Use In Environmental Management Research Articles

A review of Musca sorbens (Diptera: Muscidae) and Musca domestica behavior and responses to chemical and visual cues.

Musca flies (Diptera: Muscidae) have been found culpable in the mechanical transmission of several infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and helminths, particularly in low-income settings in tropical regions. In large numbers, these flies can negatively impact the health of communities and their livestock through the transmission of pathogens. In some parts of the world, Musca sorbens is of particular importance because it has been linked with the transmission of trachoma, a leading cause of preventable and irreversible blindness or visual impairment caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, but the contribution these flies make to trachoma transmission has not been quantified and even less is known for other pathogens. Current tools for control and monitoring of house flies remain fairly rudimentary and have focused on the use of environmental management, insecticides, traps, and sticky papers. Given that the behaviors of flies are triggered by chemical cues from their environment, monitoring approaches may be improved by focusing on those activities that are associated with nuisance behaviors or with potential pathogen transmission, and there are opportunities to improve fly control by exploiting behaviors toward semiochemicals that act as attractants or repellents. We review current knowledge on the odor and visual cues that affect the behavior of M. sorbens and Musca domestica, with the aim of better understanding how these can be exploited to support disease monitoring and guide the development of more effective control strategies.

Enhancing wastewater remediation in microalga Euglena gracilis: The role of trivalent cerium (Ce³⁺) as a hormonal effect factor and its metabolic implications

This study explored the effects of trivalent cerium (Ce³⁺) as a hormonal effect factor on microalga Euglena gracilis in domestic wastewater treatment. It was discovered that 12.50 mg/L Ce³⁺ markedly enhance E. gracilis dry weight (by 63.44%, P < 0.05) and boost its efficiency in extracting key water quality indicators such as total nitrogen (TN) by 66.08% (p < 0.05), total phosphorus (TP) by 37.17% (p < 0.05), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) by 39.90% (p < 0.05), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) by 97.17% (p < 0.05) from wastewater. Metabolomic analysis revealed that Ce³⁺ treatment significantly alters E. gracilis's metabolic profile, notably in lipid metabolite synthesis. This treatment increased the production of essential membrane lipid metabolites like phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidic acid, vital for cellular membrane integrity. Additionally, Ce³⁺ stimulated the synthesis of certain antioxidant dipeptides, reducing wastewater-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels. This treatment improved not only nutrient removal efficiency from wastewater by E. gracilis but also its conversion to high-value metabolic products, such as paramylon and lipids. These findings highlight Ce³⁺'s pivotal roles in augmenting E. gracilis's wastewater treatment efficacy and environmental resilience, offering significant insights for microalgae's use in environmental management and bioenergy.

Implementation of an environmental management system: case study

In the current scenario, Brazil is ranked as the 5th largest textile producer in the world, behind only China, India, the United States and Pakistan. This factor is of great importance in relation to the effective number of jobs provided by the sector around its manufacturing hubs. On the other hand, the high production rate that companies are exhibiting ends up using a large amount of the country's natural resources. In the case of clothing industries, their waste can cause significant environmental impacts, however, through the use of Environmental Management is possible to reduce environmental degradation and pollution. In this way, the present study made use of the application of the Environmental Management System (EMS) linked to the Cleaner Production methodology to resolve environmental problems in a clothing factory located in the northwest of the state of Paraná. After the implementation of the EMS, important environmental and social gains were noted, such as the disposal of wastepaper, cardboard, plastic, and paint cans used in screen printing for an Association of collectors in the city and the use of fabric scraps in making products for pet shops, waste destined for a group of women artisans also in the city. The study also promoted the reduction of waste from larger clothing scraps, by using them to make by-products that could be sold at popular prices. Thus, the effectiveness of implementing the EMS for the company can be seen, making it comply with its environmental policy and adding social gains to it.

Adoption of environmental management accounting

The use of environmental management accounting concepts for companies encourages the ability to minimize the environmental problems it faces. The same is the case with five-star hotel companies in the Nusa Dua area. this study aims to examine the adoption of EMA in the hotel industry in Nusa Dua and the Adoption of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) among hotel companies in Nusa Dua. This research is qualitative research. Data collection is done by survey, interview, and observation. Data analysis used interactive model of analysis from Miles and Huberman. The findings that can be seen are scale of environmental costs and contemporary management accounting practices affect the implementation of environmental management accounting in the hotel industry. The company considers that the implementation of Activity Based Costing provides better insight into the structure of hotel expenses.

