Environmental Journalism Research Articles

Значение национальной культуры в развитии духовности

The creative heritage popularization is the basis for the development of the modern information society, the formation of a competitive cultural environment and future journalists. With history modernization consciousness sets the code's brightness to the pragmatic young generation, the revival of its noble qualities. The triumph of the spiritual wealth of the nation will strengthen the profession of a warm heart. We analyze the clarity of data sources with specific facts on historical events occurred in the works of historical heritage and national poets and writers, who are national symbols, great people who struck the world. The facts of language activity are determined by the historical facts. The recognition of a number of cognitive frameworks from national propaganda of the national code through national concepts in cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistic, and psycholinguistic sophistication opens the way for a new revival of the poets’ and writers’ works. We recognize personality aspects through analysis of various works on history events. The works of Abai Kunanbayev, Shakarim Kudaiberdiev, M. Shakhanov, S. Elubayev, S. Murtaza, B. Bedelkhan, K. Sarsenbai are the national symbol. The essence of the national spirit is that it reflects the character of historical events that are deeply revealed in the Nazir model presented in a new format, and reflects the character of ethnological knowledge not only through the national aspect of word combinations and phraseology, but also by analyzing the sections of national instruments. Supervision of Republic prepared the plan of future popularization of historical and cultural heritage of Kazakhstan as in the country and abroad.

Ecosystem startups in kazakhstan

The scientific article sets out the definition of ecosystems, the findings of scientists. At the same time, a scientific analysis was made of topical issues such as global warming, causes and effects of climate change and problems related to national ecosystems, intensive development of the resources of the Caspian Sea shelf, pollution and water pollution.The purpose of the article is to review the impact of air pollution in Kazakhstan on the implementation of measures to solve these problems and to analyze the content of legislative documents adopted in the Republic of Kazakhstan in solving global environmental problems.An academic review of the writing skills of environmental journalists is given, based on the scientific and geographical value of the study, as well as the form and content of the materials delivered. The article also outlines issues that journalists should pay attention to when preparing material on the subject of ecology, and which areas should be taken into account when studying the subject.The main result of the article is to prevent problems in the field of ecology, the interaction of the media and ordinary people. The article describes the launch of an ecosystem initiative.The value of the book lies in the fact that the author focuses on the implementation of ecosystem initiatives in different countries of the world. Despite the relationship and interest between investors and startups, the ultimate goal is to earn a living for development. Local investors understand that start-ups are not short-term, but that they will happen quickly, but they are successful investors. Startups are also expected not only to raise funds, but also to participate in the beginner’s life, as entrepreneurs often have only the product.

Love Your Mother: How One News Magazine Defined and Refined Environmental Journalism

Love Your Mother: How One News Magazine Defined and Refined Environmental Journalism

Deficient Legislation Sanctioning Oil Spill in Nigeria: A Need for a Review of the Regulatory Component of Petroleum Laws in Nigeria and the Petroleum Industries Bill

The grave challenges of oil pollution have been over stated in several environmental journals. Similarly, there have been several discourses on the prevailing nature of Nigerian oil spill pollution. Alarmingly, the spills seem to have persisted, despite existing legislations sanctioning them, making it seem as if there was no legislation sanctioning such pollution activities ab-initio . Scholars state that the environmental pollution and degradation that has emanated from oil spill in Nigeria has led to the destruction of landscape, loss of arable farm­lands, aesthetic environment, fishing operations, revenue, and sometime lives. This article shall therefore review the current legislation to identify their defi­ciencies, as well as the perceived inability of the Petroleum Industries Bill (PIB) to effectively enforce against deliberate pollution.

