Environmental Management Information Research Articles

The Impact of International Freight Forwarders Reliability, Services and Pricing, Information Management and Business Environment on the Internationalization of Plastics Industry Exporters

The Impact of International Freight Forwarders Reliability, Services and Pricing, Information Management and Business Environment on the Internationalization of Plastics Industry Exporters

Evaluation of Coastal Land Use and Development in Northern Taiwan

This study was intended to establish coastal environment GIS database and construct a land use and development potential evaluation model by investigating deep into current land use along the coastal zones of northern Taiwan and social economic conditions. Expert questionnaires were introduced to determine the weight of each indicator developed. The model proposed was used for the analysis on the development opportunities and potentials of land use. Finally, the potentials of land use and development locations were obtained. As the result of this study, the integrated information of development potentials and space for land use in coastal zones was acquired and suggestions proposed for location development potentials. The result may be helpful to the planning for future land use of Taiwan’s coasts and the integrated management and conservation of environmental information.

Better together: the ESRC in the university research library of the twenty-first century

This article describes the role of the University of Melbourne Library in relation to the roles and services provided by the eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC): how this relationship was established and how it is currently being maintained. Drawing primarily on the findings of the 2015 academic review of the Centre, the article also demonstrates how, within the changing information management environment, the ESRC provides immense value as a resource for the University and the research sector more generally. The article concludes by describing how, going forward, the recommendations from the review will strengthen the relationship between the ESRC and Library, and within the context of the growing field of digital humanities this relationship will help to position the University of Melbourne at the forefront of social and cultural informatics practice and knowledge infrastructure development.

Cryptographically Enforced Data Access Control in Personal Health Record Systems

Personal Health Record (PHR) systems play a vital role during digital transformation of healthcare. These systems provide many value-added features like viewing one's health related information, secure transmission and tracking of that information with the health service providers. A cloud assisted PHR system maximizes the possibility for PHR systems to interoperate with other systems in health information management environments. Each patient needs to encrypt his/her PHR data before uploading it in the cloud since the patients will lose their physical access to their health data stored in cloud servers. Moreover, to achieve fine-grained data access control on encrypted PHR data in an effective and scalable manner is a challenging task. Since there are multiple owners or patients are available in a PHR system and existing data access control schemes are mostly designed for the single-authority/owner scenarios, a novel patient-centric data access control scheme called Revocable Multi Authority Attribute Set Based Encryption (R- MA- ASBE) is proposed. The proposed scheme inherits flexibility, scalability and fine-grained patient-centric data access control.

Mentoring in the Library with Emphasis in Cataloging

Because of the ever changing information management environment, library employees need and benefit from mentoring. This article focuses on mentoring in cataloging. The three elements of effective mentoring are mentor expertise, a mentoring plan, and a good working relationship between mentor and mentee. Strategies are discussed and experiences shared.

Many Hands Make Light Work: The Role of Collaborative Management in Improving Environmental Information Management by Local Authorities

ABSTRACTWhat is the role of collaborative management (CM) in enhancing environmental outputs? Does CM enable local municipalities to be better environmental performers? The present article addresses these two questions by means of a study of all urban localities in Israel (80% response rate). The aims of the study are to contribute to current research in two main ways. First, by addressing the question: Does CM enable local municipalities to be better environmental performers? In doing so, the study expands the very small number of studies conducted to date that examine performance and policy outputs of collaboration versus collaboration processes and procedures. Second, the study contributes to enlarging the very small number of relatively large N studies on collaborative public management that examine policy outputs. The main finding of this study highlights the important and positive role of CM in regard to local authorities’ environmental outputs.

Проблемы модернизации экономики образования России

В статье раскрываются актуальные проблемы, связанные с модернизацией экономики образования России. Определена необходимость формирования и развития единой информационно-сетевой среды управления, взаимодействия и интеграции, что позволит решить многие задачи, исходящие из необходимости модернизации сферы высшего образования, позволив создать систему реализации принципов открытости, прозрачности и публичности деятельности учреждений образования.

