Low Environmental Awareness Research Articles

The impact of local gambling preferences on firm‐level environmental violations: Evidence from China

AbstractWe examine the impact of local gambling preferences on firms' environmental violations using a sample of Chinese firms. Our findings suggest that firms in regions with high gambling preferences have higher environmental and continuous environmental violations. The results are robust to using two stage least square (2SLS) regression analysis, a propensity score matching sample, other robustness tests, and excluding alternative explanations of social responsibility and financial pressure. Further analysis shows that the impact of gambling preferences on environmental violations is more salient for firms with high managerial overconfidence and low environmental awareness. Hence, the illusion of control and underestimating the punishment costs are underlying causes.

Discussion on Enterprise Green Human Resource Management

As the main component of China's social market economy, enterprises must assume the major responsibility of protecting the environment and achieving harmony between man and nature. In recent years, due to the current environmental pollution, resource depletion, low environmental awareness of enterprises and other problems, the issue of environment will attract the attention of national government departments and citizens. In this case, enterprises need to attach great importance to it, and it is necessary to take measures to change and innovate management models and methods. As one of the core departments of enterprises, green human resources and management systems have become the key to the sustainable development of the company and the harmonious coexistence of enterprises and ecology.

Analysis of new state documents on environmental awareness aspects in Kazakhstan

Environmental awareness issues in Kazakhstan are one of the most undermined topics both among the public community and in terms of state rhetoric. In the context of official state documents, so far only two official environmental codes and national program called Zhasyl Kazakhstan were introduced in the country in 2021. While on the one hand the Environmental Code was introduced with the purpose to modernize, frame and enlist main legislative aspects on various sectors of environmental law in Kazakhstan, on the other hand the Zhasyl Kazakhstan Program has been implemented as a state program to address with numerous environmental projects various environmental issues ranging from air pollution to waste management as well as aspects related to ecological education and low environmental awareness matters. In this regard, the main goal of this paper is to analyze critically the main content of both of these documents with a particular focus on sections related to environmental awareness raising aspects. For that, this paper applied a subjective-based content analysis in order to identify interesting insights on regulatory legal aspects, future research streams, and uncovering of improved legislative frameworks in the context of environmental awareness issue. Apart from that, five open-ended questions were send out to the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources to obtain primary data on the state’s view in regards to current previous, recent and future aspects of environmental awareness issue in the country. Key words: Kazakhstan, environmental awareness, Environmental Code, Zhasyl Kazakhstan, content analysis.

Accelerating sustainability transition in St. Petersburg (Russia) through digitalization-based circular economy in waste recycling industry: A strategy to promote carbon neutrality in era of Industry 4.0

Due to industrialization and economic development, urban expansion in St. Petersburg (Russia) has swelled its solid waste generation. The current waste management system does not meet the city's needs. Fundamental changes are required to accelerate its sustainability transition to achieve the 2030 UN's Sustainable Development Goals . This article critically evaluates and analyzes the existing situation of waste management in St. Petersburg and its role in promoting digitalization-based circular economy . Challenges in waste recycling that prevent it from reforming its waste management are identified. Lessons drawn from Taiwan's prowess in resources recovery are presented to inspire a transformation of its waste sector towards a digitalization. The implications of digitalization on the city's waste recycling industry are elaborated. Before applying digitalization, St. Petersburg encountered challenges such as a lack of proper infrastructure in waste management, low public participation and environmental awareness , technological gaps, and insufficient coordination among its institutions. As one of the world's leaders in waste recycling (65%), Taiwan was selected as a role model for St. Petersburg in improving its waste management. The Island's daily per capita rate decreased by 96% to 0.4 kg in 2015. Taiwan also minimized the amount of waste disposal into landfills to less than 2%, while 80% of its industrial waste was recycled. About 33% of annual waste generation in Taiwan was reduced through “Pay-as-you-throw” policy. The average volume of municipal solid waste generation per capita decreased by 20% to 0.91 kg/day. This suggests that moving towards digitalization has minimized the extraction of raw materials through resource recovery. As implications of digitalization in waste management, the consumption of virgin materials could be lowered by 25% in 2030, while a half of greenhouse gas emissions could be avoided. The World Economic Forum estimated that the circular economy could potentially add USD 700 billion in material savings to global economy. • Taiwan attained the second highest recycling target of 65% after Germany (67%). • Taiwan's ‘Keep Trash off the Ground Policy’ is transferable to St. Petersburg. • Pandemic hastens the transformation of recycling industry through digitalization. • Achieving carbon neutrality requires both economic and technological development. • Consumption of virgin materials could be lowered by 25% in 2030 by adopting CE.