Can streambank height indicate soil moisture regime of riparian zones? A case study in deep soils of a first-order watershed in Southeast Brazil

ABSTRACT A number of riparian ecosystem functions such as reducing chemicals are associated with high soil moisture conditions. Finding easy-to-measure riparian features that indicate soil moisture regime in riparian ecosystem may of use in environmental management. In this study, we answered the following question: can streambank height, on which these riparian zones are, indicate soil moisture regime? By measuring soil matric potential (0.15–0.9 m depth) and water table depth on a weekly basis at three forested riparian zones on different bank heights (low, moderate and high) and under a similar soil type, we demonstrate that riparian zones on high-to-moderate streambank height (h ≥ 1 m) generally have lower water table compared to riparian zones on low streambanks (h ≤ 0.3 m). This difference on water table depth led to significant differences in soil matric potential as water table depth lowers. However, in order to predict soil moisture regime more accurately, streambank height must be associated with a detailed field description of local factors such as soil type which can help in explaining deviations from the expected pattern of soil moisture as shown in moderate and high.

Practising impact assessment: a content analysis of 20 Cultural Impact Assessment reports in Aotearoa New Zealand

There is potential to strengthen impact assessment as a tool for Indigenous community use in environmental management. The present research contributes to this discussion by examining the report product that has resulted from 20 recent Cultural Impact Assessments (CIA) in Aotearoa New Zealand. These reports are reviewed based on Vanstone et al.’s structured approach, which allows for a systematic evaluation of the content of reports. The research demonstrates that Cultural Impact Assessment reports can tend to place greater emphasis on cultural values than on impacts of proposed projects, indicating a difference between CIA practice and other forms of impact assessment. CIAs often appear to be less about impact analysis and more about providing an opportunity for Māori concepts and worldviews to be recognized in decision-making. This finding has implications for how CIA report quality should be evaluated in the future and contributes to our understanding of the unique purpose of CIA.

Akuntansi Manajemen Lingkungan: Metoda Akuntansi Lingkungan Guna Meningkatkan Eko-effisiensi Usaha Dan Mengatasi Krisis Ekologi Studi Pada CV. Andi Offset

Ecological issues have become one of the actual issues today. An anthropocentric mindsetmakes humans position themselves as masters of all creation. This view creates an act ofexploitation of nature which ends up in disaster in the form of environmental pollution.Environmental pollution that occurs today is a symbol of planning and design failure by thecompany. The negative impacts that occurs due to environmental pollution is that the cost ofrepair and control of the environment becomes high, and that there is the potential hiddencost in the income statement of the company. One effort that companies can take to preventand control waste is by managing environmental costs and performing eco-efficiencies thatserve to improve environmental performance.This research was conducted on CV. Andi Offset by using descriptive study approach. Datacollection was performed by means of observation; direct interview with related parties; anddocumentation. The results of this study indicate that the company has been accounting forenvironmental management as a form of compliance with Law No. 32 of 2009 on theenvironment and the Special Region of Yogyakarta Regulation number 7 of 2016 on wastewater quality standards. The use of environmental management accounting to the companyhas added to environmental costs as much as 2% of total production costs. In addition,environmental management accounting also has an effective impact on savings in the form ofwaste paper sales to third parties and improvement of eco-efficiency. However, eco-efficiencyhas not been able to reduce BOD5 levels in organic wastewater compounds; has not beeneffective in the stages of employee empowerment, innovation and enhancement of thecompany's competitive advantage. CV. Andi Offset is expected to make efforts to improveeco-efficiency on BOD5 organic compounds; employee empowerment; innovation andcompetitive advantage.

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services at delivering improvements in water quality: lessons for experiments at the landscape scale.