Preliminary study of insect pests of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) in Ogbomoso Agricultural Zone of Nigeria

Article Details: Received: 2018-06-11 | Accepted: 2018-09-06 | Available online: 2018-09-31 https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2018.21.03.108-112 A Field experiment was conducted in 2014 to determine insect pests associated with cucumber in Ogbomoso (Southern Guinea Savanna), Oyo-state Nigeria. Market More and Pointset cucumber varieties were used as treatments. Data were collected at three different phonological growth stages with damaged they caused. Data collections commenced at 2 weeks after planting (WAP) and were on weekly basis for six weeks. Four major insect pests observed were Phyllotreta cruciferae Fabricius, Diabrotical undecimpunctata Howardi Barber, Epilachna vigintiopunctata Fabricius and Monolepta spp Coquilletta on the two varieties observed. Except Epilachna, which belong to the family Coccinellidae others are from the family Chrymesolidae. Also, all the insects pest recorded the highest population at seedling and the population reduces at flowering to fruiting stage while Epilachna recorded the highest population at fruiting stage. The same trend was also observed for distribution across the age of the plant. Keywords: Cucumber, insect pest, Epilachna vigintiopunctata, population species and Market more References ADETULA O., DENTON L. (2003) Performance of vegetative and yield accessions of cucumber (Cucumis sativa L.). In Horticultural Society of Nigeria (HORTSON) Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference. doi: https://doi.org/10.5897/ JABSD2015.0239 BAKRE, S. et al. (2004) Cadmium, lead and mercury in fresh and boiled leafy vegetables grown in Lagos, Nigeria. Environmental Technology, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 1367–1370. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09593332508618465 BIDEIN T. et al. (2016). 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RETRACTED: Threats of indicator polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in six molluscs from market to food safety: A case study in Haikou City, China

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief and Authors. The article is a duplicate of a paper that has already been published in the Chinese language in the Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment, 34 (2018) 1091-1095. doi:10.11934/j.issn.1673-4831.2018.12.005). One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. As such this article represents a misuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.

Editorial Preface: Elderly Mobility

This Special Issue of TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment collects the research works of one of the sessions organised in the framework of the XX Scientific Meeting of the Societa Italiana degli Economisti dei Trasporti e della Logistica (SIET), focused on the MOBILAGE (Mobility and aging: daily life and welfare supportive networks at the neighbourhood level) research project financed by Fondazione Cariplo within the “Aging and social research: people, places and relations” 2017 Call for scientific research. The session was addressed to investigate elderly (people aged 65+) mobility, by exploring the supply and demand of Local Public Transport (LPT) in urban areas.

The Inauguration of Asian Pacific Journal of Environment and Cancer

On behalf of the Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention (APOCP) and its subsidiary (the West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention- WAOCP), it is a great honor to present the inaugural issue of Asian Pacific Journal of Envirinment and Cancer (APJEC). APJEC is separated from the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention and is determined to become a leading journal for scientists and researcher of the world. APJEC inherited its activity from the 19-year body of the successful publication of the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (APJCP) and considers itself to be the APJCP sister publications.

Cohort studies were found to be frequently biased by missing disease information due to death

ObjectivesIn epidemiologic cohort studies with missing disease information due to death (MDID), conventional analyses right-censoring death cases at the last observation or at death may yield significant bias in relative risk and hazard ratio estimates. The aim of this study was to investigate susceptibility to this bias and assess its potential direction and magnitude. Study Design and SettingLiterature review of selected epidemiologic, geriatric, and environmental journals in 2011–2012 and simulation study of various conventional approaches to handling missing disease data. A study was considered susceptible to MDID bias if disease information was collected at follow-up visits only, and a conventional analysis was performed on the data. ResultsOf 125 identified studies, 58 (46.4%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 37.7–55.1%) were classified as susceptible to MDID bias, of which six (10.3%, 95% CI: 2.5–18.2%) attempted to address this in sensitivity analyses. The simulation revealed that depending on the analytic strategy for handling missing disease data, the potential exists for significant under- or over-estimation of risk factor effect estimates. ConclusionAwareness of MDID bias is important as more adequate analysis methods exist permitting an unbiased analysis. Recommendations for better reporting and analysis of MDID are provided.