How to support sustainable energy consumption in households?

Households are responsible for almost 30% of final energy consumption in the EU. Therefore, sustainable energy consumption in households can provide a lot of benefits for energy savings, use of renewables and GHG emission reduction. Environmental awareness plays an important role in promoting sustainable energy consumption in households, fostering low carbon energy transition, and creating a carbon-neutral society in the EU by 2050. Though the use of renewables and energy efficiency improvements in households are increasing in the EU, the low environmental awareness about the benefits of sustainable energy consumption, especially in vulnerable households receiving state support, might be an important barrier to creating a carbon-neutral society in the EU. The paper analyses the main scientific literature showing the linkages between environmental awareness and sustainable energy consumption in households and presents the results of an empirical study conducted in Lithuanian households. The study identified the main barriers to sustainable energy consumption in households and assessed state policies targeting sustainable energy consumption in households.

Environmental awareness among High School Students: A study in Majuli District of Assam, India

Rapid industrialization, overexploitation of natural resources and use of environmentally abhorrent materials have caused detectable environmental disruptions which have threatened the life support system. Environment can be protected only by creating awareness among the people so that it becomes part of their lifestyle. Environmental Awareness means showing interest towards environment or environmental problem. It implies not only understanding about environment but also attitude, principles and abilities which are essential for solving environmental problems. Moreover, environmental awareness helps in inculcating responsible behaviour among citizens. The present study is an attempt to study the environmental awareness of high school students with respect to gender and medium of instruction. The present study has used Descriptive research method. 160 students of Majuli district (Assam) were selected as sample of the study. In the present study the researcher has used random sampling technique. Environment Awareness Ability Measure (EAAM) tool prepared by Dr Praveen Kumar Jha was used in the study. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics like t test. The results revealed that the level of Environmental Awareness of high school students was above average. High school students differ significantly in environmental awareness with regard to the gender. Female high school students showed low environmental awareness among them in comparison to their male counterparts. The study also found that high school students studying in Assamese medium schools have a higher level of awareness regarding the environment in comparison to high school students studying in English medium schools

Sustainable management of electronic waste: Empirical evidences from a stakeholders' perspective

AbstractWith rapid advancements in technology, the evolution and demand for electronic/electric devices have drastically increased. The exponential increase in the use of technology to fulfill the needs of the fast‐paced information era has led to electronic and electrical devices being discarded or disposed of at a faster rate than in the past. This phenomenon has resulted in e‐waste becoming the fastest‐growing form of solid waste. E‐waste is classified as hazardous waste and can be harmful to the environment and health if not disposed of responsibly. Therefore, alternatives, such as exporting, landfilling, and recycling (from different economic, social, technical, and environmental criteria), are of interest to minimize the disposal of this toxic waste form into landfill sites. The analytic hierarchy process approach was deployed to evaluate and prioritize alternatives for e‐waste processing systems in the United Arab Emirates context. The obtained results indicate that recycling has the highest priority among the studied alternatives in the e‐waste processing system. The low economic and environmental awareness of stakeholders with regard to e‐waste shows that e‐waste management system initiatives must be expedited to adhere to e‐waste best practices implemented nationally and internationally.