BackgroundRandomised Control Trials (RCTs) are used in impact evaluation in a range of fields. However, despite calls for their greater use in environmental management, their use to evaluate landscape scale interventions remains rare. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) incentivise land users to manage land to provide environmental benefits. We present the first RCT evaluation of a PES program aiming to improve water quality. Watershared is a program which incentivises landowners to avoid deforestation and exclude cattle from riparian forests. Using this unusual landscape-scale experiment we explore the efficacy of Watershared at improving water quality, and draw lessons for future RCT evaluations of landscape-scale environmental management interventions.MethodsOne hundred and twenty-nine communities in the Bolivian Andes were randomly allocated to treatment (offered Watershared agreements) or control (not offered agreements) following baseline data collection (including Escherichia coli contamination in most communities) in 2010. We collected end-line data in 2015. Using our end-line data, we explored the extent to which variables associated with the intervention (e.g. cattle exclusion, absence of faeces) predict water quality locally. We then investigated the efficacy of the intervention at improving water quality at the landscape scale using the RCT. This analysis was done in two ways; for the subset of communities for which we have both baseline and end-line data from identical locations we used difference-in-differences (matching on baseline water quality), for all sites we compared control and treatment at end-line controlling for selected predictors of water quality.ResultsThe presence of cattle faeces in water adversely affected water quality suggesting excluding cattle has a positive impact on water quality locally. However, both the matched difference-in-differences analysis and the comparison between treatment and control communities at end-line suggested Watershared was not effective at reducing E. coli contamination at the landscape scale. Uptake of Watershared agreements was very low and the most important land from a water quality perspective (land around water intakes) was seldom enrolled.DiscussionAlthough excluding cattle may have a positive local impact on water quality, higher uptake and better targeting would be required to achieve a significant impact on the quality of water consumed in the communities. Although RCTs potentially have an important role to play in building the evidence base for approaches such as PES, they are far from straightforward to implement. In this case, the randomised trial was not central to concluding that Watershared had not produced a landscape scale impact. We suggest that this RCT provides valuable lessons for future use of randomised experiments to evaluate landscape-scale environmental management interventions.

The Application of Decision Making Models in Sustainable Management of Environmental Systems

Recent research has highlighted environmental sustainability as a key issue of concern affecting the future of human wellbeing. To pursue a sustainable future of a system, it is a critical challenge to make decisions at all levels of management. Decision making for controlling or steering a system requires models of the system that represent the determining characteristics of the system and have sufficient predictive power. Practitioners/researchers of environmental management use a large variety of (types of) models to support decision making, and it has become a complex task to select the appropriate model-type for a desired management goal. This paper considers the most common types of models and uses the mathematical properties of these model types to discuss the pros and cons of their use in environmental management / decision making. We explore how these mathematical properties influence the feasibility, viability and validity of the use of such models.

Implementation of Technical and Information Systems in Environmental Management

The paper will address the topic of technical and information systems, which constitute a very important element of supporting environmental management in an enterprise in a turbulent environment. There is a range of variants of their implementation fulfilling a number of different functions, which examined in terms of the effects of implementing systems informing about the environment in an enterprise, usually focus on typical areas of their use in environmental management, with particular reference to the evaluation of their practical importance.Implementation of the objectives related with instruments for environmental management in the aspect of improving the effectiveness of environmental protection in an enterprise enables the achievement of a specific goal implied by ecological controlling. However, these instruments are characterised by specific attributes, as most of them, having a nature of satellites, are implemented as a complement to conventional instruments. A wide range of applications of systems informing about the environment allow enterprises to systematically implement such instruments without significant financial outlay. Despite numerous unfavourable economic and ecological conditions, it should be stressed that the effects illustrating the implementation of such systems are very reliable and so evocative that integration of environmental information systems with the structures existing in an enterprise determines high quality of the final data. In the relationship between environmental management and instruments, it is very important for effective environmental protection implemented within an enterprise that the instruments are compatible and can be combined with one another, which will have a significant impact in the future on the paradigm of constantly increasing interest of enterprises in systems for environmental management through the perspective of ecological indicators and balances.

Environmental Management Accounting, Environmental Innovation and Corporate Environmental Performance

This study was conducted to further investigate the relationship between the application of environmental management accounting of ISO 14001 certified companies and corporate environmental performance through, environmental innovations. This study uses the theoretical framework of RBV (Resource Based View) and NRBV (Natural Resource Based View), these two theories explain company's environmental strategy in affecting corporate environmental performance as based on company’s specific resource. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach where the unit of analysis is an ISO 14001 certified company located in Indonesia which holds the certification up to 2013. Primary data were used in this study; primary data was generated from the survey through questionnaires distributed to the entire ISO 14001 certified companies. ISO 14001 certified companies list were obtained from KLH RI, Environmental Management System Certification Institute which is accredited by the National Accreditation Committee (KAN), various newspapers and company websites with the aim to find information from companies that have implemented environmental management system. Empirical evidence suggests that there is a positive and significant influence between environmental strategy and the use of environmental management accounting, the use of environmental management accounting to environmental innovation, and as well as the use of environmental management accounting towards corporate environmental performance. There is a positive and significant influence between environmental innovation to corporate environmental performance. There is no significant influence between environmental strategy and environmental innovation. However, the results of this study suggest a solid foundation that intangible assets such as corporate environmental strategy (by using accounting practices particularly on environmental management accounting) improve corporate’s environmental performance though environmental innovation.