Um panorama sobre os estudos relacionados ao conforto térmico em salas de aula

Este trabalho objetiva analisar as características das publicações sobre conforto térmico em salas de aula nas bases de dados Scopus e Web of Science (WOS), identificando as principais fontes, os principais autores e algumas particularidades sobre a produção científica deste tema. O estudo compreende uma revisão bibliográfica que foi realizada a partir de uma pesquisa bibliométrica, na qual por meio de uma análise estatística foi possível mapear e gerar alguns indicadores para o tratamento da informação, constituindo assim, uma abordagem quantitativa e qualitativa. Na base Scopus, foram encontradas 231 publicações relacionadas e na WOS, 135 publicações. Os resultados comparativos mostraram que o número de trabalhos relacionados ao conforto térmico em salas de aula aumentou consideravelmente na última década. Verificou-se que a China é o país com o maior número de publicações. O Brasil surge na 12ª posição na base Scopus e na 10ª posição na base WOS. Também verificou-se a importância do periódico Building and Environment para o tema e que para as salas de aula e ambientes de estudo, há uma estreita relação entre os tópicos conforto térmico, ventilação e qualidade do ar interno, uma vez que estes podem interferir consideravelmente no rendimento e na saúde dos alunos.

THE CARRYING CAPACITY ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF LAND USE CHANGE AT BORDER ENTIKONG

Entikong Region is located in Sanggau Regency, West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, which is directly adjacent to Malaysia. Land use in the Border Area, which is massive and irregular, results in environmental degradation, deculturization, and lack of living standards of the community. High population growth in the border areas leads to excessive use of natural resources, and used land is not appropriately allocated. The land has limited function, and if the demand for the land is greater than the carrying capacity, there will be an imbalance that results in land degradation and its environment. The purpose of this study is to identify the type and extent of land function switch, analyze provider services as part of the Land Support Capacity Ecosystem services, and identify the Accuracy of Image Interpretation. The results showed that the increasing area of massive land use comes from a mixed plantation in 2017 increased by 60.6% of the total area of Entikong District. Degradation occurs in primary forest land use component which is only 18.6% of Entikong's total area in 2017. This indicates that the use of mixed plantation land acquires the protected forest, with many palm, rubber, and pepper. Similarly, the percentage of accuracy test from the interpretation result reaches 83.33% from 42 sample points in accordance with the real conditions. The Value of Clean Water Ecosystem Service Providers in 2011 was 0.36 and was 0.33 in 2017. Then within the period of almost 7 years, it is decreased by 0.03. Thus, the Ecosystem Service Index of clean water providers has a value less than 1, it means the function of the area as a provider of clean water is very small. Similarly, the Provider Ecosystem Services Index for Foodstuffs, the Value of Food Ecosystem Services Index in 2011 was 0.32 and was 0.31 in 2017, then within the nearly 7-year period, it is decreased by 0.01. The ecosystem services index as a food supply provider for the Entikong border area is very low (less than 1) which means the carrying capacity of the environment is not good enough for supplying food needs in Entikong. This indicates that there is a reduction in the availability of environmental services, and if it continues, then Environmental Assets declines sharply and services derived from nature will be lost or will be expensive in the near future. Thus, optimization and revitalization of land use are necessary by applying various policies related to development in the border area in Entikong District.
 Keywords: Borders, Land Use, Ecosystem Provider Services.
 
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AN ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL VARIATION OF LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF MINNA, NIGER STATE NIGERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES

AN ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL VARIATION OF LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS OF MINNA, NIGER STATE NIGERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES

Media Storms and Policy Expertise: How Environmental Beat Journalists Gained Influence During a Shale Gas Controversy

ABSTRACTThis article examines the conditions under which environmental beat journalists can gain credibility as expert informants. It shows that media storms foster a particular dynamic that can add to this credibility. Comparing a media storm over shale gas development in Quebec with regular coverage of the same issue in British Columbia, this article shows that the coverage space given to environmental beat journalists during a media storm can render their alliance with protest groups mutually beneficial. Beat journalists can benefit from the willingness of these groups to participate in their stories, while the groups benefit from increased visibility. Beat journalists also benefit by being perceived as expert informants in policy networks, a role that they use to encourage policy-makers to take the concerns of protest groups seriously. This dynamic also increases the negativity of the news coverage. The article makes a contribution to knowledge on the role of environmental journalists in policy-making processes.