Evaluación de la calidad del agua subterránea en un sector de la Zona de Reglamentación Especial de Los Pantanos de Villa

Los Pantanos de Villa is a Protected Natural Area (ANP), a Ramsar site, and the only designated Wildlife Refuge in Lima. Urban growth, industrialization and low environmental awareness on the part of local inhabitants pose threats to the Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge ecosystem. Located close to Pantanos de Villa is the Villa Baja human settlement, which does not have drinking water and sewage services, and therefore uses silos, as well as discharging its sewage (black and gray waters) into unlined canals. In order to evaluate the influence of anthropogenic activities on the quality of the groundwater in Pantanos de Villa, surveys of the local population were conducted and water samples were taken. For the taking of samples, the methodology contained in the US Geological Survey’s National Field Manual for the Collection of Water-Quality Data (NFM) was followed. The results obtained were compared with environmental quality standards (ECA), and a significant difference was observed between the samples collected outside and within the Protected Natural Area. The samples collected outside the ANP showed that certain parameters do not meet the aforementioned standards (nitrates, fecal coliforms, Escherichia coli), thereby constituting a risk to human and animal health. However, at the same time, the lower levels for certain parameters within the ANP demonstrate the regulatory and phytoremediation functions of the wetland.

What’s behind the barriers? Uncovering structural conditions working against urban nature-based solutions

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are a promising and innovative approach to address multiple sustainability challenges faced by cities. Yet, NBS are not integrated into mainstream urban development practices. Based on a qualitative comparative case study of Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, this study shows how barriers to mainstreaming urban NBS are shaped by the structural conditions in urban infrastructure regimes, which offers an improved, context-sensitive understanding of why such barriers persist. We identify underlying structural conditions shaping seven key barriers to urban NBS: limited collaborative governance, knowledge, data and awareness challenges, low private sector engagement, competition over urban space, insufficient policy development, implementation and enforcement, insufficient public resources, and challenging citizen engagement. This study also advances an understanding of urban infrastructure regimes as complex, heterogeneous systems, made up of different functional domains that define the space available for sustainability innovations. Importantly, our case comparison reveals that similar barriers to NBS mainstreaming in planning processes are caused by different structural conditions across countries. For example, perceived causes of limited citizen engagement are low environmental awareness in Spain, a lack of resources to support participation in Hungary, and NIMBY-ism in the Netherlands. Our findings stress the importance of moving beyond ‘silver bullet’-type approaches to addressing NBS mainstreaming barriers, towards systemic but context-sensitive responses, tailored to specific urban infrastructure regimes. This systematic understanding of barriers and their underlying structural conditions can help both scholars and practitioners identify promising pathways for the mainstreaming of NBS as an urban sustainability innovation.

Existing Policies and Legal Framework for Ecotourism in India: A Review

Ecotourism has grown by leaps and bounds since its emergence during the later part of the twentieth century. A number of policies and guidelines have been framed, both at the national and international level to ensure economic, ecological and social sustainability of the ecotourism ventures. However, the ground realities do not always reflect the cardinal principles as laid down in the policy guidelines. This review paper revisits the existing ecotourism policies and guidelines in India and discusses the salient features and drawbacks of each of them. Although all the policies have included low environmental impact, community partnership, visitor education and awareness as their major objectives, none of them (except NTCA guidelines) describes successful implementation strategies, thus requiring a relook, for better clarity and applicability.

Pembuatan dan Edukasi Pentingnya Lubang Resapan Biopori (LRB) untuk Membantu Meningkatkan Kesadaran Mengenai Sampah Organik serta Ketersediaan Air Tanah di Dusun Tumang Sari Cepogo

Generally, Tumang Sari, Cepogo is dry land in the form of yards, fields, and plantations. Low environmental awareness in Tumang Sari regarding rainwater infiltration and organic waste management results in environmental problems such as waterlogging, garbage accumulation and health problems. Biopore Infiltration Hole (LRB) is expected to be a solution to these environmental problems. This program aims to increase public understanding of how to optimize rainwater catchment areas and overcome the problem of organic waste. The methods used are socialization and delivery of materials, training and assistance in making LRB, as well as post-activity monitoring and evaluation. The results obtained are improvement knowledge, understanding and skills of the Tumang Sari community after the socialization and assistance by the KKN-T Team. The LRB socialization and development program which was carried out in Tumang Sari received good support and response from the government and the local community. Socialization activities and the practice of making LRB is hoped can reduced the volume of puddles and the organic waste in the LRB begun to decomposed and became to be compost.