Study on Influence Factors of Environmental Management for Heavy Pollution Enterprises - Taking China's Iron and Steel Enterprises as an Example

With the rapid development of economy, the economic efficiency of enterprises has also brought environmental problems. As the heavy pollution industries of iron and steel enterprises, we should take the environment as an important part of enterprise development, and make use of environmental management to enterprise management, improve the vigor and competitiveness of enterprises. In this paper, the econometric method is used to analyze factors affecting our country iron and steel enterprise environment management, evaluate environmental management situation of our country iron and steel enterprise, and put forward some suggestions.

Planning and Implementation of Government Strategy for Projects in the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism, South Africa

This paper investigated from the strategic perspective the problem of planning and implementation of projects in the Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism (LEDET) in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The paper argues that lack of coherent link between the planning and implementation of strategy in the Department of Economic Development, Environmental and Tourism is the cause of the department’s failure to succeed in promoting economic growth, tourism and the use of environmental management to guide and monitor sustainable development in the province. It is argued that while strategies in the Department are well articulated and elaborated on, they are never translated into concrete and concerted actions to meet the needs of the citizens in the province. This paper therefore used both qualitative and quantitative research approaches to obtain data from relevant units within the LEDET in order to establish the problem of the disconnection between strategic planning and implementation. The paper concluded that the implementation of the strategy can be improved through communication with stakeholders, allocation of sufficient resources, employee empowerment and introduction of appropriate change management processes.

KONSEP PERIJINAN BERWAWASAN LINGKUNGAN DALAM MEWUJUDKAN PEMBANGUNAN BERKELANJUTAN

The need for a healthy and sustainable environment into hope everyone all the time. The development of rapid development as a result of the fulfillment of the needs of life with varying levels of need have an impact on the use and management of the environment. Based on this paradigm and the use of environmental management is expected to meet the needs of the present without compromising the rights needs of future generations. Governments in the concept of the welfare state law permitted to intervene in an effort to meet the public welfare through licensing instrument is intended as a means of preventing the destruction of the environment.

A multi-scale metrics approach to forest fragmentation for Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment

Forests are becoming severely fragmented as a result of land development. South Korea has responded to changing community concerns about environmental issues. The nation has developed and is extending a broad range of tools for use in environmental management. Although legally mandated environmental compliance requirements in South Korea have been implemented to predict and evaluate the impacts of land-development projects, these legal instruments are often insufficient to assess the subsequent impact of development on the surrounding forests. It is especially difficult to examine impacts on multiple (e.g., regional and local) scales in detail. Forest configuration and size, including forest fragmentation by land development, are considered on a regional scale. Moreover, forest structure and composition, including biodiversity, are considered on a local scale in the Environmental Impact Assessment process. Recently, the government amended the Environmental Impact Assessment Act, including the SEA, EIA, and small-scale EIA, to require an integrated approach. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish an impact assessment system that minimizes the impacts of land development using an approach that is integrated across multiple scales.This study focused on forest fragmentation due to residential development and road construction sites in selected Congestion Restraint Zones (CRZs) in the Greater Seoul Area of South Korea. Based on a review of multiple-scale impacts, this paper integrates models that assess the impacts of land development on forest ecosystems. The applicability of the integrated model for assessing impacts on forest ecosystems through the SEIA process is considered.On a regional scale, it is possible to evaluate the location and size of a land-development project by considering aspects of forest fragmentation, such as the stability of the forest structure and the degree of fragmentation. On a local scale, land-development projects should consider the distances at which impacts occur in the vicinity of the forest ecosystem, and these considerations should include the impacts on forest vegetation and bird species. Impacts can be mitigated by considering the distances at which these influences occur. In particular, this paper presents an integrated environmental impact assessment system to be applied in the SEIA process. The integrated assessment system permits the assessment of the cumulative impacts of land development on multiple scales.

Are market-based instruments effective tools for environmental management?

Abstract Over the past few decades market-based instruments have enjoyed increasing use in environmental management. To examine whether market-based instruments are effective tools for environmental management, a range of evaluations from the literature covering point- and non-point-source pollution control, along with biodiversity management, were reviewed. As found in other reviews, the environmental context of the particular issue being addressed is a key determinant of instrument performance. Market-based instruments have been applied most successfully to the management of industrial point-source pollution issues. In these cases, emissions have generally proven to be reasonably easy to measure and have had sufficiently direct relationships with their environmental impacts. In contrast, the diffuse-source environmental problems commonly encountered in rural contexts proved to be less amenable to market-based solutions. In these situations, difficulties in clearly linking management actions with environmental outcomes generally undermined their effectiveness and efficiency.