Editorial: Science and Environmental Journalism: Trends, Boundaries, and Opportunities for a Rapidly Evolving Industry

Editorial: Science and Environmental Journalism: Trends, Boundaries, and Opportunities for a Rapidly Evolving Industry

Curated journalism: A field theory approach to journalistic production by environmental non-governmental organizations

Studies of environmental communication have primarily focused on environmental journalism produced in commercial newsrooms. Yet environmental non-governmental organizations have been producing journalism in their publications for more than a century. This study takes a field theory approach to situate this production within the journalistic and non-governmental organization fields. It finds that environmental journalists who write for non-governmental organizations generally follow norms and practices of traditional commercial journalism and that the non-governmental organization field may be borrowing cultural capital from the more powerful journalistic field.

Editorial Preface: Urban Travel Behavior in the Middle East and North Africa

This Special Issue the TeMA. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment focuses on an already researched subject of urban travel behavior and decisions in the less-studied geographical context of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Chapter 10 – Migrants and cities: Stepping beyond world migration report 2015

Chapter 10 – Migrants and cities: Stepping beyond world migration report 2015

한국하천호수학회를 통해 본 국내 담수 동물플랑크톤 연구의 역사와 현재, 미래의 연구 동향

This review summarizes the history of freshwater zooplankton research in Korean Society of Limnology and necessary future topics that are remain poorly investigated in South Korea based on main research topics of published articles focusing on lakes, reservoirs, rivers and wetland ecosystems. In Korea, a total 450 freshwater zooplankton species have been reported (85 species of cladocera, ca. 230 species of rotifera since 1939, and 138 species of copepoda), and they cover 10% of total zooplankton species list. In the present paper, we provide recent species list of zooplankton found in Korea and their taxonomic keys. Over periods of 45 years, there are 25 published papers for zooplankton biota in lentic ecosystems in Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment (KJEE). The ecology of zooplankton communities in rivers has focused on the mechanisms involved in regulating their abundance, diversity and spatio-temporal patterns of genus Bosmina and rotifers (genus Brachionus and Keratella) that are most frequently found from Korea. On the other hand, the studies on zooplankton in wetland has focused on Alona, Chydorus and Ceriodaphnia with special emphasis on their relationships with aquatic macrophytes. Even though studies on the freshwater ecosystem in Korea have a long history, a few of studies on zooplankton biota were conducted at rice paddy, Dumbeong and wetlands. During the last two decades, experimental advances in freshwater zooplankton ecology and understanding of structure and function of this biota were made from a series of articles mainly in journal of KJEE. For future studies, quantitative, experimental and interdisciplinary approaches would be key words to understand zooplankton ecology and their roles in aquatic ecosystems under changing environments, and we have suggested necessary zooplankton research fields and future directions.

Communicating Environmental Risks: Local Newspaper Coverage of Shellfish Bacterial Contamination in Maine

Coastal resources play a vital role in Maine’s cultural and economic wellbeing, contributing an estimated 168 billion dollars to the Maine economy. There are numerous risks to the sustainability of Maine’s shellfishing industry and working waterfront, including pathogenic bacterial pollution. In this study, we ask a broad fundamental question central to science and environmental journalism: how do newspapers cover localized environmental risks and what are the implications of those approaches? Utilizing the northeastern U.S. state of Maine’s shellfishing industry as an exemplar environmental issue, this study examines how Maine’s two most read newspapers, the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald, report on bacterial contamination and shellfish. This study examines the themes that are present in the newspaper articles published about shellfish between 2003 and 2014 and analyzes the types of sources journalists used within their coverage of these issues. Overall, we identified seven key themes: economic concerns, environmental impacts, political and regulatory issues, issues of public health and safety, reference to cultural values, technical and infrastructural issues, and aesthetic concerns. The most commonly cited individuals in the articles were government officials and scientists. The least cited groups were clammers and shellfishermen, general citizens, advocacy groups, and worm diggers. Implications for local coverage of environmental risks in Maine, science communication, and sustainability science are discussed.

Critical Thinking Education for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Education in Vietnam

Critical Thinking Education for Enhancing the Effectiveness of Education in Vietnam