Environmental Cost Accounting in a Small Enterprise – A Case Study

The studies conducted so far in Poland indicate not only the low environmental awareness of SMEs, but also incorrect reporting of their impact on the natural environment. What is more, in entities from this group, the environmental costs arising in the course of their business activity are undervalued.

Changes in feedstocks of rural anaerobic digestion plants: External drivers towards a circular bioeconomy

The aim of this study is to better understand the recent changes in the feedstocks of anaerobic digestion plants, the driving forces behind these changes and consequent opportunities to strengthen closed-cycle energy production and promote the circular bioeconomy approaches. The study analyses Poland – a country with a highly diversified agrarian structures and with various levels of the development and focus of regional agricultural sectors which belong to the main sources of biosubstrates to be energetically processed in anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. Biowaste, including biowastes originating in agri-food production and in households, is indicated as one of the key sources for a more sustainable biogas generation. Our findings indicate and prove a gradual shift in the mix of substrates, including the growing role of energy processing of biowaste from households and municipalities. It was also ascertained that in the initial phase of the development of Polish biogas market in early 2010s, the AD substrates in most important position were agricultural raw materials (energy crops) and agricultural waste. On the other hand, during the course of time and due to developing legal requirements as well as financial and market conditions, the biowastes from the food industry and of municipal origin have gradually gained significance. An unintentional shift towards the energy processing of the more sustainable AD substrates in Poland is visible despite a rather low environmental awareness of AD operators.

GREEN BUSINESS UMKM DI KOTA DEPOK

Depok is the smallest in west Java with such problems as garbage that pollutes several large rivers such as ciliwung and cisadane trash from small industries and communities, which can be reduced by umkm as the donor of 65% of the regional product.Public service activities for umkm city depok endeavor to help umkm's doers to be more conscious of the environment by adopting green business.It is known that most of the people involved in the depok city have low environmental awareness. Socializing can open up the insights of umkm doers to applyGreen business is his small business. By implementing green business, umkm perpetrators can alsoSaves operating costs or production costs even promotional costs.The reuse of reusable containers or the use of banana leaves in place of plastic containers adds to the traditional and unique value and to the culinary siri typical of depok cuisine. Such community service is to be expected to be an activity capable of carrying the city of depok as a friendly city or "friendly city

Ecological Development Strategy of Coastal Sport Projects of Jiangsu Province

Zheng, W., 2020. Ecological development strategy of coastal sport projects of Jiangsu Province. In: Wan, Z. (ed.), Coordinated Sustainable Development in Coastal Areas: Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 109, pp. 152–158. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Jiangsu is located in the Yangtze River Delta and many cities represented by Lianyungang and Yangzhou have coastal resources. Therefore, the coastal area of Jiangsu has unique ecological environment conditions, and its future development potential is huge. In order to promote a sustainable future, through the investigation of the ecological development of coastal sports, this paper finds that the current environmental protection status of coastal sports tourism is not optimistic by means of questionnaire survey and expert interview. This is mainly reflected in the low environmental awareness of employees and tourists, and the insufficient environmental protection of facilities in sports. Using PEST model, it can be found that ecological sports projects in Jiangsu coastal area need to be promoted at the administration level, with emphasis on increasing investment in technological innovation and environmental protection training.

Using environmental knowledge brokers to promote deep green agri-environment measures

Intermediary organisations have increasingly played a role in payments for agri-environment services across Europe over the last two decades. However, the economics literature has so far not examined the impact of this new governance mechanism on environmental protection and on individuals' behaviour. We develop a new theoretical economic framework to compare an incentive mechanism using intermediaries, such as environmental knowledge brokers and information providers, with a standard central governance mechanism, in terms of environmental impact. We show that the emergence of knowledge intermediaries is particularly effective where farmers initially have low environmental awareness, or when the public institution organising the scheme is insufficiently aware of individuals' characteristics. Our findings provide theoretical support for previous empirical results on payment schemes for agri-environment measures.

