the development patterns in the lifestyles of individuals and in their behavior and there are many environmental problems Interested in environmental issues and problems have realized as education scientists realized that the most important ways feasible in the face of environmental problems lies in human numbers who understands the environment and conscious surroundings from the dangers capable of positive contribution to the preservation and development for the benefit of the environment and provide a decent life for man himself, this is what consideration by this study . Objectives of the study is to identify the Saudi youth trends in Buraidah about environmental problems and perceptions of what these young people facing the community of environmental hazards at the moment, and to see these young people on how to overcome these problems The study is based on the social survey method through the sample, consisting of 226 students from area schools Buraidah Saudi Arabia And research tool used is a questionnaire to environmental problems And they've made them the basic analysis and study concluded a number of important results such as: - atdh From the results that there is realization among Saudi youth in Buraidah dangers surrounding the resulting environmental problems, including the Results -aodan I know that there are young Saudi city of Buraidah existence of environmental problems is surrounded by and pose a threat to him Results -aodan that there are trends of both sexes of young people towards the problems faced by society: As well as a number of recommendations including: The curriculum includes realistic environmental problems can be displayed appropriate and coherent way so that it can be submitted according to the importance and danger to the community Increase the chances of environmental activism in different subjects, approaches to practice inside and outside the school