Implementation Barriers of MobileEnvironmental Information System forEnvironmental Surveillance on ConstructionSites

The use of Mobile Environmental Information System (MEIS) which integrates the use of mobile web, devices and wireless sensor networks has the potential to enhance environmental information management and communication processes among users and play an important role in field data acquisition and validation, to provide real-time environmental data monitoring and, more importantly, to provide warning signs in the areas of construction activities that require immediate corrective action. However, the understanding on the anticipated barriers for any proposed systems that may arise during the implementation of the system are important to ensure the sustainability of the systems in the long run. In this paper, this issue was addressed through the prototype demonstration and evaluation sessions where the respondents had the opportunity to highlight the implementation barriers while testing the functions of the ENSOCS web by using smartphones to perform the pre-defined tasks. As a result, the practitioners in Malaysia and the UK had highlighted that these barriers include return on investment, operational cost, legality issues, work procedures issues, technology and technical issues, technology adoption barriers and network infrastructure. Therefore, from this research, the developers of mobile applications would obtain valuable input with regards to understanding the requirements of construction environmental management teams as well as the limitation for the implementation of MEIS within the construction industry.

Social Architecture: An Emergency Management Case Study

Emergency management agencies are progressively using social media for the sourcing and distribution of disaster information. Emergency management agencies are often unsure as to how to best identify and assess social media concerns (e.g. information security, trust) which must be addressed to develop a social media-enabled disaster information management environment. This paper adopts the Social Architecture Viewpoint Assessment (SAVA) framework for identifying and assessing social media concerns from four different viewpoints: IT, Value, Resource and Management. This paper demonstrates the use of the SAVA framework in the context of an in-depth empirical case study of an Australian emergency management agency. The results of this study indicate that the SAVA framework is useful for emergency information management managers in identifying and assessing social media concerns.

Photos to Remember, Photos to Forget

Each year makes it easier to accumulate large numbers of photos and videos in the social and personal digital space. Their long-term existence is mostly driven by chance rather than by clear guidelines or rules for archiving them. Thus, unfortunately, cases of nonintended both the exposure and disappearance of personal photos happen much too often. This article mainly focuses on this question: What should we remember and thus archive, and what can we forget? The authors describe the European project ForgetIT (www.forgetIT-project.eu), which is investigating the introduction of a form of digital or managed forgetting into information management environments. The project focuses on the idea of making more conscious decisions about which content is really important, and thus should be preserved safely, and which content we can (and should) forget.

Application Resilience and Antifragility from the Internet of Medical Devices to Healthcare Governance Systems

For Healthcare, the potential bene ts of applying Internet of Medical Devices (IoMD) to solve both the cost problem and to improve patient safety and outcomes are tremen- dous. The medical industry is quickly adopting mobile technology (mHealth) as a means of connecting lay users with medical professionals. Unfortunately, current apps can be quite fragile to unespected event, and unpredictable changes can be very disorienting at enterprise level. These major changes, usually discontinuities referred to as frac- tures in the environment rather than trends, will largely de- termine the long-term future of organization. They need to be handled, as opportunities, as positively as possible. We need more robust, resilient and antifragile application to be ready for next generation systems. They are mandatory to develop antifragile self-organizing and self-regulating sys- tem further. Health Information community can take advantage of a new HICT Natural Framework proposal, to get a more re- liable conceptualized synthetic and powerful systemic vi- sion, to be used in advanced modeling for healthcare ap- plication and organization (HO) and high reliability orga- nization (HRO) in general. Two application examples are presented. HICT Natural Framework can be used to de- velop competitive applications, from telemedicine apps, an- tifragile anticipatory learning system (ALS), health infor- mation management system, to health governances policies for advanced HO, new competitive HRO environmental friendly information management strategies conveniently, and beyond. The present paper can give a relevant con- tribute to that perspective and to let you achieve pactical, operative results quite quickly.

環境情報管理システムの構築事例

環境情報管理システムの構築事例

Qualitative analysis of user experience in a 3D virtual environment

ABSTRACTThis paper describes elements of user experience of a collaborative 3D immersive virtual information management environment. We detail those elements that are seen to both improve and deteriorate user experience, and provide design guidance for researchers and designers. We designed the 3D virtual environment in the Virtual Collaboration Arena (VirCA) collaborative space specifically to study the collaborative information retrieval and management behaviors of users. We conducted 117 interviews and then analyzed the data using a qualitative content analysis to identify the main elements of user experience. While participants generally reacted positively to the environment, they also mentioned a few distracting usability problems. Applying the results in the further development of VirCA can create a higher level of user experience and more effective collaboration.