“Risky transitions?” Risk perceptions, public concerns, and energy infrastructure in Germany

Citizen protests against large-scale energy infrastructure technologies underline the vital role of public acceptance for energy planning. Research has found risk and benefit perceptions to affect energy technology acceptance considerably. Comparing risk and benefit perceptions of wind turbines, electricity pylons, and mobile phone masts, an empirical study was undertaken in Germany. The study examined whether there are types of risks perceived as particularly relevant, regardless of the technology, or whether each technology (wind, electricity transmission, mobile technology) has a specific “risk pattern.” Benefit perceptions and trust did not differ between energy infrastructure technologies (wind turbines and electricity pylons), though perceived risks were significantly higher in the pylon context compared to wind turbines. Energy infrastructure was perceived as significantly less hazardous than mobile phone infrastructure.Beyond the impact of different mast types, also person-specific effects influenced risk perceptions: The higher the perceived knowledge about large-scale infrastructure technologies, the lower was the overall risk perception associated with the respective technology. Persons with less perceived knowledge showed lower levels of technical self-efficacy and, in case of wind turbines, a lower environmental awareness. Findings can be used for tailoring future information and public communication concepts to the user-specific requirements regarding energy infrastructure planning.

Maritime Ecolexicon in Bajo Community of Kolaka Regency Coast and its Implications for Ecology

This study described deeply about the survival of Bajo language on the coast of Kolaka Regency and its implications for maritime ecology. Data collection was done through: (a) lexicon competency test, (b) observation, (c) interview, and (d) documentation. The results showed that 53.75% of the maritime ecolexicon was no longer survived. It means that the maritime ecolexicon of Bajo language was on the verge of the most extinct loss of maritime flora and fauna. The causes of this inadequacy were: ecological changes, lack use of Bajo language, low environmental awareness of the community, loss of several marine traditions, and transfer of community work from fishermen to other jobs. The recommendation of this study is: Bajo language should be one of the local content materials in schools, government and the community need to run a maritime environment that has an impact on the survival of Bajo language and environmental sustainability.

Relationship between attributes and motivation of trail runners and environmental awareness

The purpose of this research paper is to identify the nature of the relationship between a trail runner's environmental awareness on the one hand and his or her individual attributes and motivations on the other hand. For this paper, participants at two trail running races held in 2017 (n=675) were surveyed regarding (i) their individual attributes, (ii) environmental awareness and (iii) motivations. Applying cluster analysis, four main clusters of trail runner were identified, indicating two main categories: (1) one group with a personal interest in, or connection to, the area in which the race was held and demonstrating higher awareness of issues relating to conservation and revitalisation of the natural environment and (2) another more race-oriented group characterized by strong competitiveness attributes and with relatively lower environmental awareness. Applying multiple linear regression analysis to the dataset reveals that a trail runner's motivations have a stronger influence on environmental awareness than his or her individual attributes. Further, the data shows a positive correlation between competitiveness as a primary motivating factor and lower levels of environmental awareness in ordinary life.

Joint collection mode of waste mobile phones based on residents' preferences: A case of Dalian in China

The continuing increase of the popularity of mobile phones generates a large volume of waste mobile phones. The efficient collection of this waste has become a focus and frontier of both academic research and related business. This paper reviews the waste mobile phone collection in Dalian, China. The findings show that several challenges currently impede the implementation of collection, including unsmooth collection channels, poor convenience, and low environmental awareness of residents. A new joint collection mode is put forward to increase the waste mobile phone collection rate. In the mode, the responsibilities of each stakeholder (including the collecting enterprise, the third-party logistics company, the government, and the resident) are clarified. Moreover, a conjoint analysis method is applied to identify residents' willingness for collection. The obtained results show that compensation mode, collection price, and convenience degree are the three factors that influence the prevailing preferences of residents. Collection services with high market share must satisfy the concourse of three conditions. The collection price exceeds 30% of the mobile phone's original price, the compensation mode is cash and information service is provided. These results can provide a reference for the service design of collection mode and the formulation of relevant corporate strategies.