The use of environmental management as a facilities management tool in the Macao hotel sector

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which environmental management (EM) has been used as a facilities management (FM) tool amongst hotels in Macao, China. It also seeks to assess the relative priorities of hotel facilities managers in relation to the environment.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical data was collected via structured questionnaires distributed to facilities/general managers of hotels in Macao.FindingsThe research findings reveal that although low customer demand, poor environmental knowledge and the lack of governmental regulations enforcing environmental practices are the reasons hindering hoteliers in Macao from practicing green, the major barrier is that hotel managers do not recognize the importance of environmental management to hotel effectiveness and competitiveness. Consequently, hotels are only interested in improving areas where there are direct financial gains and where there is a fiscal/legislative requirement. A fragmented approach to managing their environmental performance is also resulted.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the roles played by environmental management in improving a hotel's productivity and competitiveness and recommends ways to increase hoteliers' understanding of those roles.Originality/valueThere is a scarcity of literature linking hotel FM and environmental management within the Asian context, especially within Macao. This study sheds light on the extent to which environmental management has been used as a FM tool amongst hotels in Macao. It also contributes to our understanding of the importance of improving a hotel's environmental performance for organizational effectiveness and competitiveness. This paper provides a good background and framework for future studies.

Highlighting the model code selection and application process in policy-relevant water quality modelling

The paper illustrates and discusses some rather simple and pragmatic means to enhance the quality of model-based knowledge input for decision-making. Firstly, we apply a stepwise description of the modelling process to describe our “case story”, in which we first define modelling objectives and then use the benchmark criteria approach to evaluate model codes and to select an appropriate model code to be set up, analysed, and applied to simulate the long-term (decades) phosphorus–phytoplankton interactions and thus the eutrophication problem in Lake Vansjø-Storefjorden, Norway. Results from the simulations with the MyLake model indicate that at least 50% reduction in phosphorus loads are needed in order to reach the strictest environmental goal in the long-term. We believe that by: (1) following (and documenting) the step-by-step modelling process outlined in this paper, by (2) using available (internet-based) inventories to get an overview of existing model codes, and by (3) performing and documenting the model code selection with help of the benchmark criteria approach, at least some of the barriers to model use in environmental management can be removed.

Citizen Satisfaction with Public Meetings Used for Risk Communication

Although public meetings are a frequent method of public participation and risk communication, little research investigates what citizens think about their use in environmental management. To examine satisfaction with public meetings, residents of two neighboring communities received questionnaires following a public meeting about a local landfill. Respondents included residents who did and did not attend the meeting. Irrespective of whether respondents had ever attended a public meeting, meeting expectations and perceptions of relational/informational communication at meetings, including whether respondents thought meeting organizers were genuinely interested in participants' comments or meetings were informative, predicted satisfaction. Perceived risk associated with the recent meeting's topic and credibility of government agencies that frequently conduct meetings also predicted satisfaction.

Ratio of DDT/DDE in the all saints bay, brazil and its use in environmental management

DDT degrades to DDE and the ratio of DDT/DDE can be used as a rough estimate of the period of its application, if the half-life of DDT for the specific environment is known. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in SH summer 1994/95 for several organochloride (OC) residues in 13 intertidal sites of the All Saints Bay, using sediments, crabs and three species of local bivalves with different feeding habits as indicators. The quantified compounds were: DDT, DDE, DDD, HCB, γ-HCH, Aldrin, Dieldrin and Endrin. All concentrations found were below limit of regulatory action. Highest levels were found in the Aratu Industrial Centre area, in the Subaé estuary and the Itaparica Channel, where palm oil nursery exists. From the eight compounds DDE presented the highest levels (44 ng/g wet wt in B.exustus) and B.exustus the highest bioconcentration factors. Comparing these data with equivalent ones of 1985, increases have been observed at all sites, except where an oil refinery operates in restricted area. DDT/DDE ratio for the sediments in some sites were 0.91 or higher, indicating probable DDT use in the last 5 years. Regular consumption of these edible molluscs lead to daily ingestion of total DDT compounds between 75 to 589 ng/d. Official use of DDT in 1985 for malaria campaign and recent use, notwithstanding prohibition, seem to be the reason for the observed increases in levels.