Environmental information management and hydrological system modelling for the assessment of hydrological eco system functions and services (ESF/ESS) in the Okavango River Basin

Environmental information management and hydrological system modelling for the assessment of hydrological eco system functions and services (ESF/ESS) in the Okavango River Basin

Study on New Urbanization Construction and Ecological Environmental Protection

New urbanization construction inevitably results in some environmental problems which have negative impact on the development of rural economy and social development. Therefore, we should pay attention to environmental protection in the course of urbanization. This article mainly studies the development prospect of new urbanization concerning “developing the ecological economy and improving the urban environment quality”, “ensuring the ecological protection and practicing economy”, “promoting the development of circular economy in the course of urbanization construction” and “strengthening the ecological environment monitoring and information management”. Then propose some suggestions to the environmental protection of new urbanization construction.

Staff Retention in an Information Management Environment

The retention of valuable employees is one of the most critical issues that human resource managers have faced in the past decade. A plausible reason for this is that talented employees who have competencies that are critical for the survival of an organisation are often difficult to attract and retain because they often attach more importance to their own career paths than to organisational loyalty. More often than not this results in voluntary turnover. Organisations are now operating more strategically and realise that survival depends on, retaining existing talented people who have the essential knowledge, expertise and competencies to perform the tasks in an organisation. The need to create an attractive work environment to current and future job applicants is also recognised. Therefore, an understanding of the way individuals conduct themselves is much needed. The purpose of this study was to examine staff retention in an information management environment. A quantitative research approach using a questionnaire to collect data from 50 employees working in an information management environment was adopted. The questionnaire was used to measure employee job satisfaction and to identify job satisfaction factors. The findings revealed that communication, good working conditions, job security, opportunities for learning and growth, and recognition were perceived, in this order, as being the most important job satisfaction factors. It was evident that employee expectations for job satisfaction were not met in the areas of recognition and good supervision/leadership. Employee expectations for job satisfaction were only partially met in the areas of communication, opportunities for learning and growth, promotional opportunities and compensation. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n13p495

Environmental index for Finnish construction sites

Purpose – The primary aim of this study was to better understand the grounds to develop a monitoring and performance measurement method to support the environmental management of construction operations. The practical purpose was to improve environmental activities in construction sites. This study helps to fill the gap between environmental needs and practices on construction sites. Design/methodology/approach – Action research was the principal research method. The research procedure was executed in collaboration with construction companies. The EICS meter was originally developed to create rules for environmental competition between construction sites. Since the time of this competition, the meter has been further improved in other studies. Findings – Based on the literature and feedback gained in the testing round of the EICS, five relevant categories were formulated to evaluate environmental operations: environmental information management, waste management, material handling and shielding, energy use and emissions. A simple index method was applied for these five categories. Furthermore, observation targets and acceptance criteria were defined for these categories. The meter supports environmental management in practise. The method can be used to analyse the starting point level when developing environmental processes. Originality/value – This study offers insights based on action research for both academics and practitioners. The meter is outlined for Nordic conditions, but the structure of the method is also suitable elsewhere. The national demands can be locally fine-tuned.

KRF를 연계한 GIS기반의 통합 물환경정보 관리시스템 구축 방안

KRF를 연계한 GIS기반의 통합 물환경정보 관리시스템 구축 방안

A framework of cloud-based virtual phones for secure intelligent information management

As mobile networks and devices being rapidly innovated, many new Internet services and applications have been deployed. However, the current implementation faces security, management, and performance issues, which are critical to the use in business environments. Migrating sensitive information, management facilities, and intensive computation to security hardened virtualized environment in the cloud provides effective solutions. This paper proposes an innovative Internet service and business model to provide a secure and consolidated environment for enterprise mobile information management based on the infrastructure of cloud-based virtual phones (CVP). Our proposed solution enables the users to execute Android and web applications in the cloud and connect to other users of CVP with enhanced performance and protected privacy. The organization of CVP can be mixed with centralized control and distributed protocols, which emulates the behavior of human societies. This minimizes the need to handle sensitive data in mobile devices, eases the management of data, and reduces the overhead of mobile application deployment.

Research on cloud computing and services framework of marine environmental information management

Based on the features of marine environmental data and processing requirements, a cloud computing architecture of marine environment information is proposed, which provides a new cloud technology framework for the integration and sharing of marine environmental information resources. A physical layer, software platform layer and an application layer are illustrated systematically, at the same time, a corresponding solutions for many difficult technical problems such as parallel query processing of multi-dimensional, spatiotemporal information, data slice storage, software service flow customization, analysis, reorganization and so on. A prototype system is developed and many different data-size experiments and a comparative analysis are done based on it. The experiment results show that the cloud platform based on this framework can achieve high performance and scalability when dealing with large-scale marine data.